Night soon fell, and Lu Qian had already scouted out the location of Zhao Wuji's dormitory. They were not staying very far apart.
Lu Qian had also set up the Surveillance Soul Tool he had redeemed from the Sign-In Coins shop near Zhao Wuji's dormitory ahead of time. The moment Zhao Wuji left, he would know.
At around nine that evening, the Soul Tool Lu Qian had set up finally sent a signal!
Lu Qian rushed out immediately, but he was still a step too late. Tang Hao and Zhao Wuji were a Titled Douluo and a Soul Saint respectively. When they truly unleashed their speed, Lu Qian really did have trouble keeping up.
Fortunately, Lu Qian had prepared a backup precisely to prevent this situation.
Lu Qian quickly put on a pair of Special Glasses, and several faintly glowing footprints appeared in his vision.
This was also Lu Qian's handiwork: Special Fluorescent Powder he had scattered around Zhao Wuji's dormitory while Zhao Wuji was having dinner.
With the footprints to guide him, Lu Qian followed the trail all the way outside Shrek Academy.
At the same time, Lu Qian activated the Concealment skill on his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, the Forest Emerald Dragon Left Arm Bone, and drove the effect to its maximum with his soul power.
He had no choice. He was not just dealing with Zhao Wuji and Flender; there was also Tang Hao, a Titled Douluo.
When Lu Qian approached the three of them, it was precisely the moment Tang Hao discovered Flender.
Lu Qian involuntarily backed away a little. He was genuinely worried Tang Hao would discover him.
What happened next was essentially the same as the original plot. When Tang Hao told Flender that the two of them could come at him together, Flender abandoned Zhao Wuji without the slightest loyalty.
Then came Tang Hao's utterly one-sided crushing of Zhao Wuji!
How exactly could that scene be described?
Lu Qian could only describe it with a song:
Spinning, leaping, I closed my eyes~
Keep going!
Spinning, leaping, I never stopped~
Although the entire process lasted only a few minutes, by the time Tang Hao stopped...
Poor Zhao Wuji was already sprawled on the ground, his head swollen a full size larger. Both eyes had turned black and blue, blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, and he lay there gasping for breath.
Even Lu Qian felt a little sorry for him at the sight.
Still, Zhao Wuji could be considered to have found a blessing in misfortune. After all, he had received Tang Hao's personal instruction. With pointers from a Titled Douluo-level powerhouse, Zhao Wuji had not taken that beating for nothing.
Besides, hadn't Zhao Wuji beaten up the man's son during the day?
At most, this counted as returning the courtesy.
After Tang Hao left, Lu Qian quickly returned to his dormitory.
This was actually why Lu Qian had insisted so strongly on having a dormitory to himself. It made things very convenient whenever he wanted to do something.
Early the next morning, Lu Qian got up at almost the exact same time as Tang San, though Tang San went to cultivate his Purple Demon Eye after getting up.
As for Lu Qian, he went to the site of yesterday's fourth-stage practical assessment and began cleaning up the battlefield. Specifically, he collected Tang San's hidden weapons one by one, then threw them off the cliff beside Shrek Academy.
When Tang San finished cultivating and returned to the academy to collect his hidden weapons, he ran into Lu Qian and took the initiative to greet him:
"Good morning."
"Mm, good morning."
"It's so early. What are you doing?"
"Oh, cleaning up the academy a little. Throwing out some rubbish."
Lu Qian answered very naturally.
"Throwing out rubbish? This far away?"
"That's right."
"Oh, see you later, then."
How could Tang San possibly have imagined that the rubbish Lu Qian mentioned was the great pile of hidden weapons he had thrown out yesterday?
Soon, when Tang San reached the battlefield to retrieve his hidden weapons, he suddenly discovered that not a single one of the hidden weapons he had thrown out yesterday remained!
"What's going on?"
Tang San scratched his head and, refusing to believe it, searched the place again, practically wishing he could dig three feet into the ground.
That continued until Tang San saw Lu Qian stroll in from outside the academy, looking thoroughly at ease.
An extremely bad feeling immediately arose in Tang San's heart, and he asked tentatively:
"Lu Qian, what rubbish did you just throw away?"
"Those hidden weapons you threw out yesterday."
After saying that, Lu Qian distinctly noticed Tang San clenching his fists.
He hurriedly shifted the blame onto Zhao Wuji and continued:
"Teacher Zhao told me to do it last night. He said he was worried they might hurt someone, but it was too late last night, so I came to clean them up this morning. What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
Lu Qian asked Tang San with an utterly innocent look.
At that moment, Tang San wanted nothing more than to give Lu Qian two solid punches!
Those were no mere hidden weapons. They were Tang San's very life!
These hidden weapons had not been easy to forge. How could Tang San bear to discard them so casually?
In particular, the bolt for the Back-Mounted Flower Crossbow and the poisoned needles fired by Hidden Shadow had cost him painstaking effort and considerable time to make.
Moreover, Tang San had accumulated the raw materials for these hidden weapons bit by bit himself while working as a blacksmith in Nuoding City.
And Lu Qian had actually just said he had thrown them away!
Looking at Tang San's somewhat agitated expression, Lu Qian continued being obnoxious:
"What's wrong? Is there a problem with Teacher Zhao's instructions?"
Lu Qian once again shifted the blame onto Zhao Wuji, and Tang San finally restrained his emotions.
Aside from the fact that these were Teacher Zhao's instructions, it seemed Tang San could not beat Lu Qian either. Although Tang San had been looking after Xiao Wu the whole time yesterday, Lu Qian's soul power had indeed shocked him greatly.
Although they both possessed the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, Lu Qian's soul power was simply far too vast and substantial. Tang San could only acknowledge his own inferiority.
Tang San took several deep breaths, then said mildly to Lu Qian:
"Please tell me where you threw them."
"Oh, to keep everyone safe, I specifically threw all those hidden weapons off that cliff over there."
"Off the cliff?"
Tang San stared at Lu Qian and spoke each word distinctly.
"That's right."
Lu Qian nodded earnestly.
"Very good."
Tang San seemed to resign himself to his fate. He walked straight past Lu Qian and quickly headed toward the cliff.
"Hey! Don't do anything foolish!"
Lu Qian shouted, pretending to be worried.
However, Tang San was in a terrible mood. Merely holding himself back from beating Lu Qian up already took considerable restraint. There was no chance he would respond to Lu Qian!
Watching Tang San leave, stifled and seething, Lu Qian felt positively delighted, and a smile involuntarily spread across his face.
Yet when he turned to leave, he suddenly discovered Ning Rongrong standing right behind him.
"Whoa! When did you get here?"
Lu Qian, who had gotten a little carried away with his triumph, jumped in fright at Ning Rongrong's appearance.
"Hmph, what guilty deed did you do to be so scared of me?"
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