Chapter 3522 — Rumors of Cloud Terrace Island
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"Tang Zhi? Your girlfriend?" Tian Chan asked.
"Aren't you my girlfriend?" Wei Zhao said with a smile.
"I'll kick you!" Tian Chan shot Wei Zhao a glare. "You think I don't know? All those inheritors are your girlfriends."
"...I never said they weren't," Wei Zhao said. "What I meant was, aren't you one too?"
"Don't talk nonsense." Tian Chan gave a little huff. "Here, I'm Tian Chan. Once we go back, I'll be the Silkworm Transformation... There's no way for us..."
At that, Tian Chan suddenly sighed, low and mournful. "Actually, some things lose all their meaning once you say them out loud. It's enough that we both understand..."
"You're not going to Cloud Terrace Island?" Wei Zhao asked abruptly.
"Hm?" Tian Chan was briefly taken aback. "Maybe I will... but what difference would going make? It's not as if I won't come back."
Wei Zhao wanted to suggest that if she went to Cloud Terrace Island, they could fool around together, but on second thought he kept quiet. Tian Chan was plainly weighed down by misgivings; she had her own station and her own life, and even if she went to Cloud Terrace Island, it was not as though she would never return.
But of those who went to Cloud Terrace Island, how many had ever come back? So far as he could recall, everyone who had gone to Cloud Terrace Island had vanished without a trace, hadn't they?
Still, Wei Zhao said nothing. Some things could only be left to fate.
The two of them emerged from the teleportation array one after the other, drawing hardly any attention at all—because Patriarch Xuan Chen was, at that very moment, utterly dumbstruck!
After hearing Kang Jingming's account, he had nearly keeled over on the spot!
"Father-in-law! Master! You must hold on!" Kang Jingming was startled out of his wits when he saw Patriarch Xuan Chen about to faint. The patriarch had been keeping watch near the teleportation array the whole time, so naturally he had no idea that Little Eleven's soul jade token had already shattered.
"Waaaaaah! Wei Zhao! I will never share this world with him!" Patriarch Xuan Chen let out a howl of grief and fury. Nearly all his disciples had died at Wei Zhao's hands—a hatred beyond any reconciliation! Thank goodness Kang Jingming had survived; otherwise he truly would have gone mad. "Thank goodness you're all right. If anything had happened to you too, I would have gone all-out against Wei Zhao. But as things stand, those inheritors are all tied to him—even if I wanted to kill him, I couldn't openly tear off all pretense!"
Patriarch Xuan Chen was, after all, an old warlord of his generation, and he quickly regained his composure. As the sect master of the Five Luminaries Sect, he still clung to the old ways of thinking. A daughter was merely a woman—if she died, she died. But Kang Jingming was his last disciple, and on top of that the man was delightfully vicious, which suited his palate perfectly. He had already been preparing for Kang Jingming to carry on his legacy—to inherit the leadership of the Five Luminaries Sect, or, after going to Cloud Terrace Island, to make the sect flourish.
That preference for sons over daughters, that fixation on a successor, made Patriarch Xuan Chen value Kang Jingming, his "only" direct disciple, all the more.
Thus, so long as Kang Jingming lived, the balance between him and Wei Zhao would not be upset—and Wei Zhao had seen exactly that, which was why he had left Kang Jingming alive.
"I understand. It can't be done now, and there's no helping that. But rest assured, Master—even on Cloud Terrace Island, I'll find a way to do him in!" Kang Jingming said with a savage grin.