Chapter 4288 — Someone Blocks the Way
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Only now could the group finally make out the two men's features. One could not call them hideous, yet there was something indefinably sinister about them; when their gazes swept over, it felt as though one had been fixed upon by two exceedingly dangerous, ferocious beasts. Their scalps prickled and a chill ran down their spines—this was hardly the bearing of human experts.
Yet for some reason, when Wei Zhao heard these two voices, he did not feel the same horror as the others. Instead, they struck him as strangely familiar, as though he had heard them somewhere before—though what exactly the connection was, for the moment he could not recall.
Beyond that, what troubled Wei Zhao more was what the two had just said.
"Ah? Could you be..." Chang Daoping had caught the implication in their words too, and grew all the more panicked.
"That's right—we are of the spirit beast clan, of course. Heh heh heh heh..." The two azure-robed men laughed in eerie unison, their gazes upon the group brimming with mockery and derision, as though none of them—including Chang Daoping, a Nascent Soul expert—was regarded as worth the slightest concern.
At these words, Chang Daoping's heart sank utterly to the bottom. For this expedition to the ruins he had made such thorough preparations, and the whole way through things had indeed gone abnormally smoothly. Little did he expect that, just as they were about to leave, they would run into two such formidable figures—or more precisely, two such powerful spirit beasts in human form!
To be sure, Chang Daoping himself was a genuine Nascent Soul expert, but from the mere fact that his aura was suppressed on every front, it was enough to judge that either one of the two before him was plainly stronger than himself.
Though they were all Nascent Soul experts alike, and all of the same tier, the spirit beast clan was innately endowed with formidable racial gifts—powers that human cultivators could never hope to match—and with the difference in constitution as well, humans were naturally a notch weaker. And on top of that, the other side held absolute superiority and had them two against one...
Against late Nascent Soul spirit beasts of that caliber, everyone on Chang Daoping's side besides himself did not even count as cannon fodder. If it truly came to a fight, a casual flick of one hand from the enemy would wipe them out clean, and no number of them would be enough to keep from being slaughtered at will.
Besides, none of them were fools; in a situation like this, even if Chang Daoping ordered them forward, they would not dare to go.
"Hurry up—are you leaving or not? If you don't want to leave, then go back and keep playing. Leave once you've had your fun—don't waste our time!" one of the azure-robed men cursed impatiently.
"Ah???" Chang Daoping was stunned on the spot, and the rest of the group exchanged baffled glances: go back and keep playing? What was that supposed to mean?
Taken at face value, it seemed these two great masters of the spirit beast clan had no intention of taking their lives—they might even be allowed to carry on treasure-hunting in the ruins of Aoduo Cultivation City, and these two would apparently not interfere?
But how could that possibly be? However easygoing they might be, they were not simpletons; a fool could see there was no such easy bargain in this world. There had to be some other scheme behind it!
"Then... might I ask the two of you, how may we get through?" With no other choice, Chang Daoping cupped his hands and asked. (Everyone is welcome to join the mobile QQ interest group—The School Beauty's Personal Bodyguard; Yunhai Shuku often drops by to discuss plot points with everyone, and there are frequent events with free book vouchers and Q coins given away!) (To be continued)