Chapter 4940 — Huo Yudie Pleads for Mercy
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Hearing the voice, Wei Zhao and the others turned back, and there was Huo Yudie, rushing over in a frantic fluster. Like Li Ren and the rest, she had heard the rumors aboard the ship, and so she had come flying here in a panic.
As for the uproar just now, because a few people from Morning Star Academy happened to be passing by, Huo Yudie actually knew more details than Li Ren did. She had heard not only that Wei Zhao had killed Chang Laiting, once one of the Four Princes of the Nascent Soul stage, and two late-stage Profound Ascension officiating alchemists of Dingcheng Academy, but even that Zang Zili of the early Mountain-Opening stage had been beaten within an inch of his life.
At this, even as her heart swelled with shock and pride, she was also genuinely frightened out of her wits. Killing those first three alone was already a colossal affair, and the most fatal part was that Wei Zhao had gone and finished off Zang Zili as well. That man was the only first-grade Profound-rank alchemist in the entire Yellow-rank sea region!
Once the Academy Alliance chose to handle this strictly—and especially if the higher-ups of Dingcheng Academy came forward to make a fuss as well—Wei Zhao's troubles this time would be immense, and he might not even be able to keep his life. How could Huo Yudie not come?
Seeing Huo Yudie appear, Wei Zhao felt a stir of gladness and gratitude in spite of himself. Yet she had not come alone; two others followed behind her—one was Liu Ziqi, and the other was Ren Zhongyuan.
When the trouble broke out, Liu Ziqi had still been in seclusion in her room, and Huo Yudie had dragged her out by main force, frantic and fuming. Hearing the whole tale of Wei Zhao along the way, she too turned pale with alarm. Her purpose in coming here was simple: to find some way to plead for Wei Zhao, and at the very least, no matter what, to preserve his life.
Though Liu Ziqi knew this might well be useless, she was, after all, a Mountain-Opening stage magnate and the vice-principal of Morning Star Academy, and so she still had some standing to speak before Zhuang Yifan. She believed that as long as she laid out Wei Zhao's background, Zhuang Yifan, once he had weighed the stakes, would not go so far as to put Wei Zhao to death, even if he refused to make light of the matter—for to do so would be to offend both North Island and West Island at once, and no sane person would commit such folly.
It was no surprise that Liu Ziqi had come, but that Ren Zhongyuan had tagged along to join the fun was not Huo Yudie's doing. His face wore a show of complicated feelings, yet the corners of his mouth plainly carried a delighted gloat. If he did not come in person to witness Wei Zhao's miserable end, then he would not be Ren Zhongyuan.
To speak of it, this fellow was in fact something of a talent. Ever since Wei Zhao had shouted him down on the Road of Magnates that time, he and Yi Xiaotian and the others had spent a long while before finally locating a tribulation site. Yet of all of them, he alone had ultimately succeeded in advancing to Profound Ascension—and what was truly remarkable was that he had not used a Thunder Profound Pill at all.
His father, Ren Tiansuo, was indeed a seventh-grade alchemist, but even the cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice. However great one's alchemical skill, what use was it without Thunder Profound Vine? One could hardly conjure it out of thin air.
And that rare elixir, the Thunder Profound Pill, could not be bought anywhere save at grand auctions, and even there the odds of it appearing were very low. Moreover, as at the Morning Star Grand Auction last time, whenever one did appear, it invariably set the great magnates of every faction scrambling and snatching with all their might. How easy could it be for Ren Zhongyuan to wrest a Thunder Profound Pill from the hands of such people?