Chapter 1496 — Bringing Her Along
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The matter of Wei Zhao carrying a person into the trial had already spread. Every cultivator thought Wei Zhao must be sick in the head — carrying a dead woman into the trial? Even a lovesick fool could not be that lovesick.
"Lord Pao, you think this Ling Yi has swallowed too many idiot pills? Hauling a dead woman into the trial?" Zhuang Niaopao looked at Wei Zhao and sneered. "I say he's off to seek death, to go down to the Yellow Springs together with his dead girl."
Zhang Naipao was astonished as well, unable to guess what play Wei Zhao was making. But Zhang Naipao was not as Zhuang Niaopao: his cultivation method was unusual, and he was keenly sensitive to the energies of the outer world. He could sense that the woman on Wei Zhao's back did not seem to be dead — though even if not dead, she clung to life by a thread.
From what Zhang Naipao knew of Wei Zhao, the man ought not to do anything so foolish. Yet foolish he had been — truly beyond comprehension.
Zhang Naipao wanted a look at who was on Wei Zhao's back, but Feng Xiaoxiao's face was pressed against Wei Zhao's shoulder, hidden behind her hair, and he could not make her out. After a few glances without gaining any clue, he had no choice but to give it up.
"Who knows? Perhaps he has come seeking a physician?" Zhang Naipao shook his head, for he truly could conceive of no other reason that would bring Wei Zhao to this trial with a half-dead woman in tow.
Most of the trial participants thought much as Zhang Naipao and Zhuang Niaopao did. Though they could not understand why Wei Zhao would do such a thing, they all reckoned him a madman, unsound of mind.
The rest were the sort who kept aloof from what did not concern them. What Wei Zhao did was nothing to them. Yang Qiqi, for one, found it absurd that Wei Zhao should carry a woman on his back, yet she felt that the affairs of this villain had no bearing on her — why bother about it?
Xiao Qing looked over all the trial participants present. She was chiefly checking the rank of the spirit beasts they had brought, to see whether any exceeded the Ice Palace's trial rules. When she saw that a person was tied to Wei Zhao's back, she too was briefly stunned.
Xiao Qing said nothing more, however. With her strength, she could of course sense Feng Xiaoxiao's condition — a person at her final breath, with only one mouthful of air left. Though she did not know why Wei Zhao had brought her along, what Wei Zhao was doing indeed did not violate the Ice Palace's trial rules.
This person could be counted as Wei Zhao's servant, and in strength she likewise met the requirement. As for being half-dead, the Ice Palace had no rule that a half-dead servant could not join the trial.