Chapter 4154 — Wei Zhao Is Ling Yi
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"How is that possible?" Situ Guangzong and the others exchanged looks of bewilderment. The entire Snow Sword Sect had thrown its full strength into the hunt; even though many hands had been withdrawn these past few days, the citywide search had never stopped. If this martial brute Ling Yi was still on the Middle Island, how could he be living in grand style without their knowing? The bounty the Snow Sword Sect had posted was by no means small.
"It is the simple truth. The reason he has been able to slip past your sect's eyes is simple enough: he has changed his face, that is all," Nantian Jiguang said with a curl of his lips and a faint smile.
"Does Dean Nantian mean that the martial brute Ling Yi now wears a human-skin mask and has taken on another appearance?" Situ Guangzong and the others looked at one another.
Such a thing was hardly novel; some within the Snow Sword Sect had speculated as much before. But even so, without knowing what appearance he had assumed, they had no way to counter it at all.
"Quite the contrary. The martial brute Ling Yi was nothing but a human-skin mask; his present face is his original one. As for his current identity, you gentlemen have doubtless heard of it. Elder Situ, that day at the Island Master's Pavilion on Zhongding Mountain, you may even have come face to face with him. He is the brother-in-law whom the Heaven-Coursing Way championed publicly, and at the same time the proprietor of the Heaven-Elixir Pavilion—Wei Zhao." Nantian Jiguang finally revealed the truth.
"That Wei Zhao is the martial brute Ling Yi?" Situ Guangzong and the others were startled. With the combined influence of the Heaven-Coursing Way and the Heaven-Elixir Pavilion, Wei Zhao's name had by now gradually entered the sight of the Middle Island's mainstream circles; no small number of people had heard of him.
"Does Dean Nantian have proof?" Wei Feng asked in a heavy voice. He was not well acquainted with Nantian Jiguang, and hearing such a thing so abruptly could not but rouse his suspicions. After all, if Wei Zhao and the martial brute Ling Yi really were one and the same, then some of the things he had done before became rather baffling.
Eloping with Xueli, for instance: if the martial brute Ling Yi had possessed so powerful a patron as the Heaven-Coursing Way, then to carry Xueli off he would have needed at most a single word. The Snow Sword Sect could never have gainsaid him over a mere little serving maid—so why go to the trouble of changing his face and sneaking about to stage an elopement?
"Of course I have proof. We would never stoop to deceiving your esteemed sect in such a matter—what benefit could that possibly bring us?" Nantian Jiguang exchanged a glance with Si Haitao and the others, and then recounted the whole affair of Wei Zhao from beginning to end, including the evidence establishing that Wei Zhao was the martial brute Ling Yi.
Fighting his way up from the mundane world, reaching Cloud Terrace Island in less than a year, befriending a top-tier expert of the Heaven-Coursing Way, and now opening the Heaven-Elixir Pavilion to become a proprietor raking in gold by the day—Wei Zhao's legendary course left them all staring open-mouthed. Situ Qian in particular had her eyes fairly shining.
Had she known that thing was so formidable, she never should have sent him off to see Xueli back then; she ought to have kept him for herself. With such power and such backing, and with so many beauties around him besides, his prowess in that quarter must surely be heaven-defying—he was a prize son-in-law such as one might search the whole world over and never find!
Ah, what a waste! Situ Qian lamented even as she grew wanton, fantasizing about herself in bed with Wei Zhao; her body stirred at once, and she could not help secretly twisting and shifting twice, until even her breathing began to come quick and short.