Chapter 2171 — The Walls Have Ears
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With that, Wei Zhao strode straight to the door of Chief Bai's office and sent a flying kick at it. This kick was different from the last one, for it carried a measure of true qi behind it...
When Right-Pan Hu heard Wei Zhao say "the walls have ears" and that he was going to deal with it, he knew at once that Wei Zhao was coming to kick the door. He hastily peeled his ear from the door and retreated a good distance, sneering inwardly: Who do you take me for, a fool? The same trick won't work on me, Right-Pan Hu!
What Right-Pan Hu had not counted on was this: though Wei Zhao's kick looked like no great effort, the true qi behind it made the iron door boom with a tremendous crash, and the accompanying resonant shockwave rattled Right-Pan Hu's eardrums and sent him reeling, dizzy and disoriented, to the floor...
"My God..." Once he was down, Right-Pan Hu's eardrums throbbed with pain and his mood was foul beyond words. He had thought that putting some distance between himself and the door would keep him safe—who could have known it would be this ungodly loud?
After kicking the door, Wei Zhao returned to the desk and said, "There. All taken care of."
"My door—a few more kicks like that and it'll be finished for good!" Chief Bai laughed. "Actually, these notes on an alchemist's insights weren't compiled by me. They're a set of notes handed down within the Xuan Dan Sect. I wouldn't call them street-stall goods, but they're hardly top secret either—at least, as far as Right-Pan Hu is concerned, given the ties between the hidden Right-Pan family and the Xuan Dan Sect, he should have a copy in his collection too. So there's no need to keep it from him!"
"Heh, better to keep a little something hidden anyway." Wei Zhao blinked, a thought stirring in his mind. This time, he wondered, would that fool Right-Pan Hu fall for it?
"You cheated him out of two medicine cauldrons before—and now you want to cheat him again?" Chief Bai asked with a faint smile.
"Uh... Elder Bai, you knew about that?" Wei Zhao smiled wryly. He hadn't expected Chief Bai to be so thoroughly informed about such matters.
"I know a thing or two. But that's fine—this time, see if you can't cheat him out of a bit more," Chief Bai said. "I'll play along when the time comes."
"What?" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide, and he stared at Chief Bai in astonishment. He had never expected Chief Bai to say such a thing. He was going to help Wei Zhao cheat Right-Pan Hu?
"I can't say I have any fondness for the hidden Right-Pan family, but you and I get along famously. If I don't help you, who will?" Chief Bai chuckled. "Don't picture me as such a stick-in-the-mud!"
"You're certainly no stick-in-the-mud..." Wei Zhao thought back to Chief Bai's style of running the class these past days, and indeed, he was no stickler—just a bit heavy-handed in his methods.
"Take these notes on an alchemist's insights back and study them carefully. This material is different from that introductory mental cultivation method from before—it's a precious thing, so don't go showing it to anyone else!" Chief Bai suddenly raised his voice. "See what you can grasp from it, and whether you can find the root of your problem!"
Right-Pan Hu, who had just then scrambled up from the floor, pressed his ear to the door and caught this whole speech from Chief Bai. His heart gave a leap! So it really was a treasure—no wonder Wei Zhao was so guarded about it, coming over to kick the door and all. He had nearly missed it!
And from Chief Bai's words, Right-Pan Hu also became certain of something: Wei Zhao hadn't cheated him after all—Chief Bai really had given him an ordinary introductory alchemist's mental cultivation method. With Right-Pan Hu so eager to demand it, it would have been strange if Wei Zhao hadn't deceived him!