Chapter 2342 — Concealed for Now
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"What? You even found the treasure? Where is it now?" Qing Bo stared at Wei Zhao with surprise and excitement, but a moment later he shook his head. "Forgive me, Xiaoyi—I got carried away. You were the one who found the treasure, so by rights it is yours. Even ** said nothing about it, so of course I won't ask for it back..."
"If you wanted it, it's gone—I gave it away," Wei Zhao said with a smile, spreading his hands.
"Gave it away?" Qing Bo was startled. Had Wei Zhao kept the thing for himself, Qing Bo certainly would not have objected, but to hear it had been given away left him feeling a pang of regret and reluctance. "Who did you give it to? That object was priceless..."
"I gave it to Sun Jingyan," Wei Zhao said. "So she could take it back and use it with the ** Sun family mental cultivation method."
"Ah?" Qing Bo was dumbstruck for a moment, then he did not know whether to laugh or cry. "You nearly scared me to death! Xiaoyi, how is that giving it away? She's hardly an outsider."
"Heh heh..." Wei Zhao chuckled.
"By the way, does Jingyi know about any of this?" Qing Bo asked suddenly.
"No, she doesn't. That's why I'm telling you two in private. Everything up to now has been my suspicions and guesses—Jingyi knows nothing," Wei Zhao said, shaking his head. "This old grudge is far too tangled, and the enemy far too powerful. I don't want her knowing too much; it would only make her worry. That's why I came back to speak with you first. As for whether to tell her, that's for you to decide."
"A tangled grudge? An enemy too powerful?" Qing Bo was slightly taken aback and looked at Wei Zhao in puzzlement. "Enemy? What enemy?"
"I crossed blades with the people from the force that wiped out your sect..." And with that, Wei Zhao told Qing Bo and Granny Sun in detail everything that had happened in the Ulaghot Mountains...
"What... you fought them?" Hearing Wei Zhao's account, Qing Bo was both shocked and horrified. He had assumed that Wei Zhao's trip to the Ulaghot Mountains would end with him locating the treasure according to the bearings marked on the map and bringing it back. Never had he imagined that Wei Zhao would end up in a life-and-death struggle with enemies lying in wait in the mountains!
When he heard how Wei Zhao and the Heaven-rank brute had joined forces to kill an early Heaven-rank expert, Qing Bo was utterly astounded! Thinking of the perils Wei Zhao and Sun Jingyan had faced along the way, his heart clenched for them.
"Still, it was more fright than danger in the end—we made it back alive," Wei Zhao said, holding nothing back. He told them about the Fire Lion clan and the Spider clan, and did not conceal even his trip to the Tagan family to steal the secret manual on forging the essence-essence necklace.
"How is that 'more fright than danger'!" Qing Bo let out a long breath. "Xiaoyi, thank you. Thank you for watching over Jingyi the whole way. This Fu owes you yet another favor!"
"Qing Bo, family doesn't speak such words. With the bond between us, saying that only makes us strangers," Wei Zhao said, waving a hand. "Besides, Sun Jingyan and I... are good friends too..."
As he said this, Wei Zhao could not help blushing. He and Sun Jingyan were, it seemed, "lovers"? In the past that had been nothing—Qing Bo knew of the relationship—but things were different now. Sun Jingyan was Qing Bo's daughter. If anything more came of things between him and Sun Jingyan, how was he to answer to Qing Bo?
So at these thoughts, Wei Zhao felt a twinge of embarrassment and a headache coming on, and could only define their relationship as that of good friends.