Chapter 2480 — A Bully at the Gate
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
What Yang Qiqi sought was likewise a supreme treasure, so she had to get the Blue Crystal back, or this trip would end in failure! Moreover, according to the intelligence reports, the heaven-and-earth treasure that could sustain Xiao Jiu's life did indeed exist in this cultivators' market!
The three of them traveled together, yet Wei Zhao noticed, faintly, that the people nearby kept their distance from the trio. The strength Wei Zhao had just displayed was enough to rank him in the upper-middle tier among these cultivators—in the eyes of most Mystic Rank cultivators, an unattainable existence.
Especially since Wei Zhao had behaved so domineeringly before, bullying that scrawny beanpole until he dared not speak—so most people had written Wei Zhao off as a dangerous character, a troublemaker.
They came quickly to the foot of the mountain, where there was a checkpoint—evidently this was the place for verifying identities. This could not help but remind Wei Zhao of the scene at the Ulonghot Mountains!
"Show your invitation... hey, boy, is this invitation yours? A mere peak late-stage Yellow Rank expert—is a market like this a place for small fry like you?" One of the two guards, a somewhat younger burly man, seized a scrawny cultivator of peak late-stage Yellow Rank strength.
"Brothers, the invitation is genuine. I signed up formally through the Cultivators' Guild..." That expert of peak late-stage Yellow Rank strength would have been a formidable figure in the secular world, yet here he had become the lowest of the low, and had to mind his manners.
It was no wonder that Wei Zhao could see this man's strength clearly—Wei Zhao had his golden finger. But these two guards could hardly possess such a thing. That they could discern the strength of a peak late-stage Yellow Rank expert without his circulating his heart method or striking a blow was truly baffling.
"Genuine? Even if the invitation is genuine, who knows where you got it? Maybe you picked it off a dead man!" The other man, the older of the two, raised an eyebrow and said coldly, "All right, if you have no business here, clear off!"
"This..." The peak late-stage Yellow Rank expert was at a loss. Gritting his teeth, he took a small box from his pack and handed it over together with the invitation, saying, "Brothers, this invitation was indeed picked off a dead man. But he had this thing on him as well. The man is dead, so this thing must belong to the Cultivators' Guild by rights—I shall hand it in..."
"Hm... let me see!" Seeing how sensible the peak late-stage Yellow Rank expert was, the younger burly man smiled at once, took the small box, and opened it. Inside was a first-grade pill. He nodded and said, "Not bad. In view of your honesty in returning what you found, you may enter!"
"Thank you, brothers!" The young man of peak late-stage Yellow Rank strength hurried into the market.
Wei Zhao had been watching the two guards closely. They were plainly making trouble out of nothing, bullying the weak and fearing the strong—a sight that filled Wei Zhao with utter contempt! (To be continued)