Chapter 3841 — Highly Unusual
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Still, Wei Zhao had no intention of releasing this video so lightly. He and Yu Jiang were locked in a fight to the death, and releasing it would indeed put the man neatly in his grave—but doing so would also easily expose his own identity, and might even lay bare the secret of the jade-pendant space.
After all, a mobile phone would make anyone think immediately of the mortal realm, and the ones most deeply connected to the mortal realm could only be Wei Zhao and the handful of other newcomers transported up from there.
One had to remember that the last time newcomers were transported up from the mortal realm was a thousand years ago, and back then there had been no such thing as mobile phones. Across the entire northern island of Cloudstep Island, the only people who might carry phones on their persons were Wei Zhao and his companions.
A single cursory inquiry from any interested party would easily expose Wei Zhao's identity, and Yu Jiang would inevitably guess that he was Lin Er. Not only might the secret of the Star-Ink Stone come to light, but the fact that the phone had been brought up wholly intact would invite all manner of investigation—and by then, Wei Zhao would not be able to stop it even if he tried.
Tucking the phone back into the jade-pendant space, Wei Zhao gave a faint smile, then turned and headed back to the Welcome Pavilion. Until the proper moment came, he would let Yu Jiang caper about—the higher the man pranced, the harder he would fall.
Back at the Welcome Pavilion, the only thing Wei Zhao had left to do was to keep cultivating those two awakened Heart-Devouring Linglong Grass seeds in his jade-pendant space until they grew to full maturity, for only then could they be used to refine the Foundation Establishment Golden Core.
Once the Foundation Establishment Golden Core was successfully refined, it would mean that, for Wei Zhao, the mid-Foundation Establishment stage was not far off.
Beyond that, the newcomer challenge tournament was in full swing—a matter of life-shaping importance in the eyes of the other newcomers, deciding their future prospects, yet for Wei Zhao it was all but a sideshow. Apart from the points Cha Wu had sent his way at the very start, no one had dared challenge him since.
Among all the newcomers of the Azure Cloud Pavilion, the only one who might pose any threat to him was Meng Zhou. Though he had reasoned that Xu the Young Master and Meng Jueming and their like would never let matters rest so easily, the plain fact was that Meng Zhou had yet to make his move.
With Wei Zhao's trump card, any shift in Meng Zhou's strength, however slight, could be detected at the first instant. And in truth, Meng Zhou's strength had not changed at all—even after recovering from his injuries, he had not challenged Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai again, but had merely trailed behind the two of them, snapping up scraps.
To be so spineless was a far cry from Meng Zhou's former conduct, and all the newcomers were abuzz with talk. Rumors had even spread that Wei Zhao's faction now stood alone above all others, that Meng Jueming, the steward and senior disciple, was at his wits' end, and that Meng Zhou, for his part, could only swallow his pride.
In times past, such murmurs would have sent not only Meng Zhou but even Meng Jueming into a fury. This time, however, things were highly unusual: from beginning to end, neither Meng Jueming nor Meng Zhou said a single word in rebuttal, keeping only silence.
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