Chapter 2510 — No Brains Needed
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
This was plainly no proper road, but a rugged, natural trail, exceedingly difficult to walk, running in the exact opposite direction from the cultivators' market… Inside the market, in a certain courtyard, the Heaven Rank vice president sat in state, and with him was none other than his disappointing disciple, Skinny Scarecrow.
"Master, are we really just letting that brat walk away? You know he's carrying not only the blue crystal but the pure yellow jade too!" Skinny Scarecrow said anxiously.
"Patience." The Heaven Rank vice president smiled faintly and waved a hand at Skinny Scarecrow. "Walk away? Impossible—where could he go? Rest easy, my eyes have been on him the whole time. The boy hasn't left at all; he's heading up another mountain path. Whether he knows something or is doing it on purpose, I can't say."
"A mountain path? Isn't that where our Cultivators' Merchant Guild's medicinal herb plantation is? Him going up there…" Skinny Scarecrow's expression changed at once.
"Which is why I can't think what he's up to," the Heaven Rank vice president said. "But there's no need to worry. If we don't lift a hand, someone else will do it for us."
"Master means…" Skinny Scarecrow asked cautiously.
"Having offended Hidden You Family, could he possibly get home safe? Put the pure yellow jade out of your mind—Hidden You Family is set on it, and there's little point in us seizing it. Yes, it fetched a heaven-shaking price of over two hundred million this time, but at the next auction it may not fetch nearly so much—tens of millions at most. There's no need for us to offend Hidden You Family over a thing like that," the Heaven Rank vice president said. "Our objective this time is the blue crystal!"
"Oh—Master means to let Hidden You Family strike first. The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind; we wait until they've fought each other to near exhaustion, then make our move?" Skinny Scarecrow understood his master's meaning.
"Precisely. That is exactly it," the Heaven Rank vice president nodded.
"But the boy's nothing but a peak mid-stage Earth Rank expert—is all this really necessary? If we struck together with Hidden You Family, we might well reap a few more benefits, no?" Skinny Scarecrow asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Nothing but a peak mid-stage Earth Rank expert? If he's nothing but that, then how did he cripple your eldest and second senior brothers and leave them half dead?" The Heaven Rank vice president gave a cold laugh. "Don't you use your brain and think?"
"This…" Only then did Skinny Scarecrow recall just why they were going after Wei Zhao, and cold sweat broke out at once. Yes—how could a peak mid-stage Earth Rank expert so easily annihilate a peak late-stage Earth Rank expert?
Either Wei Zhao could fight above his level, or he had concealed his true strength. After all, even an early-stage Heaven Rank expert could not snuff out a peak late-stage Earth Rank expert in a single move—it was simply inconceivable.