Chapter 4082 — Huang Xiaotao's Sorrowful Past
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"Hmph, hmph. Brother Lingyi, you must often hear people say what a genius Su Zhaohe is. The truth is, that fellow looks the very picture of virtue, but he is nothing but a beast in human clothing, a hypocrite through and through!" Cong Zhima gnashed his teeth in righteous fury. "Not long after he entered the Chongtian Pavilion, he tried to coerce Captain Xiaotao into becoming his cultivation partner. In itself, that is nothing remarkable—everyone loves beauty, after all. But the scoundrel stopped at nothing to get his way, and in the end he forced Captain Xiaotao to smash her own face against a Wolfthorn, disfiguring herself on purpose. Only then did the shameless bastard relent. And after that, Captain Xiaotao was driven out of the Chongtian Pavilion and came to our Qingyun Pavilion. Looking back now, we thought at the time that he was being kind, speaking up for her so that she could enter the Chongtian Pavilion—but it was a wolf's ambition from the start, with another design in mind!"
"So that Su Zhaohe really is a beast in human clothing, a piece of human filth." Only now did Wei Zhao finally understand why Huang Xiaotao deliberately veiled herself, and he grieved for her in silence.
Thinking back, even a top-tier young master of the Chongtian Pavilion like Xu Lingchong could commit such a bestial act as violating Shangguan Lan'er. He and this Su Zhaohe were clearly birds of a feather. To the eyes of the world the Chongtian Pavilion looked splendid and glorious, but within, it was practically a den of scum—when the beam above is crooked, the rafters below lean askew!
Still, the strong preying on the weak was the very essence of the cultivation world. Take Wei Zhao's own experience: had he not possessed sufficient strength, he would long since have been trampled to death by Meng Jueming and his lot—how would he still be alive today?
"Did the Law Enforcement Hall not intervene in this matter? Did Pavilion Master Shangguan of the Chongtian Pavilion not look into it?" Wei Zhao asked next.
Wei Zhao could not vouch for anyone else, but after several dealings with him, he had come to trust Shangguan Tianxia's character fairly well. However peerless a genius Su Zhaohe might be, he believed Shangguan Tianxia would never shield and indulge such a vile deed merely out of fondness for talent.
"Eh? Brother Lingyi, you are an outside rogue cultivator, yet you seem to know a good deal about the affairs of our Triad Pavilion?" Cong Zhima and the other two glanced at Wei Zhao in surprise, though they did not take it to heart. There were plenty of rogue cultivators who wished to join the Triad Pavilion, and it was only natural that they paid close attention to its affairs.
Cong Zhima sighed and said, "The Law Enforcement Hall did in fact intervene in that matter. But that bastard Su Zhaohe went around the Law Enforcement Hall once and was released soon after. The conclusion the Law Enforcement Hall reached was that the evidence was insufficient. What was most infuriating was that the bastard actually turned around and accused Captain Xiaotao of framing him—outrageous! As for Pavilion Master Shangguan, a great man of such lofty station is busy every day; how would he have the time to look into such a trifling matter? I hear that in those years the case was passed on to the Law Enforcement Hall through the hands of Xu Lingchong, the second senior brother and steward of the Chongtian Pavilion. Pavilion Master Shangguan most likely never even heard of it."
Xu Lingchong again! Even Wei Zhao, an outsider to all this, could not help but feel righteous indignation on hearing it. That creature Xu Lingchong was rotten at heart; he himself was forever committing such squalid deeds. If Su Zhaohe could swagger about so brazenly, perhaps the two of them were in league together.