Chapter 4291 — Hold On a Moment
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There are limits to what a man can swallow. Since Wei Zhao knew full well that he had been played for a fool, how could a man of his temperament simply choke down his anger and say nothing?
Besieged by so many stares at once, even a man of Chang Daoping's deep reserve could not keep his face from mottling green and purple by turns; he hung his head, not daring to meet anyone's eyes.
But the azure-robed man had no intention of letting him off so easily. After savoring the spectacle with a mocking look for a while, he suddenly barked, "And the spirit-jade card? Hand it over, now!"
"What? The spirit-jade card too?" Chang Daoping forgot his shame and fury for a moment; the words jolted him like a shock.
"What else? The way I see it, you're quite the hand at playing tricks and pulling the wool over people's eyes—so how come your brain's gone dim all of a sudden? I told you to hand over everything of value on you. Or is your spirit-jade card worth nothing?" The azure-robed man gave him a sidelong glance.
Chang Daoping was choked speechless for a good while. After a moment's hesitation, he obediently fished out the spirit-jade card, muttering inwardly: no matter. The card is bound by a verification formation—apart from my own true qi, no one else can use it even if they take it, let alone transfer a single piece of spirit jade out of it. If I lose this card, the worst that happens is I go home, pull some strings, and have a new one reissued...
But before Chang Daoping could even finish congratulating himself, the azure-robed man's next move sent his eyelid twitching violently again, and his already wretched face turned into a spectacle to rival a man who had just eaten filth.
"Be a good boy and swipe it yourself—not one piece of spirit jade short. Otherwise you know well enough what happens." In the azure-robed man's hand now gleamed a miniature card-swiping artifact.
Damn it all! Chang Daoping cursed a bellyful of filth, yet gritted his teeth and did not dare voice a word of it. The spirit jade in that card was nearly his entire life's savings. He had come to the ruins of Aoduo Cultivation City and gotten not a single blasted thing for his pains—and now he was to be cleaned out entirely. What rotten, godforsaken luck was this?
Furious as he was, Chang Daoping had not let rage cloud his reason. However much spirit jade he had, it was worth less than his own life; he could only docilely do as he was told. And because the other man kept his eyes fixed on the card the whole time, he could not have skimmed off even a single piece if he had tried. It all had to be transferred, clean.
The Star-Ink Milk, the treasures on his person, and the spirit-jade card—all scraped clean. Not yet satisfied, the azure-robed man searched Chang Daoping's person himself, and only then finally let him go, turning to the next.
Chang Daoping slunk aside, ashen-faced. Even he had not dared play tricks before the azure-robed man; Cao Shishi, Luo Tuoxiang, and the rest had even less nerve. Their opponent was a formidable late-Nascent-Soul cultivator of the spirit beast clan—these Golden Core cultivators might strut and swagger out in the wider world, but before such a one they were no better than ants.
A short while later, the two azure-robed men had stripped the six of them—three apiece—down to nothing at all, not a single item left. If you went through their pockets then, they would have been cleaner than their own faces...
"Come on, come on, old friend, hurry up and let's see whose haul is worth more! Hahaha, I'll bet you anything—this time you're bound to lose!" The azure-robed men paid the others no more mind, and at once fell to piling up their spoils and comparing them.
Chang Daoping and his five companions stood there in their sorry state, neither leaving nor staying, at a loss for what to do.
"Er—you two, might we be allowed to..." Chang Daoping held it in for a long while before he finally could not help himself and ventured timidly.