Chapter 3868 — Spotting the Flaw
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He had no idea what grievance existed between Wei Zhao and Meng Jueming's group. Still, when Meng Jueming had introduced Wei Zhao to him last time, he had indeed spoken of him in anything but flattering terms. The hostility between the two sides had been obvious enough.
Besides, Yu Jiang was, after all, a dignified inner disciple of the Chongtian Pavilion, not to mention an expert at the middle Foundation Establishment stage. Meng Jueming, meanwhile, was merely a newcomer supervisor from the Qingyun Pavilion. What qualifications did he have to trouble Yu Jiang, of all people, to intervene personally on his behalf?
"Meng Jueming did not send you? Then why did you summon me here?" Wei Zhao asked, feigning shock and confusion.
Faced with Wei Zhao's question, Yu Jiang found himself hesitating instead.
If he had managed to trick some clue out of the other man just now, he could have attacked without the slightest psychological burden. But judging from Wei Zhao's reaction, there was not a single flaw to be found. He seemed to be nothing more than an ordinary newcomer to the Qingyun Pavilion, and that made things rather difficult.
After all, in Yu Jiang's view, even if everything Kang Jingming had said earlier was true, even if this Wei Zhao really was an alchemist who truly knew how to make dan-fire bombs, the odds that he was Lin Er had already dwindled to almost nothing.
For such a faint possibility, was it really worth attacking a newcomer from the Welcome Pavilion and taking on such an enormous risk?
Just as Yu Jiang hesitated, Nan Tianguan's voice suddenly rang in his ear. "Tell the boy that you are going to kill him. Then stop wasting words and attack him directly. Watch his reaction carefully."
Yu Jiang's heart jolted. He instinctively started to turn his head and look around, but after realizing what he was doing, he forcibly suppressed the impulse. Nan Tianguan was nowhere within his line of sight. The voice in his ear had been transmitted through the Thousand-Li True Qi Voice-Conveyance technique.
Naturally, it was not truly capable of spanning a thousand li. In practice, a distance of several li posed no difficulty at all. The technique did have one great advantage, however: once a target was locked on, only that person could hear the transmitted voice. Everyone else nearby would remain oblivious, even if they were standing less than a zhang away.
Nan Tianguan had overlooked one thing, though. Even if Wei Zhao could not hear the words he had sent to Yu Jiang, given the distance between Wei Zhao and Yu Jiang, Wei Zhao's formidable senses could still detect the faintest ripple.
Of course, it could not exactly be called an oversight. An ordinary cultivator's senses were nowhere near as keen as Wei Zhao's.
More importantly, Yu Jiang's instinctive turn of the head just now had already been an unmistakable flaw in Wei Zhao's eyes. Combined with the abnormal ripple he had just caught, it served as perfect corroboration.
There was someone else! Wei Zhao reached that conclusion in an instant. It was not difficult to infer that this person was very likely the second of the Three Southern Heroes of the Nan clan, the man Shangguan Lan'er had mentioned in her letter: Nan Tianguan.
From the very first moment he had seen Yu Jiang, Wei Zhao had harbored this suspicion. After all, Yu Jiang was merely an inner disciple of the Chongtian Pavilion at the middle Foundation Establishment stage. For him to dare come calling in broad daylight and make trouble for a newcomer of the Welcome Pavilion was suspicious in itself.
But if Nan Tianguan was following behind him, then everything made perfect sense.
As Wei Zhao's thoughts raced and he considered how best to respond to the situation, a powerful killing intent suddenly surged from Yu Jiang. "Boy, whether or not you are the person I am looking for, all I can say is that you are terribly unlucky. You are going to die today!" (To be continued...)