Chapter 4034 — Ambush on the Return Journey
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"Gah!" The masked men were thrown into a panic and hurriedly looked down, each fumbling at his own waist—and then every gaze came to rest on the hedgehog-haired leader. At his waist still hung a yellow token inscribed with the words "Wantong"—plainly the emblem of the Wantong Grand Gathering.
Under all those eyes, mask or no mask, the hedgehog-haired man's mortification was plain to see; his face burned red to the very ears.
"Clowns who can't even put on a proper show." Hong Zhong shook his head in speechless disgust. The men before him were beneath his notice; his remark was aimed, of course, at the Wantong Grand Gathering.
Of that long-laid poisonous scheme, Hong Zhong—though he had been one of its joint targets—had as a merchant privately allowed that it was a masterful piece of work. But now, having clearly already lost, to stoop to something as shabby as sending men to waylay them was beneath contempt.
And if you were going to send men to rob someone, you might at least send someone capable. Sending a pack of fools with neither strength nor brains—was this meant as an insult to one's intelligence?
Watched by his own subordinates behind him, and especially sneered at by the long-haired man on the other side, the hedgehog-haired man flew into a shameful fury: "What are you all staring at! So what if I've given myself away—the brat and the old man die either way! Once they've been fed to the sea monsters, no one will be the wiser!"
Wei Zhao could not help laughing. "Feeding the sea monsters is such a charming pastime—I really do think it suits a greenwood hero of your refinement better. Why don't you give us a demonstration first?"
"Demonstration? Demonstrate this!" The hedgehog-haired man cursed and snatched up the great cleaver at his side, bellowing, "Close in—today I'm going to split him open alive!"
The men behind him bared their blades and divine weapons with savage grins, and at the same time the long-haired man's group began to close in on Wei Zhao and Hong Zhong from the other side.
Hong Zhong was about to make his move when he saw that Wei Zhao had already acted before him. Freshly advanced to the peak of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, Wei Zhao was eager to test his strength—especially that one move he had lately devised.
True qi gathered in one hand, elixir fire in the other. Before the hedgehog-haired man's gang could close in fully, Wei Zhao abruptly pressed his palms together, then blasted the top-grade bomb he had fused between them straight into their faces!
Boom! With a thunderous blast, a great wave erupted from the calm sea, and above it a small mushroom cloud rose stark against the sky, hanging there and refusing to disperse.
The sheer scale of it stunned the long-haired man's group outright—and then, beneath that pall of thick smoke, they saw the hedgehog-haired man and his companions, scorched black along with their raptor spirit beasts, plunge into the vast ocean, torn apart and devoured in an instant by several ferocious sea beasts. The savagery of the sight nearly frightened the wits out of every one of them.
To them, Wei Zhao—peak of the mid-Foundation Establishment—had been a soft persimmon not worth counting. Yet in a single exchange, the hedgehog-haired man's whole gang had been wiped out! (To be continued) R861