Chapter 2867 — Tianchan Falls from the Sky

Tianchan? Wei Zhao's thoughts went to her at once, for apart from Tianchan, few others ever came back to the Five Baleful Mountains—and even if they did, they would hardly fling themselves off a cliff for no reason!

Fearing she would be dashed to pieces, Wei Zhao rose to his feet, fixed his eyes on the direction of her fall, and leaped. He caught her squarely in his arms. Sure enough, a familiar aura met him—it was Tianchan, and the Heavenly Thunder Pig besides!

Astonished and overjoyed, Wei Zhao returned to solid ground and hugged her so tightly he could have kissed her twice over. To see hope amid despair—anyone would have reacted as Wei Zhao did then.

"You... are you ever going to put me down?" Held in Wei Zhao's arms, Tianchan was rather glad not to have smashed into the ground, but he had already landed and still would not let go, which left her flustered. Though she had longed to see him, and now at last she had, she was, after all, an unwed girl—how could she possibly keep her composure at such a moment?

"Heh, it's not as though I haven't held you before," Wei Zhao said with a grin.

"I'll kick you!" Tianchan shot him a glare. "I came all this way out of kindness to find you, and you take liberties with me!"

"Ha ha..." Wei Zhao chuckled and set her down on the ground. "Why have you come back?"

The moment Wei Zhao put her down, Tianchan felt, for some inexplicable reason, a pang of reluctance. The warmth of that embrace still lingered, and she found herself unwilling to let it go. She could not help but say petulantly, "You set me down just because I told you to—I wasn't ready yet! I nearly took a tumble. Why didn't you warn me first?"

"..." Wei Zhao was momentarily at a loss for words. So setting her down had been a mistake too? "Wasn't I afraid you'd kick me? You're a formidable expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank, you know!"

"I've never seen you so obedient before..." Tianchan pursed her lips. "I didn't come looking for you. Someone asked me to find Zhang Naipao. Have you seen him?"

Naturally, Tianchan would never admit that she had come for Wei Zhao's sake, and having come here, she could hardly ignore Zhang Naipao either. So she asked Wei Zhao where Zhang Naipao had gone—perhaps he would know.

"Oh? You're looking for Zhang Naipao?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. He had not expected Tianchan to be seeking Zhang Naipao. "What do you want with him?"

"The Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect sent word to our sect, so they dispatched me here to find him. You know how it is—we rogue cultivators have no rights. If you lean on someone else's sect, you have to run their errands for them!" Tianchan shrugged.

"Ah?" This time Wei Zhao was visibly startled. He had guessed Tianchan must be someone important in the Five Luminaries Sect—anyone who could come here to receive the inheritance had to be a figure on Tagan Long's level. So why would they send her, of all people, to find Zhang Naipao? Weren't they afraid she might run into danger? At this thought, Wei Zhao asked in puzzlement, "And if you can't find him?"

"If I can't find him, then I can't find him," Tianchan said after a moment's hesitation.

"Heh heh..." Dull as he might be, Wei Zhao understood now. Tianchan had really come here for him; finding Zhang Naipao was merely a pretext. If she found him, well and good; if not, then not.

It was only that Tianchan was too embarrassed to say so outright. Otherwise, why would she have leaped off a sheer cliff clutching the Heavenly Thunder Pig?

"What are you 'heh heh'-ing about! I'll kick you!" Tianchan's face flushed crimson at his chuckle, and she gave a coy little snort.

"Ha ha... it's nothing. I'm just happy to see you come to my rescue!" Wei Zhao said.

"As if. I was just passing by," Tianchan said, feigning indifference. "Don't read too much into it. I only came to see whether Zhang Naipao had fallen off the cliff too."

"No, he went mad. I beat him that way," Wei Zhao answered honestly. He had no wish to deceive Tianchan.

"I know," Tianchan replied—and her answer caught Wei Zhao entirely off guard.

"You know? How do you know?" Wei Zhao was stunned.

"I heard it from those who left, of course," Tianchan said. "It seems finding him really will be quite difficult."

"Yes..." Wei Zhao nodded. Then Yang Qiqi came to mind, and he said to Tianchan, "By the way, never mind Zhang Naipao for now. My friend has been invaded by the baleful qi of the five煞—do you have any way to neutralize it?"

Tianchan had in fact noticed Yang Qiqi long ago—which was precisely why the tenderness she had shown Wei Zhao earlier had vanished. Had Yang Qiqi been some matron, or ugly as the Baleful Dragon of the Five, Tianchan would naturally not have been angry. But Yang Qiqi was a pretty young thing, and for some inexplicable reason, Tianchan felt a surge of irritation.

"No. Once the baleful qi of the five煞 has entered a cultivator's body for more than twenty days, death is certain... Eh?!" Here Tianchan suddenly stared wide-eyed at Wei Zhao in disbelief, her gaze brimming with shock. "You—you're actually fine?!"

"I..." Wei Zhao gave a bitter smile. He had not expected Tianchan to catch on so quickly, leaping straight to the most crucial question.

"You have a five-attribute constitution too, don't you?" Tianchan glared at Wei Zhao, a flash of anger at having been deceived in her eyes. "There's void chi inside your body too, isn't there? You came to the Baleful Dragon of the Five's cave to receive the inheritance of the source power too, didn't you?"

Tianchan glared at Wei Zhao, her heart aching as though it had been torn in two. How worried she had been when he did not emerge! And yet the purpose of his coming here had also been to receive the inheritance of the source power—and he had concealed it from her all along, never telling her the truth. It made Tianchan feel utterly foolish, like an idiot who had been used.

Yes—Wei Zhao was the prized disciple of Chief Bai. How could he not know that the source power inheritance could be received here in the Five Baleful Mountains? But in this, Tianchan had misjudged him: Chief Bai had once devoted himself wholly to the study of pill refining and had simply had no time to look into any matters of inheritance.

Faced with this sudden barrage of questions from Tianchan, Wei Zhao truly did not know how to explain or answer. Yet he had genuinely never meant to deceive her. "Little Chan, believe me or not, the purpose of my coming here was not to receive the inheritance, nor did I even know that the source power inheritance could be received here! I came entirely because the Heavenly Thunder Pig led me here, with no other thought in mind. But I won't lie to you—I did indeed receive the inheritance. The void chi in my body has become a true attribute. I am indeed a cultivator of the five-attribute constitution."

"And why should I believe you?" Though Tianchan's words gave no quarter, for some inexplicable reason, in her heart she already believed most of it!

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