Chapter 4923 — I've Got You Memorized!
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"No, no, that's not right!" Ni Caiyue suddenly shook her head repeatedly. "Shangguan Tianxia didn't seem to be an alchemist, and you're so good at alchemy—surely he wasn't the one who taught you?"
"Oh? Then who do you think taught me?" Wei Zhao exchanged a speechless glance with Wang Xinyan and the others. He himself had already admitted she got it right, and now she had decided she was wrong. Talking with this little Ni girl really was exhausting.
"Hmm..." Ni Caiyue tilted her head and pondered for a moment, then slapped her forehead. "Now I remember again! I heard there's a terribly formidable Pill God, Zhang Lifeng, who also came from North Island—you're not Zhang Lifeng's disciple, are you?"
"Congratulations—you can answer two ways now. The intelligent mind has once again seized the high ground!" Wei Zhao had thoroughly transformed into a master con artist.
"Mm-hmm, I really am quite smart to begin with!" Ni Caiyue lifted her chin smugly. A moment later she blinked and asked, "By the way, what is an intelligent mind? And what high ground did it seize?"
"It's nothing—nothing that has much to do with you anyway." This remark drew a snort of laughter from Wang Xinyan beside him, and she could not help giving Wei Zhao a reproachful glare. Of everyone present, only she understood what he meant.
"Oh, oh. As long as it has nothing to do with me, that's fine." Ni Caiyue went along with it readily, wearing an expression that suggested she found the whole matter a nuisance.
This time, not just Wang Xinyan—even Wei Zhao himself was amused. Seeing the puzzled look on the other's face, he quickly straightened his expression and said, "First Shangguan Tianxia, then Zhang Lifeng—so whose disciple am I, really?"
"I know! You're the disciple of both of them!" Ni Caiyue answered eagerly, snatching the words away.
"Congratulations—now you can even snatch the answers!" Wei Zhao gave her a thumbs-up with a look of admiration. Faced with this adorably foolish little girl, the hidden con-artist in him had been thoroughly drawn out. If nothing else, the journey was all laughter and cheer—she was quite good at entertaining and dispelling boredom.
The group of five made their way back to the teleportation point. Since they took the main road the whole way, they encountered no mishaps at all—not even a single spirit beast, and as for the academy disciples, every one of them kept far away.
After all, not one of them had bothered to conceal their strength—five whole early-stage Xuan Ascension experts in perfect formation. Such a formidable lineup was practically invincible on the Road of Titans, and no one dared provoke them; otherwise they might well be killed in turn and robbed of their treasures. Such things were far too common.
Two days later, Wei Zhao's group finally arrived back at the teleportation point. The disciples of the other academies stepped aside of their own accord when they saw them, and they were soon teleported out without a hitch.
Emerging from the teleportation array, they found themselves at the docks. By now, a small portion of the warships and treasure ships that had been moored here were already gone, though the academies whose disciples had not yet all returned would naturally still stay and wait. Once the one-month deadline passed, they would have to leave regardless of whether the disciples had returned—such was the rule of the Yellow-Rank Academy Alliance.
"Young Hero, I understand now—you're actually a big good person!" Ni Caiyue turned to Wei Zhao and said suddenly. Once out of the teleportation array, they would naturally go back to their own ships and forget one another from then on.
"Is that so? At last I've heard a kind word from your mouth—that was truly no easy feat." Wei Zhao chuckled at this. For once, he had surprisingly not tacked on a well-hidden prefix—a cause for celebration indeed.
"Mm-hmm, I've got you memorized!" Ni Caiyue nodded emphatically.