Chapter 2081 — The Contest Begins (Part One)
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Only, Han Xiaohu was somewhat puzzled. Even if Wei Zhao could transfer power, where did his true qi come from? Why did Wei Zhao look utterly unaffected—still sharp and vigorous, without the slightest trace of the lethargy that came from losing true qi?
"Tomorrow, study your martial techniques. When the two-on-two arena match comes, you'll take the stage with me!" Wei Zhao said. "You just keep yourself alive—leave the fighting to me!"
"Understood, Boss! I won't let you down!" Han Xiaohu, startled and overjoyed, answered at once.
If the Hidden Han Family won another match, it would strike even more fear into those hidden clans scheming against them—and make them choke on their own schemes.
"For that two-on-two arena match, which hidden clan do you reckon is the strongest?" Wei Zhao asked.
"I'd say this match was designed for the Hidden Zhuang Family!" Han Xiaohu said. "I hear those two Zhuang brothers, after returning from the Ice Palace trials, shut themselves away in bitter training and took some spirit medicines. Their strength has already risen to the mid Earth Rank and the peak of the mid Earth Rank, and the martial techniques they practice complement and reinforce each other. So their odds of winning should be very high!"
"Oh? Zhuang Niaodao and Zhuang Niaopao?" Wei Zhao knew the Hidden Zhuang Family well enough. At the Ice Palace trials, those two had fawned over Zhang Naiyu with everything they had—yet when Wei Zhao beat Zhang Naiyu half to death, they fell to their knees begging for mercy and calling him Lord Ling. Those two pieces of trash had left an impression.
"Exactly!" Han Xiaohu nodded. "Boss has heard of them too?"
"Heard of them—I just never imagined their strength could advance by leaps and bounds like that," Wei Zhao said with a sigh.
"They couldn't have on their own, but I hear the Hidden Zhuang Family bought two Small Qi Condensation Pills from the Hidden Tang Family at a high price, and on top of that the brothers took a great deal of heaven-and-earth spirit medicine. That's how their strength shot up so fast!" Han Xiaohu explained.
"The Hidden Tang Family?" Wei Zhao frowned. The name felt familiar, as though he had heard it somewhere—yet it seemed he had never crossed paths with them.
"Right, another hidden clan. I hear their ancestors were disciples of the old Tang Sect line among the martial world's sects—skilled in hidden weapons and poisoning..." Han Xiaohu explained. "For this hidden-weapon evasion contest, I'm afraid it will be the Hidden Tang Family's juniors who come out on top!"
"I wonder what the Hidden Zhuang Family did to deserve the Hidden Tang Family selling them two Small Qi Condensation Pills?" Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised. These Small Qi Condensation Pills should be extremely precious.
"I hear the Hidden You Family and the Hidden Tang Family are very close—the two are joined by marriage. If the Hidden Zhuang Family could buy Small Qi Condensation Pills this time, I'm afraid other hidden clans got a share of the benefits too. My analysis is that one of those two families comes from pill-refining stock and the other from poison-making stock, so the poison-identification contest is likely swept by one of them as well!" Han Xiaohu said. "Perhaps one works in the open and one in the shadows, and together they take it all! And the price they paid was precisely spirit medicines like the Small Qi Condensation Pill!"