Chapter 4708 — Any Clothes?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
Huo Yudie could hardly wait to jump in, but then she turned her head and caught sight of Wei Zhao. Her pretty face flushed at once, and she said bashfully, "You… you're not allowed to peek!"
"I'll just stand guard right here, all right? I won't look even if you beat me to death." Wei Zhao spread his hands and turned around, putting his back against the boulder. With the rock in the way, he couldn't see anything even if he wanted to.
"Not look even if beaten to death? Am I really that unappealing…" Huo Yudie grumbled under her breath, rather displeased.
Pfft! Wei Zhao was caught between laughter and tears. What on earth was with this girl—did she want him to look or not?
After muttering a few more words to herself, Huo Yudie saw that Wei Zhao truly seemed unmoved. Only then did she turn and walk toward the spring, her expression suggesting she was somewhat relieved and somewhat disappointed—no telling what was going through her head.
But before she could actually step in, a commotion broke out in the distance. Some other trial participants who had come in later had discovered the spring as well, and one after another they drifted over, drawn toward it despite themselves.
Huo Yudie, who had been overjoyed a moment ago, was suddenly on the verge of tears. Most of these people were male cultivators, and she was a girl—with so many arriving all at once, how was she supposed to bathe?
Just leave? She had finally found such a clear spring, and it would break her heart to give it up. But stay, and there was no way to bathe here. For the moment Huo Yudie was caught between a rock and a hard place, and could only look pitifully toward Wei Zhao.
Wei Zhao smiled slightly at the sight. He gave her a reassuring look, then turned a sharp gaze on the noisy latecomers and said coolly, "I've claimed this spot."
At these words, everyone looked at one another, then without a second thought turned and left—without hesitation, and not one of them dragging his feet.
Of course—the spring was pleasant enough, but weighed against one's life, what was a little pleasure worth?
Wei Zhao was that kind of fiend; he could send even a peak early-stage Xuan Sheng expert flying with a single slap, and killing the likes of them was no more than a flick of his finger. Who would dare provoke such a ruthless man?
In the blink of an eye, the whole bunch scattered as if fleeing for their lives. Watching this, Huo Yudie pressed her lips together and smiled; seeing Wei Zhao so domineering, she felt inexplicably delighted.
Though she was one of the Twin Beauties of Chenjiao, she was utterly different from Yao Jiali; she was by no means a domineering person herself. Still, it felt rather nice to enjoy that domineering feeling now and then—especially at a moment like this.
"Go on and wash. I'll keep watch here; no one will dare come over," Wei Zhao said mildly. The boulder at his back could not fully screen the whole spring, but it covered most of it, and there was a hollow in behind. Huo Yudie could hide herself in there, and then she would have no need to worry about being seen at all.
"Oh." Huo Yudie nodded, cheeks red, and at once waded through the shallow water, tiptoeing around behind the rock.
Wei Zhao, meanwhile, stood there with his arms folded like a door god. The other trial participants who arrived one after another took one look from afar and, without needing to be told, did not dare approach. From a ruthless man like this, one kept as far away as possible—on no account provoke him, or you would not have lives enough to lose.
Even the occasional bold one who wanted to come closer for a look was frozen in place by a single glance from Wei Zhao, then turned and ran as if fleeing for his life, not daring to harbor the slightest thought.