Chapter 4033 — All the Better
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Tianchan nodded silently. With Zhang Lifeng's words standing as her guarantee, Zheng Dongjue would certainly not dare make her accompany Zheng Tianjie in death. She had foreseen this, and that was why she had agreed.
To be wed to a dead man in the prime of her blooming youth—for anyone at all, this would be a thing of utter misery, and Tianchan, a disciple of the Alchemy Hall with a boundless future ahead of her, least of all. It was a disaster straight out of a nightmare. Yet in Tianchan's eyes, it was all the better this way.
Zhongdao was a gathering place where the forces of every faction coiled like dragons and crouched like tigers, and prodigal young lords like Zheng Tianjie were naturally thick on the ground. Beauty is a curse—with her looks, Tianchan would easily invite trouble. Even with one Zheng Tianjie dead, a second and a third would come after.
Now it was settled: bearing the name of a widow, and with Zheng Dongjue's influence behind it, no one would dare pursue or harass Tianchan in the days to come.
What was more, the situation just now had made it plain enough—if she refused, Zheng Dongjue could always find an even more venomous way to torment the two of them, master and disciple. Better that Tianchan agree.
As for this so-called betrothal, once her strength reached a certain height in the future, dissolving it would be no more than a word—just as in the case of Zhang Lifeng before: one word, and who would dare defy it? So the only thing to do now was to endure, to cultivate diligently, and to wait patiently for that day to come.
The matter of Zheng Tianjie's death had at last drawn to a close. Because Zhang Lifeng kept his mouth shut, Wei Zhao, far away on the Far North Island, had narrowly escaped disaster—but now he had run into fresh trouble.
Having succeeded in doing away with Zheng Tianjie, he had not only resolved Tianchan's predicament but also recovered that stray ten-piece set of forging implements. This trip to the North Island could be called a complete success for Wei Zhao. Yet wherever there are people there is a jianghu, and wherever there is a jianghu there is strife and slaughter—and this time, Nan Tianxiong and his companions had come to the Far North Island as well.
At the auctions over the following days, with Hong Zhong's tireless sponsorship, Wei Zhao reaped a rich harvest, laying hands on several rare treasures in a row. Though for the moment not even their purpose could be discerned, one thing at least was certain: these few pieces Wei Zhao had singled out at a glance were no ordinary useless things. Once the right opportunity came, they might well blaze with dazzling light.
The things Wei Zhao took a fancy to, Yu Jiang of Nan Tianxiong's crew took a fancy to as well—only their financial power, set against that of Hong Zhong, the top-grade magnate behind Wei Zhao, was not even in the same league.
Hong Zhong was wholeheartedly set on repaying Wei Zhao, and in such a mood, how could he lightly let anything Wei Zhao had set his eyes on slip away? Unless he ran into a fool with more money than sense like Zheng Tianjie, the likes of Nan Tianxiong and his crew had no power to compete with him at all.
"Damn it! Every treasure we set our eyes on gets snatched away by that bastard. If your disciple is not mistaken, those treasures are not only useful to experts of the Foundation Establishment stage—even to Golden Core and higher, they should have uses beyond imagining. They are things that come by chance but once in a lifetime!" Yu Jiang rolled his eyes and said, grinding his teeth.
Watching treasure after treasure slip through their fingers—and snatched away, no less, by Wei Zhao, that fellow who was very likely Lin Er—Yu Jiang hit upon a scheme, and his mind began to churn out wicked ideas once more. (To be continued) R752