Chapter 3256 — Trouble Comes Knocking
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Then I am truly grateful!" He Tianzu said with a smile. "Then, Mr. Ling, you are welcome to visit the Overseas Cultivators' Association once the auction is over. Here is my card!"
With that, He Tianzu handed Wei Zhao a card. Wei Zhao glanced at it: it bore only He Tianzu's name, a contact number, and an address, and nothing else. Plainly that address was the location of the Overseas Cultivators' Association.
"My own cards are back at the hotel. This outing was only to accompany little sister Xiao Qi and see a little of the auction here," Wei Zhao said, pocketing the card.
"No matter." He Tianzu waved a hand. "Mr. Ling, might I ask what your relationship with Miss Xu is..."
"Xiao Han is the face of our company." Wei Zhao could hardly say anything else; otherwise He Tianzu, who had just been steadied, might well stir up some fresh mischief and catch Wei Zhao off guard.
"Very well. Then, Mr. Ling, you are welcome to pay us a visit. I shall take my leave first." He Tianzu knew what mattered and what did not; he understood that this was no time to make an enemy of Wei Zhao. The man had come bearing fine treasures that the Overseas Cultivators' Association needed, and to offend him would likely mean the whole matter of the automatic medicinal cauldrons would fall through. So He Tianzu had no choice but to set it aside for the moment.
Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, yet did not relax his vigilance in the slightest. He resolved that the moment the auction ended, he would leave this den of trouble at once.
Once inside the auction hall, Wei Zhao followed Yang Qiqi all the way into a VIP box. Here, anyone of a certain standing and background had a private VIP room of their own. But even though only the few of them were in the room, Wei Zhao still carefully examined it after entering, and only after finding no hidden listening or surveillance devices did he say to Yang Qiqi: "Xiao Qi, are you connected with this Overseas Cultivators' Association?"
"Yes, Brother Wei Zhao, I am a member of the Overseas Cultivators' Association. All overseas cultivators belong to it. Normally there is nothing you need to do—you simply register your identity, and each month you can collect a certain amount of cultivation elixirs and rare natural treasures. It is a rather charitable sort of organization."
Wei Zhao nodded silently. Just as he had thought—it seemed He Dantou was quite skilled at winning people over, gathering all these cultivators under his own banner. Though for now he asked nothing of them, at the crucial moment the influence they could exert was not to be underestimated.
And now that Tang Yuqi had become a Heaven-tier expert, it was only natural that the Overseas Cultivators' Association would want to keep him in the fold and not let him go. After all, Tang Yuqi had once obtained a great deal of cultivation resources from the association; one might say that without the Overseas Cultivators' Association, there would be no Heaven-tier Tang Yuqi.
Still, Aunt Wang of Snow Valley had made it quite clear that she could help Tang Yuqi repay those cultivation resources—or repay them twofold.