Chapter 4631 — Departure for West Island
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With the aptitudes these people had, if Wei Zhao had been around the past two years, Xiao Che and the others would likely already be fine Golden Core cultivators. They would not still be lingering at the Foundation Establishment stage as they were now.
Wei Zhao himself had already reached the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage. The gap in strength was too great—these little brothers could no longer serve as his trusted right and left arms; instead, they would become burdens.
So no matter what, Wei Zhao had to find every possible way to raise everyone's strength as quickly as possible, and the most basic requirement of all was to guarantee a sufficient supply of pills. Even when Wei Zhao was absent, that supply must never be cut off.
Once everyone was properly settled, Wei Zhao's next order of business was to set out for Zhong Island. Although Hong Zhong could help ship the pills there, Wei Zhao felt it necessary to make the trip in person. For one thing, he might have a chance to see Zhang Lifeng; for another, it was time to visit Tianchan and Xueli.
Having made up his mind, Wei Zhao first went to the Hong Chamber of Commerce and had Hong Zhong send the pills ahead. At the same time, he asked for a chamber pass. With that in hand, his flying spirit beast would be able to take off and land at the Zhong Island docks. It still would not be allowed into the airspace above Zhong Island, but that alone made things far more convenient.
Leaving the Hong Chamber of Commerce, Wei Zhao headed for the Spirit Beast Grounds, the place where the Sandie Pavilion specially bred and kept spirit beasts. These days the spirit bird was quite the tyrant there, living a very comfortable life indeed.
Never mind that the spirit bird had no powerful innate racial talent to speak of—it made up for it with its high rank. There were only a handful of Nascent Soul stage spirit beasts in the entire North Island Spirit Beast Grounds. If any beast dared to stir up trouble with it, it could simply run circles around the poor thing until it collapsed from dizziness. Who would dare provoke it?
Before that, however, Wei Zhao still had to go see Shangguan Lan'er, say hello and goodbye, and hand her the pills he had just refined. She was one of his own, after all. Her fine background was her own business, but Wei Zhao could not play favorites and leave her out.
What Wei Zhao had not expected was to run into Shangguan Lan'er halfway there. He called out to her from a distance with a smile. "Oh? What a coincidence—I was just looking for you!"
"Hehe, I was just looking for you too!" Shangguan Lan'er lit up at the sight of Wei Zhao and came skipping over, unable to hide her delight. "Little Junior Brother, you're going back to work!"
"Back to work? For what?" Wei Zhao blinked.
"Have you forgotten all about your position?" Shangguan Lan'er rolled her eyes at him.
"My position? Second Senior Brother, inner sect steward of the Qingyun Pavilion?" Wei Zhao said, puzzled.
"What? You're the Island Flower's personal bodyguard—did you forget?" Shangguan Lan'er pouted.
"Pfft..." Wei Zhao burst out laughing. Only then did he recall that when Ning Xuefei first came to North Island, Shangguan Tianxia had bestowed on him the post of envoy reception officer. Plainly speaking, it made him the two girls' personal guard. But that business was long over—nearly two years ago now. Surely a temporary post so obviously meant as a joke did not still count?
"All right! Little Junior Brother, hurry up and get your things together—you're coming with me, your senior sister, to West Island to guard the flower!" Shangguan Lan'er announced impatiently.
"West Island? Guard the flower?" Wei Zhao grew more baffled by the moment.