Chapter 3882 — Challenging Wei Zhao!
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As the situation now stood, among the three factions of newcomers in the Azure Cloud Pavilion, Murong Zhen's strength stood a notch above the rest, but she was still isolated and outnumbered. Meng Jueming could rely only on Meng Zhou, and was unlikely to improve his standing any time soon. The strongest faction, therefore, remained Wei Zhao's group.
If Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai, those two wings of Wei Zhao, could be cut down by some opening, it would benefit both Murong Zhen and Meng Jueming with no downside whatsoever. No one would lightly let such an opportunity slip by.
Seeing that Wei Zhao had spoken thus, Qiao Hongcai, even if he had harbored thoughts of showing off his bravado, could only strangle them in the bud for the time being. He nodded and said, "Rest easy, boss. I treasure this little life of mine. I'm not about to go looking for trouble."
Wei Zhao and the others burst out laughing at once. You, of all people, dare call yourself a lover of life? Then who was it that clashed head-on with Meng Zhou twice in a row and nearly got himself killed?
As everyone had expected, several days later, in the seventeenth round of the newcomer challenge tournament, Murong Zhen named her target: Qiao Hongcai of the second cave dwelling at the foot of the mountain.
And because of Wei Zhao's stern warning beforehand, Qiao Hongcai, though itching all over and burning to have a proper contest with that venomous woman, ultimately chose to forfeit.
"What a wise and adorable young man!" That was Murong Zhen's assessment of Qiao Hongcai.
This was no polite formality but a sincere appraisal. Had Qiao Hongcai truly been a man of single-track obstinacy, then even with Wei Zhao's warning beforehand, Murong Zhen could have provoked him into striking first. But the facts proved that no matter how she spun her honeyed words, Qiao Hongcai remained restrained from first to last, displaying all the composure of a great general unmoved as a mountain.
Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai—two subordinates in a row had earned considerable praise from Murong Zhen. But precisely because of this, she grew all the more interested in Wei Zhao, their leader.
Though she had tried to make contact with Wei Zhao on her very first day at the Welcome Pavilion, she still knew nothing at all about his true strength. Someone who could make both Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai follow him without question was surely no ordinary man.
Three days later, the eighteenth round of the newcomer challenge tournament arrived on schedule. This was the closing battle of this assessment stage, and it naturally drew everyone's eyes.
Everyone was raring to go. Looking back over the previous four newcomer assessment stages, the challenge tournament was without question the easiest stage in which to rack up points, provided one had the strength. And now this eighteenth round was the final chance.
If one did not fight hard now, then when the spirit herb assessment stage came and one could only watch helplessly as points were deducted while being powerless to do anything, one would truly have no tears left to cry.
The ferocity of this closing round was only to be expected.
Beyond that, there was another, greater point of interest. Murong Zhen now held the second cave dwelling at the foot of the mountain, having already knocked out two of Wei Zhao's underlings, Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai. So in today's final round, would she challenge Wei Zhao?
One was a top-tier early Foundation Establishment expert who had joined midway; the other was the number one newcomer whom everyone found impossible to deal with. Once these two crossed hands, in the eyes of the Azure Cloud Pavilion's newcomers it would be nothing short of Mars colliding with Earth—a battle that could well decide the shape of things to come.
Yet Murong Zhen was no fool. Although she had already knocked out Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai in succession, that did not mean she would take the initiative to move against Wei Zhao.