Chapter 3861 — A Midnight Visit
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As for the spirit herb seedlings belonging to Xiao Che and the others, Wei Zhao had them take them out in successive batches. But his own thirty-nine spirit herb seedlings, apart from the Heart-Devouring Linglong Herbs, he did not hand in in batches; he kept them in the jade pendant's space all along, intending to bring them out all together at the end.
How many eyes would be dazzled then—especially those of the likes of Kang Jingming, who was itching to see him make a fool of himself. Well, let them wait and see.
After nightfall, just as Wei Zhao was cultivating, his heart suddenly stirred: someone was triggering the restriction on his cave dwelling.
Coming to see him at such an hour—could Li Zhengming have some new intelligence? That was Wei Zhao's first thought. Yet when he released the restriction and opened the door of the cave dwelling, he looked at the person standing before him and could not help but freeze.
"Brother Lin, my little wooden hut lets light through on all four sides—might I borrow your cave dwelling for a bath? The weather's so hot, and my body feels all sticky and uncomfortable!" Murong Zhen, dressed in something very thin, leaned against the doorway in all her luscious beauty, her eyes throwing charge after charge at Wei Zhao.
Wei Zhao gave her a cold look and raised an eyebrow slightly. What was this now—a beauty trap?
"Sorry, I don't think there's any water in this cave dwelling of mine," Wei Zhao declined, his expression unchanged.
It had to be said that this Murong Zhen really did have considerable beauty, and in her present seductive posture—even though Wei Zhao had seen every kind of lovely woman—he had to admit she was quite peerless.
Yet Wei Zhao felt not only no interest in such a woman, but rather a deeper wariness in his heart.
Once one came into too close contact with this woman before him, trouble would inevitably follow—and by then it would be impossible to dodge.
Wei Zhao still did not know what this Murong Zhen intended by so boldly and aggressively seducing and approaching him, but one thing was certain: anything out of the ordinary must hide something strange, and this woman surely had no good intentions.
Seeing that Wei Zhao's reaction was as cold as it had been during the day, Murong Zhen—who had been so sure she could make him submit this time—was stunned once again.
Over the past half day, with her abilities it had been simplicity itself to find out the current situation among the Green Cloud Pavilion newcomers. To her, an outside observer, though Meng Zhou had Meng Jueming backing him, in terms of real strength he was still far inferior to Wei Zhao and his group.
Summing up all the various deeds that had previously occurred around Wei Zhao, one would find that this newcomer from the mortal world not only far surpassed the other newcomers in strength, but his potential was likewise not to be underestimated.
To be able, single-handedly, to leave even the steward senior brother Meng Jueming—who had Xu Lingchong, the young master Xu, at his back—with no recourse: was that the sort of thing an ordinary person could do?
This man was no simple matter! That was the judgment Murong Zhen reached about Wei Zhao after compiling the past intelligence offered up in bits and pieces by the chatter of the various newcomers. And precisely for that reason, after being given the cold shoulder during the day, she was still willing to lower herself and come to his door at night, when no one was around, to seduce him.
To achieve her aim of taking revenge on Shangguan Lan'er, the eldest young miss of the Soaring Sky Pavilion, Murong Zhen had to rack her brains for every means to accumulate power; even among these Green Cloud Pavilion newcomers of little background and strength, she had to scheme to pick out a few with potential to serve as cannon fodder.