Chapter 4175 — I'm Afraid That Won't Do
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
If memory served, Su Zhaohe was not yet forty. To successfully form a core at such an age—if not unprecedented, then at least he counted among the rare and exceptional geniuses in the history of the Sandie Pavilion!
"No wonder Master Shangguan took a liking to him—his talent is simply terrifying!"
"Exactly. Forming a core before forty... going back, the last one seems to have been Gongyang Jun, wasn't it?"
"That's right! I never thought he'd already reached a level comparable to Master Gongyang. His title as a genius of the millennium is no exaggeration after all!"
Listening to the admiring sighs from below, the corners of Wei Zhao's mouth curved up slightly. He had never crossed hands with Gongyang Jun, but by pure intuition alone, even the Gongyang Jun of back then was by no means comparable to this paltry Su Zhaohe. These people were actually putting the two on the same level—he wondered what Gongyang Jun himself would think if he heard it.
"Boy, now you see the gap between us?" Su Zhaohe was thoroughly enjoying these words, and said with smug elation, "Even if we're both number one newcomers, the pure gold content is completely different—we're not even in the same league. I was the first among my batch of Sandie Pavilion disciples to form a core!"
"Oh? And so what?" Wei Zhao shot back, neither warm nor cold.
"So what? Hmph. A specimen like you, fit to be called a number one newcomer? Don't you feel ashamed when you look at me? Just how thick is your skin?" Su Zhaohe sneered, needling him.
"Oh? Then what would it take to be worthy of the title?" Wei Zhao smiled, a playful glint in his eyes.
"At the very least, form a core at thirty-five, like me!" Su Zhaohe said, chin lifted high, looking down his nose in triumph.
"Then I'm afraid I can't do it... The difficulty is just too high..." Wei Zhao shook his head helplessly.
"Hahahaha! Even you know you're no good—so you're not yet so stupid as to be beyond saving!" Su Zhaohe burst out laughing.
The crowd below laughed along with him, Kang Jingming and the others laughing the loudest and most gleefully of all. Wei Zhao had actually admitted defeat in front of so many people—this was an absolute first!
But Wei Zhao's next sentence cut the laughter in the hall dead.
"Sorry. I'm only twenty this year—it's a bit early for that..." Wei Zhao said with a helpless shrug.
"Hm? What's that supposed to mean?" Su Zhaohe, like everyone else below, looked utterly baffled, and they all exchanged bewildered glances.
Wei Zhao smiled faintly, and then the aura around him abruptly transformed. The powerful presence of the early Golden Core stage poured out in an instant, and Su Zhaohe—himself an early Golden Core expert—now seemed before him like a small boat tossed amid towering waves, no longer posing the slightest threat, but rather giving the impression that he might be swallowed whole at any moment.
In an instant, the entire hall was in an uproar. Su Zhaohe on the platform, and Kang Jingming and the rest below, every one of them had their mouths hanging open wide enough to swallow a pound of eggs! (To be continued...)