Chapter 4892 — A Little Strange
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Mm, it is the same here at Morning Star Academy. I heard my master speak of it—on the day the Xuan Terrace academies openly select disciples, all of us Yellow Terrace academies send our Xuan Sheng stage disciples over together, and along the way we compete with one another to see whose academy sends the most Xuan Sheng stage disciples, and whose are the strongest," Wang Xinyan added.
"Good, then. Even if there is no chance before that, we are sure to meet again when the time comes to go to the Xuan Terrace Sea. Yudie, until we meet again," Wei Zhao said, reassured.
"Until we meet again." Huo Yudie nodded. After bidding the others a reluctant farewell, she finally departed together with her academy companions.
The Morning Star Academy group had gone, and Huo Yudie and her party had gone as well. Now only three people remained at Wei Zhao's side. Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao went without saying—but the other was Lu Xiaozhong.
This fellow was a true exception. Though he had known Wei Zhao only a short while, he had taken his father Lu Dachang's instructions firmly to heart: whatever was done, wherever Wei Zhao went, he would follow. He could not possibly come to harm that way—and if Wei Zhao ate meat, he could at least get a share of the broth.
Wei Zhao and the two women were caught between laughter and tears at the sight. The fellow was an oddity, just like his father—but fortunately, he had been fairly obedient along the way and had not brought them any trouble, so they let him tag along. At most, they would give him a hand if danger arose.
"Let us be off. Time to see this Giant's Road properly—there will be no chance to come back again!" Wei Zhao swept his hand grandly and took the lead himself, guiding the others. Following the main road was certainly safer, but it would surely yield no treasures, so he once again led them off into the wild forest trails.
Heavy mist, utter desolation, and now and then a strange cry from somewhere nearby—what creature made it, no one could tell, but it set the hairs on end.
"What kind of hellish place is this!" Lu Xiaozhong looked around at the mist-shrouded surroundings, his heart quailing. Wei Zhao had led them along small paths before as well, but at that time he had only been a peak Nascent Soul cultivator, and even then it had not felt so chilling as this.
After all, back then all the Morning Star Academy disciples had moved together—strength in numbers—and they had been fairly close to the teleportation array's exit, where nothing terrifying normally roamed, so he had felt somewhat secure.
But now, Lu Xiaozhong kept feeling faintly that something was watching him, and it made his skin crawl. Yet when he tried to probe with his divine sense, he could detect nothing at all. Was he seeing ghosts in broad daylight?
"I feel a little strange too..." Affected by him, Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao could not help shrinking their necks and instinctively drew a little closer to Wei Zhao. Only at his side could the two of them find any sense of safety.
"No need to be so jumpy. Just be a little careful, that is all. This is the Giant's Road, after all—if there were nothing formidable about it, what heavenly treasures would we expect to find?" Wei Zhao said with a faint smile.
"Yes, yes, Master Lin is right!" Lu Xiaozhong nodded again and again. Any rare heavenly treasure was certain to be surrounded by powerful spirit beasts or other defenses of every conceivable kind—that was common knowledge in the world of cultivation. If something formidable was truly watching them, then it meant good things were close at hand.