Chapter 3498 — Calm Retreat
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Fellow brother, take a step back and the sky opens wide. And you have family with you here, so it is all the more unwise to make an enemy of a man so petty," the man advised Xiao Chen.
"You are not wrong. May I ask your name?" Wei Zhao asked.
"This one is Xiao Che, a son of a fallen house—the ancient Xiao family of former days. Have you heard of it, brother?" Here Xiao Che could not help but smile bitterly at himself. "Because my family has already been demoted from an ancient house to an ordinary one, I have come as a vagrant cultivator... I am now an expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank! What is your name, brother? You look like a vagrant cultivator too?"
"Oh? Why do you say that? Could I not have come from a sect?" Wei Zhao asked, slightly startled and somewhat puzzled. As for this ancient Xiao family, he truly had never heard of it. It was probably a thoroughly fallen house, like Elder Qingbo's sect once was—no longer even qualified to take part in such trials.
"Those sect disciples all hold their heads so high they cannot see their feet—who among them would be willing to yield?" Xiao Che said, then smiled bitterly. "Only vagrant cultivators are as modest and mild as you, brother. And this is a trial; most people do not bring their families. But you brought two women, so you must be a vagrant cultivator—because the sons of sects and houses would never do such a thing, as it would divide their attention. So I suggest you send the two of them back..."
"Heh, thank you for the reminder, Brother Xiao, but they have come to take part in the trials as well." Wei Zhao smiled. "They are both Heaven-rank Great Perfection experts. My name is Wei Zhao, and I am indeed a vagrant cultivator! Well, I should be going upstairs. Go about your business, Brother Xiao!"
"Ah? Both Heaven-rank Great Perfection?" Xiao Che stared at Wei Zhao as if he could not believe it, then suddenly cried out, "Ah, you are the legendary Wei Zhao?!"
"..." Wei Zhao nodded, somewhat speechless at Xiao Che's reaction. Even if he was famous now, there was no need to be so dramatic about it, was there?
"So it is Brother Lin—then I have been meddling..." Xiao Che shook his head and smiled bitterly. "Then I will not disturb you, Brother Lin..."
"Very well, let us talk more another time..." Wei Zhao nodded, then went upstairs with Wang Xinyan and Han Jingyi.
Only after Xiao Che had gone did Wang Xinyan say, "That man is not bad—a warm heart..."
"Mm, he probably suffered at that man's hands earlier. Still, he is an honest sort; we can talk more with him in the future. But for now, let us get settled first," Wei Zhao said. "At present we do not know who among them are Ancestor Xuanchen's people, so it is best not to form cliques—let us see how things stand first."
"We will both follow your lead anyway, and we could not form a clique even if we wanted to," Wang Xinyan said with a nod.
The rooms here were of quite a high grade—top-tier suites. But these cultivators did not care about such things; they were all top experts who had already enjoyed whatever there was to enjoy. RS