Chapter 3713 — Laughing to the End
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Xu Lingchong had originally felt a little regretful. Judging from Wei Zhao's performance just now, at most he could have inflicted serious injuries on him, but he would not have been able to kill him. Yet now this Wei Zhao fellow had actually sat back down halfway through. He was practically begging for death!
Calamities brought by Heaven may be forgiven; calamities brought upon oneself are beyond saving. Since that idiot Wei Zhao insisted on courting death, no one could blame anyone else.
With that, Xu Lingchong turned toward Shangguan Lan'er and ingratiatingly said, "That idiot Wei Zhao actually dared provoke our junior sister Lan'er before. He truly had no idea how to stay alive. And now he's overestimating himself by stubbornly hanging on up there. What a magnificent way to court death. No one could stop him even if they tried. It just happens to let you, Junior Sister, vent some of your anger!"
Shangguan Lan'er was currently struggling with whether she ought to step forward and save Wei Zhao. Hearing this, she shot him a glance. "You arranged all this?"
"Heh heh, you could say that. But I never told him to sit back down. As the old saying goes, if you don't court death, you won't die. If he hadn't cooperated so beautifully, there really wouldn't have been anything I could do to him!" Xu Lingchong spoke in a low voice, unable to conceal his smugness.
Shangguan Lan'er frowned. Although she was worried about Wei Zhao's safety, she thought that since this had been his own choice, she should wait and see for a little longer. She had not spent much time with Wei Zhao, but her instincts told her that he was absolutely not the sort of idiot who would overestimate himself like this.
She had already made up her mind: even if Wei Zhao had truly miscalculated this time, she would wait until she was certain he was in danger before stepping forward to call a halt.
At this moment, Miserable Senior Brother and the others were thinking much the same way. Compared with Shangguan Lan'er, they knew Wei Zhao no less well, and they understood that he would never act so recklessly without confidence. There had to be a reason for what he was doing now.
Even so, despite believing in Wei Zhao, they could not help feeling worried. This was no joking matter!
Meanwhile, Meng Zhou and the other Qingyun Pavilion newcomers were taking turns mocking him, bringing every ounce of their contempt to bear.
Recalling how Wei Zhao had used that false aura of an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator to frighten and extort them during the trial in the rear mountains, they could not help grinding their teeth in hatred. Now that they were watching him bring disaster upon himself, the sight was simply too satisfying!
The only exception among them was Li Zhengming. Although he appeared to be curling his lips in a cold sneer as well, he was not laughing at Wei Zhao. He was laughing at the utterly ridiculous idiots around him.
Of everyone present, including Miserable Senior Brother and the others, he alone knew Wei Zhao's true strength. Wei Zhao was a freak who had broken through to the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage in barely a month after entering the Newcomer Pavilion. How could a crowd of mediocre people like them possibly understand anything he did?
Li Zhengming felt as though he were watching a flock of sparrows mock a great roc for overestimating itself, never realizing that the roc truly possessed the ability to soar ninety thousand li into the heavens.
Whenever you look down your nose at someone like that, the real idiot is the person staring back at you from the mirror.
Unlike the people below the platform, who knew nothing of the circumstances, the Enforcement Hall experts onstage were not merely mocking and sneering at Wei Zhao's performance. They were thoroughly bewildered by it, and sincerely unable to understand what they were seeing.