Chapter 3752 — He Got Away
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Just as Wei Zhao was about to pick a direction and try his luck, a sound of footsteps came drifting from afar, and his heart instantly tightened. If anyone stumbled upon his pursuit and killing of Yu Jiang, the matter would become truly troublesome.
After all, the man was, by any reckoning, an inner disciple of the Soaring Heavens Pavilion. If Wei Zhao dared to kill him in front of witnesses, it would be nothing less than an open challenge to the Three-Tiered Pavilion—even seeking death had its proper methods, and this was not one of them.
Hearing the footsteps draw nearer and nearer, Wei Zhao could not help but feel a wave of helplessness. In his current state he might be somewhat better off than Yu Jiang, but not by much. Setting aside the fact that being caught would mean he could no longer continue the pursuit, if the one approaching happened to be someone with a crooked heart, harboring thoughts of robbing a man while he was down, then there would truly be no escape.
To be safe, Wei Zhao could only abandon his plan of pursuit, swiftly quitting the scene while sighing and lamenting all the while.
This thing was truly cunning and hard to deal with—even this had failed to kill him, and he had actually gotten away. Could the fellow be a weasel by birth?
And on top of that, apart from that death-dealing twin strike he had split in two just now, the bastard actually had this strange, powerful powder tucked away as his final trump card. Truly full of tricks and schemes, not to be taken lightly.
Still, having escaped such a golden opportunity this time, it would be very difficult to get rid of the man in the future. After all, though he knew the other was an inner disciple of the Soaring Heavens Pavilion, he did not even know his name; such a chance with no one else around would be hard to come by again.
Moreover, even if such an opportunity did arise in the future, given the cunning, caution, and formidable strength the man had displayed, unless Wei Zhao could crush him outright with even greater power, wanting to toy with him through psychological warfare the way he had this time would be almost as hard as ascending to heaven.
"Forget it. Since he got away, there's nothing to be done. It seems that in the future, when I use the Thousand-Silk Mask and the identity of Lin Er, I'll have to be more careful."
Wei Zhao shook his head helplessly. Fortunately, today he had worn the Thousand-Silk Mask and concealed his identity; otherwise, had he made an enemy of the man under his true identity, he would never know peace again.
He already had a pack of deadly foes like Xu Lingchong and Meng Jueming. Add a cunning, vicious Yu Jiang to the mix, and his days at the Welcome Pavilion would, barring accidents, be spent wasting time on that bunch of idiots every single day. What room would be left for focusing on cultivation?
Avoiding the eyes and ears of others along the way, Wei Zhao made it safely back to his cave dwelling in the Welcome Pavilion and immediately set about healing his wounds. Though he regretted not having killed Yu Jiang, successfully purchasing the Star-Ink Stone today was already a great success.
A supreme treasure capable of helping one achieve a perfect breakthrough to the Golden Core stage—if word of this got out, it would be a tremendous stroke of fortune that would set the whole world's eyes burning with envy!
Though Wei Zhao could not use it for the time being, that day would come eventually. A matchless Golden Core expert—from this point on, step by step, he would ascend into the ranks of Cloudstep Island's top powers. Just thinking about it was enough to set the blood racing!
What Wei Zhao did not know was that a full incense stick's time after he left, not far from the center of the dust explosion, beneath the thick yellow earth, something half-dead and covered in wounds struggled its way out—and it was none other than Yu Jiang.