Chapter 1724 — Xiaoshu Is Sick (Part One)

But how could Zhao Qibing have any money? He still owed the Blood Garment Yellow Springs Sect three hundred million, and now Wei Zhao had come demanding two hundred million — was the man even going to let him live? Even if Zhao Qibing smashed his pots, sold the iron, and sold his own blood, he could never repay that kind of money!

"Yes or no — one word." Wei Zhao frowned, his patience wearing thin.

"I... I can pay, but I really don't have that much money right now... Look, my tower and everything else burned down, the whole real estate company hasn't made a cent yet and it's already losing money — the tower's been built three times now..." Zhao Qibing said with a bitter face. "So... how about I just owe it to you for now?"

"Owe it? For how long?" Wei Zhao saw that Zhao Qibing really did seem to have no money, and so he didn't press him any further.

"Two years. Within two years I'll definitely pay it all back — I can write you an IOU!" Zhao Qibing said. In his mind, he would just send Wei Zhao off for now; maybe in two years he'd advance to an Earth-rank expert, and then he wouldn't have to fear Wei Zhao anymore!

"Oh. Then write it." Wei Zhao hadn't expected Zhao Qibing to actually pay up. The fellow was hopelessly poor — his tower had been destroyed three times; he was probably flat broke by now. Extorting a few million out of him wouldn't be enough for anything.

Zhao Qibing had no choice but to write Wei Zhao an IOU under humiliation. But Wei Zhao glanced at it and frowned again: "You owe it for two years, and not a bit of interest? If I put it in the bank, I'd get several million a year, wouldn't I?"

"Interest too? Can we skip it?" Though Zhao Qibing had never intended to pay this money at all, he felt an instinctive fear of Wei Zhao — afraid that once Wei Zhao got stronger, he'd still have to pay up.

"Skipping it is fine too." Wei Zhao tucked the IOU into his pocket, then said, "Then shall I collect a little interest now?"

"Huh? Now?" Zhao Qibing had been delighted by the first half of Wei Zhao's sentence, but at the second half he nearly collapsed to the ground!

But before Zhao Qibing could sit down on the ground himself, he heard two crisp cracks — and he went straight down onto the floor! Because his legs had been broken by Wei Zhao again!

"Aooo—" Zhao Qibing groaned in pain. Fortunately he was a **-rank now and could still hold it in; gritting his teeth against the agony in his legs, cold sweat pouring down his face, he said, "You don't keep your word... didn't you say you wouldn't hit me if I paid..."

"Didn't I leave you one leg? Or do you want your third leg broken too?" As Wei Zhao spoke, he lifted his leg as if to stomp down.

Zhao Qibing was instantly terrified and shook his head again and again: "No... no I don't..."

He resigned himself to his bad luck. Facing Wei Zhao now, he truly had no way out! But inwardly he swore a silent oath: one day he would torture Wei Zhao to death! He would break every bone in Wei Zhao's body and let him taste this pain too!

"This bar — I'm burning it for you. If you dare put it out, I'll come back in the middle of the night and burn it again. And when you can't get out then, don't blame me for not warning you!" As Wei Zhao spoke, a ball of fire-element pill flame appeared in his hand, and he casually tossed it onto the bar's wooden fittings — instantly, roaring flames sprang up.

And Wei Zhao turned and walked out of the bar.

After Wei Zhao left, Su Jiaonang, who had been hiding off to one side, hurried over: "Young Master Bing, what do we do now? Should we call the fire brigade and put it out?"

"Put out my ass — let it burn. Didn't you hear Wei Zhao? If I put it out, he'll come back in the middle of the night and burn it again. Hurry up and carry me out, and get everyone in the bar out — do you want to burn me to death?"

"Yes! Yes!" Su Jiaonang wiped the cold sweat of fright from his forehead and hastily agreed.

At the Gu family villa, Shen Yushu was vividly recounting the events of the family conference to Gu Mengyao and Tang Yun...

"That old thief Yushui Xing thought that just because he'd taken a pill and become an early Earth-rank expert, he could go on a killing spree! And at that moment the whole hall really was filled with tension — every family that had shown any closeness to Brother Arrow Brand was in fear for themselves, and my grandfather, Grandpa Wu, Grandpa Song and the others were all very worried!" Shen Yushu described the scene with great relish, and Gu Mengyao and Tang Yun listened with their hearts in their throats.

"Then, at that very moment, Brother Arrow Brand appeared, and in an instant his Earth-rank strength was revealed, giving that old thief Yushui Xing such a fright that he jumped! Everyone present was stunned — so Brother Arrow Brand was an Earth-rank expert too..." Shen Yushu told it in such detail that Tang Yun and Gu Mengyao felt as if it were happening right before their eyes... At this point she took a sip of ice water and said, "It's so hot — why is it so hot... Is the air conditioning on?"

"It's on..." Gu Mengyao said with a bitter face. "Yunyun and I are freezing to death, and you're still hot? If you didn't make so many exaggerated moves and gestures while telling the story, you wouldn't be hot!"

"Uh... really?" Shen Yushu stuck out her tongue and said with a giggle, "But then it wouldn't be exciting... Let's continue... Just now I said Brother Arrow Brand appeared, and that old thief Yushui Xing didn't dare fight him head-on, so he tried to attack my brother! He was just about to hit my brother, and Brother Arrow Brand had no time to stop him — then Brother Arrow Brand, quick-witted in the crisis, shouted: Earth-rank martial technique — Raging Fire Fist! And that old thief Yushui Xing got such a fright that he hurried to dodge! But after waiting and waiting, no martial technique appeared, and only then did he realize he'd been tricked — Brother Arrow Brand hadn't used any martial technique at all, he'd just been fooling him..."

"Haha!" Gu Mengyao and Tang Yun were amused too. They hadn't expected Wei Zhao to have his moments of trickery and cheating — it felt so much like Xiaoshu's style, didn't it?

"Then that old thief Yushui Xing flew into a rage out of humiliation and said Brother Arrow Brand had played him... Huh? I'm still so hot... I'm not even moving anymore, so why am I still this hot?" Shen Yushu said, taking another sip of ice water.

"A quiet mind brings its own coolness — you're just too excited and worked up, aren't you?" Tang Yun said. "How about I go get some ice cream?"

"Yes please!" Shen Yushu said. "I want the extra-big kind... But I'm still so hot right now. This pajama is too hot — I'll just take it off!"

As she spoke, Shen Yushu pulled off her pajamas, leaving only a small bra on her body...

"Xiaoshu, if you're like this, what'll happen when Wei Zhao comes back later?" Gu Mengyao frowned.

"It's fine — I'll put it back on later. And it doesn't matter if he sees me anyway; he's seen me plenty of times already!" Shen Yushu said indifferently.

Gu Mengyao said nothing more. That was just how Shen Yushu was — she'd often get inexplicably hot, and at home she hardly wore any clothes at all.

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