Chapter 4261 — All Dead
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Rather than regret, better to wait and see. Of course, unwilling as he was to leave just like that, Wei Zhao could not possibly take Huang Xiaotao and go risking the way forward—that much sense of proportion he still had.
"Oh." Huang Xiaotao said nothing more. She simply leaned against Wei Zhao and went on waiting quietly.
And so, in the midst of waiting, another four or five hours slipped by in a blink, and the sky had darkened again, the surroundings once more growing dim and ghostly. Yet Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao still had no news, and of the people ahead there was from first to last not a whisper.
At this, even Wei Zhao, who had been so certain, could not help beginning to doubt.
Could it really be that what lay ahead was the Ghost Mist Formation Chu Bubai had spoken of? That though danger there truly was, one need only charge through and it would be over? And could Chu Bubai and Guo Dengtao and the rest, having obtained the infant ginseng, have left by another route?
A head full of question marks made Wei Zhao begin to lose some confidence in his original judgment. He even felt that if he kept waiting here, perhaps even after several more days nothing would come of it!
True, it was safe at present, but if time dragged on, heaven knew what might emerge in this place. He had already waited a day and a night; to keep waiting would likely be waiting for nothing.
After turning it over and over, Wei Zhao finally made up his mind, deciding to take Huang Xiaotao and head back first. But just as he was about to speak to Huang Xiaotao, from not far ahead in the mist there suddenly came the sound of disordered footsteps, and of heavy, labored breathing!
Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao's hearts tightened at once. The two exchanged a glance, swiftly roused the true qi within their bodies, and while standing on full guard, strained to sense what was happening ahead.
In the dense, heavy mist, not far in front, a figure came indistinctly into view!
Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao were startled at once. Though it was only a rough outline, they had been following this person forward all these days.
This figure in the mist ahead was, to their astonishment, none other than Chu Bubai, who had vanished for a whole day and night!
At this very moment, Chu Bubai was fleeing for his life in frantic, desperate flight toward where Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao stood, and by the look of it something seemed to be pursuing him from behind.
A full-fledged expert of late Core Formation, driven to such ragged, stumbling steps—even without making out his face, Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao could clearly feel his present panic and loss of composure. It was simply inconceivable.
At the sight, Wei Zhao could not help wondering inwardly: just who or what, behind Chu Bubai, was it?
Chu Bubai was no sham, after all. Judging by the man's aura, even among late Core Formation experts of his level he was by no means a weakling. What could reduce him to such a sorry state? Could it be some mighty being of the Nascent Soul stage?
As the two stood dumbfounded, they heard Chu Bubai, wildly fleeing with no thought for the road and seemingly filled with astonishment and unwillingness, muttering to himself in disbelief: "Huff! It shouldn't be! This ginseng only needed the golden cores of five Core Formation experts as sacrifice, and it would have no aggression left at all—this my grandfather said with his own mouth, it cannot be wrong! I used those ghost-talisman fiends to lure them over there already, so how is it still... Gah!"
The words broke off there in a scream of utter, piercing anguish, and the very next moment, the figure closing ever nearer to Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao—struck by some powerful and sinister attack—burst with a bang into a spray of blood mist! (To be continued...)