Chapter 3570 — Three Distinguished Guests
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Taking the attitude of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do," Wei Zhao decided to first consolidate his Heaven-Tier strength—that is, his early Foundation Establishment cultivation—before doing anything else.
Having only recently broken through to early Foundation Establishment, Wei Zhao's foundation was not yet very stable; he needed to consolidate it as quickly as possible.
Two hours later, Wei Zhao suddenly opened his eyes. He had felt the restrictive spell on his cave dwelling tremble just now—not the violent kind of tampering, but more like some sort of message, as if someone in the mortal realm had rung a doorbell.
Rising to release the restrictive spell, Wei Zhao stepped out of his cave dwelling and found that the other newcomers had also emerged from their own caves with puzzled expressions. The situation seemed the same as his—they too had received a message.
Seeing Wei Zhao come out, Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai both consciously drew near. After the earlier business of switching cave dwellings, the three of them had formed a small group, and its backbone was naturally Wei Zhao.
At the same time, the Miserable Senior Brother standing not far away also walked toward the three of them.
"Greetings, Senior Brother Ku." Wei Zhao and the other two offered their greetings one after another. Not only Wei Zhao and Xiao Che—even Qiao Hongcai dared not show the slightest disrespect. Of course, this was all out of consideration for Wei Zhao; otherwise, even if he did not outright ignore this management senior brother who was weak to the point of utter insignificance as the others did, he would not have greeted him so eagerly.
"Greetings, three junior brothers." Seeing the three greet him together, the Miserable Senior Brother actually grew somewhat excited. Ever since he had taken up the post of management senior brother, he had never enjoyed such treatment.
True, for other management senior brothers, no matter how many newcomers eagerly greeted them, it would be taken as a matter of course. But he was different—from the very first day he took office, he had been completely sidelined by that domineering senior brother Meng Jueming, reduced to an utterly marginal, invisible figure.
All the dirty and exhausting work was his, yet he held not a shred of power; his nature was weak, and he commanded neither restraint nor awe among the newcomers. Anyone who dared draw a little closer to him would even be retaliated against by Meng Jueming. For such a man to expect people to treat him with respect—that would be a fine joke indeed.
But now, with a few new junior brothers like Wei Zhao under his wing, the Miserable Senior Brother had unexpectedly recovered a measure of the dignity of a management senior brother, and he could not help but feel tears welling in his old eyes. In his heart he secretly vowed that, if only for the sake of these few junior brothers, he could no longer remain as spineless and unprincipled as before—at the very least, he must not let them be bullied too badly by Meng Jueming in the days to come.
"Senior Brother Ku, was it you who just triggered the restrictive spells on our cave dwellings?" Wei Zhao asked.
The Miserable Senior Brother nodded. "That's right. Senior Brother Meng ordered it. He has gone to receive a few distinguished guests, and told me to call you all out here to wait."
To receive a few distinguished guests? Summoning everyone out—such a grand affair. Could some great personage from above have come down?
As everyone exchanged glances in bewilderment, Meng Jueming had already arrived from the distance, leading his people over. To Wei Zhao's surprise, the arrivals were all familiar faces. There were three in all: at their head, the reception envoy from the Soaring Heavens Pavilion whom they had met at the very beginning, and behind him, Kang Jingming and Zhong Yongliang.