Chapter 2860 — The Heavenly Thunder Pig Seeks Help
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No one wished Zhang Naipao any harm. True, if he died there were other ways to make up for it—but without Zhang Naipao, the danger to the inheritor would rise dramatically. So of course it was best that Zhang Naipao came through safely.
"Yes. Elder Kang Jingming just reported to me the list of cultivators who passed the trial." Tianchan shook her head.
"It's been eighteen days already... I hope nothing has gone wrong!" Ancestor Xuanchen pondered a moment. "Tianchan, if you hear any word of Zhang Naipao, tell us at once!"
"Yes, Uncle-Master!" Tianchan said hastily and with care.
Ancestor Xuanchen and Ancestor Xuanzhen did not linger long; they went elsewhere to rest. Tianchan, meanwhile, waited anxiously for news from Kang Jingming...
In the Five Baleful Mountains, the Heavenly Thunder Pig had waited past fifteen days, and now on the eighteenth still saw no one else come to this place. In an instant it grew anxious! Though the Dragon of the Five Baleful had paid it no mind, the Heavenly Thunder Pig could not sit still.
At last it could bear it no longer and decided to go down the mountain to have a look. Over these days it had watched the Dragon of the Five Baleful issue orders to the spirit beasts of the Five Baleful Wasteland, and that had given it a fine idea: if it could find a Yellow-rank flying spirit beast, then as a spirit beast at the peak of the late Mystic rank, could it not simply command that beast to go rescue Wei Zhao?
So once the Heavenly Thunder Pig made up its mind, it wasted no time. It soon came down to the foot of the Five Baleful Mountains and went racing off.
At last, after running for half a day, the Heavenly Thunder Pig spotted a flying spirit beast of the Yellow rank. It hurriedly called out to it: "Oink oink! (Hello there, I have a favor to ask of you!)"
"Coo coo... (Sorry, not now—I'm very busy!)" the flying spirit beast replied.
"Oink oink... (I command you to help, by my authority as a Mystic-rank spirit beast!)" said the Heavenly Thunder Pig.
"Coo coo... (I am carrying out an order from the lord, the Dragon of the Five Baleful. Unless your rank is higher than his, I can only obey the commands of a higher-ranked spirit beast first!)" said the flying spirit beast.
"Oink oink... (Fine, then—are there any other flying spirit beasts not currently carrying out orders?)" The Heavenly Thunder Pig was crestfallen at once. The Dragon of the Five Baleful was a spirit beast at the peak of the late Heaven rank, nearing great perfection, already very close to the Heavenly Dao. Unless it were itself a Heavenly Dao spirit beast, it could never command this flying beast again.
"Coo coo... (No. Every spirit beast is carrying out orders.)" said the flying spirit beast.
"Oink oink... (Thank you all the same...)" The Heavenly Thunder Pig was helpless. It seemed its idea had been far too simple. The spirit beasts here were all carrying out the Dragon of the Five Baleful's orders and would never obey it. It could only head once more for the safe zone and consult Zhao Qilei and the others, to see whether there was any way to rescue Wei Zhao!
Wei Zhao had still not come up after all these days, and the Heavenly Thunder Pig was naturally frantic with worry.
Yet when it reached the safe zone, the Heavenly Thunder Pig was disappointed, for there were no cultivators left within it. It seemed Zhao Qilei and the others had already gone on ahead. Of the cultivators in the Five Baleful Wasteland, those still alive had for the most part departed; those who remained were all dead.