Chapter 4875 — Come Out and Let Us Have a Look
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Good heavens! Everyone covered their faces in unison, speechless, inwardly lamenting how utterly, wonderfully naive they had been to believe a word of this creature's nonsense. To hell with the Thunder Academy disciples—any one of them would have gladly beaten the bastard themselves!
Wei Zhao too was caught between laughter and tears at the sight of the fellow. The other side bids a hundred thousand spirit jade, and if you seriously mean to compete, you ought at least to bid a hundred and ten thousand—but a hundred thousand and one? Was that not simply asking for a beating?
Like father, like son—that saying had never rung truer. Other traits he could not yet discern, but where roguish conduct was concerned, Lu Xiaozhong had learned a full ten-out-of-ten from his old man!
"Master Lin, those fools from Thunder Academy are throwing their weight around again. What do you say we get in on this too? Uphold justice, strike down the strong, champion the weak!" Lu Xiaozhong urged, his eyeballs rolling like beads in their sockets.
Wei Zhao could hardly be bothered to answer him. Coming out of that mouth, the words sounded dubious no matter how he listened to them...
Still, even without Lu Xiaozhong's goading, the presence of Huo Yudie meant Wei Zhao could not simply slip past and pretend nothing was happening.
Of course, had Huo Yudie not been there, Wei Zhao would certainly never have chosen to wade blindly into these troubled waters. Since Thunder City was the seat of Thunder Academy and also the headquarters of the Yellow-Rank Academy Alliance, there were bound to be a thousand tangled threads connecting the two—offend Thunder Academy, and one might well find oneself making an enemy of the entire Yellow-Rank Academy Alliance!
Wei Zhao did not fear trouble, but he had never gone looking for it either—especially not when he knew full well the other party was not to be trifled with. All the less was he willing to make enemies of anyone for no rhyme or reason.
In truth, even setting aside their backing, the seventy-odd Nascent Soul Great Perfection experts before him were enough to make anyone weigh his steps. Though with his present strength Wei Zhao could handle Xuan Ascension experts with ease, a handful of Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivators need not enter his eyes—still, numbers themselves carried a formidable deterrent.
But now the two sides stood with blades drawn, and even if only for Huo Yudie's safety, Wei Zhao could not possibly stand by and do nothing. In any case he had often enough provoked powerful enemies for a beauty's sake in times past—he was long since accustomed to it.
"Master Lin, better to have one trouble fewer than one more. Let us be on our way," Bao Zuoliang said, glaring at Lu Xiaozhong.
"Quite right. Thunder Academy is not to be provoked, and besides, Morning Pride Academy is a sworn enemy of our own—we cannot help anyone but them, can we? Best we hurry ahead and find a tribulation point first!" Su Kesheng chimed in.
The one thought in both their minds now was to find a tribulation point at once and use the Lightning-Commanding Banner to do away with Wei Zhao. Beyond that, they wanted no complications.
"Rubbish! With that little courage, calling you two cowards would be a compliment. Even if you found a tribulation point, it would be taken from you soon enough—better to have a proper go of it here!" Lu Xiaozhong said, casting them a contemptuous sidelong glance.
"What did you say?" Bao Zuoliang's temper flared again on the spot. Were it not for his fixation on using the banner to kill Wei Zhao, he would have liked nothing better than to strangle the bastard where he stood.
Everyone looked at one another in dismay. Before anything had even begun, their own side was on the verge of coming to blows—if they truly joined the melee, who could say whose hand any of them might end up dying by?