Chapter 4030 — The Departure of Tianchan
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
But Lianxin's next words left Tianchan's heart hanging in midair once more: "Of course, these are only our preliminary conclusions. The matter can only be truly settled once we return to the Pill Hall. Who knows—there may yet be unexpected discoveries."
Tianchan was instantly on tenterhooks. The Pill Hall, as a top-tier power of the Middle Island, truly had experts as numerous as the clouds. If Wei Zhao really had done this, then even if he could hoodwink the people of the Far North Island, there was no way he could deceive so many Pill Hall experts. Once the truth came to light, Wei Zhao would be bringing disaster upon himself...
"Very well. This incident came without warning, and we cannot possibly continue attending the auction. Chan'er, hurry and pack your things—we set out for the Middle Island at once." Lianxin gave these hurried instructions and turned to go.
"Yes." Tianchan answered as though her soul had left her body, her mind filled entirely with the image of Wei Zhao. If circumstances had permitted, she truly wished to find Wei Zhao and ask him to his face whether he had done it, so that she might be spared this endless anxiety.
Half an hour later, the entire Pill Hall party assembled at the main gate of the Assembly Hall and set out for the Middle Island, bearing Zheng Tianjie's charred corpse.
Watching the Pill Hall group soar far into the distance, Wei Zhao felt little worry in his heart. Even knowing full well that the Pill Hall had experts as numerous as the clouds, he remained utterly confident in his methods for fabricating a scene.
After all, he had been a divine physician back in the mortal world, and had afterward received the true transmission of Zhang Lifeng's notes on his experiences. So as for the condition of Zheng Tianjie's corpse, while he would not claim the forgery was seamless, very few could see through the trick—unless that person were his unearned master Zhang Lifeng himself, or unless Old Man Wei had also come up from the mortal world to the island.
Compared with Zheng Tianjie's death, Wei Zhao was now more worried about Tianchan's situation. Although Zheng Tianjie, that **trouble, was gone, judging from the past conduct of his grandfather, the Pill Hall's vice-elder, the old man was likely no good sort either. That he might vent his wrath on Tianchan was not at all out of the question.
Everyone knew, after all, that Zheng Tianjie had fired up his furnace to refine Beauty Pills to please Tianchan, and that he had "died in a furnace explosion" in the attempt. That the Pill Hall vice-elder would vent his anger on Tianchan was all but obvious.
Still, given Wei Zhao's present strength and background, he could not even set foot on the Middle Island. However much he worried, it was futile; for the time being he could only hope that Tianchan would handle things herself.
Just as Wei Zhao was looking up and watching Tianchan and the others recede into the distance, Hong Zhong appeared behind him, his face alight with joy. "Young Hero Lin, your letter of appointment has already been sent back to the Middle Island headquarters—they have formally entered it into the rolls!"
"So fast?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. From last night to now, six hours at most had passed. The reaction speed of the Hong Chamber of Commerce headquarters was truly astonishing.
"Ha, that is hardly surprising. We of the Hong Chamber of Commerce are, after all, the second-ranked top-tier chamber in the Merchant Alliance. This auction is a matter of great consequence—if our response were slow, would we not be sitting ducks? To be frank with you, Young Hero Lin, I hear that even our chairman himself stationed himself by the teleportation array waiting for news, and he was the first to see this triumphant report." Hong Zhong laughed.