Chapter 2145 — A Breakthrough to the Mid Earth Rank! So There Is Utterly No Possibility of Anything Developing Between Wei Zhao and Yu Ning
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After trading blows with man-beast unity, Wei Zhao had not died of his injuries—he had broken through instead!
All these uncanny things really did leave people unable to doubt that Wei Zhao was not merely boasting.
Of course, it was also possible that Wei Zhao, having just broken through, had let his confidence swell and spoken such domineering words. But if Wei Zhao did not have the goods, he could not have said it—and his saying it proved that his former strength had already been not far from one-shotting a Heaven-rank expert...
By now, basically no one believed that Wei Zhao had sat down cross-legged after being struck by Woking Dao and the spirit wolf in order to heal. In everyone's eyes, Wei Zhao had likely grasped the opportunity for breakthrough in the midst of battle, then cultivated with all his might and shattered the barrier!
After all, how could healing be finished so quickly? Nor had anyone seen Wei Zhao take any pill. As for injuries, it was probably no more than a bit of disordered qi that needed smoothing out—he could not have been badly hurt.
Earlier, the blows of an early Heaven-rank expert had done nothing to Wei Zhao; once the fight was over he had caught his breath and stood right up. So in the crowd's view, Woking Dao and the spirit wolf's man-beast unity had likewise brought Wei Zhao no great harm—it had merely thrown his true qi into disarray.
For other cultivators, so short a time would hardly suffice to catch one's breath—not even that.
"Haha, since Wei Zhao is fine, let us all disperse. The champion of this two-person arena challenge is beyond doubt the hidden Han family; there is no need to wait for any other possibility!" Old Master Zhao said with a hearty laugh, though his heart was chilled.
However formidable Wei Zhao was, he was still only a mid Earth-rank expert. To one-shot a Heaven-rank, perhaps he had some hidden trump—but what set Old Master Zhao's mind most at ease was that he now knew Wei Zhao's true strength!
Now the most important thing was not to rush to deal with Wei Zhao, but for everyone to discuss together how exactly to deal with him! To pool their wisdom and see whether there was any way to surround and annihilate Wei Zhao.
"Time to eat—let's go back for lunch!" Old Master Tang said as well.
Everyone nodded, and the crowd dispersed from the arena grounds...
Watching the crowd scatter, Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. That talk of one-shotting a Heaven-rank had been said offhand, its purpose merely to test the reactions of those old masters and sect leaders—and these people clearly did harbor designs!
But in the end they had chosen to leave, which set Wei Zhao's mind at ease for the moment. At the Hidden World Family Summit, force could not be used in conflict—so it seemed that rule was no lie. Otherwise, these family elders and sect masters could simply have used force to crush and extort the hidden Han family; there would have been no need for the superfluous business of staging a Hidden World Family Summit tournament to target the hidden Han family through the competition.
Having reasoned this out, Wei Zhao was for the time being no longer tense. The key question was: after the Hidden World Family Summit ended, how was he to leave the hidden Zhao family in safety! Han Xiaohu had said force could not be used in conflict at the Summit—but what about after it ended?
Did "after it ended" include the time before Wei Zhao safely left the hidden Zhao family? If the hidden Zhao family meant to exploit some loophole in the wording, then Wei Zhao would have to guard against it.