Chapter 4858 — Those Are Seven Words
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"Sister Xinyan is right—this Bao Wuliang is no good. He harasses the academy's female disciples all the time. I heard he pushed one so far she had nowhere left to turn and finally took her own life. It's just that his father's backing runs too deep; everyone's furious but no one dares speak up," Huang Xiaotao said, equally indignant.
"There's really such a thing? No wonder you all call him Bao Wuliang—couldn't be more fitting. Serves him right." Wei Zhao frowned. An ordinary wastrel he could have ignored, but a piece of human scum who treated lives so lightly—especially one with designs on Wang Xinyan—was not something he could simply leave alone.
Still, this was Morning Star City after all, and the man was City Lord Bao Fala's son. Even if Wei Zhao wanted to take him down a peg, it would not be easy; he would need the right opportunity.
"Actually, there's something odd about today's business," Wang Xinyan said thoughtfully. "Bao Wuliang has no shortage of spirit jade. The Nurturing Essence Magic Gold Grass is an incredibly rare natural treasure—even if he had no use for it himself, surely he wouldn't just casually put it up for auction?"
"Exactly. Last time he tried to use it to trick Sister Xinyan into becoming his cultivation partner. He got thrown out on the spot, sure, but that doesn't mean he'd just sell it off," Huang Xiaotao agreed, shaking her head.
For any Nascent Soul stage expert, this thing was a fatal temptation. With a philandering nature like Bao Zuoliang's, even if he had been rebuffed by Wang Xinyan, he would surely have used it on some other female disciple—and it would have worked every time. Why would he bear to put it up for auction? Was it really for spirit jade?
The son of the Morning Star City lord, selling such a treasure over a bit of spirit jade—was that even plausible?
At this, Wei Zhao caught on as well. He recalled how this thing seemed to have been watching his side the entire auction—strange behavior, to say the least. It made him feel this was not so simple. If the thing had been watching Wang Xinyan, that would have been understandable, but it had been fixed on him the whole time. That meant there was a real problem.
Could this thing be aimed at him? The thought flashed through Wei Zhao's mind. They had never met, true, but because of Wang Xinyan he was naturally on the opposite side—it was not impossible. Especially with Lu Dachang, an Opening-Mountain-stage titan, suddenly appearing in the middle of the auction. To say there was nothing fishy behind it all would be hard to swallow.
Looks like I'll have to keep a close eye on this thing from now on! Wei Zhao gave Bao Zuoliang a meaningful glance. It was only a guess, but the more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed—and his intuition had always been sharp.
After the farce with Lu Dachang blew over, the rest of the auction was much quieter. Though the others bid with no less enthusiasm, without Wei Zhao in the fray and without Lu Dachang, that top-tier troublemaker, everyone felt somewhat deflated.
Wei Zhao did not place another bid for the rest of the auction. It was not that there were no good items—there were plenty of treasures and tools suited to Nascent Soul stage experts—but he never took a liking to any of them. For him, if he was going to get a support item, it had to at least be something that could deal with Mystic Ascension stage experts; the rest were not even worth a second glance.
So from beginning to end, Wei Zhao bid only once, at the very start, for a pair of Ghost-Eye Carved King Wings. After that, apart from the Nurturing Essence Magic Gold Grass ruckus, he just sat back and watched. Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao were even more straightforward—they spent the entire auction twiddling their thumbs, having come purely for the spectacle.