Chapter 2154 — Champion Again
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Elder Zhao, everyone present heard those words, didn't they? As the host of the Hidden World Family Summit, when someone makes such an unreasonable scene, shouldn't you take some measures?" Wei Zhao gave a cold laugh, then ignored Wo the sect master altogether and turned to Elder Zhao.
"That... naturally. Sect Master Wo, you did indeed say those words back then—the spirit beast was contributed by you, and whatever went wrong, it had nothing to do with you!" Elder Zhao said. "Otherwise, on what grounds would the Hidden Han Family have handed over their treasure to you?"
Elder Zhao was nursing his own grudge against Wo the sect master. You talked such a fine game, he thought—claimed you would do away with Wei Zhao. And what came of it? Not only did you fail to kill Wei Zhao, you let him take yet another championship. Where does that leave the face of me, the host?
This whole Hidden World Family Summit had turned into a pageant staged for Wei Zhao alone, letting him hog every spotlight! As for who got the spirit beast, Elder Zhao could not have cared less—the beast was not his to begin with, so he had lost nothing.
"That... I..." Wo the sect master wished he could tear out his own tongue. Why had he been so loose-lipped back then, why say such a thing? Now look at the mess—all for the sake of scheming after a trinket of the Hidden Han Family's, he had thrown his own sect's spirit beast into the bargain. A dead loss if ever there was one!
"Enough. I'm going to collect my prize. If you don't want to die, get out of my way!" Wei Zhao glared at Wo the sect master. The man was merely a peak mid earth-rank expert—Wei Zhao did not take him seriously at all. Those heaven-rank elders he did not dare offend too brazenly, but for the likes of Wo the sect master, he cared not a whit.
Seeing that Wei Zhao would not be swayed by either soft or hard tactics, Wo the sect master had no recourse but to pin his hopes on the Wind-Thunder Violet Lightning Beast. He walked cautiously over and tried to communicate with it: "You..."
But before Wo the sect master could finish, the Wind-Thunder Violet Lightning Beast turned its backside to him, wheeled around, and went off with Wei Zhao to collect the prize!
"..." Wo the sect master was furious and resentful, yet utterly helpless. He shook his head, gathered up his disciple's corpse, and withdrew for the time being to think of a plan. That Wei Zhao should carry off the Wind-Thunder Violet Lightning Beast like this—he would not swallow it, so he would have to devise some scheme.
Besides, the lives of two of his disciples had been forfeited to Wei Zhao's hands—how could he possibly let the matter rest?
Wei Zhao collected his own stakes and glanced at those of the Hidden Pi Family and the Fire Wolf Gang. What the Hidden Pi Family had put up was, surprisingly, two more vials of body-tempering medicinal liquid, while the Fire Wolf Gang's was that inexplicable 01 reagent. So Wei Zhao casually took out four items and traded for them.
Elder Pi was absent; the one in charge of the Pi Family was Pi Zhifeng. He had no stomach for haggling with Wei Zhao either—he took what Wei Zhao gave him and hurried away, anxious about his younger brother's safety and unsure whether he could be cured.
An Mingyue, for his part, showed neither joy nor sorrow, his face blank. He traded with Wei Zhao readily enough, then walked off to one side without another word, as though the fate of that Fire Wolf Gang disciple concerned him not in the slightest.