Chapter 4243 — Some Teammates
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Since there was no restriction on coming back out, they had nothing to worry about. Otherwise, if the two of them got separated from the group after entering and couldn't find their way back, that would be a real mess.
There was nothing else to do here anyway, and at this rate they might well end up sleeping in the streets. With Huang Xiaotao's looks, if someone happened to notice her, it could easily stir up trouble again—and that would be no fun at all. Better to take their chances in the Rufeng Forest; that was at least solid and reliable.
At the mere thought of a treasure like the Wandu Golden Core Fruit, even Wei Zhao felt a twinge of longing. Though he was a perfect-breakthrough expert of the Golden Core stage and in theory would find future breakthroughs far easier than ordinary Golden Core cultivators, what took others several hundred years to achieve would still take even a perfect Golden Core expert several decades through normal cultivation alone.
But if he could get his hands on a Wandu Golden Core Fruit and refine a top-grade golden core, that time could be cut drastically.
"Excellent!" The man in blue was overjoyed. The miasma in the Rufeng Forest would only disperse for a limited time, and the four of them had already waited several days—they truly couldn't hold out any longer. Today they had finally scraped together enough people. He introduced himself at once: "My name is Guo Dengtao. The other three are waiting back at the inn. I'll take you to them right now—we can set off immediately."
"Very well, then we'll trouble you, Brother Guo." Wei Zhao nodded, and he and Huang Xiaotao fell in step behind the man.
Shouldering their way through the crowd, the three of them wove through two streets and arrived at a superior guest room in one of the inns, where the other three had been waiting for some time.
Wei Zhao gave them a quick once-over. The three in the room were two men and one woman—two male cultivators, one at the late Golden Core stage and one at the mid Golden Core stage, and the remaining female cultivator at the peak of the early Golden Core stage.
"Everyone, these are the experts I just found—come all the way from Beidao, and willing to join us to the Rufeng Forest." Guo Dengtao spoke up, then warmly introduced the two of them. "This is Senior Brother Chu Bubai, a great expert of the late Golden Core stage. This is Brother Wang Feng, a mid Golden Core expert. And this is Miss Feng Hongyu, at the peak of the early Golden Core stage—she is Senior Brother Chu Bubai's dao companion."
Wei Zhao studied the three of them more carefully. Chu Bubai looked to be around thirty, handsome and distinguished in bearing, dressed now in a long white robe and holding a paper fan. At first glance he gave off quite an air of scholarly refinement—but look closer, and one would notice a flicker of something dark and vicious passing through his brow from time to time. Clearly he was not as gentle and cultivated as he appeared.
Wang Feng, seated to one side, also looked to be in his early thirties, with crisp short hair and a loose gray robe—which nonetheless could not conceal the taut muscle beneath, giving him an air of lean capability.
As for the female cultivator called Feng Hongyu, she was all powder and paint, and at first glance rather striking, though her looks were at best second-rate—the kind of face one forgets the moment one looks away. Wei Zhao was long accustomed to beauties like Huang Xiaotao, and felt nothing at all; he only thought there was something showy about the woman's eyes and brows, and that she held herself far too high. Apart from Chu Bubai, she scarcely deigned to look anyone in the room straight in the eye.
"I am Ling Yi of Beidao, and this beside me is my fellow disciple, Junior Sister Huang. Greetings to you, Brother Chu, Brother Wang, and Miss Feng." Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao cupped their hands in salute.