Chapter 4417 — The Situation Settled
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"What on earth is that boy selling in that gourd of his?" The Yongxing Escort Agency's woman chief escort was struck dumb on the spot.
She had gone to enormous pains for this grand gathering of the Southern Continent's escort agencies. Even though the draw had handed her two of the five great agencies in succession—the Sihai Escort Agency and the Qingtian Escort Agency—and her prospects looked bleak, none of it could dampen her towering ambition. She might not be able to take down Sihai, but this Qingtian, delivered right to her doorstep, she was going to devour today for certain!
After two exchanges, the Yongxing Escort Agency's position was excellent. Everyone assumed the outcome of this duel was settled, and the only question left was how many of Qingtian's people would die—who could have imagined that Qingtian's response would be so utterly unexpected?
Sitting cross-legged on the ground—did that mean they had seen they could not win, and were preparing to concede and surrender?
The woman chief escort at the sidelines could not make sense of it for the moment, while the four Yongxing men on the field, as time trickled away, had been in high fighting spirit and instead found themselves rattled and impatient.
Before they took the field they had been instructed that under no circumstances were they to leave the escort goods and take the initiative to attack. So at this moment, even if Qingtian's people lay down and slept, they dared not act on their own.
"Hmph, cheap trick—playing mind games with this old lady?" The woman chief escort thought she had seen through Wei Zhao's sinister design, and with a cold laugh she abandoned her original plan, waved a hand, and said, "Since they don't dare come at us, then we go at them. Kill them all for me—those eighty points are mine!"
At those words, the four Yongxing escorts, like fierce tigers freed of their chains, bared their savage, razor-sharp claws in an instant and struck as one—they had been waiting for exactly this word!
Facing the onrushing foe, the four from Qingtian could not help but tighten inside. They had taken the field resolved to fight to the death, but against the enemy's Blazing City, they were truly at a loss, with no way out at all.
The four glanced at Wei Zhao, but he remained unmoved. Watching the enemy draw nearer and nearer, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and rise. Matters had come to this; there was no other way—they could only trade life for life. Never mind the rest: even at the cost of two lives, they had to smash open the breach that was the short one, Number Four!
"Kill!" A grim, unstoppable resolve suddenly radiated from the four. Knowing full well the mountain harbored a tiger, they nonetheless headed straight for the tiger's lair. With their deeds they were vindicating the Qingtian Escort Agency's name: among the five great agencies, there were no weaklings!
"Utterly ridiculous." The Yongxing woman chief escort smiled with contempt. Blazing City, which they had trained together painstakingly for a year, feared nothing less than a head-on clash. If you were a Nascent Soul expert, fair enough—but at the Golden Core stage only, meeting force with force was simply courting death.
In the four-man formation, the late Golden Core looked like the weakest link—but if you truly took him for the breach, hmph, you would not even know how you died.
Around the field, one and all could not help but hold their breath. This first round was nothing but a meat grinder of death—four against four in a frontal, bone-grinding clash—and no one knew how many would survive it.
The two sides were about to come to close quarters; at that critical instant, Wei Zhao's voice suddenly rang out from the sidelines: "Number One!"