Chapter 2609 — So This Is What It Feels Like to Have Someone at Your Back
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Only then did Wei Zhao finally breathe a sigh of relief. No wonder Elder Wei had always told him to take his people and run for home to hide—the old man had been sitting on a sure thing all along!
"I understand." Wei Zhao drew a deep breath and hung up quickly, then turned over in his mind a plan that was more or less flawless. As he saw it: first go to the hotel, then find a chance to rescue Han Jingyi, trap the two enemies under the Heaven-and-Earth Nets—since the two of them would be close together, he would only have to expend one net.
After that, he would flee with her, with Sun Jingyan, Wang Xinyan, the young lady, and Little Shu; he would phone everyone connected to him and have them gather at West Star Mountain Village. Once they were all assembled, he would let slip a rumor and draw the two enemies to West Star Mountain Village—and then they would go and never return...
So this was how good it felt to have someone at your back! Wei Zhao had never felt it before. How devious, he had to admit...
"I'm off to see a patient." Elder Wei hung up unhurriedly, then muttered under his breath, so low it was barely audible: "Back then, it seems my brother and I overlooked something. What sect is this? Where did they crawl out from?"
Just as Wei Zhao, full of confidence, was about to set out to rescue Han Jingyi, he discovered that he had underestimated Xiao Yi.
What Wei Zhao had not expected was that he had barely reached the school gate and met up with Sun Jingyan when the jade pendant sent out a violent warning signal. As a rule, the pendant only gave warning when a danger Wei Zhao could not see appeared—and only when the danger was real.
Wei Zhao's heart went cold. He snatched Sun Jingyan up in his arms and lunged backward! Sure enough, a ferocious palm wind swept past, and Wei Zhao barely dodged it in time. Cursing his luck, he lifted his head and looked at the black-clad man who had appeared out of nowhere before him, and his heart sank a little.
This man before him was most likely Wei Zhao's enemy—a member of Tagan Long's sect! He must have followed Sun Jingyan here. It seemed the other side had let Sun Jingyan go precisely so that they could wipe him out along with her.
Wei Zhao frowned slightly. Was he really destined to waste two Heaven-and-Earth Nets? They were his last life-saving treasures. If he wasted them, and then ran into more trouble on the way out, there would be no easy way to deal with it!
At that thought, Wei Zhao decided to gamble on his own luck. Unseen, he began rapidly compressing true-qi bombs. He resolved to use the Heaven-and-Earth Nets only if things truly went badly; if possible, he would hold them back.
"Who are you? Why attack us for no reason?" Wei Zhao put on a look of blank astonishment, staring at Xiao Yi in shock and fury. He had to stall for time to finish compressing the true-qi bomb! Had he known Xiao Yi would be waiting for him at the school gate, he would have started compressing long ago—but he had assumed he would go to the hotel with Sun Jingyan to rescue someone, never guessing Xiao Yi would follow.
"Wei Zhao, is it? I don't believe you don't know who I am. Doing this—aren't you just stalling for time, waiting for someone to come save you?" Xiao Yi said mockingly. But he let his strength—peak great-perfection of the late Heaven Rank—show in full, to kill any hope in Wei Zhao: "I don't believe anyone can save you. So there's no need to stall. If your reinforcements come, they'll only be coming to die!"
Wei Zhao had long since seen through Xiao Yi's strength, but when the man's true-qi pressure was released, Wei Zhao still felt a suffocating sense that he could not catch his breath! Too powerful—far too powerful. He was vastly stronger than that Heaven Rank freak of a man who was also at peak late Heaven Rank. They were not even on the same level!