Chapter 2529 — Who's the Bigger Coward
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"That's no problem. I'll help you refine them together." Wei Zhao nodded.
The three of them said nothing more and went straight into the classroom. Right Panhu and Kang Jinglong watched Wei Zhao enter together with Han Jingyi and Wang Xinyan, a flash of fury passing through their eyes—but both were clever enough not to go looking for trouble with Wei Zhao.
The two of them had now pinned their hopes of making trouble for Wei Zhao on Zhong Yongliang. Though Zhong Yongliang had not done anything to Wei Zhao yesterday, neither had Wei Zhao done anything to Zhong Yongliang—which proved that Wei Zhao was not invincible. So they thought highly of Zhong Yongliang and hoped he would bring them a pleasant surprise.
"This is just pathetic!" Kang Jinglong fumed under his breath. "I, the own elder brother of the Xuan Dan Sect elder's heir, have to swallow this kind of indignity every day—watching my own fiancée walk around so close to another man, and there's not a thing I can do about it!"
"There's no help for it, Brother Kang. Just endure it a while longer. Pathetic? Don't talk to me about pathetic—we of the Hidden Right Family are far more pathetic than you!" Right Panhu said glumly. "When our Hidden Right Family went to the cultivators' market to buy goods, not only did Wei Zhao beat us to the purchase, but even the money from selling pills was snatched away by Wei Zhao!"
Right Panhu had already learned that Right Lao San had been robbed by Wei Zhao, and he found the whole affair deeply galling. Even the Right Patriarch had said nothing about it, but Right Panhu could not stomach the imbalance. Watching Wei Zhao grow more and more overbearing, his voice among the hidden families growing louder by the day, Right Panhu was secretly alarmed.
Not long ago, at the birthday banquet of the Tang Patriarch of the Hidden Tang Family, Wei Zhao had still needed the backing of the Ice Palace crowd just to secure a place among the hidden families. But now—in the blink of an eye, a few months had passed—Wei Zhao alone was enough to make the hidden families tremble with fear.
In particular, the Heaven-rank martial technique Wei Zhao had unleashed on the arena yesterday had left Right Panhu utterly dumbstruck. With that kind of power, to say nothing of Right Lao San, not a single Heaven-rank expert in the entire Hidden Right Family could withstand it. It was fair to say that whoever he struck, he crippled.
"So there's nothing we can do about this brat?" Kang Jinglong was thoroughly resentful. He had never once gotten the better of Wei Zhao; the Kang family had been suppressed by Wei Zhao all along and had never managed to turn things around.
"We don't have to deal with him ourselves—someone else will do it for us. Why not sit back and enjoy it?" Right Panhu shook his head. "Since a disciple of the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect has gotten involved, let him handle it. The Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect is no weaker than the Xuan Dan Sect—if anything, it's even more wicked."
"That's true enough. Let's hope Zhong Yongliang doesn't let us down." Kang Jinglong nodded.
Wei Zhao spent the whole morning hastily in cultivation, while Zhong Yongliang had already posted a "challenge" on the school's BBS forum: at twelve-thirty sharp this noon, on the gymnastics platform of the school's little training ground, the "Zhong Yongliang vs. Wei Zhao: Battle for the Position of School Flower's Close Bodyguard" would be held. All students were welcome to come gawk if they had nothing better to do after lunch.