Chapter 2124 — An Unexpected Encounter in the Jungle
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
In any case, seeing the despair, helplessness, and death-wish on this You family disciple's face, Wei Zhao felt an inexplicable sigh rise in his heart. The man was pitiable enough—he had thrown in his lot with the hidden You family, expecting a future of soaring success, only to meet such a wretched end.
If Wei Zhao hadn't seen it, so be it. But he had seen it, and it stirred in him a sense of shared suffering.
Once, Wei Zhao too had known that kind of despair and helplessness! That time he fought Ma Zhu of the Golden Bell Sect, he had been gravely injured and believed he would never cultivate again, never possess strength again. But his employer at the time had treated him in a way utterly different from the hidden You family!
The eldest young lady had stood by him without wavering, even offering to flee back to his hometown with him to take refuge. Compared with that, this hidden You family disciple was rather pitiful—to have followed such a cold-blooded master was his misfortune.
Wei Zhao came to stand silently behind the hidden You family disciple...
The disciple's meridians were all severed, his strength utterly gone, and his body gravely wounded. Naturally he hadn't noticed anyone come up behind him, and he went on muttering to himself...
"Little sister, your brother is useless. In this life, I can no longer avenge you... I thought I'd found a stroke of fortune, that I'd reached the Earth Rank at such a young age, that joining the hidden You family would give me a fine future... but I never imagined..." The You family disciple poured out his grief to himself. "Little sister, perhaps you've long been gone already. Your brother will be coming to join you soon..."
Listening to the hidden You family disciple's words, Wei Zhao felt a weight settle over his heart. This man had joined the hidden You family—seemingly to take revenge? Seemingly for his little sister?
"Aiding the wicked, joining the hidden You family, playing the running dog—the day you joined, you should have been prepared for today," Wei Zhao said flatly.
"Ah!" The You family disciple jumped in fright. He hadn't expected anyone to be standing behind him. He turned instinctively, saw Wei Zhao, and a self-mocking bitter smile crossed his lips. "You've come here to mock a defeated subordinate like me?"
"Defeated subordinate?" Wei Zhao regarded him with interest. "I pushed you from third place down to fourth. You don't hate me?"
"Hate? I'm simply less skilled—why should I hate?" The You family disciple shook his head. "If I hate anything, it's that I didn't choose the right master. You're right. I thought the hidden You family was raising me as a core disciple, but I was nothing more than a dog! Still, I never aided the wicked. Serving as a thug for their family's young masters, currying favor—I disdained to do any of it!"
"Oh? And it's precisely because you disdained to do it that they sent you into the contest," Wei Zhao said with a smile.
The You family disciple was taken aback, then nodded. "Yes... they used me as a tool... Those thugs, as long as they flatter and fawn, as long as they serve as bodyguards for the young masters, they get cultivation elixirs, while I had to risk my life..."
"Regret it?" Wei Zhao glanced at him and asked mildly.