Chapter 287 - Blindsided (1/2)

“Well, let’s get to it. You must be here for the Brimming Sacred Pill I wager. But don’t think for a second it’s going to be that easy to take it from me.”

Having dispensed the probing, Huangpu Qingtian snickered as he flashed the storage ring on his finger, “Come, show me what you’re made of!”

Zhuo Fan raised an eyebrow and shrugged, “Ha-ha-ha, you take me for an idiot? Fighting on your turf and on your own terms is retarded!”

“Yes, exactly so!” Huangpu Qingtian nodded as he boasted, “But if not for that, what are you even doing here? And without defeating me, you’ll never get this pill…”

Whoosh~

He didn’t finish as his ring vanished, now in Zhuo Fan’s hand.

Zhuo Fan’s right eye flashed golden as he mocked, “You were saying?”

Everyone watched on in shock.

They shuddered incredulously at what they just witnessed. Even the ever calm and stalwart Huangpu Qingtian had a reaction.

[How did he do that?]

The observer in the shadows also cried out, “What art did this kid use? It’s so weird even I couldn’t sense it!”

Zhuo Fan mocked, “I only came for the Brimming Sacred Pill. With that done, buh-bye!”

Zhuo Fan unfolded his wings and shot into the air before vanishing.

The rest were so out of it they couldn’t even react. They were in complete fear of his mystical art.

When they finally did snap out of it, Huangpu Qingtian’s face twisted. Toyed around like that never happened to him.

“Eldest young master…” You Yushan began.

Huangpu Qingtian dismissed him with a wave and turned to Lin Xuanfeng, “Give me the ring!”

Lin Xuanfeng hopped over with flattery, “He-he-he, eldest young master is amazing, leaving the ring with the pill in my care. Zhuo Fan would be blowing his top when he finds out all he got was nothing, ha-ha-ha…”

Huangpu Qingtian was not in the least bit amused of having duped his enemy. He took the ring as he sounded morose, “I only did it to not lose the pill. He’d never realize I’d be willing to leave the pill to a cripple. But never thought it would show its worth so fast.”

“Zhuo Fan is not easy to deal with!” Clenching his fist, Huangpu Qingtian spat.

Lin Xuanfeng was sullen. Huangpu Qingtian only referred to him as a cripple nowadays. The other two nodded solemnly.

But then Huangpu Qingtian found an eerie breeze pass by him and when he opened his palm, the ring was gone.

Huangpu Qingtian’s heart sank as he raved, “Zhuo Fan!”

“Tone it down. What do you want with me anyway?” Zhuo Fan grinned victoriously as he came from a bush.

The three lackeys jumped behind Huangpu Qingtian in fright. [Didn’t he just fly off? What’s he doing back?]

Huangpu Qingtian glared, “It was you just now!”

“Yep, what was I supposed to do with a fake ring anyway?” Zhuo Fan tossed the two rings around, taunting, “Young master Huangpu, who knew even you are scared of something, unwilling to give me the true location of the pill and tried to cheat me out of it instead. Are you perhaps afraid you were gonna lose?”

Huangpu Qingtian trembled as the rage got the best of him, “I never said the pill was on me, just waving my hand around. It’s your fault for jumping to conclusions.”

“Ha-ha-ha, sophistry!” Zhuo Fan put the two rings on his fingers and snickered, “But I got the pill this time, so I’ll be going. For real this time. Later people!”

Zhuo Fan was gone.

They all watched in shock, coming and going without a sign. Huangpu Qingtian released his soul sense in fear Zhuo Fan might be playing another trick.

Only after he knew the coast was clear, did Huangpu Qingtian ease his breath.

His mood dangerously low, Huangpu Qingtian felt horrendous having suffered so much. He had gone and challenged Zhuo Fan in front of so many people…