Chapter 4053 — Is It Really Wei Zhao?
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Though Zhong Yongliang had absolute confidence in Wei Zhao's strength, that confidence held only under the premise of a one-on-one fight. Wei Zhao was, after all, nothing but a newcomer—however strong, there had to be a limit.
While he was still uneasy, Kang Jingming returned from the Heaven Piercer Pavilion and took him and Dongfang Badao to rendezvous with Meng Zhou and Murong Zhen. The whole group was now in place.
"No time to lose—let's move!" As the strongest among them, Meng Zhou unhesitatingly took the lead and entered the cave, with Murong Zhen and the others filing in behind him.
The safer course would be to wait for Yu Jiang, Nantian Guan, and the rest—perhaps even a formidable Golden Core expert like Nantian Ba would show up, and then dealing with Wei Zhao would be absolutely certain.
But after a killing, people always looted the spoils and divided them up, and these men were not truly of one faction after all. If they really waited for Nantian Ba to make his move, then no matter what fine treasures Wei Zhao carried, they would never get their hands on them—they would not even get a sip of the thin soup.
Better to hurry and finish Wei Zhao off together before Yu Jiang and the others arrived. With their combined strength, so long as nothing unexpected happened, they had more than enough to deal with Wei Zhao alone.
And if they could not finish him, there was still Nantian Guan as a fallback.
Just as Meng Zhou and the others stepped into the cave, the Scrap King, who had already begun forging, suddenly changed expression: "Bad news—someone's come in!"
"How do you know?" Wei Zhao could not help but start. The cave was deep and narrow; even with his own senses he could not detect anything at the entrance, and with the Scrap King's meager strength, it should have been even more impossible for him.
"Brother Lin, you don't know this, but when my master dug this cave, it wasn't simply to have a place to stay. Besides the abundant spiritual energy and stable environment, which made it suitable for forging, he also laid arrays all around. Once your divine sense merges with the arrays, you can probe any part of the cave at any time," the Scrap King explained.
Wei Zhao understood then, and asked quickly, "Who are they? How many?"
"Five in all, but as for exactly who they are, I'm not sure either." The Scrap King shook his head, his face full of alarm. "This is terrible. The forging's already begun—it's too late to stop now. The process absolutely cannot be interrupted, and it cannot be disturbed in any way, or all our work will come to nothing and all these precious materials will be wasted!"
"Don't panic yet. Leave these people to me—you just concentrate on the forging." Wei Zhao rose at once, patted the Scrap King's shoulder in reassurance, and headed toward the cave entrance.
He did not know exactly who had come this time, but the arrow was already on the string; no matter how strong the enemy, he could only steel himself and find some way to deal with them! Someone really had come—the jade pendant had begun to warn him...
Meanwhile, Meng Zhou and the others, feeling their way in from the cave entrance, clicked their tongues in wonder the whole way.
From the outside, the cave looked utterly unremarkable at first glance, like any ordinary bear den, but the farther in the group went, the more they felt an air of unfathomable depth. Their eyesight was not enough to fully grasp the mystery, but at least they could tell that profound arrays were hidden all around—work no ordinary person could have accomplished. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Academy—the novel updates faster and better! R640