Chapter 4027 — Smashed Unconscious
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Whatever happened, he must not be discovered. With that resolve, Wei Zhao desperately darted into the room beside him. But to his great surprise, what met his eyes was a lovely expanse of pink. The room was furnished with great warmth, apparently a young woman's boudoir.
"La-la-la, la-la-la..." Ning Xuefei hummed a little tune as she soaked comfortably in a hot bath, in a rather good mood.
At the auction that day, she had successfully bid on two top-grade Foundation-Breaking Pills. These were rare treasures, not even readily available on the Central Island, where one had to place orders with the Five Elements Merchant Guild in advance. To think her luck on the Far North Island had been so good that she had won them at auction!
They would spare her a great deal of cultivation hardship. The moment she touched a barrier, she could directly charge through and level up, with an almost hundred percent success rate. Ordinary Foundation-Breaking Pills could not even compare.
A girl like Ning Xuefei, who was hardly devoted to power, loathed nothing more in life than the dull, repetitive daily grind of seated cultivation. And if she got stuck at a leveling barrier with no progress for a long time, until she was forced into seclusion for bitter training, that miserable experience was something she detested to the core and never wished to repeat as long as she lived.
Although top-grade Foundation-Breaking Pills, unlike Foundation-Establishing Golden Pills, could not be taken directly as experience pills to level up on the spot, they at least had unmatched effects in breaking through barriers, saving a great deal of needless bitter seclusion. So for Ning Xuefei, this trip's gains on the Far North Island made her very happy indeed!
And the only thing on Ning Xuefei's mind now was to go ask the people of the Hong Merchant Guild tomorrow whether she could get her hands on more top-grade pills.
She had come to the Far North Island in a hurry this time and had not brought many spirit jades in her storage. Winning two top-grade Foundation-Breaking Pills today was already a stroke of great fortune. To try to outbid others for more top-grade pills was simply unrealistic; she could only find some other channel and negotiate privately.
This time, the Hong Merchant Guild had brought out more than a hundred top-grade pills at once. Perhaps they still had stock they had not revealed. If she could buy some privately, even if it was only to reserve them for now, that would be an unexpected delight well worth a try.
Just as Ning Xuefei was enjoying her bath, she suddenly saw a bedraggled figure stagger in from behind the screen, covered in blood. Before she could react, with a splash, he collapsed into her bathtub!
"Aaaah! Aaaah!" Ning Xuefei was startled half to death. In her panic she snatched up the water ladle beside her and brought it down with a clang on the back of Wei Zhao's head.
Wei Zhao, already at the end of his strength and in terribly poor shape, took the blow and his eyes rolled back as he blacked out completely. But before his eyes closed, he still forced out one sentence through sheer willpower: "Don't raise the alarm... when I wake... I will repay you handsomely..."
Ning Xuefei watched as Wei Zhao collapsed into the bathtub and went completely still. Only then did she finally calm down. Her nerve was truly extraordinary: naked as she was, with only that small distance between them, her first reaction was not to flee the tub but actually to examine Wei Zhao's condition...