Chapter 2243 — A Cheng Yaojin Bursting In from the Side
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But now it seemed there was no need. Since these two knew nothing, they could die! Once they were dead, the secret of the treasure would not leak out.
"First tell me—what is inside that box?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Bargaining with me?" The Grand Protector gave a cold laugh. "In that case, say no more. Go die!"
With that, the Grand Protector raised the soft whip in his right hand once more. Powerful azure true qi surged around the whip, and the next instant it lashed out, sweeping straight for Wei Zhao's head!
Wei Zhao's heart jolted. If that whip smashed his skull, not even the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art could repair him. Alarmed and aghast, he rolled instinctively to the side, a picture of utter wretchedness...
But the soft whip seemed to have eyes of its own, sweeping after him along the very direction in which he rolled!
Just as the whip was about to strike Wei Zhao, Sun Jingyan squeezed her eyes shut—then heard a great clang, the sound of two weapons colliding!
A length of black iron staff blocked the soft whip. Whip and staff met, releasing a tremendous burst of energy; red and azure true qi exploded violently where they crossed, and the force of the blast sent Wei Zhao flying several meters away.
Yet what struck Wei Zhao was only the aftershock of the two true qi colliding, and it hardly hurt him. Rather, the push of that aftershock carried him clear of the center of the collision.
"I gave the map—what are you going to do about it?" An old man in ragged clothes, hair disheveled, stood where Wei Zhao had lain, a black dark-iron staff in his hand, majestic and imposing, watching the Grand Protector with a cold smile. The aura about him was stronger than the Grand Protector's, not weaker!
"Master!" Wei Zhao, surviving his brush with death, saw the old man who had saved his life at the crucial moment, and could not help but cry out the word.
"Li'er, take Yue'er and hide, quick! Leave this one to your master!" This old man was the same eccentric Heaven-Rank fellow Wei Zhao had met after the Ice Palace trial. He had never expected to run into him here—and at the most critical moment of all.
Relief washed over Wei Zhao, yet at the same time a faint worry stirred. His bargain of a master might possess the strength of a peak late-Heaven-Rank, but his mind seemed none too sound. What if he traded a few blows and then ran off again?
Then he and Sun Jingyan would be in danger once more!
Hearing the eccentric Heaven-Rank fellow address Wei Zhao and Sun Jingyan, a flicker of doubt crossed the Grand Protector's eyes. Li'er? Yue'er? Weren't those the names of those two? Was this old thing having another fit of madness—or were these two young ones before him those very same people from years ago, come in disguise?
The Grand Protector glared at the fierce-browed, glaring Heaven-Rank eccentric before him, grinding his teeth in fury. (To be continued) RQ