Chapter 1057 — Wei Zhao's Strength
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"Oh — then you be careful, all right?" Feng Xiaoxiao asked.
"I'd say he's the one who ought to be careful of you," Wei Zhao said with a laugh.
"Ha ha!" Feng Xiaoxiao brightened at once. "I think so too!"
"But that Xie Yufeng — you'd still do well to be careful around him. When I'm not beside you, you and Xiaoshu had best not provoke him on your own," Wei Zhao instructed.
"Oh? What about Xie Yufeng? What's so special about him? What could he possibly do to us?" Feng Xiaoxiao asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Xie Yufeng is a cultivator — a formidable one at the peak of the early Mystic rank." Wei Zhao saw no reason to hide this from Feng Xiaoxiao; given her family background, she would certainly understand what such ranks among cultivators meant.
"Ah!" Feng Xiaoxiao was startled by his words. "A formidable one at the peak of the early Mystic rank? Really?"
"Really." Wei Zhao nodded.
"You can't be serious? A formidable one at the peak of the early Mystic rank, and he's that pathetic? Beaten black and blue by a few small-time thugs? Sitting down on a shoe with a nail in it? And today he got a thorough thrashing from Wu Tieshou?" Feng Xiaoxiao was unconvinced; it seemed utterly unbelievable to her.
"He is indeed a formidable one at the peak of the early Mystic rank." Wei Zhao nodded earnestly. "Only, for some reason, he deliberately concealed his strength in front of me."
"Oh?" Hearing this, Feng Xiaoxiao furrowed her brow and fell into thought.
If what Wei Zhao said was true, then Xie Yufeng really did seem to have been hiding his strength! Whether that day in the karaoke lounge or this morning when they ran into Wu Tieshou, Xie Yufeng had always seemed full of confidence beforehand, ready to teach the other man a lesson — and then suddenly he had backed down and softened!
Feng Xiaoxiao had been puzzled before, but the thought had never crossed her mind. Now that she considered it carefully, it really was rather strange, and only Wei Zhao's explanation could account for it! Namely, that in front of Wei Zhao, Xie Yufeng was deliberately pretending to have no strength at all!
"Then what does he mean by doing that...? Is he targeting you?" Feng Xiaoxiao was no fool; in a flash she grasped the stakes involved. Xie Yufeng must have some motive for acting this way, and ten to one it was aimed at Wei Zhao. At this thought, her heart tightened. She did not know when it had begun, but Feng Xiaoxiao had truly come to regard Wei Zhao as her boyfriend, as someone she cared about — no longer merely a laboratory specimen for love or a target for revenge. This change had come about imperceptibly, so that even Feng Xiaoxiao herself was not quite clear on it.
Human thoughts are the most elusive of things; love and hate often turn on a single instant — hatred may give birth to love, and love to hatred. Feng Xiaoxiao's present state was one of hatred giving birth to love.
"Perhaps. But a formidable one at the peak of the early Mystic rank is all he is..." Wei Zhao shrugged and spoke as though it hardly mattered.
"Oh?" Feng Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up at once at his words! If Wei Zhao could appear at the auction, then he must surely know something of the great families, and it was only natural that he would know the ranking system of martial artists. So Feng Xiaoxiao found nothing amiss in that. But the fact that Wei Zhao now regarded Xie Yufeng with outright contempt — that told her something!
Since Wei Zhao knew what a formidable one at the peak of the early Mystic rank meant, and yet held him in such contempt, then what was Wei Zhao's own strength? Could it be that Wei Zhao was a cultivator too? A martial artist as well?