Chapter 3863 — Only Enemies Remain
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
The cultivation world had always revered the strong, and this Wei Zhao, she supposed, would be no exception.
Just as Murong Zhen was about to overawe Wei Zhao by force, he suddenly spoke: "Are you sure this is wise? To fight a private battle here without first filing a declaration—in this Welcome Pavilion, that draws severe punishment. Miss Murong, are you not afraid someone will shove you the rest of the way down the well?"
He spoke with his usual calm, not the slightest trace of alarm about him—as though it were no more than an idle reminder. And if Murong Zhen chose to pay it no heed, then he would not mind seeing it through to the end.
At these words Murong Zhen's aura faltered. When the meaning of them caught up with her, she could not suppress a shudder.
Just as Wei Zhao said, her present situation was hardly favorable!
She who might have been a member of the Ascendant Pavilion's second-generation inner circle had been dashed to the dust, reduced to a lowly newcomer of no standing at the bottom of Qingyun Pavilion. And if she were to commit some offense now, she had no doubt that those who had banished her here—eager as they were to please Shangguan Lan'er and Xu Lingchong—would be only too glad to trample her down further, to shove her the rest of the way down the well.
Then Murong Zhen might well find herself on the Welcome Pavilion's blacklist, and by then she might not even be admitted into Qingyun Pavilion at all, cut off utterly from the Threefold Pavilion—and that would be a true tragedy, with never another chance in this life to turn the tables and rise again.
At the thought, Murong Zhen hastily reined in her aura and shot Wei Zhao a venomous glare. It was all the fault of this arrogant, loathsome wretch—he had nearly made her commit a grave error!
"You just wait, this beauty will make you regret this!" Leaving that much behind with a face full of malice, Murong Zhen twisted her waist and turned away. Seduction had failed, and force was barred to her; to linger any longer would only be to invite further humiliation.
Watching Murong Zhen's alluring figure retreat, Wei Zhao drew a deep breath. What nonsense this was—seduction failing, and then coercion? If ridding himself of her now would not have brought him so much trouble, she would already be dead.
The matter of the Southern Heaven Pass was still unresolved, and Wei Zhao had no wish to reveal his strength again. Still, the woman had earned herself a place on his blacklist.
There might be trouble ahead, but what was done was done—there was no help for it. The woman was no prize in any case; if she wanted enmity, then enmity she should have. Wei Zhao had enemies scattered far and wide, and one more made little difference.
What Wei Zhao did not know was that even had he not fallen out with Murong Zhen today, given her enmity with Shangguan Lan'er, he would inevitably have found himself set against her in the end. What he had done today was merely to make the lines between friend and foe clear a little sooner.
But it hardly mattered. When the soldiers come, a general will meet them; when the water rises, earth will dam it. Wei Zhao shook his head with a faint smile, then without further ado entered the space within his jade pendant and resumed his cultivation.
While the seedlings of the Heart-Devouring Linglong Grass were not yet ripe, what Wei Zhao must do was continue to consolidate his present realm at the peak of early Foundation Establishment, shoring up his foundations as thoroughly as he could, and make ready for the breakthrough to come.
It was true that once he could refine a Foundation Establishment Golden Core, his breakthrough would be assured—but cultivation had never been a matter that could be solved by swallowing pills alone. RS