Chapter 4183 — The Return of Xu Lingchong
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"Brother Wei Zhao really is amazing—he's already at the early Golden Core stage. We have to hurry and work hard too, or we won't be able to keep up with him," Han Jingyi said with an expression of admiring determination.
"Mm-hm, falling too far behind won't do at all!" Ning Xuefei nodded in agreement again and again. "Jingjing, haven't you still not used your foundation-building golden core? Hurry up and take it to advance."
"Mm, that's just what I was thinking. Our research on the automatic artifact-forging mechanism has also just recently hit a bottleneck, and I believe once our strength improves we'll be able to solve it. If we can successfully develop it then, we'll be able to help Brother Wei Zhao with his troubles!" Han Jingyi said gravely.
"Exactly, exactly. This automatic artifact-forging mechanism of ours can perfectly solve the problem of controlling the heat—it'll be just the thing to help him. We'd better give it our all!" Ning Xuefei said encouragingly.
"Mm, let's work hard together!" Without another word, Han Jingyi immediately took a top-grade foundation-building golden core at the side and began meditating to break through. Though she herself had no great pursuit of power, she was willing to try anything if it meant she could help Wei Zhao.
Peaceful days always slip by in a flash. Wei Zhao had lately been living a life of unruffled calm—during this time, the forces that had targeted him and all his rivals had, as if by prior agreement, lowered their banners and muffled their drums.
Wei Zhao was quite content with the leisure. Though he still had not solved the problem of being unable to form artifacts in his forging, he did not let it affect his regular cultivation, and he was drawing ever closer to the peak of the early Golden Core stage.
Day after day passed, and just as the one-year term for the newcomers of the Welcome Pavilion was about to arrive, a great event occurred at the Sandie Pavilion on North Island.
Xu Lingchong, the young master of the Chongsheng Pavilion who had gone missing several months ago, had actually returned!
The moment the news spread, everyone in the Sandie Pavilion was shaken. Many were both astonished and doubtful—Xu Lingchong's disappearance had been confirmed by the Law Enforcement Hall at the time. Fleeing in fear of punishment under the charge of attempted rape of Shangguan Lan'er, he had been wanted throughout the whole of North Island for a long time, yet no trace of him had ever been found.
It was only recently that the Law Enforcement Hall had suddenly withdrawn the wanted notice. Everyone assumed they simply could not find him and had no choice but to let the matter drop, and that behind it all Xu Yuanzheng, the third elder of the Chongsheng Pavilion, had been pulling strings—canceling the warrant so as to avoid being made a laughingstock by outsiders.
Little did they know that even Xu Yuanzheng himself was baffled by the matter. He had assumed Shangguan Tianxia had stepped in to say a word on his behalf—after all, the affair concerned Shangguan Lan'er, and it was hardly convenient for anyone else to speak up. Besides, in the whole Sandie Pavilion, apart from Shangguan Tianxia, Gongyang Jun had never given face to anyone.
What no one could ever have expected was that now, just after the warrant had been withdrawn, this Young Master Xu who had vanished for months should suddenly pop up again? Could it be a smokescreen deliberately released by certain people with ulterior motives?
The rumor was not finally confirmed beyond all doubt until Xu Lingchong appeared in person. This Young Master Xu, once so prominent, had indeed returned!
What was even more shocking was that the Xu Lingchong who now showed himself was utterly different from his former young-master image. Not only did he wear his long hair flowing loose, but his speech and bearing carried a certain inexplicably effeminate, sinister air that made people unconsciously feel something strange.