Chapter 4866 — The Thunder-Luring Banner
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"Young Master Bao, I think you are overthinking this." Su Kesheng of course knew what was worrying him, and at once offered reassurance: "Wei Zhao may be holed up in the East Sea Pavilion, but with an old relic like the East Sea Divine Nun keeping watch over him, he would never dare lay a finger on Wang Xinyan. You can set your mind at ease."
Had Wei Zhao heard that, he would have laughed himself to death. Lay a finger on her? He had done far more than that with her in dual cultivation—and it was the East Sea Divine Nun herself who had ushered them into the chamber.
Bao Zuoliang, however, found those words quite comforting. He nodded again and again. "There is reason in what you say, but I am still not reconciled. To dare pester my Wang Xinyan day after day—I must do that fellow surnamed Lin to death!"
"Do not be impatient, Young Master Bao. He may have slipped through our fingers at the last auction, but we still have our chances to deal with him." Su Kesheng's expression had returned to one of perfect confidence.
"What chance? Borrowing another blade to do the killing? Even that old bastard Lu Dachang was smoothed over by him with a few words. That blade will not be so easy to borrow again, will it?" Bao Zuoliang frowned.
"No need to borrow a blade. We can do it with our own hands." Su Kesheng smiled a profound smile.
"What? Have you lost your mind!" Bao Zuoliang was startled instead. Given Wei Zhao's station and background, even as the son of Bao Fala he would not dare provoke him to his face.
"Heh heh, here in Morning Star City we naturally cannot make a move. But what if he leaves this place?" Su Kesheng laughed.
"What do you mean?" Bao Zuoliang asked quickly.
"Before this I could not be certain, but since that fellow surnamed Lin is going to such lengths to obtain the Nourishing Essence Devil Gold Grass, it must be for refining the Nourishing Essence Pill. And considering his late Nascent Soul cultivation, his intent is plain at a glance—that fellow surnamed Lin is absolutely set on the Road of Giants! However impressive his background, it holds only within Morning Star City. Once he enters the Road of Giants, things will no longer be for him to say!" Su Kesheng sneered.
"Right!" Bao Zuoliang slapped his own forehead in excitement, but he soon sensed something amiss and gave Su Kesheng a slap, cursing: "To hell with you! And here I thought so highly of you—and this is the stupid scheme you come up with? If they really do go to the Road of Giants, at least he and Wang Xinyan will by then be at Nascent Soul grand completion, while we ourselves have only two at grand completion. Put together we are likely no match for Wang Xinyan alone. How are things for us to say then? Are we to line up and take a beating?"
Though he and Su Kesheng were both far stronger than ordinary Nascent Soul grand completion experts, Wang Xinyan was acknowledged by the academy as a top-tier genius, all but invincible among those of her level. Bao Zuoliang at least had that much self-awareness—to say nothing of adding Wei Zhao, himself a Nascent Soul grand completion, to the scales.
"Young Master Bao, have you forgotten? We still have a divine artifact in our hands. Elsewhere we may be no match for them, but once on the Road of Giants, the power that artifact can unleash is beyond imagining. Never mind Nascent Soul grand completion—even Mystic Ascension grand completion would be hard pressed!" Su Kesheng chuckled.
"You mean the Thunder-Luring Banner?" Bao Zuoliang's eyes blazed at once. He clapped Su Kesheng on the shoulder in excitement. "Right, I nearly forgot that card entirely! The Thunder-Luring Banner is useless as a bird's fart anywhere else, but on the Road of Giants it is a true divine artifact!"