Chapter 4686 — A Low-Grade Wretched Trial
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Setting everything else aside, Wei Zhao's intimate behavior with Shangguan Lan'er earlier had been plain fact, and though his cultivation was only at the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage, anyone could tell from how he had faced the pseudo-human vine that his true strength was far from simple—at the very least, he could fight above his level. Add to that the wondrous method he had just used to draw out her poison, and every single one of these things was something no ordinary disciple of the North Island could possibly possess!
As the saying goes, a renowned master produces outstanding disciples. Someone like Wei Zhao could not, by any measure, have been trained by an ordinary cultivator; whoever could serve as his master had to be one of those unfathomable great figures, and on the North Island, the one who best fit that description seemed to be none other than Shangguan Tianxia!
"You can't really be, can you?" Huo Yudie's expression shifted, and she could not hide her astonishment as she asked.
"More or less." Wei Zhao smiled indifferently. He had never intended to hide such a thing, still less to use it to deceive Huo Yudie. Though there was no formal bond of master and disciple, in truth everyone in the North Island's Sandie Pavilion, from top to bottom, had long since regarded him as Shangguan Tianxia's personal disciple.
Even Shangguan Tianxia himself held much the same attitude—otherwise he would not pay Wei Zhao such attention, still less take the initiative to promote him. If Wei Zhao were to declare himself his personal disciple, his attitude would surely be one of tacit consent, and he might even play along and make it real.
"Uh, does that mean I've spoken it into being?" Huo Yudie was at a loss for what to say. She had only brought it up earlier to fob off Ren Zhongyuan and his lot; never had she expected it to actually be true. How very strange!
"That phrase isn't meant for good things, is it? Don't go bullying me just because I'm uneducated—I did properly attend university, after all!" Wei Zhao corrected her with a perfectly straight face. The claim was a little shameless: educated he certainly was, but all of it had been learned before his debut, and as for attending school, that had been nothing but a pretext—pure nonsense...
"University? Hmm, all right." Huo Yudie was taken aback for a moment, then her eyes swept over Wei Zhao from head to toe once more, as if she meant to see straight through every secret he carried. After a moment her eyes suddenly lit up. "Oh, right. You and Shangguan Lan'er are so close—she must be the fine match Vice Island Master Shangguan picked out for you, then. Say, if you let her find out you've been fooling around with other girls out here, do you think she'd fly into a rage and kill you?"
She spoke in a tone of pure gloating, as though she truly believed she had caught Wei Zhao by the weak spot. After all, marrying one's personal disciple to a junior of one's own clan, thereby binding the two sides more closely and reliably together, was a practice seen everywhere among the sects and schools of the Cloud Terrace Isles.
Shangguan Lan'er was the apple of Shangguan Tianxia's eye. If she were to marry, her match would either be a nephew or niece of some other top-tier magnate, or one of Shangguan Tianxia's personal disciples—there was no third option.
And this Wei Zhao, though infuriating at times, was undeniably outstanding in every respect—a rare fine match among ten thousand, and one who had the advantage of proximity. Shangguan Tianxia would certainly never let him marry another woman.
"No, she wouldn't. Why would she kill me?" Wei Zhao looked utterly baffled.
"Why wouldn't she? Of course she would—that's the most basic common sense! What woman would want her husband running around with another woman, least of all someone like Shangguan Lan'er, the little princess of the North Island!" Huo Yudie declared with absolute certainty.