Chapter 1164 — Everyone Is Hiding! So for an Ordinary Expert, This Move Can Only Channel an Extremely Limited Amount of True Qi
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The great expert Lin was at it again! Hearing that voice, Xie Yufeng nearly coughed up blood on the spot, so furious did it make him. Pitting his peak initial Profound strength against an expert at the peak of the late Profound stage had been daunting enough; now Wei Zhao had suddenly turned up as well, which meant he could not very well stop concealing his true strength — and wouldn't that leave him nothing but a punching bag?
Yet the most vexed of all at that moment was not Xie Yufeng, but Grandpa Zhu!
Hearing Xie Yufeng cry out the name "Wei Zhao," he started violently and hastily withdrew the true qi from his body. Weeks of investigation had already told him exactly who this "Wei Zhao" of Chen Xi's was; he had been racking his mind for some way to keep the man from ruining things — and before he had even hit upon one, he had run into Wei Zhao himself.
The reason Wei Zhao appeared at that moment was to probe this so-called Grandpa Zhu at Chen Xi's side. In Wei Zhao's eyes, an expert at the peak of the late Profound stage lurking beside Chen Xi was nothing short of incomprehensible.
A Profound-rank expert out scavenging junk? Unless he had some peculiar hobby, he had to be out of his mind.
Of course, for all his looking, Grandpa Zhu did not strike one as deranged; and yet as a hobby it hardly held up either — Wei Zhao had never heard of any expert with such a pastime. Unless... it served some purpose.
At that thought, Wei Zhao's gaze hardened, and he rose to his feet and strode over.
"Nothing much. I know this young lady — consider it a plea on her behalf, and let the whole matter go." Wei Zhao indicated Chen Xi. He called it a plea, but his tone brooked no argument, leaving Xie Yufeng nothing to rebut.
Xie Yufeng knew this was hardly the moment to fall out with Wei Zhao, and he naturally had to give the man face. So he took the out readily: "Since he's a friend of classmate Lin's, then let it drop!"
"Good — then carry on." So saying, Wei Zhao pulled Chen Xi aside. The message was plain enough: I know this little girl, but I don't know the old man — you and he can carry on.
Xie Yufeng blinked in surprise — yet he clearly felt the old man before him withdraw his true qi as well. That gave him pause. He himself feared Wei Zhao might see through his strength; did the old man fear the same?
Otherwise, why was it that the moment Wei Zhao arrived, the man hid his strength?
Grandpa Zhu drew back his gaze, turned, and walked toward Wei Zhao and Chen Xi, not another word for Xie Yufeng. And now Xie Yufeng was all the more certain of what he had suspected: the old man too was terrified of having his strength exposed.
Had that not been the case, how else to explain that moments ago the old brute had been howling for him to take a palm strike, and now was acting as if nothing had happened?
Xie Yufeng worked it over carefully and arrived at a conclusion: the old man and Wei Zhao had a secret between them — much like his own, he reckoned. The thought hit him like a shot of adrenaline, and he grew instantly feverish. He jabbed a finger at Grandpa Zhu: "Old brute, don't you walk away! Didn't you want to hit me? Take a palm of mine first!"
The words had hardly left his lips before he swung his fist and drove it straight at the old man's back.
Grandpa Zhu had never imagined Xie Yufeng would refuse to let it go, and fury boiled up in him at once — yet he was also in a bind. Remembering the great charge laid upon him, this was precisely the one moment he absolutely could not reveal his strength before Wei Zhao; so he had no choice but to brace himself and take Xie Yufeng's punch without drawing on a shred of true qi.