Chapter 4193 — A Missing Teammate
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So long as Huang Xiaotao could successfully form her Golden Core, she would be able to enter this inner-sect tournament—and besides, she had spent years doing trial missions at the cultivators' guild on the North Island, and her combat prowess ranked among the first class of experts at her level.
Wei Zhao had witnessed this with his own eyes back at Huicai Tianwu Mountain. Even if her jungle-cloaking technique and her powerful archery were not easy to bring to bear in arena combat, used properly they would make her a threat no one dared underestimate.
This would be a fine teammate! Wei Zhao went straight to Huang Xiaotao and explained the matter of the inner-sect tournament to her.
"So I'm desperately short a teammate right now, and for the moment I can't find anyone better suited than you. I wonder, Xiaotao, if you'd be willing to help me?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Of course I'm willing!" Huang Xiaotao said delightedly. She knew Wei Zhao rarely asked anyone for help, and the fact that he had come to her now proved exactly what place she held in his heart—this was a stroke of luck she would never have dared hope for!
"Excellent!" Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. He had expected that Huang Xiaotao would be willing to help, and he thought her an outstanding choice of teammate—but what if she disliked fighting? He could hardly force her against her will!
"But my strength is only late Foundation Establishment right now. I can't enter that inner-sect tournament, can I?" Huang Xiaotao, her excitement past, suddenly realized, and lowering her head she said in a small voice.
"That's no obstacle." Wei Zhao was prepared for this. At her words he smiled faintly and said, "I can guarantee that within these five days, you will form your Golden Core!"
"What? How could that be possible?" Huang Xiaotao's mouth fell open in disbelief. "I'm still a full two levels short of Foundation Establishment perfection, let alone forming a Golden Core..."
Even if all went smoothly, she would need at least three to five years before she could even begin preparing to assault the Golden Core; and if something went wrong along the way, it would take even longer.
Form a Golden Core within five days? That was sheer fantasy—by any normal person's reckoning, utterly impossible.
"Do you still have your Wandu Golden Core Fruit?" Wei Zhao smiled slightly. The reason he had sought out Huang Xiaotao was, apart from her suitability as a teammate, precisely this indispensable key.
"It's right here—I haven't taken it yet! But even if I took it now it would be no use. It can only let a Golden Core expert advance a level; surely it can't turn a late Foundation Establishment cultivator like me straight into a Golden Core expert?" Huang Xiaotao said, utterly baffled.
"Then there's no problem. Come with me." Wei Zhao smiled mysteriously, said no more, and hurriedly took Huang Xiaotao by the hand and ran straight for his cave dwelling.
Huang Xiaotao was at once shy and flustered. She let Wei Zhao pull her along, and could not help but begin to let her thoughts run wild.
What was Wei Zhao planning to do? First all that vague talk, and then in the blink of an eye he suddenly dragged her off to his cave dwelling—surely he didn't mean to... with her...
Oh, how mortifying! Thinking further, Huang Xiaotao's face turned the color of a burning cloud. Thankfully she wore a veil, or she would surely have drawn stares from passersby.
The two hurried to Wei Zhao's cave dwelling. Wei Zhao motioned Huang Xiaotao to sit on the couch and said casually, "Hurry now—take off your clothes first!"
"Oh." Huang Xiaotao answered instinctively, then suddenly snapped awake: "What? Take... take off my clothes?!"
"Yes, quickly—we don't have much time." Wei Zhao answered without turning his head, making preparations on the side. R1152