Chapter 3565 — Wei Zhao's Challenge!
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Wei Zhao was an outsider, and one brought in by the Miserable Senior Brother besides—so it would have been strange indeed if Meng Jueming had given him a pleasant look.
Then, before Wei Zhao could speak, Meng Jueming went on with the roll: "Xiao Che, Cave Fourteen!"
"Here!" Xiao Che answered and stepped up beside Wei Zhao. After a moment's thought, he turned and said softly to Wei Zhao: "Brother Lin, how about you come cultivate in my Cave Thirteen from now on? It's not much better than Cave Fourteen, but it should still be of some help."
Back in the mundane world, Xiao Che had been looked after by Wei Zhao; now that they had come to Cloud Terrace Island and he saw Wei Zhao allotted Cave Fourteen while he himself had done better, he naturally had to repay the kindness. To his mind, a drop of kindness should be answered with a gushing spring—otherwise Xiao Chen would be failing his own conscience!
"Heh... cultivate together? Miserable Junior Brother, haven't you taught them the rules?" Meng Jueming's cultivation was formidable, and his hearing was sharp to match; at Xiao Che's words he burst out laughing in mockery.
"Uh..." The Miserable Senior Brother's face was all embarrassment, and he could only step forward to explain to the two of them: "Brothers, the spiritual qi a cave dwelling produces each day is a fixed amount. If two people cultivate in it together, the effect is split between them—even if two people went into Cave One, the result would at best be about the same as Caves Seven or Eight. And over time the cave's spiritual qi would be overdrawn and the effect would gradually worsen. That is why the Pavilion Master has decreed that each cave dwelling may be used by one person only."
"So that's how it is." Only now did Wei Zhao understand. He patted Xiao Che on the shoulder and said: "I appreciate the kindness, but the cultivation method I practice is rather unusual—it doesn't demand much of the spiritual qi's density. Cave Fourteen is already enough for me. Besides, didn't Senior Brother Meng say there's still a chance to change things?"
An unusual cultivation method? At those words Meng Jueming laughed coldly to himself. He had been on the northern island of the Heaven Rank for many years and had never heard of a cultivator who did not need the spiritual qi of heaven and earth—unless it was an external-school cultivator! But Wei Zhao was plainly an expert of the internal school. Was this not mere boasting? In Meng Jueming's eyes, though, Wei Zhao was slapping his own face to look plump—unwilling to let others look down on him.
As for that last remark of his, about there still being a chance to change things, Meng Jueming dismissed it all the more. Wei Zhao might have come to the island at the peak great-perfection of the late Heaven Rank, but a great-perfection from the mundane world was perhaps no match for an ordinary late Heaven Rank of the northern island.
As for Wei Zhao now, he likely had yet to grasp the situation, and supposed that because he had stood at the very summit of the cultivation world in the mundane realm, it would be the same after coming to Cloud Terrace Island. What sheer nonsense!
Why was Cloud Terrace Island called Cloud Terrace Island? Did it not mean that on this island, Heaven Rank cultivators were as common as dogs? Here the Heaven Rank was merely the most ordinary sort of disciple—and he thought himself an expert?
"Brother Lin, are you planning to..." Xiao Che was startled. Seeing Wei Zhao give a calm nod, he could not help but feel a trace of admiration rise in his heart.
Though he, like Wei Zhao, was deeply dissatisfied with Meng Jueming and his lot, if it came to stepping forward and challenging Meng Zhou—a native at the peak great-perfection of the late Heaven Rank—he simply did not have the nerve. After all, no one knew just how wide the gap was between the same realm on Cloud Terrace Island and in the mundane world, and the risk involved was far from small.