Chapter 2444 — A Miscalculation
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Yet turning to look at himself and Right Panhu, although Wei Zhao had worn a sour expression, he had not resorted to force or used a cultivator's strength to crush them outright. That, at least, let Kang Jinglong breathe easy.
"This Wei Zhao really is powerful..." Kang Jinglong sighed in admiration.
"Indeed..." Right Panhu felt he had miscalculated somewhat. What was this about Wei Zhao having reservations in the face of Heavenly Rank experts? Reservations, his foot—he had simply struck! This time, the family's losses were enormous; they had gone out to steal a chicken and ended up losing the rice they used to lure it.
The short robber cultivated and regulated his breath at the roadside for a long while before he finally caught it again. Though Wei Zhao's palm strike had not been enough to take his life, his injuries were far from light. He hurried to the ditch by the road to check on the tall robber—and what he saw chilled his heart.
The tall robber's breastbone was shattered, the whole chest caved inward, his eyes bulging, blood froth around his mouth—plainly, he was already dead. The sight made the short robber's alarm at Wei Zhao's strength spike once more.
Was Wei Zhao truly only an expert at the peak of mid-stage Earthly Rank? That palm strike of his had not looked like it. To wound him and to kill the tall robber—a peak late-stage Earthly Rank expert—with a single palm, what sort of peak mid-stage Earthly Rank expert could do that?
True, there had been an element of surprise and cunning about it, but without the strength to back it up, no amount of surprise or stealth could have accomplished anything.
At this thought, the short robber, his face dark, carried the tall robber's corpse into the back seat of the heavy truck they had come in and said to the driver up front: "Drive. Back to the hidden Right family, and fast!"
"Yes..." The driver was merely an ordinary disciple of the Right family, Right Fifteen, with only mid-stage Earthly Rank strength. He had witnessed the whole scene just now and was badly frightened—had he gotten out of the truck too, he would by now be a corpse as well...
"Phew..." The short robber let out a long breath. Looking at the tall robber's corpse beside him, he felt a chill of dread creep into his bones. Had Wei Zhao struck once more, he likely would have been finished; another strike after that, and he would certainly have been dead.
Originally, he had been full of confidence in this mission, because it was so simple: snatch a tablet, play along while Kang Jinglong put on his airs, then reveal a bit of early-stage Heavenly Rank strength, and it was done. Return and collect the reward!
But now it looked like anything but simple—it was practically a death sentence!
The vehicle carrying Wei Zhao had long since driven far away. After returning to his seat, Wei Zhao sat with eyes closed, cultivating, swiftly restoring his stamina and true qi from within the jade pendant's space. Han Jingyi seemed to realize he was cultivating and did not disturb him, fiddling with the tablet on her own.
Wang Xinyan, seeing Wei Zhao's condition, hesitated a moment, then took off her coat and shifted a little closer to him. She did not know why Wei Zhao would need to cultivate after merely fighting two robbers, but on reflection she roughly guessed: those two robbers were no good sort—experts, perhaps—and they had drained a great deal of Wei Zhao's stamina.
Although Kang Jinglong sat not far ahead, Wang Xinyan, after a period of inner struggle, still decided to help Wei Zhao, quickening the circulation of his cultivation method so that he could recover his stamina faster. RQ