Chapter 4310 — Utterly Shocked
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Wei Zhao could never have dreamed that this spur-of-the-moment trip to South Island would first bring him all manner of gains in the Lu Feng Forest, then let him witness the eye-opening spectacle of Morning Star Academy, and now, on top of everything, allow him to stumble upon Wang Xinyan!
"How could she be here? How could she be sitting with the academy's upper echelon?" Wei Zhao's head was full of question marks, and he could not contain the shock and excitement surging in his heart.
Strictly speaking, Wang Xinyan was the first beauty Wei Zhao had met after he left the secular world to take on bodyguard missions—he had known her even earlier than Gu Mengyao. His concern for her had never been any less than for any of the other women, so it was no wonder that a man usually as composed as he was should lose his composure so badly at the sudden sight of her.
Wei Zhao watched the stage in utter shock, every movement of Wang Xinyan's fixed in his gaze. He saw her take her seat with perfect composure, then lean in and murmur a few words to the woman vice-principal beside her—a cultivator of the same Opening-Mountain stage as Ling Yuanqing and Wei Hebei. The woman nodded with a smile and patted her hand, and her manner suggested she doted on Wang Xinyan a great deal.
At this sight Wei Zhao was more astonished and dazed than ever, and his heart brimmed with wonder. Just what was the relationship between Wang Xinyan and this woman vice-principal? Master and disciple? Or, like Di Xingdao and Tian Chan, did some blood tie bind them?
Be that as it may, Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief at this moment. For all his doubts, one thing at least was certain: Wang Xinyan was doing very well now, not being bullied on Mid Island the way Tian Chan and Xue Li had been. That was enough.
First Tian Chan, then Xue Li, and now Wang Xinyan. Despite the many twists and turns along the way, Wei Zhao had finally found all three women, and all of them were in decent circumstances. The heart that had hung suspended for a year could finally relax a little—though he could not rest entirely easy yet, for Han Jingyi and the others had still not been found.
While Wei Zhao stood stunned and dazed, the rest of the crowd, after their initial dazzled astonishment, had by now stopped paying attention to Wang Xinyan on the stage.
A woman so breathtakingly beautiful and of such lofty standing was most likely a second-generation cultivator with academy connections, or else a prodigy of extraordinary talent—otherwise she would never receive such exceptional treatment.
But none of this had much to do with the crowd. At most they got an eyeful for their trouble. They had not come today for the sake of a beauty; the selection was the only thing on their minds!
"Water, wood, and earth—three-element spiritual root attributes. Not bad. Hurry along to the third test!" At that moment, a word from an academy staff member drew the attention of everyone present.
Three-element spiritual root attributes! Looking at the refined man who had just finished his test, everyone could not help but be filled with envy. So far, quite a few cultivators had been found to possess dual-element spiritual root attributes, but a three-element spiritual root—this was the first in the whole hall!
Just as Ge Wei's examination-clearance guidebook said: the more spiritual root attributes one had, the better one's innate talent and aptitude, and the greater one's advantage over others when one reached the higher realms above the Nascent Soul stage.
Never mind the rest—at least in the matter of spiritual root attributes, the refined man was already a long way ahead of everyone else. That sort of innate capital was simply not something others could envy their way into. Had they not noticed that even the academy staff spoke to him in a noticeably friendlier tone than to anyone else?