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Chapter 0550 This Was Explicitly Ordered by the Young Master
The guest officials, realizing the implications, immediately refused to comply. They decisively abandoned the agreement they had covertly made with Lin Zhenzhao to proceed and retreat together and one after another, approached Qi Tian. Imitating Lin Zhenzhao, they each brought out some middle-grade spirit stones and placed them in front of Qi Tian, begging for his forgiveness and expressing their hopes for a thaw in their relationship with him.
Qi Tian didn't have much of a conflict with these guest officials in the first place, and he hadn't taken them very seriously either. Now that there were middle-grade spirit stones up for grabs, he went with the flow, accepted the spirit stones, and forgave them.
After getting past the hurdle of Qi Tian, those guest officials hastily changed their targets and gathered around Gao Jinmei.
