Chapter 1491 — To Think He Was an Earth Rank Expert: With This Thought, Wei Zhao Smiled and Reached Out His Hand
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It was Zhang Naipao, and Zhang Naipao alone, who would dare speak so in such a setting; anyone else would surely have quailed before the power of the Ice Palace.
Of course, Zhang Naipao had weighed things precisely. What he did was aimed at Wei Zhao, not at the Ice Palace, so the Ice Palace would have nothing to say about it.
"Good. I was just preparing to settle accounts." Wei Zhao nodded at Zhang Naipao.
Zhang Naipao was about to speak, but Feng Nitian beside him laughed and said, "Is a man like that worth your anger? When the time comes, just cripple him!"
As for those who had at first taken Wei Zhao for a man without strength, they now understood: Wei Zhao had not lacked power at all — he had recovered it! And besides, with the innkeeper presiding over the test, no one could slip through by trickery. Join the trial without strength? Impossible.
"You have the right of it!" Zhang Naipao nodded. "That sort of man is no more than an ant; crushing him is the work of a moment! Since he has delivered himself to my door, he is simply a boost to my strength — I will turn him into a cripple again, and I refuse to believe he can recover a second time!"
"Exactly!" Feng Nitian said, not without envy. "Brother Naipao, you are something else. For you, leveling up is nothing but ease and delight!"
"Naturally..." The words came from Zhang Naipao's mouth with all the pride in the world, but in his heart there was only bitterness. Who knew the pain and the sorrow of his own cultivation? You people enjoy yourselves even as you cultivate; I, after castrating myself, am bitten by venomous bees and poisonous insects every day just to train. How could the two be compared?
Wei Zhao looked at these two, each so busily flattering the other's vanity, and smiled a cold smile without leaving a trace of it on his face.
After Wei Zhao swiped his card, it was the turn of Yu Bing and Yu Shan of the Yu family to step up, test their strength and pay their deposit. Those who followed also passed without incident; there was no further business of concealed strength.
Once everyone's deposit had been collected, Xiao Qing had the innkeeper distribute the electronic point cards, and only then said: "Six thirty tomorrow morning, be here on time. I will lead you to the Ice Palace's trial grounds! Latecomers will not be waited for!"
"Yes!" everyone answered gravely.
"There is one more thing I must remind you of: every thing that happens from the start of the trial until you leave the Ice Palace must not be spread abroad! If I should come to hear of it, then you may look forward to being hunted down by the Ice Palace!" Xiao Qing swept her gaze over the crowd and warned them coldly.
"Yes!" the crowd answered hurriedly, silent as cicadas in winter. Who would dare test the Ice Palace's pursuit?
Xiao Qing said nothing more. She turned and drifted away, and in that instant her mid-stage Earth Rank strength was revealed in full, drawing gasps of wonder from the young trial candidates present! A maidservant of one of the Ice Palace's palace masters was mid-stage Earth Rank — then what strength must the palace masters themselves possess?
Could it be nothing less than peak late-stage Earth Rank?
Of course, they only turned such thoughts over in their minds, not daring to speculate aloud. If this maidservant was already so formidable, the palace master must be more formidable still. Xiao Qing had not yet gone far; if she should overhear them gossiping behind her back, whatever would they do?
Wei Zhao too was startled. Truly, until one climbs to this level, one can never understand what is meant by a heaven beyond heaven and a man beyond man, by one mountain rising higher than the next!