Chapter 4668 — You Have a Five-Element Constitution
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Since he had no chance with the beauty, he had better hurry off and gather some rare treasures. Time was limited, and he could not afford to dawdle. If Wei Zhao beat him to the punch again this time, who knew how the higher-ups would punish him!
Having shaken off that annoying fly Kang Jingming, Huo Yudie was visibly relieved. But then Wei Zhao spoke up from ahead: "I'll be going now. Don't follow me unless you have business with me, or I'll assume you're up to no good."
"Wait a moment!" Huo Yudie cried out in a fluster.
"Is there something else?" This time Wei Zhao was genuinely impatient. He simply could not work out what this woman wanted, clinging to him the way she did. He shot her an exasperated look and said, "I don't have time for you right now. We'll meet again someday!"
With that, Wei Zhao strode straight ahead. His instincts told him that once this woman latched onto him, trouble was sure to follow. This West Island trial was too important to fail—he had no time to waste on her.
"You have a five-element constitution?" Huo Yudie suddenly asked.
"What?!" Wei Zhao stopped dead in his tracks, stunned. He instinctively glanced around, saw that no one was paying attention to them, and only then turned his gaze back to Huo Yudie, studying her anew. This woman from the East Continent could see through his spirit-root attributes at a single glance—could she be in possession of some powerful cheat in that regard?
Having one's spirit-root attributes known was no great matter in itself—at the very least it posed no real threat—but it was still astonishing. After all, it took highly specialized tools to test such a thing, and Wei Zhao had never heard of anyone with the innate gift of seeing it at a glance!
Shocked as he was, Wei Zhao kept his expression perfectly composed. He said with an unfathomable air, "Five-element constitution? What's that supposed to be?"
"All-attribute spirit roots. In common parlance, a five-element constitution." Huo Yudie fixed her eyes on Wei Zhao with absolute certainty, and from the look of her, she had already confirmed the matter beyond doubt.
"Common parlance?" Wei Zhao could not help curling his lip. He knew he could no longer hide it from her. Looking her up and down, he said, "I'd say only the mortal world calls it that. Nobody on Cloud Terrace Island speaks of a five-element constitution."
"Fine, then it's a mortal-world term." To his surprise, Huo Yudie nodded and admitted it outright.
"You know about the mortal world?" Wei Zhao was startled again. He had only meant it as a casual probe. He had never expected such an astonishing result. This girl from the East Continent was growing more peculiar by the minute!
She had attached herself to him for no apparent reason, named his five-element constitution in a single breath, and even knew it was a mortal-world term—so many suspicious points tangled together. Anyone would find it strange, and Wei Zhao could not help wondering whether some organization had deliberately sent this woman to get close to him.
"I do," Huo Yudie nodded again, as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
Wei Zhao's eyes remained full of suspicion. Plenty of people on Cloud Terrace Island knew of the mortal world, but few should know a mortal-world term like five-element constitution. He said in a low voice, "Then do you know what Ultraman is? What a sucker is? Who are you, really?"
"That I really don't know. I only heard about the mortal world from someone else—it was she who told me you have a five-element constitution, which is why I came to find you and confirm it." Huo Yudie's words were startling.
"She? Who is she?" Wei Zhao felt a chill of alarm. To his mind, this was even more astonishing than the other party possessing a cheat for seeing through spirit-root attributes. From the sound of this girl, she even knew someone acquainted with him?