Chapter 2872 — Kick You
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Wei Zhao and the others had no idea that the Dragon of the Five Malevolences would play such a nasty trick on them, throwing the spirit beasts' routine into chaos! Still, word took time to spread. Though the sound-wave flying spirit beasts could swiftly broadcast the Dragon's command far and wide, the underling had to reach them first.
The Heavenly Thunder Pig had an exceptional sense of direction. It scarcely took a single wrong turn the whole way, and Wei Zhao, carrying Yang Qiqi on his back, found Zhang Naipao together with Tianchan!
When Wei Zhao saw Zhang Naipao, he could not help but sigh. A formidable disciple of the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow sect, and here he sat on the ground in utter dejection, gaping foolishly, eyes glazed, doing heaven knew what—or rather, doing nothing at all!
"Zhang Naipao!" Tianchan called out.
But Zhang Naipao gave no response whatsoever. He did not even raise his head to glance at Tianchan; her call fell on deaf ears.
"He's sunk into the peak state and can't hear anyone calling him." Wei Zhao recalled his own experience and shook his head as he explained.
"Then... how is he supposed to wake up?" Tianchan frowned slightly. If Zhang Naipao did not come to and they brought him back like this to see Patriarch Xuanchen, the Patriarch would surely ask why Zhang Naipao had ended up in such a state. Tianchan feared she might give away Wei Zhao's secret, and she was worried.
"Feng Shihua said before that this is a kind of madness of the primordial spirit. In theory, only he himself can come back to his senses; if others interfere by force, he could easily suffer qi deviation. Unless someone who knows how to send their primordial spirit out of the body communicates directly with Zhang Naipao through the state of the primordial spirit—only that way can Zhang Naipao be brought back to himself," Wei Zhao said. His confidence that Zhang Naipao could heal Yang Qiqi actually came from that ghostly thing in the jade pendant space—that thing seemed to be a high-grade primordial spirit.
"Then... how do we wake him? Do you have a way?" Tianchan was slightly startled. In this state, Zhang Naipao clearly could not heal Yang Qiqi, and she did not know where Wei Zhao's confidence came from.
"Let's get to somewhere safe first. It's too dangerous here. It's already taken us an hour and a half to get here; luckily we're not far from safety, or once the spirit beasts wake up we'd be in for it," Wei Zhao said.
"Ah... if you hadn't said so, I'd have nearly forgotten the time." Tianchan stuck out her tongue nervously.
"I thought you weren't afraid of spirit beasts. When they come, you can just kick them!" Wei Zhao looked at Tianchan's adorable expression and laughed.
"You dare make fun of me?" Tianchan's face flushed red, and she glared at Wei Zhao, half angry, half embarrassed: "I specialize in kicking you, not spirit beasts."
"Specialize in kicking me? Why not say it's a family heirloom—kicking me?" Wei Zhao was taken aback, then smiled wryly.
"What do you think this is, some street-corner family-heirloom phone screen protector?" Tianchan shot Wei Zhao a glare.
"You know about family-heirloom screen protectors?" Wei Zhao was rather surprised. He had only learned of it when he occasionally browsed the web and came across a little street stall that applied screen protectors to phones. Everyone else called it "professional screen protection," but that one family called theirs "family-heirloom screen protection." Wei Zhao had wondered—did their ancestors already have phones? And could apply screen protectors? He had never expected Tianchan to know of it too.
"Some lunatic told me the joke." Tianchan had not known it originally, but Kang Jingming came every day to curry favor and told her jokes, so she had learned it. RS