Chapter 922 — So This Is Your Helper?
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Wei Zhizun was in the grip of his fury when the palm landed squarely on him, and his voice cut off mid-scream. In that instant his eyes bulged, a wretched cry tore from him, and he was sent flying backward with a whoosh, slamming hard into the wall. A mouthful of blood burst from him, he twitched twice on the floor, and plainly he had already suffered severe internal injuries.
"Nothing but early-stage Xuan-rank external martial strength, and he only broke through to Xuan-rank recently, yet he comes out here to show off, calling himself a Xuan-rank supreme master. A true frog at the bottom of a well!" Pi Bo shook his head with some contempt. "I thought some new tier of Xuan-rank had appeared. How pathetic. This is your helper? Where did you pick him up, some garbage dump?"
"A mid-stage Xuan-rank master?" Wei Zhizun stared at Pi Bo in disbelief. He had never imagined the other man was a mid-stage Xuan-rank master, a full two tiers above himself.
Before this, Wei Zhizun had never expected the other side to have any real master, and had meant to put on a show of force before Gu Pengzhan to convince him that five hundred thousand to hire him had been money well spent. But the show had gone badly wrong: the moment he made his move, the other man had crushed him in an instant.
In truth, the two hundred thousand agreed upon beforehand had never been meant to go entirely to the company. The company took only a cut; the greater part went to Wei Zhizun himself. But raising the price on the spot was a trick these masters were accustomed to, and Wei Zhizun had even thought that once he dealt with these few troublemakers for Gu Pengzhan, he might ask for a little extra reward.
But his calculations had gone badly astray. The other man's strength far exceeded anything he had imagined.
Even had he not been careless, he would have stood no chance against a mid-stage Xuan-rank master of external martial arts; and now, caught off guard by a single palm strike, how could he possibly come off well? Wei Zhizun felt as though his internal organs had been shifted out of place. Plainly he had been beaten to a wreck, and even if his injuries healed, his skills could never be restored to what they were now.
This time, he was finished for good! Wei Zhizun was suddenly overcome with sorrow, bitterly regretting that he had ever taken this job! It was all his own greed and carelessness! But then, who else was there to blame? Now he would not only get not a single cent, but would have to slink away in disgrace!
"Gu Pengzhan, this is a warning for you!" Xiao Ji watched as Qing Bo crippled the fine fighter Gu Pengzhan had newly hired with a single palm strike, and was instantly overjoyed. Pointing at Gu Pengzhan, he said with insolent smugness, "We have already laid out our terms for you. I hope you will not do anything as foolish as seeking your own death! I will give you one day to think it over. Otherwise, heh heh, you will die a very ugly death! And so will your daughter. Your entire Gu family will die very ugly deaths!"
"Come now, Elder Brother, don't frighten him so. What if you scare him to death? Then who will give us the money?" Xiao Ben waved his hand with an air of kindness and said, "Let us go. Let Mr. Gu think it over properly. I am sure he is no fool!"
The Xiao brothers laughed heartily and, together with Pi Bo, left Gu Pengzhan's office, paying no heed at all to Gu Pengzhan's dark and grim expression.
At that moment Gu Pengzhan was both shocked and furious. He had not expected the Xiao family to press him so relentlessly, step by step, and still less had he expected that the fine fighter he had paid so dearly to hire would prove so utterly unable to withstand a single blow before Pi Bo!!~!