Chapter 2479 — The Fight for the Blue Crystal (Part Two)
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"By your reasoning, whoever has the harder fist is the leader, is that it?" Wei Zhao looked at the beanpole, not angry but amused.
"Hmph, so long as you understand!" The beanpole, missing the mockery in Wei Zhao's tone, nodded as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
Others might not know it, but the beanpole knew his own household's affairs well enough: the three brothers were the three henchmen of the vice-chairman of the Expert Trading Association, and the eldest and the second were at that very moment charged with checking credentials at the entrances to the Expert Market. If Wei Zhao truly dared to make trouble, the beanpole need only send word to his elder brothers, and Wei Zhao would not even be able to set foot inside the Expert Market!
"Oh, is that so? In that case, I have here a Qi-Condensing Pill." Wei Zhao reached into his pack, drew out a small bottle, and held it before the beanpole: "This is a first-grade pill. For you, that is already very good indeed. I will trade you this for the blue crystal!"
"Huh?" The beanpole blinked, then burst out laughing: "Hahahaha, boy, are you sure you are not joking? You are the funniest fellow I have ever..."
But before the beanpole could finish, Wei Zhao's palm lashed out—smack—and the whole of one side of his face swelled up high.
"You... you struck me?" How could the beanpole have foreseen that Wei Zhao would lash out without the slightest warning? In a clash like this, both sides were supposed to exchange a few blustering words first, put on a show of strength, and only cross hands when all else failed—there was no blood feud here. Who simply struck without a word of challenge?
So the beanpole had not guarded himself with true qi, and his face swelled up from the blow. Gnashing his teeth in fury, he made to strike back—but just then Wei Zhao abruptly unleashed the aura of a peak mid-stage Earth Rank expert, and the beanpole's half-raised hand froze in midair. His face turned hideous: "A peak mid-stage Earth Rank expert?"
"Will you trade or not?" Wei Zhao asked coldly, eyes fixed on the beanpole.
"Hmph, fine, I will let you have it first." The beanpole knew better than to court disaster. His eldest brother was a late Earth Rank expert and his second brother a peak late Earth Rank expert, but both were at that moment guarding the market gate and could not come to his aid. So the beanpole drew a deep breath, fished the blue crystal from his pouch, and handed it to Wei Zhao. In his heart, though, he had already marked Wei Zhao for hatred; he fixed the man's face in his memory and resolved that when Wei Zhao entered the market, he would send word to his brothers and make trouble for Wei Zhao and that Yang Qiqi besides!
Wei Zhao gave a cold laugh and tucked the blue crystal into his robes. Yet to the end, not a single person came forward to speak. These people seemed deaf to the beanpole's bullying of Yang Qiqi and to Wei Zhao's bullying of the beanpole alike; they watched as they might watch a bit of street theater, and then drifted away.