Chapter 4315 — The Risk Is Enormous
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"That would be difficult indeed..." Wei Zhao shook his head again and again. Judging by the hedgehog-haired man's bearing, he looked ready to cock his tail up to the heavens. If even this one understood the meaning of keeping a low profile, the earth would have known peace long ago.
"So you see, this sort of man has no strength to speak of, and no notion of keeping a low profile either. With nothing but four-element spiritual roots to his name, in a lair of dragons and tigers like Morning Star Academy, how much use do you think he will be?" Ge Wei said with a curl of his lip.
"But is he not still Wei Hebei's disciple? Wei Hebei's name ought to carry weight at Morning Star Academy, no?" Wei Zhao said, still perplexed. As the saying went, one must think twice before beating a dog for fear of its master; the hedgehog-haired man was Wei Hebei's disciple, after all—surely he would not be bullied at will?
"Heh heh, Wei Hebei's name can indeed overawe a great many people, but how many of those who can get into Morning Star Academy are truly easy to deal with? Who knows—someone might even make a point of going after a fellow like this, who has a great man at his back but is in truth a soft persimmon, just to make a name for himself!" Ge Wei said with a laugh and a shake of his head.
"That is no small risk. Would anyone really take such a gamble?" Wei Zhao asked curiously.
"Of course they would. You must understand that a sect's cultivation resources are limited in the end—even Morning Star Academy is no exception. When some take more, others naturally take less, and the competition is fierce indeed. And the more someone is hailed as a genius, the more easily he is ganged up on and even eliminated, because that way the cultivation resources freed up for others are all the greater." As he spoke, Ge Wei pursed his lips and pointed at the hedgehog-haired man, saying with utter certainty, "Look at how smug he is now. By the time he gets to Morning Star Academy, he will not even be able to cry. He may well be done in by someone within a few days."
"Done in by someone? Surely not..." Wei Zhao felt a chill at heart. For Wang Xinyan's example was right before him, and he had rather taken it for granted that any genius disciple who went to Morning Star Academy would be directly singled out for key cultivation and rise above the rest. Most of the others present likely held the same view.
"Why not? Brother, do not doubt me—reality is that cruel. I am telling you all this because I feel a kinship with you; with anyone else I would not waste so many words!" Here Ge Wei suddenly grew indignant. "That hedgehog-haired fellow a moment ago was the same—his eyes might as well have been planted on the top of his skull. I kindly offered to sell him the secret manual for passing the assessment, and not only did he turn up his nose at it, he nearly summoned the academy guards and ruined a perfectly good bit of business for me. Otherwise I might have given him a word or two of warning, and at least he would not die quite so quickly. But now—hmph, hmph..."
Only then did Wei Zhao finally understand. No wonder Ge Wei could not stand the sight of that hedgehog-haired fellow, whichever way he looked at him—so there was bad blood between them after all.
"I am not trying to frighten you with alarming talk. Count the geniuses of our Southern Continent who have gone to study at the Eastern Continent's academy over the past hundred years—a thousand at the very least, eight hundred at the lowest—and more than half of them, not long after they arrived, were plotted against and targeted, and in the end even fell." Ge Wei's face was grave and earnest. "In a place like the Eastern Continent's academy, unless one is truly so overbearingly powerful as to crush every other being around him, anyone else must play by the rules of that place. Otherwise, death is truly not far off."