Chapter 1705 — Are You Toying With Me?
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Chen Yuxuan was just basking in self-satisfaction, about to say "Of course," when he caught the second half of his sister's sentence and nearly dropped back into his wheelchair! Still, on reflection, it made sense he was no match for Wei Zhao — if he were stronger than Wei Zhao, why would he ever acknowledge Wei Zhao as his leader?
So Chen Yuxuan declared proudly, "That's right! I even thought about putting together some entrance music for myself, the way they do in TV dramas when someone comes to trash a place — a rousing little tune. Shame I was in too much of a hurry to come. Didn't prepare any."
"Damn you, Chen Yuxuan! Don't think that just because you're out of the hospital you can beat me. You're a mere early-stage Mystic Rank practitioner — wanting to defeat me is nothing but wishful thinking!" Chen Yuxuan and Shen Yushu's tag-team exchange had thoroughly enraged Yu Feng. He had been completely ignored, and that made him seethe.
"And who told you I'm still early-stage Mystic Rank?" Chen Yuxuan countered. "Yu Feng, there's a bit of a logic problem in that head of yours!"
"If you're not early-stage Mystic Rank, then are you at the peak of early-stage Mystic Rank?" Yu Feng blinked, thrown.
"No." Chen Yuxuan shook his head.
"Then you're still early-stage Mystic Rank... Are you toying with me?" Yu Feng, thoroughly befuddled by Chen Yuxuan, turned red with embarrassment and fury. He leapt up, ready to charge at Chen Yuxuan. "Chen Yuxuan, I see you've just come looking for death..."
"Xiao Feng, wait..." Yu Shuixing sensed something was off. Yu Feng's head was running hot, but his own was not. There was something fishy in all this — Chen Yuxuan couldn't be so foolish as to walk right into death, could he? Could the boy have some dirty trick up his sleeve?
After all, in Yu Shuixing's view, it was impossible for Chen Yuxuan to have improved his strength. But he might be holding some hidden ace. Otherwise, why would he dare to provoke them like this?
"What is it, Yu Shuixing? Are you going to go back on your word and break the rules you set yourself? Grievances and vendettas settled by force, the stronger hand winning?" Old Master Chen, Chen Kuanglan, saw his grandson brimming with confidence and his granddaughter perfectly composed. Doubts stirred in his heart, but he knew these two grandchildren better than anyone.
Chen Yuxuan might be a bit impetuous, but he would never do something as foolish as walk into his own death — especially not with Shen Yushu beside him. How could Shen Yushu ever stand by and watch Chen Yuxuan die? And then there was that mysterious Wei Zhao, of whom Old Master Chen had long heard rumors.
On the surface his post was as a close guard to Gu Mengyao and little Shu, yet what he had actually done was never the sort of thing a close guard could do! Killing one of the Yu family's skilled hands and crippling another — would any ordinary personal guard dare to do that?
And even that was not all. The Pi family — formidable, weren't they? Even so, Wei Zhao had killed one of theirs, and that little brother of his, the one called Ergoudan, had killed two! And to this very day the Pi family had not dared to squeak a single word about it. That was highly suspicious.
And if that still wasn't remarkable enough, then there was Jin Wudi of the Golden Bell Sect and his disciple Ma Zhu — both of them had fallen at the hands of Wei Zhao and Ergoudan. That was nothing short of a miracle! Jin Wudi was a master of the Golden Bell Shield; even Earth Rank practitioners gave him a wide berth. Yet that little brother of Wei Zhao's had killed him with a single punch. What kind of level was that?