Chapter 3758 — A Sense of Propriety
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
But if one chose to exploit that low intelligence of his, Wei Zhao truly would not be difficult to deal with!
Kang Jingming, however, was somewhat surprised. By any reasonable account, Wei Zhao had never been this much of a fool back in the mortal world—so why had he turned so reckless since arriving on the Cloud-Tier Island? Could the sheer abundance of heaven-and-earth spiritual energy have gone to his head?
"Showboat Newcomer, we're all looking forward to your god-tier performance of three perfect scores in a row—don't you dare disappoint us! Of course, if you happen to wipe out completely and get forty points docked, well, that'd be a fine tale to tell too, wouldn't it? You've got points to spare anyway—just think of it as a display of generosity!" Meng Zhou could not resist needling him with a snickering laugh.
In his eyes, Wei Zhao had this time volunteered to dig his own grave. No matter how skilled a pill refiner he might be, after signing up for all forty spirit-herb seeds, there was no longer any chance he would escape a fall—the only question was how many points he would lose.
To be sure, it was hardly realistic to expect all forty of Wei Zhao's spirit-herb seeds to perish, but if heaven smiled upon them and let twenty or thirty of them die off, that was entirely plausible.
"Brother Meng Zhou, now you're overthinking it. Wei Zhao is a pill refiner, after all—how could he possibly wipe out completely?"
Kang Jingming put on a solemn, righteous air and said, "With his ability, cultivating three or four is absolutely no problem at all. But any more than that would be somewhat difficult—after all, the fourth round of assessment is coming right up, and as the one sticking his neck out, he's under tremendous pressure. Human strength has its limits; we should be understanding."
Meng Jueming nodded and picked up the thread. "Junior Brother Kang makes a great deal of sense. Junior Brother Wei Zhao has taken two perfect scores in a row and is our Azure Cloud Pavilion's top newcomer—everyone else ought to learn from him properly. The fourth assessment round coming up is the perfect, rare opportunity for a friendly contest of skills. Chances to challenge a formidable opponent are hard to come by—no one should let this one slip!"
The Azure Cloud newcomers who had thrown in their lot with him all answered in a great roar of assent. Though Wei Zhao was, in their eyes, an existence on an entirely different plane, everyone is prone to envy—they were all Azure Cloud newcomers alike. What made Wei Zhao so special that he could strut and shine like that, while ordinary newcomers like themselves could not?
A chance to openly make trouble for Wei Zhao was exactly the kind of good fortune they had been craving!
Seeing the newcomers react this way, Meng Jueming, Kang Jingming, and the others promptly smiled in smug satisfaction.
In their view, Wei Zhao had already brought enormous pressure on himself by taking forty spirit-herb seeds at once. If he was then focus-fired during the coming assessment round, even if they could not finish him off outright, they could wear him down until he was flat on his face. If he could recover even a little true qi each day to cope with the assessment challenges, that would already be something—and still cultivate forty spirit-herb seeds? In his dreams.
Meng Jueming and the others were beside themselves with glee, but Zhong Yongliang and Li Zhengming, mingling among them, exchanged a knowing, private sneer. Under Wei Zhao's leadership, their way of doing things had always been to never fight a battle they were unprepared for. What the hell were these idiots laughing at? When the assessment results came out, who the fool was still remained to be seen!
Carrying all forty spirit-herb seeds in his hands, Wei Zhao paid not the slightest attention to the jeers and mockery of Meng Jueming and the rest, and walked straight back to the side of the long-suffering senior brother and the others.