Chapter 1662 — What He Had Overlooked
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"It can't be fixed. It's already broken." Wei Zhao laughed. "You won't be polite to me? And just how would you be impolite?"
"Enough of this nonsense with him. He only jabbed a few acupoints in my leg — my uncle can fix that! Just kill this brat for me!" Young Master You was a pill refiner and knew a little about medicine, and his uncle was well versed in the art of acupoint striking, so he was not overly alarmed. Besides, there was a cause for it now — if he killed Wei Zhao, no one would have anything to say about it!
Blue Hair nodded. "No problem, Young Master You!"
"You can kill me?" Wei Zhao could not help but laugh, half in disbelief. "You?"
"Yes. Me!" The instant Blue Hair's words left his mouth, the strength of an early Earth-rank expert was laid bare. "Kid, I hear you're quite the hand at the peak of late Profound rank? You think you're something, do you? And what do you think now?"
"Oh..." Wei Zhao answered flatly, and all at once the aura of Earth rank burst out from him as well. "Earth rank... is that supposed to be impressive? Seems I'm one too..."
Blue Hair's expression changed at once. He had never imagined that Wei Zhao would also be an Earth-rank expert — that his strength would be equal to his own!
The ones more shocked still, of course, were Yellow Hair and Young Master You. The two exchanged a glance, and then Yellow Hair said, his voice thick with terror, "You... you... you've been hiding your strength again?"
"I haven't been hiding anything," Wei Zhao said mildly.
"Impossible! When you fought me before, you were only early Profound rank. Then, when I saw you at the school gate, you were late Profound rank. At the resort, you were at the peak of late Profound rank. And now you're early Earth rank!" Yellow Hair said, refusing to believe it.
"Am I not allowed to level up?" Wei Zhao looked at Yellow Hair as though he were an idiot. "I've been leveling up the whole time."
"Rubbish!" Yellow Hair said. "How could you level up that fast?"
"Stop wasting words on him. I'll deal with him!" Blue Hair thought there was no point at all in what Yellow Hair was saying. Even if Wei Zhao had once been an early Profound-rank expert, he was now, beyond any doubt, an early Earth-rank expert, and so Blue Hair would have to handle him with care.
Fortunately, he had been famous for a long time, and if Wei Zhao really was, as he claimed, someone who had just broken through to Earth rank, then Blue Hair still had hopes of beating him.
But at this moment the old brimming confidence was gone. When Earth-rank experts clashed, it was not merely a matter of rank difference — other factors mattered just as much. For example, the quality of each man's mental cultivation method, the grade of each man's martial techniques, each man's actual combat experience, and luck besides.
Duels between Earth-rank experts of the same tier were not like Earth rank against Profound rank, where a one-tier difference in rank meant one side could crush the other outright. That sort of thing was common below Profound rank, but from Profound rank up to Earth rank was a watershed: victory did not come merely from rank advantage, unless the gap was especially wide.
For instance, late Earth rank against early Earth rank — or a tier higher still, Heaven rank against Earth rank. Even early Heaven rank against the peak of late Earth rank was a very great difference.
So against Wei Zhao he was not at all sure of himself — though neither was he especially worried.
"So you're Earth rank too. I hope you don't disappoint me!" A solemn look passed across Blue Hair's face. "It's been a long time since I crossed hands with an expert of my own level. The mess the Hidden Clan Arbitration Association has cooked up is truly a nuisance. Now that I've met you, I hope you're not a one-trick wonder."