Chapter 4225 — What's His Background?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Wei Zhao's heart lurched, and he could not help cursing himself for celebrating too soon. On the open sea, the greatest troubles besides sea mist were other cultivators. He had let his guard down a little in his momentary joy, and sure enough, someone had set their sights on them at once.
Turning to look at the person on that flying spirit beast's back, he saw a man in a gray-white long robe seated at the center, in the place of honor. Judging by his features, he looked to be only around thirty, though this was clearly not his true age.
Cultivators could keep their looks forever; unless they willed themselves to age or deliberately made their faces weathered, they would remain exactly as they were even after several hundred years, without the slightest change.
Wei Zhao gave the man a casual once-over. He was quite handsome, the sort of idol type that drove girls wild—placed in the mortal realm, he could probably have made a name for himself in the looks-obsessed entertainment industry.
Yet with Wei Zhao's keen perception, he detected beneath that sunny, handsome exterior a very distinct trace of evil—denser even than that of Xu Lingchong and Meng Zhou as they were now, enough to make one wary. Clearly, this was no good man.
And at the man's side, leaning close on either hand, were two young and beautiful female companions. Though their looks could not compare with a peerless beauty like Huang Xiaotao, they were still rare specimens of the highest order—and both were dressed most revealingly, with only two tiny strips of cloth covering their crucial parts, leaving the rest of their fair, alluring figures fully exposed. Coupled with their seductive postures and the teasing gestures they made from time to time, it was enough to set the blood racing.
Dressed like that, they could have passed for bar girls in the mortal realm! Wei Zhao pursed his lips in secret disdain. Cloud Ladder Island carried on the ancient customs, and its notions of men and women were very traditional, with great weight placed on propriety between the sexes. Normal women therefore dressed rather conservatively; only a fox spirit like Murong Zhen would deliberately dress so revealingly. These two women before him were, if anything, even more brazen by comparison.
Besides this man and two women, there was also a dour, unsmiling middle-aged man on the back of the opposite flying spirit beast. Judging by his plain attire, he was presumably a servant, seated in front to drive the beast.
Yet of the four on the other side, the one Wei Zhao cared about most was precisely this seemingly ordinary middle-aged man!
The sinister man in the seat of honor was a late Golden Core cultivator—not especially troublesome. As for the two scantily clad women beside him, their strength was negligible, no more than the Foundation Establishment realm. Only this utterly ordinary-looking middle-aged man was someone whose cultivation Wei Zhao could not see through.
Wei Zhao was a flawless-breakthrough expert of the early Golden Core stage, and with his golden finger, he could see through any cultivation level within the Golden Core stage at a glance. Yet he could not see through this middle-aged man's strength, which could only mean one thing: this middle-aged man was certainly a formidable expert at the Nascent Soul stage or above!
Wei Zhao was startled inwardly. To make a powerful Nascent Soul expert willingly serve as a servant—just what was this sinister man's background? (To be continued..) R527