Chapter 4088 — Are You Lying to Me?
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As [Su Zhaohe]'s cousin, [Su Zhaohu] was a man who had seen a fair bit of the world. [Wei Zhao]'s earlier Wildfire Fist, Form Twenty-Nine, had only carried the might of the Foundation Establishment stage, but this palm strike now was unmistakably the power of the early Golden Core stage!
Only a Golden Core expert could master Golden Core martial techniques—of that there was no doubt. However arrogant and overbearing [Su Zhaohu] might be, he would never dare act recklessly before a Golden Core expert. Even his genius cousin had, to this day, only reached the great perfection of Foundation Establishment!
"Let you go?" [Wei Zhao] lifted his eyelids faintly.
"Yes, yes, this lowly one knows his error, this lowly one will never dare again. You are a lofty Golden Core senior—it is not worth soiling your hands with the likes of me..." [Su Zhaohu] knelt on the ground without a shred of dignity, begging for mercy, sniveling and weeping.
"You called yourself a lowly one, and yet you want me to let you go—so you can fetch your sixth cousin to come kill me, is that it?" The corner of [Wei Zhao]'s mouth curled into an amused arc.
"N-no... that is not it... this lowly one would never dare. You are a Golden Core senior; even my cousin could never be your match..." [Su Zhaohu] kowtowed hastily in utter terror.
[Wei Zhao] gave a cold snort, ignoring his pleas, and turned to look at [Chen Muzhuang] on the other side. "You there, [Chen Muzhuang]. You said just now that these people were all lured here by you?"
[Chen Muzhuang] had long since been frightened out of his wits. He stood frozen for a long while before snapping back to his senses with a start, and likewise dropped to his knees before [Wei Zhao], begging, "Senior, spare this little life of mine! I was forced into all of this by them. If I hadn't done as they ordered, I could never have gained a foothold on North Island—they would have hunted me down and killed me..."
"I'll give you one chance. Kill him." [Wei Zhao] issued the order without expression.
"What?" [Chen Muzhuang] and [Su Zhaohu] were both startled. [Su Zhaohu]'s face twisted with alarm and fury, while [Chen Muzhuang] hesitated.
It was not that his heart had softened—[Su Zhaohu] had burned the bridge so thoroughly just now that in his heart he had already slaughtered the bastard ten thousand times over. But [Su Zhaohu] was [Su Zhaohe]'s cousin. If [Chen Muzhuang] dared kill him, then even if he survived today, he would be dead beyond any doubt once he returned to North Island.
"[Chen Muzhuang], you dare! Touch a single hair on my head, and I'll leave your corpse in pieces!" [Su Zhaohu] threatened in shock and rage.
[Chen Muzhuang]'s heart quailed, but seeing [Wei Zhao]'s piercing gaze sweep toward him, he scrambled to his feet, went forward, and braced himself to strike at [Su Zhaohu].
Killing [Su Zhaohu] only meant being hunted down sometime in the future. But if he did not kill [Su Zhaohu], he would die right now—there was no choice at all.
Seeing the killing intent gather on [Chen Muzhuang], [Su Zhaohu] finally dared not drag things out any longer. Before [Chen Muzhuang] could strike, he exploded into motion, a single finger piercing clean through the other man's heart—one blow, instant death.
Yet before he could draw a breath of relief, [Wei Zhao] spoke up before him with a cold laugh. "Right in front of me, you dare kill a member of our squad—and just now you said you'd never dare again? Are you fucking lying to me?"
"No... no..." [Su Zhaohu] hurried to deny it, but [Wei Zhao] gave him no chance at all. He raised his leg for a Wildfire Thousand Legs and kicked the man dozens of zhang away. By the time [Su Zhaohu] crashed heavily against a tree trunk, he was already a mutilated corpse.