Chapter 2135 — Going Back on One's Word, Part 1
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So when they first heard Wei Zhao's name and battle record, the two had turned up their noses. After the draw paired them with Wei Zhao, the two said little and could not wait to mount the arena, waiting for Wei Zhao to step up.
Before this, Zhuang Niaodao and Zhuang Niaopao had not known Wei Zhao either, because the two of them only entered the doubles arena challenge and had not observed a single match before that. Naturally, they did not know that Wei Zhao was Ling Yi from the Ice Palace trial.
Moreover, in the earlier match between Wei Zhao and the hidden Pi family, the Pi family had conceded, and Wei Zhao had not even stepped onto the arena—so of course they had not seen him.
"Where is Wei Zhao? Come up and face the challenge of the two Zhuang brothers!" Zhuang Niaopao declared with great righteous dignity.
Wei Zhao and Han Xiaohu had gone to the latrine and did not hear Zhuang Niaopao's clamor.
"The match hasn't started yet—no shouting!" Old Master Zhao frowned. These two brothers, Zhuang Niaopao and Zhuang Niaoqiang, had just eliminated the disciples of his hidden Zhao family. Though Old Master Zhao hated Wei Zhao too, he did not have much goodwill toward these two Zhuang brothers either.
"Hmph—brother, I say this Wei Zhao is all reputation and no substance. In a moment, you and I will join forces to tie him up first, then find a chance to go after that Han Xiaohu!" Zhuang Niaopao said.
"Naturally. With the two of us brothers joining hands, we are invincible!" Zhuang Niaoqiang was confident as well. The two of them had been unstoppable all along, sweeping aside the two Zhao family disciples in what was basically a clean victory, so their confidence was full.
"That Wei Zhao—is he coming or not? If he doesn't come, it counts as a voluntary concession!" Zhuang Niaopao said impatiently.
"Concede? Ha!" Before Wei Zhao could speak, Han Xiaohu laughed coldly. "If you two have any sense, you'll concede on your own. Don't end up throwing your lives away too—don't blame me for not warning you. The moment my boss makes his move, any expert at all gets wiped out!"
"Haha! Any expert at all gets wiped out? With the two of us Zhuang brothers joining hands, we are invincible below the Heaven Rank. Let's see how he wipes us out!" Zhuang Niaopao said with a cold sneer.
"Oh, is that so?" Wei Zhao and Han Xiaohu walked over together and looked at the two Zhuang brothers on the arena with a cold smile. "I happen to specialize in wiping out people who are invincible below some rank. When I was at the Mystic Rank, I wiped out two men who claimed to be invincible below the Earth Rank. Now that I'm at the Earth Rank, I might as well wipe out two more who are invincible below the Heaven Rank—just to keep my hand in!"
"Big talk... gah?" Zhuang Niaopao was about to say big talk, that boasting so loudly would make him bite his tongue—but then he saw Wei Zhao's face, and in an instant he stood there dumbstruck as if struck by lightning, unable to speak a word...
"Niaopao, what's wrong with you?" Zhuang Niaoqiang was puzzled to see Zhuang Niaopao frozen, and followed his gaze. When he saw Wei Zhao, his whole body gave a shudder, and he blurted out involuntarily, "Lord Ling?"
Ling Yi had left far too deep an impression on the two brothers. Even a freak of nature like Zhang Naipao had been crippled by Wei Zhao—what virtue or ability did the two of them have to lock wrists with Ling Yi? And Zhuang Niaoqiang thought that even now, the two brothers might not be a match for Zhang Naipao, would they?
The Chrysanthemum Treasure Manual's Bee-Devouring Divine Art was simply an unnatural thing—it drained a person's true qi directly. Who could withstand that? Yet Ling Yi could. Not only did he withstand it, he even crippled Zhang Naipao!
Originally, he had thought Wei Zhao was boasting, but after seeing Wei Zhao, he no longer thought so...