Chapter 3556 — Xu Lingchong, the Backer
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"The ones who came before were here to pick people—they took the best and carried them off. Me? I'm here to collect what's left. Whoever's left over, I have to haul them back... and when I get home and the senior steward finds out I brought back two more loose cultivators, I'll get another earful. It's a thankless job—who'd want to do it!" The miserable senior brother shook his head. "All they can do is bully me. Tough at home, that's all. If they had the guts, they'd go fight the Chongtian Pavilion and the Xuanji Pavilion for their people!"
"So it seems the two of us are the weakest of the lot." Wei Zhao was a little speechless when he heard this. "Senior Brother Ku, we're not that bad, are we? We're not especially weak."
"Ah, no need to say all that. I understand. But I'm used to being scolded—it's no trouble." The miserable senior brother shook his head.
Still, Wei Zhao could tell: this Senior Brother Ku was a genuinely good man, and he truly answered every question he was asked! By now Xiao Chen had already learned that the Heaven-Tier North Island was only a part of Ascending Cloud Terrace Island, that on Ascending Cloud Terrace Island there were other teleportation platforms with others charged with receiving arrivals, and that even Senior Brother Ku did not know where they were received. With his abilities, he really did not know that much!
"Senior Brother Ku, have you ever heard of a man called Zhang Naipao?" Wei Zhao finally asked the question he most wanted answered. Now that he knew Tianchan and the others had gone somewhere else, he was relieved—they were all on Ascending Cloud Terrace Island, so sooner or later they would meet.
"Zhang Naipao? The alchemy god Zhang Naipao?" Senior Brother Ku was taken aback. "Of course I know of him. He's a famous figure who came out of our Heaven-Tier North Island. As for where he is now, I couldn't say. I'm a grassroots disciple selected from a village near here, and I only recently joined the Azure Cloud Pavilion—there's a great deal I don't know! Frankly, we're all newcomers. I'm just luckier—I've already broken through to the heavenly dao and count as a decent hand at the early Foundation Establishment stage."
"Thank you, Senior Brother Ku." Wei Zhao nodded. Though there was no definite answer, at least he knew Zhang Naipao should be here! Back at the ancient tomb, Wei Zhao had suspected Zhang Naipao was not dead; and since something had been missing from the tomb, he was all the more certain that Zhang Naipao had gone back for it. If Zhang Naipao had indeed broken through to the heavenly dao, then Ascending Cloud Terrace Island should be where he was—and sure enough, he had been right!
Meanwhile, as Wei Zhao and Xiao Chen were sounding out this miserable senior brother, Kang Jingming and Zhong Yongliang, who had set out earlier, were already thick as thieves with their own guide. Unlike Senior Brother Ku, their guide was a man of no small standing—his name was Xu Lingchong, and he was the direct grandson of the Third Elder of the Chongtian Pavilion, a cultivation second-generation heir of impeccable pedigree.
In every pavilion, the one with the most power was the pavilion master, and beneath him were the several elders! But the pavilion master seldom concerned himself with such trifles; for welcoming newcomers, having a single elder put in an appearance was already good enough.
"My heavens—to succeed at Foundation Establishment by thirty! Those so-called cultivation prodigies look like a heap of dung next to Senior Brother Xu!" Kang Jingming, having gotten a clear picture of the man's background, immediately began to fawn and flatter with loud exclamations.