Chapter 3529 — Xue Li Switches Rooms
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"All right, then. I'll be off—see you when I see you!" Having settled Zhong Yongliang, Kang Jingming still had others to win over. Apart from the inheritors, quite a few experts had advanced to grand completion during this trial, and those were precisely the people Kang Jingming meant to court.
Watching Kang Jingming climb out of Zhong Yongliang's vehicle, Wei Zhao's eyes flickered with a trace of indifference. To hand Zhong Yongliang a few energy stones and expect him to defect was unrealistic; after all, the two of them stood in complete opposition, and Wei Zhao was not so naive as to imagine Zhong Yongliang would stretch that favor without limit.
What had been agreed was a trade, and a trade it remained. If Wei Zhao could restore Zhang Naipao, then once Cloud Terrace Island opened, he could just as easily be the end of him. It all came down to what they chose for themselves.
Xiao Che departed as well; plainly he still had matters to attend to. Before leaving, he cupped his fist toward Wei Zhao and said, "Young Hero Lin, thank you for your help earlier. I must be on my way too—take care of yourself!"
"Very well." Wei Zhao nodded and said, "You are on your own, so keep your guard up. Don't let Zhong Yongliang and Kang Jingming make trouble for you."
"They won't. My home is in Songning City—we're not headed the same way." Xiao Che shook his head.
Wei Zhao nodded and said no more, watching Xiao Che go.
Song Lingwei and Tuoer Riyue likewise took their leave without greeting Wei Zhao; Kang Jingming had cornered each of them in turn, and who knew what he was saying. Here Wei Zhao dared not casually extend the spiritual sense of a heaven-tier grand-completion expert to probe, for they were all peers of the same rank—if he truly did so, the others would notice at once.
Whatever it was, it could hardly be anything good. Yet Wei Zhao did not much care. Kang Jingming could not bear to go a single day without doing something; from first to last he was a man who could never keep still. Though he manufactured endless trouble for Wei Zhao, every attempt ended in failure and retreat.
Where he found such courage and endurance, Wei Zhao could not guess. Anyone else would have collapsed long ago.
One by one, the familiar faces departed. The people who had come with the inheritors' sects left as well, returning to deal with sect affairs. Worth noting was that Bingtang and Xue Li intended to go with Wei Zhao to the Iron Garment Sect.
Bingtang needed no explanation—she was now Wei Zhao's little-little-little-little-little wife, so of course she would follow. Xue Li, too, had agreed to it beforehand and would come along.
Once all was ready, Wei Zhao set out with the inheritors and the rest in grand procession! A dozen or so heaven-tier grand-completion experts traveling together to one sect to demand an accounting—this was unprecedented and, one might say, never to be repeated. Whether it would never be repeated was hard to say, but at least it had never happened before.
The Iron Garment Sect stood near the Green Peak Plateau. An ordinary person traveling there would suffer altitude sickness, but Wei Zhao's party was different; every one of them was a heaven-tier grand-completion expert, long since immune to ordinary conditions.
And yet the information on the Iron Garment Sect was pitifully scarce. What kind of sect it was, how many cultivators it had, what rank those cultivators held—Wei Zhao knew almost nothing at all!
Even Tianchan, young sect master of the Profound Elixir Sect, the leading sect among the ancient sects, knew very little about it.
Previously Wei Zhao had assumed the Iron Garment Sect was an external-school sect—a judgment based on its name, and on the Golden Bell Sect as well. The Iron Garment Sect ought to be an external school, yet Tianchan said it seemed to have internal-school experts too!
"Internal-school experts? Then why don't they come to the heaven-tier trials?" Wei Zhao was somewhat puzzled.