Chapter 4222 — The Wei Arc Seas
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"Yes, yes—thank you for your magnanimity, Senior Brother Wei Zhao. This humble girl will remember it well." Murong Zhen was instantly overjoyed; after a flurry of thanks she hurried off, for if she lingered too long and earned Wei Zhao's annoyance, she would have no end of grief.
Besides, she was, after all, a subordinate of Xu Lingchong's faction. If rumors spread and Xu Lingchong learned that she had deliberately curried favor with Wei Zhao, that would be no small disaster either.
Watching Murong Zhen's hastily retreating figure, Wei Zhao's lips curved in a noncommittal smile. With Senior Brother Ku and Xiao Che joining hands to control the situation, her post as second senior steward of the newcomers was of no consequence—she could stir up no waves at all. Whether or not she was removed naturally made no difference to him.
Of course, Wei Zhao also knew that given this woman's nature, even if she endured in silence for now, she would not stay so sensible forever. A day would come when she stirred up wind and rain. Still, having such a person at the bottom watching like a tiger did Xiao Che no harm.
Xiao Che was fine in every respect, except that his temperament was too mild and unhurried. Murong Zhen's presence could spur his fighting spirit, keep him constantly on guard, and leave him no room for slack—so she might as well be put to good use.
Having dealt with Murong Zhen, Wei Zhao continued scanning the many missions on the board. After a moment, his gaze suddenly sharpened slightly and settled on a trial mission at the very edge of the list.
What drew Wei Zhao's attention to this mission was that its location was none other than the Wei Arc Seas near South Island!
Wei Zhao did not know any Vice Pavilion Master Yao, but he still cared a great deal about the matter of Lu Bianren's disappearance. Before, he had been too far away to help even if he wanted to, but now, if he could take the opportunity of this trial mission to look for Lu Bianren along the way, that would be a fine idea that killed two birds with one stone.
Examining the mission details carefully, Wei Zhao found that it was in fact a pursuit mission—and one of no small difficulty!
The target, Wu Baoliang, was at the peak of the late Golden Core stage. Back on North Island he had been a notorious wicked cultivator, specializing in draining the essence blood of virgin girls for his cultivation. In most of the cultivator tribes on North Island and its vicinity, traces of this man's crimes had been left behind. By the Enforcers' Hall's rough count, the number of women who had met a cruel end at this man's hands totaled as many as three hundred—and that was only an incomplete tally. Many women who had gone missing might well have fallen victim to him as well; it was simply that at the time no one had connected them to him.
This string of cases had caused a veritable sensation on North Island. With public outrage at a boil, it had even alarmed the upper echelons of the Triple-Tiered Pavilion. Only after the Enforcers' Hall intervened and investigated were they finally able to fix their target on that wicked cultivator, Wu Baoliang.
Unfortunately, just as the Enforcers' Hall's finest were preparing to move, the man caught wind of it and fled North Island outright. After that he vanished far away and was never seen again within the bounds of North Island, remaining a fugitive all this time.
By convention, the Enforcers' Hall of the Triple-Tiered Pavilion carried out arrests only within North Island. There had been cases of pursuing a man to the ends of the earth regardless of cost, but those were exceedingly rare—only special criminals whose existence threatened the safety of the Triple-Tiered Pavilion enjoyed such extraordinary treatment.