Chapter 3888 — The Day the Spirit Herbs Were Handed In
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Meng Jueming was about to be promoted to Third Pavilion Master of the Welcome Pavilion, which meant his authority and influence would rise another notch. And now he had gained Murong Zhen, a peak early Foundation Establishment expert, under his command—and if Meng Zhou took the Midnight Heart-Splitting Pill, that would make two peak early Foundation Establishment experts!
Against the Welcome Pavilion's newcomers, a lineup like that was already an invincible existence. In Meng Jueming's view, even if Wei Zhao's slap that sent Murong Zhen flying had not relied on the Limit Golden Pill but purely on his own strength, there was still nothing to worry about.
Two peak early Foundation Establishment experts joining hands—surely they could not fail to handle a mere Wei Zhao?
As for those two early Foundation Establishment underlings, Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai, Meng Jueming had long since stopped taking them to heart. Once Wei Zhao's protection was gone, before Murong Zhen and Meng Zhou those two were nothing but stepping stones for others to trample.
"Two peak early Foundation Establishment experts? Heh, a bit interesting." Wei Zhao shook his head and gave an indifferent, unconcerned smile, betraying not the slightest worry.
The ones who could truly pose a fatal threat to him were people like Nan Tianguan and Xu Lingchong. As for Meng Jueming and Murong Zhen, right under his nose, he had already filed them under the rank of common soldiers and petty officers, hardly worth fretting over.
Even with his current strength, he had more than enough to deal with them—and what was more, the two Heart-Devouring Linglong Herbs would soon mature. Once he successfully refined a Foundation Establishment Golden Pill, he would immediately advance to mid Foundation Establishment.
People like Murong Zhen and Meng Zhou—if they were not common soldiers and petty officers in his eyes, what else could they be?
The newcomer challenge tournament had ended. For the less than a month that followed, the Welcome Pavilion arranged no assessment tasks for the newcomers; only after the spirit herb trial stage was completely over would the fifth newcomer assessment formally begin.
In the short term, the alliance of Murong Zhen and Meng Jueming had no real effect on Wei Zhao. Even if those people wanted to join forces and pull some tricks, they would at least have to wait until the fifth newcomer assessment.
For the other newcomers, this stretch was a perfect opportunity to rest and recover after the long, exhausting newcomer challenge tournament—and at the same time an unmissable chance to cultivate their spirit herb seeds.
After all, they had nothing else on their plates during this period. There were no newcomer assessment tasks, and even the three-month mining contract they had signed with the Spirit Jade Hall had expired—just the right time to devote themselves wholeheartedly, with no distractions, to cultivating the last batch of spirit herb seeds.
This had been the plan of many newcomers from the start. During the two months of the challenge tournament, they had only tested a small number of spirit herb seeds to grope for experience, saving the bulk for this final month. How many points they could earn in this stage—or whether they could even keep their points from being deducted—all depended on what came next.
Day after day passed, and the newcomers hurried to hand in their work at the Elixir Hall's spirit herb field before the deadline.
All in all, the spirit herb trial stage proved to be, for the newcomers—especially the worst-off newcomers of the Azure Cloud Pavilion—exactly as they had predicted: a complete and utter scam.