Chapter 2796 — Visitors from the Divine Fist Hall
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Such a martial art could only be unleashed by an expert of the mid Heaven Rank—and yet Wei Zhao was plainly no more than a mid Earth Rank fighter!
"Wei Zhao, we'll settle this at the trial!" Zhang Naipao finally restrained himself and did not trade blows with Wei Zhao on the spot. For one thing, he feared that if he did strike, he might simply kill Wei Zhao outright and ruin the trial's plan; for another, if he held back his ultimate move, he was afraid he might genuinely not be Wei Zhao's match.
It would have been one thing if Wei Zhao had come at him directly, but if Wei Zhao kept attacking his other lackey on the right, that would be a damn mess—Zhang Naipao would be left a commander without an army.
"Oh," Wei Zhao said carelessly.
"Hmph!" Zhang Naipao gave a cold snort and said to his remaining lackey, "Mo Ba, carry Mo Jiu. We're leaving!"
"Yes, Brother Pao!" The lackey called Mo Ba was frightened too. Wei Zhao had crippled Mo Jiu with a single move and clearly still had strength to spare; if another blow came his way, he would not be able to withstand it either. Hearing Zhang Naipao's words, Mo Ba felt as though a great weight had been lifted from him. He hoisted Mo Jiu onto his back and hurried out of the dining hall with Zhang Naipao.
A hasty arrival and a hasty retreat—their attempt to put on airs had failed utterly.
"Ge Xian, you stopped me just now because…?" Wei Zhao turned to Ge Xian and asked.
"Ah!" Ge Xian only then came back to his senses. The scene just past had shaken him profoundly. He had never imagined that the legendary Zhang Naipao—the Zhang Naipao who had disposed of a Divine Fist Hall disciple on the road to the trial—could be thwarted, and thwarted by a lone cultivator he had only just met, a lone cultivator he had not thought much of at all!
Earlier, when Wei Zhao said he had wounded Feng Nitian, Ge Xian had merely been somewhat impressed. After all, he had not seen it with his own eyes, and considerable time had passed since then. He had never truly witnessed anything like a heaven-defying divine art, so naturally he had not taken it especially to heart.
But now Ge Xian finally understood: there was a reason Wei Zhao had been able to defeat Feng Nitian.
"Earlier I heard that that Divine Fist Hall disciple also struck Zhang Naipao once and was reduced to a cripple. It suddenly occurred to me—if Zhang Naipao just stood there and let you hit him, might there be something wrong with that?" Ge Xian explained.
"I thought of that too, so I didn't hit him. I hit one of his lackeys instead," Wei Zhao said with a nod. He had been operating on the principle that every one eliminated was one less to worry about. Zhang Naipao had brought two lackeys this time, which had made Wei Zhao wary, but now that one was gone, matters would be easier.
So long as he formed an alliance with Feng Shihua during the trial, they should be able to stand against Zhang Naipao and his remaining man: he would deal with Zhang Naipao, and Feng Shihua would check Mo Ba. Unless Mo Ba was someone on par with Wei Zhao himself, Feng Shihua, an early Heaven Rank expert, should be able to hold him off for a while.
"Yes. Though I don't know exactly what happened, when I think about it—earlier Zhang Naipao hadn't even lifted a hand, and the Divine Fist Hall disciple was already crippled. There's something very strange in that, and the fact that he then deliberately let you strike him strikes me as even more bizarre. There must be a problem somewhere," Ge Xian said. "That's why I stopped you from making your move…"
Wei Zhao nodded. "I had that worry as well. This Zhang Naipao is a disciple of the demonic path; he can't be judged by ordinary standards. It seems we'll have to investigate carefully."
"Don't worry, I'll do my best to find out what I can. But what I can dig up is really only surface-level information; for anything too secret, I'm powerless." Ge Xian shrugged helplessly.