Chapter 4872 — Fiancée!
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By now the disciples of other academies who had been teleported in earlier were already fighting tooth and nail over the tribulation points close at hand. No one wanted to take needless risks—if a tribulation point could be found nearby, naturally no one wanted to go looking far away.
Everyone understood this. Seeing it, the Morning Star disciples at once wanted to throw themselves into the fray, but Wei Zhao held them back. "Don't be hasty. There are so many people here—even if we fight for one, we won't get more than a few, and we'll only waste true essence for nothing. Better to go a little farther and have a look. If we can find a tribulation point, even if it isn't completely unclaimed, the competition won't be so savage."
In saying this he was also concealing a private motive: he wanted to look around, to see whether he might by good fortune run into Huo Yudie. Of course, on the other hand, jamming up at the entrance to fight over tribulation points was itself a foolish thing to do. There were only so many tribulation points nearby, and with so many people fighting over them, even a winner would be half dead—how then would they break through to Mystic Ascension?
In fact it was not only Wei Zhao; some other academy disciples had made the same choice and gone off early to explore ahead, avoiding the crowd.
"Right, Master Lin makes excellent sense. Only a fool would stay here fighting a pack of mad dogs for scraps—let's go look a bit farther off!" Bao Zuoliang was the first to jump up in support.
Wei Zhao could not help giving him a surprised look. Had the man taken the wrong medicine? Given the attitude and sheer pigheadedness he had displayed before, not causing trouble was already unprecedented—and now he was backing Wei Zhao instead?
What Wei Zhao did not know was that Bao Zuoliang had purely selfish motives. He wished for nothing more than for Wei Zhao to lead them far away—the more remote the better, so that when he pulled his tricks there would be less chance of anyone spotting something amiss.
"We'll follow Master Lin!" Lu Xiaozhong, though also puzzled by Bao Zuoliang's reaction, chimed in all the same.
The others had no objections either, and at once Wei Zhao led the way into the distance. The process was somewhat risky, and the group could not help feeling uneasy, but Wei Zhao himself was utterly assured.
After all, with spiritual sense far beyond the ordinary, he could sense clearly everything in the distance; there was nothing to worry about.
Wei Zhao walked at the very front, with Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao close behind him, then Lu Xiaozhong, then Bao Zuoliang and Su Kesheng—those two following tightly, terrified of losing sight of Wei Zhao.
Yet as they went, Wei Zhao noticed something strange: Qin Chan, bringing up the rear, was oddly intimate with two male disciples. The three of them stuck together the whole way, and when the others ahead were not looking they would exchange occasional little gestures of unmistakable intimacy, thinking no one would notice. Little did they know that Wei Zhao's spiritual sense blanketed every direction, and not a single move of anyone escaped his perception.
This unexpected discovery left Wei Zhao both startled and suspicious. On the way he had already quietly asked Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao. Morning Star Academy had few female disciples; even if the two of them did not know her personally, they had at least heard the names. There was only one female disciple named Qin Chan—meaning this person was beyond doubt Jiang Yuechuan's fiancée!
That being so, any woman bound by a marriage contract, so long as she kept even a little to the proprieties, ought not to be carrying on with other men. Yet the scene before him Wei Zhao observed with perfect clarity...
What was most speechless of all was that this woman's entanglement with one man was bad enough—she was carrying on with two at once! That was simply too bizarre.