Chapter 2482 — Wei Zhao Strikes

"What? Not convinced? Doesn't matter if you are!" The young guard curled his lip and said mockingly, "A top-notch expert at the peak of the mid-Earth rank, and he's forgotten his own name. Have you even looked at what kind of place this is? Is this a place for brutes like you to run wild? You've gotten used to throwing your weight around outside, and now you dare to put on airs with me here?"

"Boss, how about we..." Han Xiaopo drew a deep breath and forced down the rage in his heart. He was, after all, the young master of a hidden family; true, the hidden Han family had once ranked last among the hidden families, but ever since the Hidden World Families Summit, the hidden Han family had become famous across the world. Everyone knew that the hidden Han family had Wei Zhao backing them!

But Han Xiaopo knew that Wei Zhao still needed to trade for things here, so for the time being they could not tear off all pretense of civility with these guards. Surely they were not really going to skip the **者 market?

Han Xiaopo's words carried an obvious note of submission, and everyone could tell that he was preparing to offer some tribute. Of course, the others were also somewhat puzzled, unable to guess what these two guards were thinking, suddenly coming to make trouble for an Earth-rank expert. This left the several Earth-rank experts behind Wei Zhao and Han Xiaopo a little uneasy, wondering whether it would be their turn to be picked on in a moment.

Wei Zhao nodded, and when the two guards saw him nod, the disdain on their faces deepened. They thought Wei Zhao had also agreed with Han Xiaopo's meaning and was submitting, preparing to give them some tribute. Of course, their tribute came with conditions—their target was the blue crystal in Wei Zhao's hand!

Skinny Scarecrow had already passed word of the earlier incident to them, and the reason these two guards were making trouble for Wei Zhao and the others was precisely because of that.

They were determined to get the blue crystal. Not only would they seize it back, but they would also take the opportunity to humiliate Wei Zhao and his group, to let him know who was master of this territory! To throw one's weight around before the **者 Trade Association? Did he still want to come here to trade in the future, did he still want to keep living in this world?

Still, in their eyes, Wei Zhao's submission was only natural. After all, everyone who came here came for harmonious dealings and prosperous business—who would dare openly tear off all pretense of civility?

"Xiaopo, you're right. Some people won't take a face offered to them, so we'll just beat them into submission!" As Wei Zhao spoke, he suddenly struck, slapping the young guard across the face with a crisp "smack." Wei Zhao's slap was just as abrupt as before; the young guard had never imagined Wei Zhao would dare hit him here!

Wei Zhao daring to hit Skinny Scarecrow was excusable, because Wei Zhao did not know Skinny Scarecrow's true identity. But these two guards represented the **者 Trade Association—the absolute authority in this place. And Wei Zhao had actually struck without hesitation. Was it because Wei Zhao's backing was hard enough, or because Wei Zhao was an idiot?

"You... you damn fool, are you tired of living? You little brat, you dare hit me?" The young guard clutched his face, his eyes full of incredulous shock and fury. "Are you damn well asking to die?"

With that, the young guard circulated his internal energy technique and swung a fist at Wei Zhao, bellowing, "Earth-rank martial skill, ninth stance—Heaven-Piercing Fist!"

The young guard was truly enraged. From the very start he attacked Wei Zhao with his strongest move, aiming to defeat him in a single blow. Even if he did not kill Wei Zhao, he would cripple him! Although the gap between the peak of the mid-Earth rank and the late Earth rank was not especially large, the young guard had unleashed a ninth-stance martial skill that only the peak of the late Earth rank could ordinarily bring forth.

"Hmph!" Wei Zhao sneered coldly, neither dodging nor evading, and directly unleashed the fifth stance of the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm! Although Wei Zhao's strongest martial skill at present was the fifth stance of the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm, it was more than enough to deal with a late Earth-rank expert. It was equivalent to the eleventh stance of an ordinary Heaven-rank martial skill—how could it fail to handle him?

In this punch, the young guard had used every trick he had, holding nothing back, pouring in his full true qi, with the aim of killing Wei Zhao! In his eyes, a mere peak mid-Earth-rank expert like Wei Zhao daring to act so recklessly was not a slap in his own face, but a slap in the face of the entire **者 Trade Association—and in the face of him, the ** vice chairman!

"Boom!"

With a tremendous roar, the young guard's fist struck Wei Zhao's palm, and the immense collision of true qi burst out instantly at the center where their moves met, sending everyone around them staggering back several steps involuntarily from the force of the wind.

These ** were all experts of the Earth rank, or even the Mystic and Yellow ranks; ordinarily, where would they ever have seen experts above the mid-Earth rank clashing head-on? The surging momentum that came crashing toward them swept them all back. Though they were not injured, it was hardly pleasant.

"Pff..." The young guard spat out a mouthful of blood like a sword, his whole body sent flying several meters back by Wei Zhao's blow. He landed on the ground and did not move again—whether alive or dead was impossible to tell! But judging by the arm Wei Zhao had smashed into a meat patty and the sunken half of his chest, even if he lived, he was not far from death. Even if he were saved with pills, he would certainly never recover his former strength.

Wei Zhao's decisive ruthlessness shocked everyone present. Even Han Xiaopo's eyes were full of shock. Wei Zhao was too fierce, wasn't he? He said he would kill, and he killed the man just like that? The others, meanwhile, were speculating about Wei Zhao's origins and strength!

To completely defeat a late Earth-rank expert with the strength of the peak of the mid-Earth rank, and to decide victory in a single move—what domineering spirit was that? What extraordinary skill was that?

Yang Qiqi, however, was not surprised at all. Wei Zhao had already behaved in a domineering manner before; in her eyes, Wei Zhao had already become synonymous with a villain. Wei Zhao had forcibly taken her blue crystal—though not directly from her hand, Yang Qiqi had already made him out to be the chief culprit. So for this villain Wei Zhao to dispose of these two obstacles at the gate was only natural.

"Second Brother!" The older guard looked at the young guard's state and let out a shrill howl. He too had never expected Wei Zhao to strike so suddenly and without mercy! Seeing that Second Brother's injuries were severe and that he clearly would not live much longer, the older guard suddenly roared, "You little bastard, you dare kill my Second Brother—I'll tear you all apart!"

With that, the older guard swung a fist at Wei Zhao, still using the young guard's earlier martial skill, only with the stance changed: "Heaven-Piercing Fist—tenth stance!"

"Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm—sixth stance!" Wei Zhao met the older guard unhurriedly, unleashing the sixth stance of the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm!

Although this older guard was clearly somewhat stronger than Old Bi and that tall robber, in the eyes of Wei Zhao—now at the peak of the mid-Earth rank—he truly amounted to nothing!

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