Chapter 3722 — Meng Zhou's Trump Card
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The long-suffering senior brother could not help but step forward to dress them down. After all, he was the managing senior brother of the Qingyun Pavilion newcomers. However thoroughly Meng Jueming had stripped him of real authority, the right to reprimand newcomers was still his.
As for Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai, they were even more indignant, itching to step forward and issue a challenge—to properly teach these ungrateful wretches a lesson!
But Wei Zhao reached out and held them back. Arguing with these people of ulterior motives was a pure waste of breath, utterly pointless. Still, his expression could not help but darken a shade or two.
Seeing Wei Zhao's face darken and his lips stay sealed, Meng Zhou was secretly delighted. In his view, the more Wei Zhao choked down his words now, the more likely he was to bull recklessly ahead later—because this creature was so used to putting on airs that he would surely pick a high tier just to slap them all in the face!
But before that, they still had to administer one more strong dose of medicine, to make absolutely certain nothing went wrong.
Meng Zhou raised a hand, and the pack of newcomers behind him fell silent at once. Only then did he declare smugly, "Whatever tier you plan to choose, Mr. Show-Off Newcomer, I, your lord, will graciously inform you of mine—lest your hard-won dog-shit-luck points get overtaken and you do something foolish like killing yourself in despair. That would be a shame! Hear me: I intend to choose early Foundation Establishment peak!"
At these words, the surrounding newcomers obligingly gasped. Their shock was no act—it came truly from the heart. Because never before had Meng Zhou said a word about choosing early Foundation Establishment peak!
Challenging above one's tier was idiotic behavior—Pavilion Master Hu Yunfeng's words of a moment ago were no idle jest. Remember, defense was a weak point for the vast majority; to withstand a full-force blow from a peer of one's own tier was already considered remarkable. To propose a challenge above one's tier under such conditions was little short of courting death!
Yet Meng Zhou had declared it with utter confidence, and from his expression there was not the slightest trace of bluff. He genuinely meant to challenge above his tier!
"Heh… and when the time comes you'll hold a fourth-grade Great Return Pill in your mouth, while the examiner secretly lets the water flow? Now that would indeed give you the capital and the confidence to challenge early Foundation Establishment peak." Wei Zhao laughed coldly to himself, betraying nothing. This was a point Li Zhengming's intelligence had specifically mentioned.
Originally, for the sake of fairness and impartiality in the trial, no one was permitted to take any pills. Otherwise, if one swallowed a fourth-grade Great Return Pill—a life-saving elixir bordering on the heaven-defying—so long as one held on to a single breath, death was all but assured to be kept at bay, and afterward the injuries would recover swiftly. That was flat-out cheating!
Had it been anyone else, Elder Zhao Hongbo, sitting as judge, would surely have stepped in to stop it, to preserve his own shining, upstanding image. But Meng Zhou was a key link in their plan to provoke and bring down Wei Zhao. For the sake of Xu Lingchong, young master Xu, even Zhao Hongbo would only turn a blind eye.
In any case, so long as they themselves did not leak it, no one else could possibly learn the truth. Everyone would simply think this Meng Zhou fellow was truly something else—that he could even challenge above his tier and walk away unscathed! [Tomorrow, the Yuren Book Club will be held at Harbin University of Science and Technology—fans in Harbin, don't miss it! For details, see Yuren's WeChat 22.]
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