Chapter 4686 — A Low-Grade Wretched Trial
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"Heh. Then do you know why I went out of my way to join such a low-grade, wretched trial?" Wei Zhao smiled at her confident gaze.
"Low-grade? Wretched trial?" Huo Yudie was stunned. The West Island Trial was one that ranked among the finest of all five Cloud Terrace Isles, and this time the participants' strength was generally at the Nascent Soul stage. And earlier, a single pseudo-human vine had already left accomplished Nascent Soul perfect-stage experts like them in utter disarray—and he called this a low-grade, wretched trial?
"Of course. I could wipe out everyone here with a wave of my hand. Do you think I've got nothing better to do than come to a place like this and waste my time?" Wei Zhao's tone was half joking, but truthfully there was not a drop of exaggeration in those words—this West Island Trial genuinely posed no difficulty for him at all.
Given Wei Zhao's strength, the trial most suited to him and most valuable to him would have to be a perilous land open at least to experts of the Profound Ascension stage. Something like this, with not the slightest pressure, could hardly yield any great harvest—that would be sheer fantasy. If he could smoothly obtain the Lei Xuan Vine this time, he would already be content; as for breaking through in cultivation, the thought had never once crossed his mind.
"Uh..." Huo Yudie shot him a glare at that. His tone was certainly grand, and it still sounded like a joke, but from all that had happened before, she had a vague feeling it might actually be possible—this fellow was truly unfathomable. She could not help asking, "Then what are you doing here?"
"Because of Shangguan Lan'er. She said she didn't want her best friend marrying someone else, so I had no choice but to grit my teeth and come." Wei Zhao shrugged with a chuckle.
"Best friend? And who's her best friend?" Huo Yudie did not catch on at once. She froze for a moment, then it suddenly came to her, and she slapped her forehead. "Ning Xuefei?"
For the vast majority of male cultivators, the main purpose of this West Island Trial was not the rare treasures at all, but the contest for the West Island Princess. It was only because she herself was a girl that she had never taken the matter to heart from start to finish—only now did she suddenly remember that such a thing existed.
"That's right. Who else could it be?" Wei Zhao laughed.
"I'm dizzy..." Huo Yudie's gaze grew stranger still. She looked Wei Zhao up and down yet again, until he was on the verge of squirming, and only then did she speak slowly: "Tell me, isn't it only those very formidable great figures who get to have three wives and four concubines? And Ning Xuefei is the West Island Princess besides—even if a man married her, he'd have to make her the primary wife, wouldn't he? Could he really marry other women too? Wouldn't the people of the West Island go mad?"
"Aren't I formidable?" Wei Zhao replied half in jest, and as for the second question, he simply ignored it. It was indeed a very thorny problem, but so long as his strength was great enough, everything would resolve itself.
Put plainly, the West Island was an extremely traditional hereditary system, and the only one with the power to decide Ning Xuefei's marriage was Ning Shanghe! (To be continued...)