Chapter 4309 — Wang Xinyan!
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The woman made no effort to conceal her aura; her cultivation was plain for all to see—only the early Nascent Soul Stage. Such strength was more than enough beside the many Golden Core Stage experts present, but up on that platform, she was unquestionably the weakest of them all.
After all, given Morning Star Academy's deep foundations, even an ordinary guard nearby was a Nascent Soul Stage expert. With mere early Nascent Soul Stage cultivation, she would not even have been qualified to sit at the very edge of the platform—let alone where she was sitting now.
That seat was one even experts of the Mystic Ascension Stage had to yield; so why, then, was a mere early Nascent Soul cultivator able to sit in such an important and conspicuous place before everyone's eyes? Who on earth was this woman?
Because of that single simple gesture, nearly ten thousand cultivators were struck dumb on the spot, great question marks written plainly across every face.
And at this moment, even Wei Zhao was so stunned that for a long while he could not speak, staring blankly at the platform without moving.
Seeing this, Huang Xiaotao gave him a gentle tug, but found that he did not respond at all. Puzzled, she looked back at the platform, then turned to look at Wei Zhao again.
Apart from her peerless beauty and that startling seat she had taken, there was nothing particularly remarkable about the woman, was there? Huang Xiaotao muttered to herself, a faint sourness rising in her heart. She had known Wei Zhao for so long, yet she had never seen him lose his composure like this—and over a woman he had never even met.
What Huang Xiaotao did not know was that the reason for Wei Zhao's shock was entirely different from everyone else's: the woman on the platform was someone he knew all too well.
For this person was none other than the one who had never left his thoughts, the confidante he had been pining after all this time—Wang Xinyan!
Never in his wildest dreams would Wei Zhao have imagined seeing Wang Xinyan in such a place, on such an occasion—and that she should now command such astonishing standing and strength!
Since female cultivators were generally concentrated on the Western Island, Wei Zhao had always assumed that Wang Xinyan had most likely gone there, and had even asked Ning Xuefei to help search for her.
Although it was by no means impossible that Wang Xinyan had been transported to one of the other islands besides the Northern Island where he himself was and the Southern Island of the spirit beast clan, once he learned that the Eastern Island was in fact the Eastern Continent, Wei Zhao felt he could basically rule out the Eastern Island.
For if the Eastern Island was such a transcendent place, where Nascent Soul cultivators walked the streets and Golden Core cultivators were lower than dogs, how could there be any room for newcomers from the mundane world?
With strength at best at the peak of the Heaven Rank and not even having reached Foundation Establishment, anyone sent to the Eastern Continent would likely be swatted to death by the first passerby they met—would being transported there not be a near-certain death sentence?
Besides, when even the many Golden Core Stage experts present—who would batter down walls with their heads for the chance—could not get to the Eastern Continent, how could such a precious quota be given to nobodies from the mundane world? That would not only place those mundane-world newcomers in mortal danger, but would plainly be unfair to cultivators from the other Cloud-Rank islands as well. (To be continued) R655