Chapter 3730 — He Gave It His All
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Hmph. And I wonder who it was just now, shrieking and fussing in a panic!" Shangguan Lan'er shot it a look, torn between laughter and exasperation.
Wei Zhao was the last of Azure Cloud Pavilion's newcomers to take the assessment, so with his finish, all of Azure Cloud Pavilion's newcomers had completed their trials. All that remained was to wait for the newcomers to finish healing before the final points for the second round could be tallied.
After Azure Cloud Pavilion came Mystic Mechanism Pavilion, and only then Soaring Heaven Pavilion.
With the performance of Azure Cloud Pavilion's newcomers as a reference, the newcomers of both Mystic Mechanism Pavilion and Soaring Heaven Pavilion clearly made more sensible, reliable choices, and since their strength was already above that of Azure Cloud Pavilion's newcomers to begin with, their overall showing was naturally a cut above.
Worth noting, however, was that apart from Meng Zhou and Wei Zhao, no newcomer from the other two pavilions dared challenge the peak early Foundation Establishment difficulty; even Kang Jingming and Zhong Yongliang, those two capable early Foundation Establishment hands, dutifully chose the early Foundation Establishment challenge without any thought of punching above their level.
After all, they were neither monstrously strong like Wei Zhao nor in possession of a fourth-grade Great Return Pill like Meng Zhou. If they challenged the peak early Foundation Establishment tier, even with the examiner deliberately going easy on them, there was still a strong chance of being killed in a single blow—better to play it safe.
In any case, the points for the Three-Tiered Pavilion assessment were calculated separately, so no matter how many god-tier perfect marks Wei Zhao racked up, it had nothing to do with them at all!
Meanwhile, as the newcomers of Mystic Mechanism Pavilion and Soaring Heaven Pavilion underwent their assessments, that examiner in charge of the peak early Foundation Establishment tier was dragged off to a corner by Xu Lingchong and Meng Jueming. They wanted to know how Wei Zhao could possibly have survived in what should have been a certain-death situation—and survived so effortlessly at that!
"Ma Jian, what exactly went wrong just now? Did you even go all out against Wei Zhao? Or did you secretly go easy on him, holding back three-tenths of your strength like you did with Meng Zhou earlier?" Xu Lingchong demanded, his face dark with displeasure.
What had happened today was truly beyond his comprehension, and after turning it over and over in his mind, the only explanation he could settle on was this fine enforcer of the Law Enforcement Hall named Ma Jian. Apart from the man secretly going easy on Wei Zhao, no reason whatsoever could explain how Wei Zhao had passed so calmly!
In truth, even if Ma Jian really had secretly held back three-tenths of his strength for Wei Zhao, Wei Zhao's passing so calmly would still have been impossible.
Think about it: Meng Zhou, nominally on the same level as Wei Zhao, had taken a fourth-grade Great Return Pill—a heaven-defying elixir—in advance, and after receiving a palm at seventy percent of the peak early Foundation Establishment power, he was still half-dead to this day!
Still, incomprehensible as it was, compared to the absurd notion that Wei Zhao could easily withstand thirteen-tenths of the peak early Foundation Establishment power, this explanation was clearly the more convincing.
"Young Master Xu, you wrong me! I truly went all out just now—I didn't hold back a shred of strength!" Ma Jian's face went pale at Xu Lingchong's suspicion, and he hurriedly protested his innocence.
Everything he had today was entirely thanks to Xu Lingchong speaking well of him before Xu Yuanzheng. If he were to fall under Xu Lingchong's suspicion from now on, he would not only lose a great patron but might even make an enemy of him—and then he wouldn't even know how he died. (To be continued...)
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