護花近衛 - 第2281章 真假重寶 - 翰墨軒

"Then if you tell me now... won't that violate the agreement with your master?" Wei Zhao asked.

"That sect no longer exists, and besides, you two have some connection to it. Telling you hardly counts as breaking the agreement," the Heaven-Rank Spider said.

Wei Zhao nodded and sighed. "An ancient sect, wiped out just like that. Do you know who the enemy was?"

"Not clearly." The Heaven-Rank Spider shook its head. "The enemy was very strong—many Heaven-Rank experts..."

"An innocent man's only crime is the treasure he carries!" Wei Zhao sighed. "To make such a massive mobilization over a so-called supreme treasure..."

Wei Zhao had originally intended to scout out information about Uncle Qing's enemies, but now it seemed even the Great Fire Lion and the Heaven-Rank Spider were utterly in the dark.

"The supreme treasure... naturally that was one reason... but what those people were actually looking for was not the supreme treasure!" The Heaven-Rank Spider's words shocked Wei Zhao immensely.

"Not the supreme treasure?" Wei Zhao said, stunned.

"You could say it was, and you could say it wasn't," the Heaven-Rank Spider said. "This sect produced two people who pursued the Heavenly Dao, which naturally drew the covetous eyes of certain factions. From what I heard those visitors say, they came to seize it because they had heard this sect possessed something that could break through the Heaven-Rank and pursue the Heavenly Dao... Only, that supreme treasure in your hands was mistaken for the thing that could break through the Heaven-Rank and pursue the Heavenly Dao..."

"Mistaken for it?" Wei Zhao frowned. He carefully savored the Heaven-Rank Spider's words, then suddenly understood something. "What they were really looking for was the teleportation formation, right? They just didn't know there was a teleportation formation here—they thought the supreme treasure was the treasure that could break through the Heaven-Rank and step into the Heavenly Dao?"

"Exactly." The Heaven-Rank Spider nodded. "That treasure is indeed a treasure—it can provide human cultivators with pure true qi—but whether it can help a cultivator of peak late Heaven-Rank, great-perfection strength, step into the Heavenly Dao, I do not know. But this treasure was discovered by this sect only in the last few decades, so it absolutely cannot be what those people imagined..."

"So... it was all a huge mix-up..." Wei Zhao smiled bitterly. Uncle Qing really was unlucky—producing a treasure had only caused others to misunderstand.

"You can't quite call it a mix-up. After all, the value of this treasure is immeasurable," the Heaven-Rank Spider said.

"True enough," Wei Zhao agreed. He knew well the benefits of his jade pendant's space. Though this white strange stone could not be compared to the jade pendant space, taken on its own it was still a rather rare treasure in this world.

Sun Jingyan listened quietly nearby as Wei Zhao and the Heaven-Rank Spider conversed, and enormous waves surged in her heart! These matters were too astonishing, bordering on the inconceivable. Only, Wei Zhao seemed not to guard against her in the slightest?

Heaven-Rank, the Heavenly Dao—though these matters were very distant from Sun Jingyan, she was a cultivator herself and naturally understood the significance they represented. If word got out, it would likely stir up a terrifying storm!

A mere legend could annihilate an ancient sect. Then if the teleportation formation were actually found, what consequences that would bring was truly hard to say!

Was this... trust in her?

Watching Wei Zhao as he conversed with the Heaven-Rank Spider, the corners of Sun Jingyan's lovely lips curled into an indefinable arc, and her dark brows lifted slightly. A strange feeling rose in her heart—did he truly treat her as one of his own?

Knowing so many of his secrets, would she from now on... always remain at his side?