Chapter 2500 — Little Shu's Bad Idea
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Never mind an ancient sect—a single Wei Zhao was already enough to leave the hidden Zhao family helpless. As for an ancient sect, the hidden Zhao family would never dare provoke one, so Zhao Qibing fell silent at once. It seemed his legs had been broken for nothing after all.
"So, Zhao Qibing, do you still want revenge?" Zhong Yongliang had seen Zhao Qibing deflate the moment he heard the great name of the Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Sect, and he was overjoyed on the spot. The reputation of his sect truly rang out loud and clear.
"Zhong Yongliang, even if you mean to kill me, at least let me die with some clarity. You were my subordinate before, but I never treated you badly, did I? What is the meaning of this beating?" Zhao Qibing no longer even thought of revenge; he only wanted to understand what on earth was going on.
"It's really nothing much. My celestial one told me to beat you. You didn't provoke me, true enough, but you provoked my celestial one!" Zhong Yongliang said.
"Your celestial one? Who is that?" Zhao Qibing was startled, then at once recalled the person Zhong Yongliang had once secretly admired: "Gu Mengyao?"
"Exactly, Gu Mengyao!" Zhong Yongliang nodded.
"You're with Wei Zhao?" Hearing Zhong Yongliang admit it, Zhao Qibing was frightened half to death.
"Of course not. I'm after his position," Zhong Yongliang said. "Oh, by the way, let me ask you—what is Wei Zhao's current strength?"
"Strength? Early Earth Rank, or perhaps the peak of early Earth Rank?" Zhao Qibing said. "Why do you ask? Do you think you can beat Wei Zhao?"
"An Earth Rank expert, is he? Then there's no problem at all. I'll have him in hand with no trouble!" Zhong Yongliang nodded in relief. "All right, Zhao Qibing, I've finished beating you, so you can go. Out of respect for the fact that you were once my boss, I won't knock you out—I'll let you leave with your wits about you!"
"I..." Zhao Qibing had just been about to say that he had come looking for someone, but then something occurred to him and he asked, "It wasn't you who had You Panhu call me out here, was it?"
"It was me," Zhong Yongliang nodded.
"My god... You Panhu really has no honor. He actually dared to set me up?" Zhao Qibing was thoroughly displeased to hear it.
"Oh, I gave him a beating too," Zhong Yongliang said indifferently. "He's worse off than you—he's out cold."
"Is that so..." Hearing this, Zhao Qibing felt considerably better balanced. He took out his phone and called the hidden Zhao family to have them come pick him up.
"I'm off. Time to report to my celestial one..." Carrying his dark-iron refined-steel rod, Zhong Yongliang led Gao Xiaofu away toward the economics department teaching building.
And Shen Yushu, through a **, had heard everything that happened on this side crystal clear, and she recounted the whole course of events to Gu Mengyao.
"You're saying Zhong Yongliang also joined that Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Sect, and also became that sect master's **?" Gu Mengyao was greatly astonished to hear it. "And he got himself a Golden Cicada undergarment too? The reason he can withstand blows is because of this undergarment?"
"That should be how it is," Shen Yushu nodded.
"That undergarment—didn't Wei Zhao give us one too?" Gu Mengyao recalled the low-grade Golden Cicada undergarment Wei Zhao had won at the Hidden World Families Summit. "Though ours doesn't seem as high-grade as Zhong Yongliang's."
"Right. The one Brother Arrowhead won can only defend against attacks from experts below Earth Rank; it has no effect against Earth Rank experts or above..." Shen Yushu nodded. When Wei Zhao had brought that undergarment back, he had meant to wash it and give it to Gu Mengyao or Shen Yushu for self-defense, but with Wu Chengtian around, basically any enemy below Earth Rank could be handled, so the Golden Cicada undergarment was somewhat superfluous, and it had sat at home unused ever since.