Chapter 3699 — The Test's Outcome
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Li Zhengming laughed to himself. This lineup was nothing less than a gathering of the Welcoming Pavilion's most conspicuous anti-Wei Zhao alliance!
Seeing Li Zhengming enter, and seeing him drenched in blood and utterly bedraggled, everyone waiting there was taken aback. It was only a test of Wei Zhao's strength, not an order to fight him to the death—was such a ghastly state really necessary?
"Good heavens! Wei Zhao beat the shit out of you! How could you be so dense—it was a test, did you have to go at him tooth and nail? Don't you ever use your head?" Meng Zhou exclaimed in his usual dramatic fashion.
Even as he gloated, he felt a surge of relief in his heart. Had he not, in a flash of inspiration back then, foisted the task onto Li Zhengming, it would be he himself wearing this wretched look now. Damn, I am just too clever!
Li Zhengming rolled his eyes in exasperation. Had he not already pledged himself to Wei Zhao, he would by now surely be spitting fire at that bastard Meng Zhou. To think he had once chosen to throw in his lot with a specimen like this—looking back, he had truly been blind as a bat.
"You shut your mouth!" Meng Jueming shot Meng Zhou a glare. If he let the fool keep carping on, it would only chill Li Zhengming's heart, and then he would no longer risk his life for him so willingly.
Turning back, Meng Jueming put on a show of mildness: "Well? What strength does that Wei Zhao fellow actually have now?"
Li Zhengming was speechless again. Any normal person's first question would surely have been whether the injuries were serious. But this Meng Jueming did not care in the least whether he lived or died—he did not even breathe a single word about the piece of spirit jade reward they had agreed upon beforehand!
In the end, Meng Jueming and Meng Zhou were two of a kind—cold-hearted, thin-blooded creatures both. Thinking back on it now, his decision to pledge himself to Wei Zhao on the spot was simply the wisest choice he had made since entering the Welcoming Pavilion!
After steadying his breathing a little, Li Zhengming answered: "Replying to Senior Brother Meng, that Wei Zhao has indeed succeeded in establishing his Foundation. He's now a formidable early-stage Foundation Establishment expert. I was no match for him at all. If he hadn't been afraid of killing me and blowing the matter out of proportion, I would likely have been finished by a single strike just now!"
"What? That fellow has really established his Foundation? You're certain you didn't mistake it?" Meng Jueming was startled, and Xu Lingchong and the others were visibly incredulous as well.
Even if Wei Zhao truly was a cultivation prodigy, in the mortal realm where spiritual energy was so thin, he could not possibly have built any deep foundation. And he had been at the Welcoming Pavilion barely a month, during which he had obtained no decent cultivation resources to speak of—even his cave dwelling was the utterly wretched No. 14 at the foot of the mountain. The few pieces of good jade he had on hand had all been swindled away by them with scrap jade. And even so, he had managed to establish his Foundation within a single month?
This was simply too absurd! If memory served, this had already shattered the Welcoming Pavilion's Foundation Establishment record of the past several hundred years!
Li Zhengming gave a bitter smile and pointed at his own battered body. "Senior Brother Meng, I experienced it firsthand—how could I have mistaken it? If he were merely a Heaven-rank grand-completion expert, he couldn't possibly have beaten me into this state with a single move, could he? I could at least have defended myself a bit..."