Chapter 4732 — She Could Not Get Out
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Han Jingyi had already told Ning Xuefei and Shangguan Lan'er the news of Wei Zhao being gravely wounded and unconscious. Though they knew someone was tending to him nearby, they could not help worrying. Had Ning Shanghe not forbidden it, the three would long since have dashed to the formation to wait; if there were any way, they would have wished themselves teleported inside.
Time slipped away bit by bit. Seeing that no one had come out for a long while, the three girls grew more and more anxious. Surely nothing had gone wrong?
After all, the three had made a point of asking about the teleportation formation. While it was not entirely impossible to teleport an unconscious Wei Zhao through, the difficulty was immense—and at this point, the price the other party must have paid was only too easy to imagine.
A choice between two: either stay herself, or leave Wei Zhao behind. If it were any of the three of them, they would not hesitate to sacrifice themselves to send Wei Zhao out. But the other party was only a stranger she had met for the first time—would she do such a thing?
No one knew the answer, so they could only wait. Yet beneath the three girls' eager watching, the figure they hoped for was slow to appear. They waited until both West Island guards had returned, and still Wei Zhao had not come out!
Han Jingyi and Shangguan Lan'er exchanged a glance, their faces turning somewhat pale—and Ning Xuefei nearly fainted on the spot.
This concerned not only Wei Zhao's safety but her own lifelong marriage. She had pinned almost all her life's hopes on Wei Zhao, and the blow that struck her now was too crushing to bear.
"There's no one left inside?!" At this, a woman suddenly rushed forward and urgently questioned the two West Island guards who had just stepped out of the formation. It was none other than Liu Ziqi, Vice Principal of East Continent's Morning Pride Academy.
As the leader of the East Continent academy delegation, Liu Ziqi's every word and deed represented Morning Pride Academy, so she had always spoken with propriety and never once lost her composure as she did now. Her face was even grimmer than the three girls', for not only had Wei Zhao failed to emerge—her precious disciple Huo Yudie had not come out either!
To Liu Ziqi, Huo Yudie was not merely her most important personal disciple, but in a sense as close as a daughter, raised with bitter hardship from infancy. Such a bond far surpassed any ordinary master-disciple relationship.
The two West Island guards were startled. Looking Liu Ziqi over, they recognized her as a good friend of Island Master Ning Shanghe, and dared not be negligent. They answered respectfully at once: "There is still a woman beside the formation, and a man whose life or death is uncertain. But like the rest who remain, they should not be able to get out."
"Not get out? How could she not get out?" Though the other had not said so plainly, Liu Ziqi's intuition told her the woman must be her disciple Huo Yudie, and she lost her composure entirely. "My disciple is a Yuanying consummation expert—far stronger than an ordinary one at that! If nothing has gone wrong, with her strength she should have been able to activate the teleportation formation!" (To be continued...)