Chapter 3841 — Highly Unusual
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But there is another old saying—that the lamp's own shadow is the darkest; the more dangerous a place, the safer it often proves. Such a rare chance to strike at the master-disciple pair, Nan Tianyong and Yu Jiang, was something Wei Zhao was loath to let slip by. Even in his current battered state, he could at least keep watch and wait for his opening.
So Wei Zhao doubled back midway, and from a distance he took in every move Yu Jiang made, tailing him the whole way without ever showing himself.
"Heh... trying to frame me for this? Your calculations are a shade too clever, don't you think?" Wei Zhao shook his head with a cold laugh. In his hand at that moment was unmistakably a mortal-realm mobile phone—and that phone had, unmistakably, captured the entire scene of Yu Jiang murdering his own master, start to finish!
High-tech products from the mortal realm rarely made their way to Cloudstep Island, for even if they could be brought up through a teleportation array, they were bound to be damaged by its pressure; especially something as exquisitely delicate as a mobile phone, which could never function properly.
But Wei Zhao had his jade-pendant space—his cheat of a trump card. Others might struggle to carry high-tech goods up intact, but for Wei Zhao, it was no trouble at all.
Of course, things like phones were all but useless to cultivators; in a place like Cloudstep Island, with no signal, they were good for precisely nothing. Wei Zhao had never meant to bring one along, but he had long been in the habit of stashing everything he owned in the jade-pendant space. Bringing the phone up this time had been purely incidental.
Not just the phone—even its charger was stored away in his jade-pendant space, and it was a solar-powered power bank specially procured back in the mortal realm, so that he could stay in touch with his women and his young followers at any time and place.
Ever since coming up to Cloudstep Island, the phone had lost its calling function, but out of a modern city dweller's habit—and because it held the photos of his women—Wei Zhao still charged it often and paged through those pictures. Even if he could not yet be reunited with them, even if many of them still lay unconscious, looking at those photos in idle moments let him feast his eyes on what he missed and served as a spur to sharpen his own strength.
Little did he expect that this habit would prove so tremendously useful at such a moment. To have secretly filmed Yu Jiang killing Nan Tianyong—such a windfall caught Wei Zhao by surprise.
With such a video in hand, he held Yu Jiang's fatal weakness in his grip. Even if this thing truly blew up into a major affair, Yu Jiang would never again dare stir up any trouble before Wei Zhao.
If Wei Zhao truly wished to deal with him, he would not even need to lift a finger—he need only bring out the video and show it to the right people, and Nan Tianyong's two elder brothers would surely do the work for him!
The name of the Three Heroes of the Nan Clan resounded throughout the Triple Stack Pavilion. Nan Tianyong ranked last and was the weakest of them, yet even he was a full-fledged expert at the peak of the late Foundation Establishment stage, holding such a vital post as the supervising deacon of the Soaring Heaven Pavilion. As for his two elder brothers, one could well imagine they were even more unfathomable!
With their strength and standing, if they were ever to learn that Yu Jiang, his own disciple, had slain Nan Tianyong with his own hands, then even if Yu Jiang fled to the ends of the earth, he would never escape their pursuit!
"Cultivators may be mighty, but ordinary folk of the mortal realm are not entirely without their uses! High-tech gadgets are truly not to be underestimated!" Wei Zhao chuckled. When this matter was exposed, the last thing Yu Jiang would ever dream was that he would be brought down by the high-tech of ordinary people!