Chapter 4287 — Let's Look Around a Bit More
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"Brother Chang speaks truly. My cultivation is too shallow to master my emotions—I must have made a sorry spectacle for you all," Wei Zhao said, seizing the chance to climb down from the donkey's back with a nod.
"Mm, what's done is done, nothing to be about now. Even if you only scooped up a few drops of Star Ink Milk, it will still serve your cultivation as it stands—no need to be too disheartened." Chang Daoping's expression eased somewhat.
With that, Chang Daoping pursued the matter no further and turned to lead the group onward.
From first to last, Wei Zhao had detected no killing intent in the man; it seemed he truly harbored no notion of silencing them for good. That came as a quiet relief—otherwise, if blows had broken out, he and Huang Xiaotao would surely have faced a bitter fight today, and whether either of them could have walked away unscathed was anyone's guess.
Unless it came down to the absolute last resort, Wei Zhao had no intention of clashing head-on with the man, even knowing full well how much Star Ink Milk he carried. The risk was simply too great—and besides, they still needed him to get out.
Once they had left the altar behind, Chang Daoping suddenly picked up the pace, just as he had on the way in, giving the others no time to react—all to keep them from memorizing the route.
Yet after pressing on like this for the better part of half an hour, Wei Zhao suddenly sensed something was off. At such breakneck speed, and with the man forever circling about like a maze, Chang Daoping's tactics did indeed make it well-nigh impossible to memorize the twists and turns accurately—even Wei Zhao could not manage it.
But that did not mean the group was truly as dull as fools, oblivious to it all. At least one thing was certain: the place Chang Daoping was leading them toward now was not the entrance by which they had come—it was an entirely unfamiliar territory. And it was not only Wei Zhao; the others, one after another, had likewise begun to notice something fishy.
By ordinary logic, one leaves by the same way one came in. The group had even braced themselves to break through the Moon Shadow Formation a second time—yet who would have thought? As things stood now, that seemed not to be the case at all.
"Brother Chang, aren't we leaving through the Moon Shadow Formation?" Luo Tuoxiang was the first to lose his patience and could not help asking.
"Of course not. We don't know the rules of the Moon Shadow Formation—we could only break it from the outside and then enter, and a broken formation soon repairs itself. From the inside, I don't know how to break it either. But there is another, far more convenient passage we can take: a teleportation formation." Chang Daoping kept leading the way ahead, answering without so much as turning his head.
"A teleportation formation? There's a teleportation formation here connected to the outside?" Everyone—Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao included—was startled at these words and could not help exchanging glances. "If there's a teleportation formation, then why did we go to all this trouble, crossing the Moon Shadow Formation specially to get in?"
If such a convenient thing as a teleportation formation existed, they could simply have teleported straight in, and Chang Daoping would never have needed to specially recruit Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao to break the Moon Shadow Formation. Had Brother Chang's mind gone muddled for a moment?