Chapter 3680 — Wei Zhao Arrives
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Xiao Che gritted his teeth. That single instant of Mirage Step had already drained the last drop of his true qi. To try to dodge a Thousand Legs now was the pipe dream of a fool! Yet if he did not dodge, the outcome would be anything but death—and certainly grave injury. Meng Zhou, that bastard, would never pull his blow!
Just as despair closed in, a light breeze swept past him, and a familiar figure silently stepped in front of him. With a soft laugh the newcomer said, "Is a martial art this shabby even worth dodging?"
"What!" Meng Zhou was startled at the voice, and when he made out the newcomer's face, he went pale with shock. "Wei Zhao?!"
Wei Zhao extended a single palm, just about to give this creature a lesson he would not forget, when Meng Zhou—risking backlash and internal injury—abruptly cut off his own Thousand Legs Twentieth Form at the very peak of its power, then hastily retreated several steps and withdrew straight into the midst of Li Zhengming and the others.
The whole scene left everyone present dumbstruck—even Wei Zhao was staring in disbelief. My god! How had he never noticed before what a coward this creature was!
To retreat without a fight in full view of so many people—or rather, to be scared off by a single casual sentence from Wei Zhao—was simply too spineless for words!
The way Li Zhengming and the other newcomers now looked at Meng Zhou turned exceedingly strange. A coward this spineless—and he still had the nerve to go around calling himself the leader of Azure Cloud Pavilion's newcomers?
"What are you staring at! This lord is employing tactics—don't you understand! When I can clearly win by numbers, why would I insist on dueling this idiot one-on-one? You think this lord's brain is broken?" Meng Zhou glared guiltily at the newcomers and snarled viciously.
Given the creature's habit of always hogging the spotlight, would he have so shrewdly given up the chance to wipe out his earlier shame if he weren't afraid of Wei Zhao?
Though the newcomers had their doubts, they did not call out Meng Zhou's bluster for what it was. They merely added silently in their hearts: Looks like that first day, being defeated by Wei Zhao in a single move, really did leave the creature with no small psychological scar!
Wei Zhao smiled noncommittally and turned to Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai. "Are you two all right?"
"I'm fine, Leader Wei Zhao!" Qiao Hongcai shook his head, his face alight with excitement. But in Xiao Che's eyes there was not only unexpected joy but also a thick undertone of worry. "You shouldn't have shown up at a time like this. Really, you shouldn't!"
Wei Zhao knew perfectly well what troubled him and said with a faint smile, "It's fine. You've both done very well. Leave what comes next to me."
"All right!" Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai nodded firmly in unison. Matters had come to this; apart from trusting Wei Zhao, they had no other choice.
Facing the twelve heaven-grade grand completion experts led by Meng Zhou, they had no idea where Wei Zhao's confidence came from—but at this moment, they found themselves unconsciously beginning to believe that Wei Zhao might truly have a way to resolve this crisis!
"So the poseur newcomer shows himself. Heaven has a road and you won't take it; hell has no gate, yet you insist on barging in. This lord has lived many a year, but a fool like you—that I truly have never seen!" Having withdrawn into the midst of the newcomers and finally regained his sense of safety, Meng Zhou was once more swaggering about. RS