Chapter 3575 — The Distribution of Spirit Jade
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"Settling personal scores under the guise of public duty! This... this is simply too much!" Qiao Hongcai's face flushed red with rage as he spoke indignantly.
"Indeed. If we let him go on like this, we'll suffer terribly in the days to come. Senior Brother Ku, you must think of something for us," Xiao Che said in wholehearted agreement.
"This... I truly want to help you, but as for the distribution of spirit jades, Senior Brother Meng has never let me interfere. I don't know what to do either..." the long-suffering senior brother said helplessly, his face twisted into a bitter expression. He genuinely wanted to help, but simply could not! When going to the storehouse to fetch the spirit jades, Senior Brother Meng never brought him along—what more could he do?
At this, Wei Zhao spoke up: "Enough, don't make things difficult for Senior Brother Ku. Our cultivation cave dwellings are already quite good. The spirit jades may be a bit small, but so long as we cultivate diligently, we'll still have a chance in next month's ranking contest."
Hearing Wei Zhao say this, Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai finally felt a little comforted. If the spirit jades were insufficient, the cave dwellings could make up for it—in the end, cultivation still depended on oneself, and complaining about heaven and blaming others was of no use.
Such was the world of cultivation. Xiao Che had experienced it in the secular world as well: the Xiao family was inferior to those ancient clans, and so had fewer resources—but did that mean they could stop cultivating? What use was there in envying others?
Qiao Hongcai's situation on the Northern Island of the Heaven Rank was even more so. Compared with those children of the three pavilions born as cultivation second- and third-generation scions, he had no basis for comparison at all.
Since the cave dwellings could still make up for it, the two of them said a word to Wei Zhao and then hurried back to their own cave dwellings to cultivate. Heaven rewards the diligent—so long as they cultivated hard, they refused to believe they would lose to anyone. As for Wei Zhao, he did not immediately return to his cave dwelling, but instead called out to stop the long-suffering senior brother.
"Junior Brother Lin, I know you must feel uncomfortable about this..." The long-suffering senior brother wore a bitter expression. "In truth, I feel deeply guilty as well. I... as the steward senior brother, I can do nothing for you. I am truly too miserable..."
"Pff..." Wei Zhao had not expected the long-suffering senior brother to say such a thing, and could not help but laugh. "Senior Brother Ku, that's not why I'm looking for you. If I cared about such things, I would not have traded my cave dwelling to Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai. I'm looking for you about something else."
"Ah... is that so!" The long-suffering senior brother thought about it—it made sense. If Wei Zhao cared about these cultivation resources, why would he have traded them away to others? It seemed Wei Zhao truly was a generous man; it was he himself who had been overthinking. "Junior Brother Lin, then what did you want to see me about...?"
"It's like this, Senior Brother Ku. You are, after all, the steward senior brother of the Welcome Pavilion, and you've been here quite some time. You must have heard something about the opening of the Cloud Rank Island in the secular world and the matter of the inheritors?" Wei Zhao paused in thought for a moment, then asked.
He had wanted to ask someone about these questions ever since he arrived on Cloud Rank Island, but Cloud Rank Island was completely different from what he had imagined!
To think that experts were as numerous as clouds here, and the competition so fierce! Wei Zhao and the others had been favored children of heaven, the top experts of the secular world, yet upon arriving here they had truly become newcomers—outer sect disciples, no less. The contrast was enough to leave anyone unable to adapt.