Chapter 3507 — Meeting Tianchan Again
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Song Lingwei arrived, but pretended not to know Wei Zhao and did not greet him.
Tor Riyue of the Paoli clan came as well. He did greet Wei Zhao, but at Wei Zhao's subtle signal he did not act too close to him.
After all, Wei Zhao did not want to draw too much attention this time. He had been measured even in dealing with Zhong Yongliang; in truth, from first to last, Wei Zhao had not lifted a hand.
The rest of the sect people who had successors did not show up, presumably because they were no longer traveling with the ordinary trial participants.
A few others were disciples of small foreign sects whom he did not know. They did not speak to Wei Zhao, and Wei Zhao could not be bothered to greet them either.
All told, there really were not many people in the whole Heaven-Tier trial. Even though Wei Zhao had reached the ancient level, Heaven-Tier experts were still pitifully few, and those at the peak of late Heaven-Tier and at Heaven-Tier Great Perfection were fewer still.
On the last day of trial registration, nothing happened all day, and no more trial participants came to sign up.
It was not until evening that a voice suddenly rang out over the open ground behind the inn. The voice was not loud, but it carried far, bearing an air of forceful authority that made every trial participant in the inn tremble in spirit.
"Attention, all trial participants entered for the Heaven-Tier trial: registration is now closed! Registration and enrollment will begin at once. All trial participants in the inn are to assemble on the open ground behind the inn within five minutes to undergo registration and inspection by the Five Luminaries Sect. Latecomers will not be admitted!" The voice belonged to Ancestor Xuanchen. Wei Zhao knew it well, and the old man made no effort to conceal his strength, laying bare the full Great Perfection of late Heaven-Tier peak power.
Ancestor Xuanchen had come in person! Wei Zhao was stirred. It seemed the Five Luminaries Sect set great store by this trial. Yet unlike other trials, no deposit was required, which struck Wei Zhao as odd. By rights, after Kang Jingming had lost so much money before, why not seize this chance to rake in a fortune?
But on reflection, anyone who could enter the Five Luminaries Sect's trial was an elite of some sect, and all were preparing for the Heaven-Tier Assembly and the qualification to land on Cloud-Tier Island. To collect money at such a time would seem rather inappropriate.
Besides, Ancestor Xuanchen's mind was probably no longer on money. They were about to go to Cloud-Tier Island—what use was so much mundane coin? Once on Cloud-Tier Island, it was not even certain what currency would be used.
After all, the higher the cultivation level, the smaller the role of money. Those precious natural treasures could not be measured in coin; barter was the more common practice.
Still, he recalled that at other trials, sect masters rarely raised their voices to summon people themselves. Wei Zhao thought, with a touch of malice, that perhaps the Five Luminaries Sect had run out of people—perhaps he had beaten all the disciples to death—and so Ancestor Xuanchen had no choice but to take the field himself.
Think as he might, Wei Zhao still quickly brought Wang Xinyan and Han Jingyi to the open ground behind the inn.
In less than a minute, nearly all the trial participants had filed out of the inn and gathered in the square behind it. They were all Heaven-Tier experts, after all, and none of them was slow.
Wei Zhao, Han Jingyi, and Wang Xinyan found a relatively clean spot and sat cross-legged on the ground. The other trial participants came over and, following Wei Zhao's example, found places of their own and sat down.
Nearly everyone had taken part in a trial before and knew the rules. They understood that they had been summoned to have the trial rules explained to them.