Chapter 1503 — A Beautiful Confidante
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Come on, little fellow, let us go find the next natural treasure..." Wei Zhao said to the Heavenly Thunder Pig.
"Squeak squeak..." The Heavenly Thunder Pig was unwilling to give up, pointing with its forepaw toward a direction not far off, as if to show that the one who had dug up the Snow Spirit Mushroom had gone that way!
Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback, but then he understood. The Heavenly Thunder Pig must still be able to sense the presence of that Snow Spirit Mushroom, and had not lost the trail merely because it had been dug up.
Looking in the direction the Heavenly Thunder Pig pointed, Wei Zhao was again startled, for he saw a dark shape upon the snow not far away. It looked like a person, and there were red stains of blood upon the figure, as if injured!
"There is someone over there?" Wei Zhao said doubtfully.
"Eh? It really does seem to be a person?" Yu Bing had plainly seen the dark shape in the distance as well. "Shall we go take a look?"
"Better not to meddle, no?" Wei Zhao was not one who liked meddling in others' affairs. Whether another trial taker was hurt or not had little to do with him.
"Let us have a look first. It might be someone we know," Yu Bing suggested.
"Fine, then let us take a glance," Wei Zhao nodded.
As they spoke, they walked toward the dark shape, and when they drew near and Wei Zhao saw the face clearly, he hardly knew whether to laugh or cry!
"Is that not your beautiful confidante?" Yu Bing said teasingly.
"Beautiful confidante? A haunting nemesis is more like it!" Wei Zhao could not help giving a wry smile, for the injured person on the snow was none other than Yang Qiqi! At this moment Yang Qiqi was sitting on the snow, puffing with anger and wiping her tears!
It was not pain from her wounds that made her weep, but fury that the spoils she had won with such difficulty had been snatched away by villains, all but ruining her plan to pass the Ice Palace trial smoothly!
Though he spoke so, Wei Zhao could not simply walk away. After all, he had already saved Yang Qiqi twice before, and having seen her now, he had to lend a helping hand! Before, when strength was tested, Yang Qiqi had been declared a rogue cultivator, and that had given Wei Zhao a feeling of fellow sufferers sharing a fate. Since all were rogue cultivators with no great sect behind them, Wei Zhao would naturally help when he could.
"What? Beaten and sitting on the ground bawling?" Wei Zhao walked over, looked at Yang Qiqi, and asked with a smile.
Yang Qiqi had been so wrapped in anger that she had not noticed anyone approaching. In truth, if Wei Zhao had not wished to be noticed, she could not have noticed him at all!
"You... how did you get here? Come to laugh at me?" Seeing the newcomer was actually Wei Zhao, a trace of desolation crossed Yang Qiqi's face, grown pale from loss of blood. Why was it that every time she was down on her luck, she ran into this thing?
"At so tense a moment of the trial, what mood would I have to laugh at anyone? Because you look so cool?" Wei Zhao curled his lip. "Badly hurt? Were you beaten, or bitten by a snake?"