Chapter 2513 — How Am I Supposed to Prove It? Wei Zhao Would Have Dealt with You Himself Long Ago If He Wanted You Dead—Why Would He Need Me? I'm Just Being Used as a Weapon! Once We Become Enemies, Once Hidden You Family and the Cultivators' Guild Become Enemies, He'll Be Delighted!
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As it happened, the short expert had overthought things—Wei Zhao truly had not been thinking along those lines at all. It was true that Wei Zhao could cripple him with a single palm strike, but that depended on catching him off guard with a surprise attack. If the short expert had true qi shielding his body, that palm would not have killed him.
What was more, Wei Zhao could unleash only two palm strikes before exhausting every last shred of bodily strength and true qi. There was simply no way he could trigger the seventh form of the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm in succession.
So Wei Zhao had no confidence in dealing with the Heaven Rank vice president. All he could do was hold him off and flee. Yet Wei Zhao did not want the Heaven Rank vice president to know he was afraid. After all, you could dodge the first day but never the fifteenth—he had to put a scare into the Heaven Rank vice president and plant a seed of dread in his heart. Wei Zhao would still need to attend the marketplace and the trade fairs in the future; it would not do to forge too great a feud with the Cultivators' Guild.
If the Heaven Rank vice president took fright and gave up on the spot, that would be the most ideal outcome of all.
To the Heaven Rank vice president's ears, the short expert's words struck like a thunderclap—so shocking, so staggering that he could scarcely believe they were true. Could it really be that Wei Zhao, an expert at the peak of the mid Earth Rank, truly had what it took to defeat Third Elder You, and to defeat him as well?
But the Heaven Rank vice president knew Third Elder You could not be lying. Third Elder You was, after all, a full-fledged Heaven Rank expert—how could he possibly tell such a lie? That would be toying with his own reputation! A dignified Heaven Rank expert afraid of a mid Earth Rank expert at the peak of his grade? If word of that got out, it would be the joke of the century. Unless it were truly the case and he had been driven to it with no way out, Third Elder You would never have spoken of it so recklessly.
At this thought, the Heaven Rank vice president could not help reassessing Wei Zhao. Recalling how effortlessly Wei Zhao had crippled his two disciples, fighting far above his own rank, the Heaven Rank vice president finally realized that he had been thinking about the matter far too simply. This mid Earth Rank expert at the peak of his grade was no ordinary mid Earth Rank expert at the peak of his grade!
Still, a few doubts lingered in his mind. If Wei Zhao were truly so formidable, so overwhelming, why not simply join forces with Third Elder You and wipe them out outright? Why resort to such tactics as these? Making an enemy of Hidden You Family and of himself? But now that everything had been laid bare, how could they still be enemies?
Drawing a deep breath and struggling to steady his emotions, the Heaven Rank vice president raised his head and looked at Wei Zhao. "What should I call you? I must admit, I underestimated your strength before."
"My surname is Ling," Wei Zhao said indifferently.
"Mr. Ling, do you truly have the strength to wipe us out?" The Heaven Rank vice president hesitated a moment, then asked bluntly.
"Heh. How about this—let us run a little test. Stand right there and let me hit you once. Experience it for yourself, and see whether I have it in me to destroy you all," Wei Zhao said with a smile.
"Ha-ha, Mr. Ling jests..." How could the Heaven Rank vice president possibly agree to such a proposal? Had he not heard Third Elder You's account, had there been no precedent of Wei Zhao crippling his two disciples across rank boundaries, he might just have agreed. But now, he would not dare attempt it even if you beat him to death.