Chapter 3651 — More Than Expected
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Fortunately, both Miserable Senior Brother and Wei Zhao himself would keep the matter of this batch of Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pills strictly confidential.
An innocent man is guilty by virtue of his treasure—that saying was no idle talk. If word truly spread, it could bring down a catastrophic disaster at the slightest misstep, and a good thing would turn into a bad one. That plainly ran counter to the strategy of keeping a low profile that Wei Zhao had always followed.
Until his strength grew great enough to crush all before him, keeping his head down and making his fortune in silence—that was the kingly path to surviving on Cloud Terrace Island.
Of the six Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pills, he had given two to Miserable Senior Brother, leaving four in his own hands. Once he refined some Foundation Establishment Golden Pills after a while, the two kinds working in concert would mean he need never worry about advancing his strength through the Foundation Establishment stage.
For the days that followed, Wei Zhao's daily routine was simply to report to the Spirit Jade Hall and spend the whole day in Mining Zone Ten.
Since he made a point of secretly pocketing two or three pieces of scrap jade each day, the number of good jade he finally handed in for quality inspection kept fluctuating between eight and twelve pieces.
For a dead mining zone universally acknowledged to be the worst, digging out so much good jade every day was absolutely jaw-dropping—yet where Wei Zhao was concerned, everyone had grown rather inured to it.
In the past, Meng Jueming and Meng Zhou and their lot would surely have made trouble, scheming every which way to uncover the trick. But after that business of swapping mining zones back and forth last time, the two of them had utterly given up on the idea.
Wei Zhao simply had good luck—simply could dig out so much good jade in Mining Zone Ten. What was anyone to do about it? Put anyone else in there, and they would be lucky to dig out a single piece!
Having learned his lesson the hard way last time, Meng Jueming had accepted this ironclad fact, and simply chose to keep his eyes shut so as not to vex his heart.
In his view, even if Wei Zhao kept up such high output, a month's work would at most earn him a reward of three spirit jades. And when the time came, even if he got that reward, one word to the new recruits under his command and the few good jades in Wei Zhao's hands would soon be swapped away for scrap.
A fool is a fool. So what if he earned a few more spirit jades? In the end it would all just benefit his own crowd!
Thus, in this way, Meng Jueming found himself rather hoping Wei Zhao would dig up more jade—the more he dug, the bigger the cut his own people would take afterward!
With Meng Jueming and his men no longer obstructing him, Wei Zhao's mining days seemed rather uneventful. And just when he thought this calm could last until the twenty-fifth—on the very day before the new-recruit trial that all the newcomers so eagerly anticipated—an unexpected little interlude occurred.
And the source of this interlude was his rival, Meng Zhou.
That day, Meng Zhou reported to the Spirit Jade Hall as usual.
He had originally meant to slack off—after all, mining day in and day out was so dull and tedious it made a man's balls ache. Unfortunately, though he had Meng Jueming as a backer and could ask for leave without a second thought, if he wanted more spirit jades he still had to sweat for them himself. Otherwise even Meng Jueming, his ninth cousin and a relative by blood, would not hand him spirit jades for nothing. (To be continued)