Chapter 3871 — Passing the Trouble On
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A peak expert at the early Foundation Establishment stage, and a beauty with an impressive background to boot - an enemy like that was exceedingly troublesome.
But that was not what Wei Zhao was thinking about at the moment. He suddenly understood why Murong Zhen had helped him this time. The reason was simple: she needed him to keep Meng Jue Ming and Meng Zhou in check.
Among the newcomers to Qingyun Pavilion, Meng Jue Ming and his people now formed one faction, while Wei Zhao and the others formed another. As for Murong Zhen, she clearly had no intention of joining either side. After failing to win Wei Zhao over, she had not turned around and thrown in her lot with Meng Jue Ming's faction. Instead, she intended to become a third force, standing on equal footing with both of them.
That was the only explanation for why she had summoned Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai to get her out of trouble. If something happened to her, then without question, Meng Jue Ming would become the sole power among the Qingyun Pavilion newcomers. Even with Murong Zhen's scheming and political skill, it would be difficult for her to stand against him, especially since she had only just arrived and had no foundation to rely on.
Dealing with a fool like Meng Zhou might still be possible, but Meng Jue Ming was the senior disciple in charge. That was a position she could never replace him in. To submit to him would be no different from surrendering, and that was not what she wanted. This woman wanted to control the entire situation.
Her wings had not yet fully grown, so she needed Wei Zhao to tie up Meng Jue Ming's attention. That was the true reason Murong Zhen had stepped in to help.
This also confirmed Wei Zhao's earlier impression of the woman. Murong Zhen clearly had grand ambitions; otherwise, she would never have weighed the situation so carefully and schemed so painstakingly.
After all, according to the instinctive desire for revenge most women would have, once she had fallen out with Wei Zhao, her first reaction - even if she did not immediately try to harm him - certainly would not have been to help him out of trouble. Simply standing by and watching would already have shown considerable magnanimity.
Balancing three rival factions was a choice only someone with truly unfathomable depths would make. Murong Zhen's scheming was indeed extraordinary.
"It looks like the days ahead are not going to be nearly so peaceful." Watching Murong Zhen's alluring back as she walked away, Wei Zhao could only shake his head helplessly.
Before this, having only Meng Jue Ming's faction to deal with, Wei Zhao had managed with ease. Especially after Meng Zhou had lain low recently, with no one going out of their way to make trouble for him, Wei Zhao had been free to focus on cultivating and increasing his strength. But now that a scheming woman like Murong Zhen had joined in to stir up the winds and clouds, living so leisurely from here on would no longer be realistic.
At his words, Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai exchanged a glance and nodded in deep agreement. They had not yet seen through Murong Zhen's true intentions, but they could already sense that things among the Qingyun Pavilion newcomers were bound to become lively.
"Come on. The challenge matches are about to begin. Let's see what this woman does first." Wei Zhao smiled faintly as he spoke to the two men.
With Murong Zhen's arrival, the situation had suddenly become much more complicated. Wei Zhao still had absolute confidence that he could deal with these people, but he could not afford to let his guard down. Otherwise, one wrong move, and he might truly end up capsized in a drainage ditch.
Meanwhile, after failing to sound out Wei Zhao, Yu Jiang immediately returned to Nan Tianguan's side and recounted everything that had happened, leaving out not a single detail.