Chapter 2867 — Tianchan Falls from the Sky
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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."