Chapter 2500 — Little Shu's Bad Idea

Never mind an ancient sect—a single Wei Zhao was already enough to leave the hidden Zhao family helpless. As for an ancient sect, the hidden Zhao family would never dare provoke one, so Zhao Qibing fell silent at once. It seemed his legs had been broken for nothing after all.

"So, Zhao Qibing, do you still want revenge?" Zhong Yongliang had seen Zhao Qibing deflate the moment he heard the great name of the Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Sect, and he was overjoyed on the spot. The reputation of his sect truly rang out loud and clear.

"Zhong Yongliang, even if you mean to kill me, at least let me die with some clarity. You were my subordinate before, but I never treated you badly, did I? What is the meaning of this beating?" Zhao Qibing no longer even thought of revenge; he only wanted to understand what on earth was going on.

"It's really nothing much. My celestial one told me to beat you. You didn't provoke me, true enough, but you provoked my celestial one!" Zhong Yongliang said.

"Your celestial one? Who is that?" Zhao Qibing was startled, then at once recalled the person Zhong Yongliang had once secretly admired: "Gu Mengyao?"

"Exactly, Gu Mengyao!" Zhong Yongliang nodded.

"You're with Wei Zhao?" Hearing Zhong Yongliang admit it, Zhao Qibing was frightened half to death.

"Of course not. I'm after his position," Zhong Yongliang said. "Oh, by the way, let me ask you—what is Wei Zhao's current strength?"

"Strength? Early Earth Rank, or perhaps the peak of early Earth Rank?" Zhao Qibing said. "Why do you ask? Do you think you can beat Wei Zhao?"

"An Earth Rank expert, is he? Then there's no problem at all. I'll have him in hand with no trouble!" Zhong Yongliang nodded in relief. "All right, Zhao Qibing, I've finished beating you, so you can go. Out of respect for the fact that you were once my boss, I won't knock you out—I'll let you leave with your wits about you!"

"I..." Zhao Qibing had just been about to say that he had come looking for someone, but then something occurred to him and he asked, "It wasn't you who had You Panhu call me out here, was it?"

"It was me," Zhong Yongliang nodded.

"My god... You Panhu really has no honor. He actually dared to set me up?" Zhao Qibing was thoroughly displeased to hear it.

"Oh, I gave him a beating too," Zhong Yongliang said indifferently. "He's worse off than you—he's out cold."

"Is that so..." Hearing this, Zhao Qibing felt considerably better balanced. He took out his phone and called the hidden Zhao family to have them come pick him up.

"I'm off. Time to report to my celestial one..." Carrying his dark-iron refined-steel rod, Zhong Yongliang led Gao Xiaofu away toward the economics department teaching building.

And Shen Yushu, through a **, had heard everything that happened on this side crystal clear, and she recounted the whole course of events to Gu Mengyao.

"You're saying Zhong Yongliang also joined that Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Sect, and also became that sect master's **?" Gu Mengyao was greatly astonished to hear it. "And he got himself a Golden Cicada undergarment too? The reason he can withstand blows is because of this undergarment?"

"That should be how it is," Shen Yushu nodded.

"That undergarment—didn't Wei Zhao give us one too?" Gu Mengyao recalled the low-grade Golden Cicada undergarment Wei Zhao had won at the Hidden World Families Summit. "Though ours doesn't seem as high-grade as Zhong Yongliang's."

"Right. The one Brother Arrowhead won can only defend against attacks from experts below Earth Rank; it has no effect against Earth Rank experts or above..." Shen Yushu nodded. When Wei Zhao had brought that undergarment back, he had meant to wash it and give it to Gu Mengyao or Shen Yushu for self-defense, but with Wu Chengtian around, basically any enemy below Earth Rank could be handled, so the Golden Cicada undergarment was somewhat superfluous, and it had sat at home unused ever since.

"So Zhong Yongliang only became formidable by relying on this sort of thing. He's just a cockroach that can't be killed, not someone with real skill," Gu Mengyao said. "But that iron rod in his hands seems to have some mystery to it as well. Experts like Zhao Qibing and You Panhu all have true qi protecting their bodies, yet Zhong Yongliang can hit them all the same."

"Mm, this fellow has no shortage of treasures on him..." Shen Yushu's eyes rolled round and round again as she began to hatch a bad idea about the fine treasures on Zhong Yongliang's person...

"Little Shu, you're not thinking of taking his things for yourself, are you?" Gu Mengyao knew this expression of Little Shu's all too well. One look and it was clear she was coveting Zhong Yongliang's fine things.

"Heh heh heh heh..." Shen Yushu gave a wicked laugh. "These are fine things indeed..."

"Fine things or not, you can't just strip them off Zhong Yongliang's body, can you?" Gu Mengyao said somewhat helplessly.

"That's true, but we can think of a way," Shen Yushu said.

"Either way, let's first tell Wei Zhao what happened here, so he can be mentally prepared and see whether he can think of a way to deal with Zhong Yongliang," Gu Mengyao said.

"Mm, that works... but wait a moment, Zhong Yongliang is coming again..." Shen Yushu said.

Sure enough, before long Zhong Yongliang appeared at the doorway of Gu Mengyao's and Shen Yushu's classroom. Compared with the arrogance and domineering manner he had shown when he went to find You Panhu, Zhong Yongliang was much more docile at the door of Gu Mengyao's classroom. The dark-iron refined-steel rod in his hand he had disguised as a baseball bat, and slung over his shoulder it did not look particularly conspicuous.

It happened to be the end of class. Zhong Yongliang walked up to Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu with a smile and said, as if claiming credit, "Yaoyao, Little Shu, I've already given that Zhao Qibing a beating. Is there anything else you'd like to order?"

"Hmm... I hear you only broke both of Zhao Qibing's legs and didn't knock him out? You seem to have gone easy on him. Is there some bro-mance going on?" Shen Yushu asked.

"Huh?" Zhong Yongliang was startled. He hadn't expected the news to travel so fast—he had only just beaten Zhao Qibing and already Shen Yushu knew about it on this side. Could there be eyes and ears of hers nearby? Then again, it made sense enough that when Wei Zhao went out he would arrange other guards around Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.

Thinking of this, Zhong Yongliang began to grow secretly wary. He was not afraid of being ambushed in the dark, but this feeling of being watched was thoroughly unpleasant.

"That... that's not it..." Zhong Yongliang hurried to explain. "Actually... I heard that Wei Zhao likes to break Zhao Qibing's legs, so I was imitating Wei Zhao..."

"That won't do at all. If you imitate Brother Arrowhead in everything, then Brother Arrowhead alone is enough for us—what do we need a knockoff version of you for?" Shen Yushu waved her hand. "Little Liang, your next step has to be to comprehensively surpass Brother Arrowhead!"

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