Chapter 3899 — Out of the Sky
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Huh?" Wei Zhao blinked. She was still fussing over details like that at a time like this... Seeing how thoroughly put out she looked, he could only humor her. "Fine. Little senior sister."
"That's better!" Shangguan Lan'er's anger vanished at once. She rose on tiptoe and patted Wei Zhao's shoulder with exaggerated gravity. The little Curly Bear copied her, clambering onto Wei Zhao's neck and insisting on performing the same gesture—a sight that left one unable to keep from laughing.
Wei Zhao looked at the mistress and her pet, caught between laughter and tears, and shrugged. "Now will you tell me why you suddenly turned up here?"
Under normal circumstances, no one could enter or leave the rear mountain without the rear mountain hall's permission. Given Shangguan Lan'er's formidable background, an exception might conceivably be made for her—but how could the hall's elders possibly let her come in alone?
After all, dragging along the little Curly Bear, a spirit pet with no fighting capacity to speak of, Shangguan Lan'er was hardly equipped to handle the perilous outer reaches of the rear mountain. If the hall's elders let her in on their own authority and something went wrong, how would they ever answer to Shangguan Tianxia?
What puzzled Wei Zhao even more was this: in the vast outer reaches of the rear mountain, finding a single person was no easy feat. How did Shangguan Lan'er know he was here?
"Hehe, your senior sister came here for important business, of course. And since you've got nothing better to do, little junior brother, you may as well keep me company on a mission in the rear mountain." Shangguan Lan'er grinned.
"A mission? What mission?" Wei Zhao was more baffled than ever. As he understood it, a young lady like Shangguan Lan'er would never care about mission rewards—she could have all the cultivation resources she wanted. Why would she need to run missions at all?
And she had come alone, no less, to carry out a mission in this perilous rear mountain. With her strength barely at the peak of early Foundation Establishment, and with a dead weight like the little Curly Bear in tow, wasn't this a bit reckless?
"Listen, little junior brother—Grandpa gave me a mission a few days ago: design a weapon myself and gather the materials for forging it. I've already worked out the design, but I'm still short a few materials, and the most crucial one can only be found here in the rear mountain. So your senior sister came over." Shangguan Lan'er spoke with perfect seriousness.
"I see." Wei Zhao nodded in sudden understanding.
To his mind, this was likely Shangguan Tianxia's way of giving the young lady a bit of tempering. Otherwise, sheltered forever within the tiny domain of the Soaring Heaven Pavilion, no matter how diligently she cultivated, she would probably never truly grow. And besides, this little senior sister before him did not look like the diligent cultivating type in the least.
"I was a little scared coming here on my own, but I didn't want to ask Xu Lingchong and those annoying types for help. And it just so happened that you and the others were here for the newcomer trial, so I came straight to find you. Well? Your senior sister's clever, isn't she?" Shangguan Lan'er said smugly.
Wei Zhao could not help laughing, then asked in puzzlement, "Come to think of it—how did you actually find me?" (To be continued...)