Chapter 5157 — What Do You Want?
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Crack! Qin Yuanming soon heard the sound of his own ribs snapping, and his whole body was instantly drowned in searing pain. He collapsed powerlessly to the ground, and as he vomited blood he forced out with difficulty, "Bone... Crushing... Kill..."
"Which is exactly what I was saying. A martial art like this falling into your hands is a pearl cast before swine—don't you feel wronged on its behalf?" Wei Zhao spread his hands.
Qin Yuanming was instantly choked speechless. A moment ago he could still dismiss the man's words as big talk, but now the other party had watched him once and mimicked the Bone-Crushing Kill convincingly, with power far exceeding even his own original version. Where was the justice in such a thing?
They were clearly both peak Foundation Establishment experts of the same rank—so why was the gap in strength so vast? Qin Yuanming was on the verge of tears!
"Whether you beat me or kill me, just make it quick." Qin Yuanming fought down the urge to keep coughing up blood and, sprawled on the ground, said weakly. Though he had secretly been lured by Xue Jianming into throwing in his lot with the Center, now that death was at hand he did display a measure of backbone.
"If it were as simple as beating and killing, I'd have acted long ago. Why would I waste so many words on a traitor like you?" Wei Zhao glanced down at him from his height.
"Then what else do you want?" Qin Yuanming's heart went cold under that gaze, and the backbone he had shown a moment ago vanished into thin air.
"Nothing much—just a bit of research. It won't necessarily be a bad thing for you." As he spoke, Wei Zhao suddenly crouched and laid a hand on his head, and a stream of warm true qi poured into the other's body.
Qin Yuanming was scared out of his wits. Having true qi forcibly injected into one's body was in itself a desperately dangerous matter, and this was the most fragile part of all—his head. He did not dare move a muscle; otherwise, if the other's true qi veered even slightly astray, even if he did not die on the spot he would surely be reduced to an idiot.
But to Qin Yuanming's surprise, the true qi did not run wild or wreak havoc. Wherever it passed, it left an indescribably pleasant sensation, as though it were searching for something inside his body.
After a moment, the warm true qi burrowed into his dantian, and to Qin Yuanming's boundless shock it forcibly drove out the poisonous qi attached to that improved version of the pill!
This was the Center's chief means of coercing them all. From the very moment he had discovered the poisonous qi, he had been constantly trying to force it out and neutralize it. In fact, not only he but the rest of Xue Jianming's people had been doing the same—yet including even the strongest of them, Bing Wushuang, not one had been able to force out this deeply hidden poisonous qi, let alone neutralize it.
Yet who would have thought that a task of such difficulty, once in Wei Zhao's hands, would become so effortless? From beginning to end he had expended hardly any strength at all, plucking it out as easily as a cat catching a mouse...