Chapter 141 - Yours Truly Wants to Kick You Out (2/2)

At that point, the problem wasn’t getting the Bodhi Root but saving his reputation!

Zhuo Fan knew Vicious Pill King’s mental state and wasn’t worried.

When you want to hit a person where it hurts, you need to do it at the precise time. It can’t be too early or too late, and when you decide to go in for the attack, make sure he is sent to hell. Else, there will be heavy retaliation.

As such, Zhuo Fan’s nagging was only setting up the playing field. He was simmering the opponent and would only truly act when the perfect chance availed itself.

“High 5th-grade pill, refined!”

A familiar voice suddenly came and Yan Fu showed the pill in his hand with pride.

Zhuo Fan’s eyelid twitched and laughed, “Elder Yan, you taught one amazing disciple! He surpassed you! But now another spot in the finals slips from your grasp!”

Vicious Pill King didn’t reply but his raging glare pierced his prized pupil.

The proud and cheerful Yan Fu felt a frosty pair of eyes watching him. When he discovered they were from his master, he started shivering and lowered his head, sweating bullets.

He had now realized his blunder. In this competition, how could a disciple dare finish refining before his master?

Wasn’t this taking his master’s limelight, openly defying him?

He regretted it until his innards turned green. But what was done was done. Vicious Pill King also didn’t waste time arguing with his moronic disciple, rushing to finish his own pill.

[Oh-ho, that’s Vicious Pill King for you. He can still hold it in!]

Zhuo Fan scratched his nose and smiled faintly at Yan Song, “Ha-ha-ha, I must say, I do admire Elder Yan’s staunch character, able to bear even your disciple’s disgrace! Too bad you fell for it regardless!”

Vicious Pill King only snorted, knowing it all to be a ploy to mess with his head. He would fall for the trap if he truly replied.

Uncaring if he heard or not, Zhuo Fan kept on talking, “Did you know? I failed the first time I used the Universe Palm…”

Vicious Pill King’s ears peeled without wanting to. He knew it was all a trap, but not even Vicious Pill King could block his ears when it came to a heaven-defying alchemy skill.

With a vicious grin, Zhuo Fan resumed, “I failed because the flame was too weak. I was perfectly aware of this even before I started. I didn’t think of succeeding, just trying it out. In brief, I failed on purpose!”

Squinting, Vicious Pill King’s heart skipped alongside his flame. He hastily calmed himself and resumed refining, but his hearing was now sharper.

“I only assumed the posture of losing for your benefit, while also earning the others’ sympathy. All of it was to lower your guard, or my sneeze would’ve been stopped by you.”

With his jerking, Vicious Pill King’s flame also trembled. He finally turned his head, “So you acted right where the pill was at a crucial point, when I was most relaxed because of imminent success. Punk, such a vicious ploy is no less than You Guiqi’s.”

“Ha-ha-ha, don’t, please. You’re flattering me, Elder Yan.”

Zhuo Fan said, “A plan is something that makes use of all available elements around oneself. Elder Yan said that these people can’t save me no matter how stirred they are. And you are indeed correct. They may not be able to save me, but they can help me deceive an old geezer. If you weren’t taken by my wretched display, I fear you wouldn’t have lowered your vigilance around me so quickly.”

Vicious Pill King clenched his empty fist. He hated himself for being toyed with by a brat at his age.

“Ha-ha-ha, don’t be so hard on yourself.”

Picking up on his thoughts, Zhuo Fan laughed, “Since you’ve always been focused on alchemy, you’re not that erudite in schemes. Losing is only natural. If it were You Guiqi, he wouldn’t have been duped.”

“Humph, no matter what, I have suffered greatly this time. But don’t get too excited. There won’t be a second time.” Vicious Pill King spat through clenched teeth.

Arching an eyebrow, Zhuo Fan laughed hysterically, “Oh, forgive me, Elder Yan. This may be a tad insolent, but I must inform you that you’ve been had again.”

Startled, Vicious Pill King didn’t understand.

It was now that Liu Yizhen and two others shouted. In these few breaths of time, three more people entered the final round.

“You may be quick in refining, your heart may be calm despite my words and didn’t fail in your control, but I got to slow you down!” A demonic smile was plastered on Zhuo Fan’s face, “Correct, yours truly’s aim isn’t to mess your concentration, but to drag out your refining and kick you out!”

Frightened, Vicious Pill King saw more and more alchemists around him were about to finish and was anxious by the second. For the first time, he was afraid.

[This punk is a plague. From the third round, no, since the beginning, he set up such a vicious trap for me to spring it.]

[What’s even more frightening, is that he got me twice!]

Seeing the half-refined ingredients in his hand, Vicious Pill King’s mood grew gloomier. He walked this earth for so many years but this was his first meeting with a deceitful opponent like Zhuo Fan…