護花近衛 - 第3954章 頂級靈眼 - 清風書屋

A moment passed before Meng Jueming snapped back to his senses. His face darkened as he said coldly, "Quibbling is useless. The evidence is ironclad and sitting right here. You must have some method to rapidly recharge spent jade. You have only two choices now. The first is to come out with it honestly—that would be best for both you and me. As for the second, what the consequences will be, I'm sure I need not spell out for you."

Wei Zhao fell silent for a moment, then finally spoke: "The method to recharge spent jade and turn it into good jade—do you truly want to know?"

"Of course I do, you fool! If not for that, do you think you'd still be alive today? The Southern Heaven Pass would have dealt with you long ago, Young Hero Lin," Meng Jueming sneered.

"Fine. I can tell you this much. But afterward, how can you guarantee you won't kill the donkey once it has ground the grain?" Wei Zhao's tone was unfathomable.

From his standpoint, distrusting Meng Jueming was the most natural thing in the world, and Meng Jueming was hardly surprised. He scoffed on the spot: "Young Hero Lin, I thought you were cleverer than this. I never expected that when the crunch came, you'd be no different from a foolish ordinary man! Just think about it with that brain of yours—if I expose you, I won't be able to keep this secret either. What good would that do me? A heaven-defying method like this is obviously something to keep to oneself and quietly make a fortune with!"

That was no empty boast. Across all of Cloud Terrace Island, quite a few factions possessed methods to recharge spent jade, but without exception they were like the Spirit Jade Hall, requiring hundreds of years to accomplish.

By contrast, if Wei Zhao truly held a method to rapidly recharge spent jade, its heaven-defying nature would be utterly astonishing. Even for the sake of his own interests, Meng Jueming would never allow a third person to learn of it—after all, that would bring him a hundred harms and not a single benefit.

"Good. It's enough that you understand." Wei Zhao nodded, then indicated the two guards in the distance with his eyes and said mildly, "What about those two? Don't we need to find a way to send them off? If they happen to overhear or glimpse something, that would be greatly disadvantageous as well."

Meng Jueming was briefly taken aback, but he quickly grasped Wei Zhao's intent and snorted coldly: "Young Hero Lin, I advise you to save your scheming. Send those two guards away and then seize the chance to strike at me, is that it? What a pipe dream!"

Meng Jueming was no fool. In his current predicament, what he most needed to avoid was being alone with Wei Zhao. Given the gap in their strength, killing him would likely be no harder for Wei Zhao than wringing a chicken's neck—after all, this was a ruthless figure who could kill even a peak late-stage Foundation Establishment expert in a single exchange.

"At this distance, as long as we keep our voices down, they won't hear a thing. I'll deliberately release a true-qi isolation barrier to block the sound! Besides, if I'm not mistaken, your secret for rapidly recharging spent jade must be hidden right here in Mining Zone No. 10. You've operated under their noses so many times before without being discovered, so naturally there won't be any problem now. So don't try any tricks—understand what I mean, Young Hero Lin!" Meng Jueming warned with an ugly expression.

Little did he know that this self-styled clever speculation and threat of his had precisely supplied Wei Zhao with an idea and a thread to follow. Without those words, concocting a plausible lie would have been a most troublesome affair. But now, with Meng Jueming's conceited guess to serve as a reference, fooling him would be far easier.

At those words, Wei Zhao's eyes lit up and his mind raced. If that was the case, then handled well, this might well prove a rare opportunity!