Chapter 3510 — Tang Zhi, Wei Zhao
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Wei Zhao nodded and looked over the assembled inheritors. Apart from those he already knew, his gaze finally came to rest on Tang Zhi. For some reason, Tang Zhi seemed to exert a peculiar pull on Wei Zhao.
It felt as though he had seen her in a past life—utterly mysterious.
Tang Zhi, too, felt Wei Zhao's gaze, and her breathing grew slightly hurried. This was the man she had longed for day and night, the man she loved deeply—and yet she could not reveal herself to him!
That Wei Zhao had grown to his present strength and could stand among the candidates of the Heaven Tier trial filled Tang Zhi with gladness. But seeing all those beautiful women flocking around him, it would be a lie to say she felt no jealousy.
Fortunately, most of them were women she had known and built deep friendships with while she was still there—the eldest young miss Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, Feng Xiaoxiao, Guan Xin. Only Yu Ning and Xiao Jiu were newcomers, but she had already spoken with Gu Mengyao and learned that both had known Wei Zhao before she herself met him, so she let it go.
Besides, because of the cultivation method and oral formula she practiced, Tang Zhi could not know love, so none of this had much to do with her anymore.
She was now an expert at the peak of the late Heaven Tier, not yet ascended to Great Perfection. The Heartless Formula had stalled, and this made Tang Zhi anxious—Xueli was even more worried. So when she saw Wei Zhao look her way now, Xueli coughed twice without thinking, signaling Tang Zhi that she must not let the old flame with Wei Zhao reignite. Otherwise, if she failed to break through to Heaven Tier Great Perfection, everything would have been for nothing.
Tang Zhi heard Xueli's cough and knew she was reminding her, so she never once raised her head.
Wei Zhao saw that Tang Zhi did not look at him at all, and could only sigh softly and turn to leave.
Tianchan was expounding on matters concerning the inheritors, and Wei Zhao could hardly eavesdrop. What would it even look like if he did?
As Wei Zhao walked back, Kang Jingming called out to stop him.
"Well, if it isn't Wei Zhao, the most formidable lone cultivator, the number one man under the Heavenly Dao!" Kang Jingming had scarcely opened his mouth before loading Wei Zhao down with all those titles, which at once made Wei Zhao suspect something was off. This fellow was surely scheming some villainy.
Sure enough, after Wei Zhao walked over and glanced at him, Kang Jingming went on: "We've all discussed it among ourselves. Since you're the strongest of us all, the task of luring the Five Wretched Dragon out of its cave—the vanguard charge—falls to you! After all, whoever's strongest does the heavy lifting! Do you have any objection to my arrangement and deployment?"
So this was where the trap had been waiting! Wei Zhao laughed inwardly at how well Kang Jingming had calculated. Luring the Five Wretched Dragon out of its cave was the most dangerous part of the whole affair; one could lose one's life at any moment.
And this task Kang Jingming had actually assigned to Wei Zhao, capping it off by calling it his arrangement and deployment and asking whether Wei Zhao had any objection—nothing short of naked coercion, telling Wei Zhao that if he did not obey his deployment, he had the power at any time to revoke Wei Zhao's trial qualification!
At any other time, Wei Zhao might have struggled against him. But now, Wei Zhao did not want any major conflict with the Five Luminaries Sect before Cloud-Tier Island opened. Besides, the Five Wretched Dragon might frighten others—but not necessarily Wei Zhao! RS