Chapter 4271 — Another Band of Arrivals
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
While Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao observed the newcomers, the newcomers had long since noticed them. One look at the basket laden with spirit herbs, then at what the two were doing, and as if by prior agreement they all burst into laughter.
As though they had witnessed some unbelievable farce, the newcomers doubled over laughing one after another, their faces showing undisguised mockery and contempt.
"Brother Chang, Lufeng Forest these days really has every kind of riffraff you can imagine! To think there'd even be bumpkins like these who've never seen the world—what business do they have coming here, squatting in the dirt pulling weeds? I'm dying of laughter!" A woman dressed in extremely garish, alluring fashion, half her body leaning into the arms of the blue-robed leader, covered her mouth and jeered right in front of Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao.
Wei Zhao gave her a bland glance. This alluring woman had the strength of late Golden Core, which was not bad at all, and from the look of it she was intimate with the leader, this Brother Chang—they were probably dual-cultivation partners.
"Hahaha, exactly! Brother Chang, I'd bet anything these two crawled out of some backwater cultivator tribe that's never seen the world. They see a few common-grade spirit herbs and think they've found treasure!" A man beside her laughed along, pointing at Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao with the air of one looking down from on high. "I say, even if you two fill that whole basket, you won't earn back the ten thousand spirit jade it cost to use the teleportation array. It's all wasted effort—I really don't know how your brains are wired!"
This man was at the very peak of late Golden Core, the strongest of the six after the leader, Brother Chang. His eager echo of the alluring woman showed plainly that he was Chang's underling—otherwise he would not have been so zealous in flattering the boss's woman.
"Exactly. This place isn't even the outer perimeter anymore. People risk their necks coming to a place like this chasing rare heaven-and-earth treasures, and these two are lying here pulling weeds? It truly leaves one speechless..."
"Heh heh, I'm quite curious, actually. They're both only at early Golden Core—how on earth did weaklings like that get in?"
"Need you ask? Blind luck and guesswork. With their scraps of strength, even moving about the outer perimeter of Lufeng Forest would be a strain, let alone a place like this. To have survived this long with limbs still attached is a miracle in itself!"
"Not necessarily. From the perimeter to this place, you have to cross several powerful spirit beasts' territories. On their own, no amount of luck would get them in. And at the start they must have scraped together six people just to teleport in. My guess is they're too weak, and their teammates abandoned them..."
"That's right. Early Golden Core strength in Lufeng Forest is nothing but dead weight. If I were their teammate, I wouldn't want to drag these two millstones along either—make up the numbers to teleport in, then naturally you part ways afterward!"
The group chattered on, one after another, heaping merciless ridicule on Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao right to their faces. Only the leader, Brother Chang, remained calm and silent throughout, never opening his mouth.