Chapter 563 — A Breakthrough: A Master of the Mystic Rank!
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"This... I'm the one who hit him, Brother Kang. It was an accident... I'm sorry..." Zou Ruoguang had no choice but to step forward and face the music.
"My dad calls me Brother Kang, and you call me Brother Kang too? Your family's generations are a real mess!" Kang Xiaofeng had finally found an outlet for his temper. These people had bullied his family, and in the past he'd never dared to fight back — but now he was Wei Zhao's number-one henchman, and that made him a pretty impressive figure himself!
"Uh... Uncle Kang! I'm sorry! Go on, give me a slap, I really didn't mean it, it was an accident..." Zou Ruoguang was terrified of Wei Zhao too, and the moment he heard Kang Xiaofeng was displeased, he changed his tune at once.
"Dad, why don't you do it yourself!" Kang Xiaofeng was set on letting his father have his chance to vent.
Father Kang's feelings at that moment were complicated — astonished at just what sort of formidable character his son's classmate was, that the Zou father and son should be so frightened of him. But whatever the reason, he was thrilled and delighted! Zou Ruoguang, who a moment ago had made him call him "brother," had in the blink of an eye become his grandson — because the man had to call his son "uncle"!
Still, Father Kang was not a crude man, and he couldn't bring himself to raise a hand. But neither did he intend to let Zou Ruoguang off easy. He needled him: "Never mind. This young Master Zou here has already said it wasn't intentional... Ah, forgive me, Brother Zou, I misspoke again — not young master, Brother Zou..."
"Gah!" Zou Ruoguang turned purple with fright. Brother? He was no brother to anyone! Wasn't this just mocking him? But after a moment's daze he understood: Father Kang really was mocking him! Zou Ruoguang was no fool either. Scared out of his wits, he dropped to his knees with a thud: "Grandfather Kang, what brother am I? Before you, I'm a grandson! A child! Please don't hold it against a child!"
"Ruoguang, since Brother Kang and Uncle Kang won't lift a hand, then slap yourself!" Zou Tiandi was also trying to cool Kang Xiaofeng's fury, so he simply had him beat himself.
"Yes, yes!" Zou Ruoguang, hearing this, began smacking his own face — smack, smack — each blow crisp and loud.
"Brother Kang, Uncle Kang, I'm sorry. This business — I'll give you a proper accounting, I promise! Rest assured, that Grade Eight Teahouse — I'll see to it that it vanishes!" Zou Tiandi needed a way out, and so he had to give the Kang family an accounting. "I was deceived by Zhang Baji. That little wretch — I won't let him off!"
Kang Xiaofeng had no intention of keeping them there, and hearing Zou Tiandi say this, he sent them on their way.
Only after Zou Tiandi had gone did Father Kang and Mother Kang breathe a sigh of relief. Even so, they kept pulling Kang Xiaofeng aside to ply him with questions about Wei Zhao. Kang Xiaofeng didn't know much himself, so he could only pick out a few things that had happened at school to tell them...
After three nights of recovery, Wei Zhao's strength had returned to the late Yellow Rank, though there was still some distance between him and the peak of the late Yellow Rank he had reached before. In fact, by the second night he had already recovered to late Yellow Rank strength, but on the third night he had nearly stalled, without the slightest improvement — and this left Wei Zhao somewhat depressed.
"I don't know." Jiao Yazi's voice struck Wei Zhao like a blow to the head.
"Uh... you're kidding, right?" Wei Zhao broke out in a sweat.
"This much I can tell you: you and I cultivate different methods, and I've never cultivated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. I can only answer your questions on matters of common knowledge. As for your progress and your body's condition after cultivating the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art — that I know nothing about," Jiao Yazi said, thoroughly shameless.