Chapter 1367 — Jin Wudi Descends the Mountain
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Elder Yu had not expected that after making his suggestion, Wei Zhao would simply settle down and begin cultivating in perfect peace. Irritation flared in him at once: "You thieving little brat — instead of helping search for the entrance, you sit here cultivating? Do you think a few moments of training will let you beat me?"
"That's hard to say. You're wounded now, and if I put in a little more effort, there's no problem in fighting you to a draw." Wei Zhao spoke calmly. "Oh, and I may as well tell you — General Weiwu and I are of one mind. Thank you for telling me it's a healing-type spirit beast. When my strength runs low, I can go to it for healing. You can't. So I can simply wear you down until you die!"
Wei Zhao had seen the covetous look in Elder Yu's eyes when he regarded General Weiwu. To kill that notion before it took root, he had no choice but to give the old man a warning first — lest, before the medical notes were found, he come to blows with Elder Yu too soon.
"Hmph!" Elder Yu gave a cold snort. He was indeed wounded, though he had been concealing it all along. The tomb-guarding spirit beast's blow had not been fatal, but it had more or less sapped his strength; he could no longer hold to his peak condition. His right arm in particular, blown apart by Wei Zhao, had still not healed, so he could not bring his full power to bear — which made everything the more laborious.
"I agreed to your terms, and I'll give you everything I promised. If you won't help search for the entrance, isn't that just wasting time?" Elder Yu said after a moment's thought.
"I'm no good at that sort of thing. It's already something that I could tell there's a problem with this stone pillar." Wei Zhao spoke as though it were nothing. "If you want to search, then search. Don't get in my way."
"You—" Elder Yu was choked with anger. But since Wei Zhao was cultivating, he thought it over and chose to cultivate as well; he sat down cross-legged and began to train. He was no better at hunting out hidden mechanisms and secret passages, so he might as well cultivate...
And so Wei Zhao and Elder Yu, one old and one young, sat facing each other a short distance apart and began to cultivate. Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan, embarrassed to cultivate themselves, could only make a show of searching the stone pillar for its mechanisms...
Songshan City, the Gu family villa. Today was the weekend — Saturday.
Though Ergoudan was there as a bodyguard, the atmosphere in the villa somehow felt oppressive.
"So boring. Sister Yaoyao, I don't know what to do with myself." Shen Yushu lay on the sofa, yawned lazily, switched off the tablet in her hands with a listless air, and complained to Gu Mengyao.
"Then what do you want to do?" Gu Mengyao was playing Monopoly on her phone to pass the time.
"Where on earth has Arrow Brand Bro gone? Not a word for days. How about we go look for him?" A thought struck Shen Yushu, and she made the suggestion.
"Look for him? Where would we even start? Wei Zhao went to find the Fire Spirit Fruit for Feng Xiaoxiao — he didn't go off to play. Don't disturb him." Gu Mengyao said. "If you're bored, we'll go shopping with Tang Zhi this afternoon."
"Shopping... without Arrow Brand Bro, it doesn't seem like any fun..." Shen Yushu said, dispirited. She turned to look at Ergoudan, who sat dumbly at the villa's front gate. "Hey, Little Two, Arrow Brand Bro is your leader — how can you be so dull? Moping all day and blocking the doorway. Who ever heard of a bodyguard like you?"
Ergoudan's behavior exasperated Gu Mengyao as well. Wasn't this bodyguard a little too professional? At the villa he sat at the front gate like a door god, at all hours; and when Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu went out, he sat in the car like an escort, saying hardly a word.
"The leader only told me to protect you both, and I reckon this is the only way to do it!" Ergoudan said, as though it were the most natural thing in the world.