Chapter 3958 — Wei Zhao Under Investigation
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Yet no matter what they thought or what choice they made, they now had to read one man's face—and that man, of course, was Wei Zhao.
Even when Meng Jueming was alive, he had been pressed back step by step by Wei Zhao. Now that Meng Jueming was dead, Wei Zhao stood alone above them all—an unstoppable reality.
Whatever any Azure Cloud Pavilion novice wished to do, none could go around the great mountain that was Wei Zhao. They must therefore keep their eyes peeled and see clearly just where Wei Zhao stood.
Unfortunately, they could not reach Wei Zhao at all just now, for Wei Zhao was under investigation by the Law Enforcement Hall.
In the interrogation room of the Law Enforcement Hall, Wei Zhao looked at this fine operative of the Hall before him and shook his head in silent exasperation. The saying that enemies are bound to meet on a narrow road could not have been more apt—the one in charge of the interrogation was in fact a familiar face: Ma Jian.
Wei Zhao remembered clearly that Ma Jian, though belonging to the Law Enforcement Hall, was in truth one of Xu Lingchong's men. During the earlier novice assessment, in both the pressure-resistance and the impact-resistance trials, Ma Jian had secretly struck at him. Fortunately, Wei Zhao's hidden reserves ran deep enough to handle it with composure; otherwise, had it been any other novice, it was not at all impossible that he would have died outright under this man's schemes.
Strictly speaking, he and Ma Jian were total strangers, with no old grudge or recent feud, no personal grievance between them. It was only because of the man's ties to Xu Lingchong that they had ended up on opposite sides—and this time, he feared, would be no exception.
"Name, status—confess them honestly!" Ma Jian sat with legs crossed in careless arrogance, glancing sidelong at Wei Zhao with a cold smirk.
As Wei Zhao had expected, this time Ma Jian had indeed received orders from Xu Lingchong: not only to give Wei Zhao a thorough hard time, but if possible to pin every crime on Wei Zhao's head and seize the chance to do away with him.
Meng Jueming's death was a tremendous loss to the young master Xu Lingchong. Meng Jueming's abilities had won Xu Lingchong's recognition and were gradually being brought into his core circle, where he would have been of great use in the future.
Otherwise, Xu Lingchong could never have poured such vast cultivation resources into Meng Jueming—all manner of rare pills and elixirs—and even gone so far as to have his grandfather Xu Yuanzheng step forward personally to secure the Third Pavilion Master's seat for him.
In the young master Xu Lingchong's plans for the future, Meng Jueming had been the very image of his right hand. Now that Meng Jueming was dead, it was as if an arm had been severed—not only had his future wings been clipped, but all his prior investments had gone down the drain.
Yet the one stroke of fortune amid misfortune was that when the collapse struck, Wei Zhao and Meng Jueming had been in the same place, at the very point where the collapse began. Whatever the truth of the matter, this gave Xu Lingchong ample room to make a fuss.
If he could use the occasion to bury Wei Zhao, that would be a neat trick indeed. Only, just now he was at a critical juncture in his contest with Nantian Pass for the post of Senior Disciple and Steward of the Soaring Heaven Pavilion, and had no energy to handle the affair in person; he could only leave it to Ma Jian. Ma Jian, after all, had the convenience of his office, and was well versed in such matters—a veteran of the trade. R1152