Chapter 163 — Wei Zhao's Cheat
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Only after watching Uncle Qing and the girls leave the bar did Wei Zhao rise and walk off in the direction the refined man had taken. Passing the counter, he saw that the refined man was already standing there waiting with a somewhat ordinary-looking man.
"Mr. Lin, I am Su Jiaonang, the manager of this bar. I am extremely sorry about what happened earlier..." the ordinary-looking man said as he saw Wei Zhao approach.
"Save the nonsense. Where is Li Cihua?" Wei Zhao cut him off short. Such empty words he had no wish whatever to hear.
Cut off by Wei Zhao, Su Jiaonang flushed slightly and showed a touch of anger, but he recovered himself at once. "Mr. Lin, this way, please."
The man before him was someone the boss wished to invite, and from what Li Yao — the refined man — had said a moment ago, Wei Zhao's strength was likely no less than his own. So Su Jiaonang did not dare be careless.
Wei Zhao followed Su Jiaonang and Li Yao to the door of an office. Su Jiaonang knocked, and from inside came Li Cihua's voice, the same voice from the phone call earlier: "Come in."
Su Jiaonang opened the door and gestured him in. "Mr. Lin, please come in. The boss is waiting for you inside."
Wei Zhao walked straight in. Inside the room sat a pot-bellied man, and behind him stood a gaunt, skeletal man with a thoroughly ordinary face — the sort no one would spare a second glance, the sort who would be lost the instant he stood in a crowd.
But Wei Zhao's expression tightened. The energy fluctuations coming off this skeletal man already faintly surpassed his own... It seemed this was the strength of a peak late-stage Yellow grade...
"Elder Jiao, I can sense the energy fluctuations on them. Can they sense the energy fluctuations on me?" A very important question had suddenly occurred to Wei Zhao — whether this sensing worked both ways.
"I should not think so," Elder Jiao said flatly. "The way his body draws in energy is not the same as yours. Theirs is called true qi. The true qi produced by each cultivation art differs; it can only be used by the one who cultivates it and cannot be passed on to another. The energy in your body, however, is universal..."
"I understand. So the energy in my body can also be converted into the true qi he needs — is that it?" Wei Zhao asked.
"That is so, in theory." Elder Jiao spoke in the tone of a teacher well pleased with his pupil. "And it is precisely for this reason that you can sense his, while he cannot sense yours."
Wei Zhao was delighted to have received a satisfying answer. It seemed that from now on he could play the pig to eat the tiger and put on whatever airs he liked: he could see clearly the strength of others, while others could not see his... This was nothing short of a top-tier cheat. If he saw that his opponent was too strong and he could not beat him, he could simply run for his life.
Wei Zhao's gaze rested on the skeletal man for only an instant. The skeletal man smiled faintly at Wei Zhao. In his view, Wei Zhao was merely at the peak of the early Yellow grade, and since he had suppressed his own aura as a matter of course, it was impossible for Wei Zhao to see through his strength.
So the skeletal man paid it no mind, taking Wei Zhao's glance for a casual one.
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