Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

In the crowd, a man raised his hand.

Huo Wen’an noticed Ye Mingluo’s demeanor, furrowing his brow, feeling puzzled inside.

What’s this guy up to now?

Xu Xingguang did not stop Ye Mingluo.

After all, Ye Mingluo was just there to make up numbers at the Hundred Medicines Conference, so even if he offended the head of the Ying Family, it wouldn’t be a big loss.

Seeing that the young man actually raised his hand, Ying Zigeng was momentarily stunned.

”Doctor Ye?” Ye Mingluo was a newcomer in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, but in modern medicine, he was a pillar among the young.

Even Ying Zigeng recognized him, and upon seeing him, he would politely address him as Doctor Ye.

He didn’t expect the person making a racket below the stage was Ye Mingluo.

Ying Zigeng found himself in an awkward situation for a moment.

With everyone’s eyes on him, since Ye Mingluo had raised his hand, Ying Zigeng couldn’t pretend not to see it. He paused his speech and asked Ye Mingluo, ”I noticed a lot of commotion below, especially around where Doctor Ye was sitting. Is there something I spoke incorrectly that amused Doctor Ye?”

”Please, Doctor Ye, elaborate.”

Ying Zigeng’s intention was to embarrass Ye Mingluo.

The entire Medicine King Square became much quieter because of this little incident.

After Ying Zigeng finished speaking, the scene became even more silent.

Therefore, Ye Mingluo’s every move stood out under the public’s watchful eyes.

In front of everyone, Ye Mingluo laughed before he spoke, saying, ”Ying Family Master, your speech exhibits the grandeur of a family head. Mingluo admires you greatly.”

Ying Zigeng was just about to force a smile when he heard Ye Mingluo continue, ”However, just now, I heard a Ying Family contestant discussing Senior Ying Ziyao.”

Ye Mingluo pointed his left index finger at the middle-aged man in front, with a half-smile saying, ”This brother believes that Senior Ying Ziyao’s outstanding achievement in getting a top-three position at the Hundred Medicines Conference back then was due to the Ying Family bloodline in him, naturally endowing him with superior intelligence.”

Ye Mingluo chuckled, ”Now, if such words were said about other Ying family members, I would wholeheartedly agree. However, as everyone knows, our Senior Ying Ziyao, although bearing the name Ying, is not from the Chuancheng Ying Family.”

”Senior Ying Ziyao lost both parents early and became an orphan. If he hadn’t been fortunately adopted by an elder named Ying from Cangshan Town in Yujiang City, who taught him knowledge, Senior Ying Ziyao might have starved to death in some alley, becoming food for stray dogs.”

”I was just thinking, this brother here has a face as big as the moon hanging in the sky. I couldn’t help it and debated with him for a bit.”

With these words from Ye Mingluo, both the Ying Family’s contestants and the Ying Family members seated at the high platform had complicated expressions on their faces.

The medical representatives invited to watch this round of the Hundred Medicines Conference also turned their heads to look at Ying Ziyao.

He wore a dark black coat with a pipe in his mouth, though the pipe held no tobacco, merely serving as an ornament. Upon hearing this, his eyes were considerably cold.

Standing on the podium, Ying Zigeng felt a throbbing pain in his temples.

After recounting the whole story, Ye Mingluo humbly asked Ying Zigeng, ”Ying Family Master, do you think this brother was spouting nonsense?”

Ying Zigeng: ”...”

Twenty years ago, when Ying Ziyao came to the Ying Family to participate in the Hundred Medicines Conference, almost no one had confidence in him. The Ying Family contestants at the time often made sarcastic remarks to him.

However, when the results of the Hundred Medicines Conference were announced, Ying Ziyao astonished everyone by winning first place.

Since then, their attitude toward Ying Ziyao turned awkward.

The Ying Family revered doctors most, and with Ying Ziyao’s achievements surpassing those of all Ying Family descendants, including Ying Zigeng, they dared not and would not look down on Ying Ziyao anymore.

After the end of the Hundred Medicines Conference, the surviving old master of the Ying Family once approached Ying Ziyao, offering to re-write his name into the family genealogy and allowing him to acknowledge his ancestry.

But what did Ying Ziyao say?

He said: ”Sorry, although my surname is Ying, I am not from the Chuancheng Ying Family. All my ancestors are deceased, so where does the idea of acknowledging ancestry come from?”

Naturally, he refused to acknowledge ancestry.

Therefore, the words from that middle-aged contestant were purely self-serving.

Faced with Ye Mingluo’s question, Ying Zigeng felt his face burning.

This idiot!

”Ying Family Master, why are you silent? Is it because my voice was too low, not clear enough, and you didn’t hear? Okay, then, I’ll say it again louder.” Ye Mingluo was prepared to reiterate the previous words without missing a beat.

It was essentially another slap to the face of the Ying Family.

Ying Zigeng was caught in a dilemma.

Old Madam Ying shook her wrinkled face, about to speak, when Ying Ziyao, seated behind, leisurely began, ”I can answer that question.”

Everyone turned their gaze toward Ying Ziyao.

Ying Ziyao did not stand, but sitting there was enough to draw the city’s attention.

He crossed his long legs, holding that pipe in his right hand, looking down at the crowd nonchalantly as he said, ”Indeed, my parents and grandparents were from the Chuancheng Ying Clan.”

Ying Zigeng and Old Madam Ying both exhaled lightly.

Ying Ziyao continued, ”However, after discovering the existence of the Divine Martial Realm, and understanding its grim ambitions, my grandfather wanted to establish a research institute with the then Grand Pilot of the Huo Family to find a way to prevent the destruction of the Mortal World.”

”As everyone knows, the Chuancheng Ying Family serves as the Supervisor stationed in the Mortal World by the Divine Martial Realm. They must guard its secrets, so how could they possibly agree with my grandfather’s decision? As such, the old master of the Ying Family removed my grandfather and my parents from the family genealogy on unsubstantiated charges, exiling them from Chuancheng.”

This was the Ying Family’s greatest scandal, yet Ying Ziyao laid it bare in public.

With the veil removed, Old Madam Ying’s face turned extremely unsightly, and Ying Zigeng, standing on the podium, felt a prickle on his back.

Knowing the existence of the Divine Martial Realm, and the ties between the Ying Family and the Divine Martial Realm, put the Chuancheng Ying Family in an awkward position.

Once seen by the world as mysterious and powerful, a healing benefactor, the image of the Ying Family had now fallen from the pedestal.

Nowadays, the Ying Family is the Divine Martial Realm’s lackey and a traitor to the Mortal World.