Chapter 4497 — It Should Be Me
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
Hai Wuliang was now on a road with no turning back. The other escort agencies he could handle, but if he failed to bring down Qingtian Escort Agency and strip them of their first place, and actually let them take the throne as the supreme escort agency, then his future days would be anything but peaceful.
Accusing Wei Zhao of being a heretical cultivator had been a notion he hit upon only after watching the duel between Wei Zhao and Wu Baoliang. To be honest, he was not at all confident, but now that he was riding a tiger, he had no choice but to believe it firmly: Wei Zhao was a heretical cultivator!
"Very well." Wei Zhao smiled faintly, then raised his hand and launched a Wildfire Fist straight at the raised platform beneath Hai Wuliang's feet. The heavily and tightly warded platform shuddered violently, nearly throwing the unprepared Hai Wuliang off balance and making a spectacle of him. Only then did Wei Zhao say calmly, "This is called the Wildfire Fist. That move just now was called the Wildfire Thousand-Blast Fist. Satisfied now?"
The whole crowd erupted. The power of the Wildfire Thousand-Blast Fist had been too absurd, and it was exactly the same as Wu Baoliang's Wild Sand Thousand-Blast Fist, so it was perfectly natural that they had grown suspicious. But this Wildfire Fist required no discernment whatsoever to identify—it was standard fire-attribute martial technique.
"This... how is this possible?!" Hai Wuliang was on the verge of going mad.
No matter how many people came forward to clear Wei Zhao's name, no matter how many dazzling halos surrounded Wei Zhao, he could always find some way to argue against it. Even if in the end he could not destroy Wei Zhao and Qingtian Escort Agency, so long as he left public opinion feeling that suspicion still lingered, he would have gained. After all, he had nothing to lose.
But now, Wei Zhao had used an unmistakable fire-attribute martial technique, wiping out every doubt with pure action. What move could he possibly have left?
"What do you mean, possible or not? I am a cultivator with a fire-attribute spiritual root. That much is beyond doubt. If you still want to call me a heretical cultivator after this, then I suppose everyone here must be one too." Wei Zhao spoke calmly.
"Right, right—then we must all be heretical cultivators. I wonder if Chief Escort Hai is one as well?" Qi Wenmo laughed and chimed in, and the rest of the crowd followed with hoots and nods. Everyone knew it: this time Hai Wuliang had tried to harm others only to be trampled himself, and he had made a colossal fool of himself!
Hai Wuliang was truly beyond tears, wishing he could slap himself twice right there on the spot. Had he known this would happen, he never should have let that madness seize him and tried to expunge both Qingtian Escort Agency and Longzhou Escort Agency in one sweep.
Otherwise, on the strength of his merit in exposing Longzhou Escort Agency, not only could Four Seas Escort Agency have returned to the ranks of the five great agencies, he could at least have preserved a certain say in matters. Then even if Qi Mingyuan rose to become the new supreme escort chief, public opinion would not have dared to turn too hard against him on that account. He would have lost his former prestige, but things would not have been too bad.
As it stood now, although Four Seas Escort Agency had still barely clawed its way back into the five great agencies, everyone had seen him slander Qingtian Escort Agency with his own mouth. That alone was enough to cancel out entirely whatever merit he had earned by exposing Longzhou Escort Agency. If he ever tried to bring that merit up again in the future, not only would Qi Mingyuan refuse to accept it, even Zhao Bufan and the others would not.
Especially when facing Qi Mingyuan hereafter—he would naturally be in the wrong and a head shorter. Once Qi Mingyuan truly settled into the seat of supreme escort chief, who knew how much misery awaited him...