Chapter 3623 — What a Great Guy
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"What you two senior brothers just said is quite right—given Wei Zhao's usual shrewdness, he certainly wouldn't fall for the same trick only two days later," Zhong Yongliang reasoned with conviction. "But that requires one precondition: that he has already realized he was cheated. What if, even now, he still hasn't discovered that the twenty-five pieces of spirit jade Senior Brother Meng gave him are waste jade?"
"That... is that possible?" Meng Jueming and Kang Jingming exchanged glances. Zhong Yongliang's point did have some merit. If Wei Zhao still hadn't discovered the jade was waste, then repeating the same trick might genuinely succeed a second time!
Seeing the two still wavering, Zhong Yongliang continued, "According to what Senior Brother Meng just said, only two short days have passed since Wei Zhao accepted those twenty-five pieces of waste jade, and he spent both of them mining in the zone. So the time he's actually spent using spirit jade is very little. Since he hasn't used it, naturally he wouldn't have discovered it's all waste jade. So in my view, there's a very good chance he hasn't found out!"
"But even if he has to mine all day, when he goes back at night to cultivate, wouldn't he still use spirit jade?" Meng Jueming, though he found Zhong Yongliang's reasoning somewhat sound, was still doubtful.
But Zhong Yongliang shook his head again and again. "I won't speak for anyone else, but when it comes to understanding this Wei Zhao, I dare say none of you senior brothers knows him as deeply as I do! On the surface the man looks utterly ordinary, but inside he's enormously arrogant—he fancies himself a cultivation genius the likes of which appears once in ten thousand years. So back in the mortal world he was already in the habit of cutting corners, never cultivating as diligently as the rest of us. I'd bet anything that these past two days he hasn't cultivated seriously at all—so naturally he'd have no need for spirit jade!"
Kang Jingming nodded along. "On that point, I agree with Junior Brother Zhong. Senior Brother Meng may not know this, but that Wei Zhao was actually an alchemist back in the mortal world. His current strength was basically all raised through pills. Someone accustomed to popping pills like him would never deign to cultivate day to day. I think there's a good chance he's saving up the spirit jade to buy more pills! As for cultivation—a pill addict like him probably doesn't even know how to cultivate with spirit jade. Hahaha!"
The group burst into laughter. Seeing Meng Jueming's convinced expression, Zhong Yongliang rejoiced inwardly. He had already concluded that Leader Wei Zhao had a use for the waste jade, and that was precisely why he had deliberately steered these people into delivering more waste jade to him. If he had been the only one speaking, Meng Jueming would still have been half doubtful—but to his surprise, even Kang Jingming had chimed in on his side. Now Meng Jueming had no choice but to believe.
Just then, Meng Zhou, as if struck by a sudden thought, slapped his thigh and cried out, "I remember now! Ninth Cousin, that little spirit jade we traded to Wei Zhao—it doesn't look like it's been used at all! That perfectly confirms what Senior Brother Zhong and Senior Brother Kang said. Wei Zhao almost certainly isn't someone who cultivates with spirit jade!"