Chapter 3570 — Three Distinguished Guests
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In the past, if Wei Zhao had called Jiao Yazi "Jiao," the man would have flown into a rage—but now there was truly no reaction at all.
"Kid, save your breath. That old thing has been like this since a while ago." A voice suddenly spoke up beside Wei Zhao—it was the Ghost Thing, and it gave Wei Zhao quite a start!
"Uh... Senior Ghost, you're awake? What do you mean, 'like this since a while ago'?" Wei Zhao had not expected the Ghost Thing to awaken, and he asked in some confusion.
"It started when you teleported over from the mortal realm to Cloud-Tier Island. The old thing has been like this ever since," the Ghost Thing said blandly.
"Uh... you don't say? Could my coming to Cloud-Tier Island really have affected Old Jiao? It seems... what he said before was true!" Wei Zhao sighed, but then a doubt surfaced: "But Senior Ghost, how is it that you're fine?"
"What do you mean, how am I fine? Do you actually wish something would happen to me, brat?" the Ghost Thing snapped angrily. "How could I be the same as him? I originally came out of Cloud-Tier Island. Who knows how he got here?"
"Uh... slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue." Wei Zhao gave a dry laugh to calm the Ghost Thing down, then asked in surprise, "So you came out of Cloud-Tier Island?"
"Naturally!" the Ghost Thing said lightly. "Now, I don't mind chatting a bit more with you. Your strength is, at present, reasonably satisfactory to me! Do me a favor in the future—consider it repayment for the many times I've helped you!"
"Fine, so long as it's within my power!" Wei Zhao did not refuse. After all, the Ghost Thing had helped him a great deal—it had even left the puppet avatar in Wei Zhao's villa in the mortal realm, protecting his family and friends.
"Didn't that old thing say earlier that he wanted to pass some memories on to you? You didn't receive them? My guess is that this Jiao Yazi was previously something like the terminal of a puppet avatar—able to move about on his own, yes, but controlled by a mother body behind the scenes. I suspect that after you reached Cloud-Tier Island, the mother body lost contact with him—in other words, he can no longer receive the mother body's command signals, and that's why he's like this..." Drawing on his own situation, the Ghost Thing explained to Wei Zhao, "Although I can still establish contact with the puppet avatar, that connection is already quite strained. It only holds to this extent: when your family is in danger and issues a command to the puppet avatar, it can automatically go fight the enemy. But what it sees now, where it is—I can no longer sense any of that! So then, if the mother body behind Jiao Yazi is not as powerful as I am, or if it simply never imagined he could come to Cloud-Tier Island, losing contact is only to be expected."
"So that's how it is!" Wei Zhao was somewhat disappointed upon hearing this, though he also knew that if the Ghost Thing spoke the truth, then for the time being he need not think about restoring Jiao Yazi.
What rather puzzled Wei Zhao, though, was that he seemed not to have received any information at all. Could it be that the memories could only be unlocked once one's strength reached a certain level? He thought Old Jiao would not deceive him, so he would just wait and see!
Besides Old Jiao, the Thunder Pig was also lying within the jade pendant space. Wei Zhao had brought it along for its treasure-seeking instincts, but it too had fallen unconscious. Fortunately its life was not in danger; it seemed that so long as it rested in the jade pendant space for a while, it should recover in time.
It seemed that even inside the jade pendant space, spirit beasts were affected to some degree. This teleportation array had likely been designed specifically for human cultivators!