Chapter 4394 — Why Save You?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"No need to rush off." Wei Zhao reached out to block him, then asked with a sly look, "There is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. Aren't you the least bit curious? Don't you want to ask who I am, and why I went out of my way to save you?"
"This... I am indeed curious, and if it is convenient, I hope you will not stint in enlightening me!" Lu Bianren's heart sank at once, and he thought to himself: could this fellow be up to no good? Have I escaped the wolf's den only to land in the tiger's lair?
Wei Zhao smiled a smile of profound mystery, said nothing, and slowly reached up to remove the Thousand-Silk Mask.
When Lu Bianren, whose heart had been somewhat uneasy, saw Wei Zhao's true face, he froze on the spot and for a long while could not speak.
"You... you... you're Wei Zhao!!!" Lu Bianren's eyes went wide with shock and delight. Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that this ferocious figure of formidable strength and ruthless methods would turn out to be Wei Zhao!
"Haha, Brother Lu, it's been a while. I trust you've been well." Only then did Wei Zhao smile and cup his hands in greeting.
"So it really is you! Oh, you gave me an awful fright!" Only then did Lu Bianren's heart finally settle back into place, and his whole body seemed to deflate as he flopped onto the stool with no regard for appearances. He had been on tenterhooks the entire time, but since the other party was Wei Zhao, one of their own, there was naturally nothing left to worry about.
"Forgive me, forgive me. The martial world is treacherous; wearing a mask and changing my appearance is simply a precaution against the unforeseen." Wei Zhao smiled and sat down as well, pouring a cup of tea for each of them.
"Mm, that's only right. If I had been as careful as you from the start, perhaps I would not have ended up in today's predicament." Lu Bianren sighed with feeling and drained his tea in one gulp, then looked Wei Zhao up and down anew, clicking his tongue in wonder even as he asked in puzzlement, "Brother Wei, how is it that you came to be here?"
Lu Bianren now truly had a bellyful of questions. It seemed only a year ago that Wei Zhao had been a newcomer freshly teleported up from the mortal realm, and now, after a mere year, he had already grown into a ruthless figure who could casually thrash even someone of Sun Hengbiao's caliber, a mid-Nascent Soul expert. Was that not growing just a little too fast?
Especially that move that had blasted the dungeon to rubble just now—its power was enough to rend heaven and earth. Lu Bianren even suspected it had already surpassed the level of Nascent Soul experts.
With such a terrifying, heaven-defying rate of growth, this brother of his was not merely one in ten thousand in talent—even calling him one in a hundred million would be a gross underestimate!
"Heh, two months ago I became an inner sect disciple and took on a trial mission: to capture the wicked cultivator Wu Baoliang. His most recent appearance was in the Weihu Sea region of South Continent, so I came over," Wei Zhao answered.
"Brother Wei, you're already an inner sect disciple?" Lu Bianren was slightly taken aback at the news, but on second thought it made sense to him: "Of course. With your current strength, you can casually thrash even Sun Hengbiao—never mind inner sect disciple, you'd have more than enough to serve as an elder of the Threefold Pavilion."
At the Threefold Pavilion of North Island, Nascent Soul experts had the chance to rise to the position of elder, and with Wei Zhao's present strength, he could even crush the vast majority of them.