Chapter 4672 — Someone of No Small Consequence
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The powerful aura sent sand and stones flying all around, the wind howling. It was a dreadful scene brimming with killing intent—yet Wei Zhao stood firm amid it all, unmoved. Nor did he give off any mighty aura of his own, yet the turmoil around him could not touch him in the slightest; he did not even blink twice.
Huo Yudie was appalled at the sight. She had no idea that Wei Zhao possessed the fearsome strength to fight foes above his level—that killing a Xuan Ascension expert in an instant was like child's play to him. All she knew was that Wei Zhao's current cultivation was at the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage, and before a figure like Ren Zhongyuan he was, so to speak, so weak as to crumble at a single blow.
"Senior Brother Ren, stop! Since that's how it is, we'll simply leave together. This Senior Brother Lin's status is no trifling matter—you must not be disrespectful to him!" Huo Yudie hastily placed herself in front of Wei Zhao. Once the two sides came to blows, in her eyes Wei Zhao was certain to die—and then their earlier agreement would have been for nothing.
"What's this? You're saying this country bumpkin is someone of no small consequence? Just a country bumpkin—what consequence could he possibly be?" Jiali curled her lip dismissively.
"His name is Wei Zhao. He is a teammate arranged by my master. His master is an old friend of my master's from the North Island—Shangguan Tianxia!" Huo Yudie said through gritted teeth.
Wei Zhao glanced at Huo Yudie in some surprise at this. He guessed that she had simply invented the lie on the spur of the moment, but to him it seemed half true and half false—her mind certainly worked fast.
"What? Shangguan Tianxia!" Jiali, Ren Zhongyuan, and the other man all changed countenance at Huo Yudie's words. Clearly they had all heard of this top-tier figure of the North Island. Yet after her shock, Jiali plainly still did not quite believe it. "Him? He's Shangguan Tianxia's disciple? Why have I never heard of this?"
"Didn't you see? At the birthday banquet earlier, he sat with Shangguan Lan'er, and just now, before we entered the teleportation array, Shangguan Lan'er was still with him! Think about it yourselves—if he were not Shangguan Tianxia's personal disciple, would that little princess of the North Island be so close to him?" Huo Yudie said with an air of great conviction.
Wei Zhao could not help laughing to himself at this. Though it was a spur-of-the-moment fabrication, nine parts of it were actually true—at least the part about his having been with Shangguan Lan'er all along. Who would have thought this girl was such a fine hand at spinning lies, reeling them off with ease and letting no flaw show.
Sure enough, at Huo Yudie's words, Ren Zhongyuan and the others recalled the glimpses they had caught earlier. Beside this man, there did indeed seem to have been Shangguan Lan'er's figure. So it seemed this fellow really was Shangguan Tianxia's disciple!
They were genius disciples of the East Continent Academy, and it was hardly unreasonable for them to put on airs of superiority here on the West Island—after all, the East Continent's standing was a full cut above the other Cloud-Tier Islands. But if the man before them was Shangguan Tianxia's personal disciple, then they had been throwing their weight around in quite the wrong place. (To be continued.)