Chapter 4874 — Thunder Academy
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Wei Zhao had no interest in gawking. True, if he lingered like the other spectators he might, in the end, find a chance to scavenge some scraps—after all, once the two sides came to blows, mutual ruin was a real possibility. But rather than pin his hopes on others, Wei Zhao preferred to keep his chances in his own hands.
He quickly changed his mind, however. When his spiritual sense swept over the crowd, he was startled to pick out several familiar faces among the two groups ahead. One of them was a woman with her face veiled, but that figure, that bearing—without a doubt, it was Huo Yudie!
He had been searching for her by every means at his disposal and found nothing; who would have thought a stroke of luck would drop into his lap like this?
Wei Zhao studied the situation on both sides and realized this was not the two-academy clash he had imagined. Ahead of them stood three academies in all—Morning Pride Academy and Soaring Cloud Academy among them—and those two stood in the same camp, facing off against a third academy together.
Two against one! What astonished Wei Zhao even more was that Morning Pride and Soaring Cloud combined mustered over seventy people, and the academy standing opposite them was not a single soul fewer!
As everyone knew, Nascent Soul Great Perfection experts were the cream of the crop at Yellow-Rank academies; the more of them a force had, the stronger it was. For Morning Star Academy to suddenly produce more than thirty Nascent Soul Great Perfection fighters had already struck Wei Zhao as absurd enough.
On any of the other Cloud-Rank islands, that would have been an enormous power. Wei Zhao even doubted whether the entire Threefold Pavilion of the North Island could boast so many Nascent Soul Great Perfection experts. After all, Nascent Soul cultivators were already qualified to serve as elders, and while the North Island's Threefold Pavilion was not weak by any measure, it had not yet sunk to the point where Nascent Souls walked the streets and elders were worth less than dogs.
Yet this unknown academy had produced more than seventy Nascent Soul Great Perfection experts at a stroke—fully twice the number of an ordinary academy. That level of strength was simply outrageous!
At the sight, Wei Zhao finally understood. No wonder those onlookers did not dare take a single step closer. And with so many vacant tribulation points lying around, no wonder no one dared fish in troubled waters—to sneak a hand in would be to offend all three academies at once, which would be even worse.
It was true that the tribulation points were protected by defensive arrays. But what came after? Once those three academies marked you, what did it matter if you succeeded in your charge to the Mystic Ascension stage? Those who fished in troubled waters were bound to come to a bad end.
"What is it?" Seeing Wei Zhao stop again, Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao beside him could not help but wonder.
The other Morning Star disciples behind them were equally baffled. They were sensible people; they knew that waiting here would yield little advantage. With so many people jammed in this spot rubbernecking, the smart move was to slip around quickly and seize the lead.
"That bunch facing off against Morning Pride and Soaring Cloud over there—which academy are they?" Wei Zhao asked.
To make identification easier, the disciples who came to this trial did not wear uniform academy robes, but each bore their academy's emblem on the shoulder or arm. The emblems carried no full academy name, however. Wei Zhao recognized only the marks of Morning Pride, Soaring Cloud, and Morning Star; the rest he knew nothing about.