Chapter 4882 — A Gift for Qin Chan
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"Now you're really going to make a name for yourself in the Eastern Continent. Two of the Three Fairies have fallen into your hands—heaven knows how many men are grinding their teeth and cursing you behind your back!" Huang Xiaotao said with a look of pure amusement.
"Ha, that's only because you're in the habit of masking your face, Xiaotao. Otherwise you'd be one of the Three Fairies too, and he'd have snapped up every last one of you," Wang Xinyan said, also finding it rather entertaining.
"Still, being the target of everyone's envy is no pleasant thing. You'd best be careful from now on—plenty of people in the Eastern Continent stop at nothing to get what they want, and they'll use any means imaginable," Huo Yudie said, glancing at Wei Zhao with some concern.
"Don't worry, I'm long used to it," Wei Zhao said with a chuckle, then added, "We can talk about all that later. Right now the priority is to get to the tribulation point and make our push for the Xuan Ascension stage."
"Agreed!" The three women nodded, exchanged a glance, and stepped into three adjacent tribulation points.
By now nearly everyone was in position, and the protective formations had opened one after another, leaving the onlookers outside with no way to interfere. Only then did Wei Zhao stride toward the tribulation point—but just then, a woman suddenly came following after him.
Wei Zhao turned and saw that it was Qin Chan. The two disciples she had been so close to had already entered their tribulation points, leaving her on her own. Recalling what he had witnessed earlier, Wei Zhao felt a degree of distaste for her, though he did not fall out with her on the spot. He merely frowned and said, "Something you need?"
"Master Lin, you know the people from Xiangyun Academy?" Qin Chan glanced cautiously around, and only after making certain no one else was nearby did she ask in a low voice.
Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. He could not guess what she was driving at, but nodded all the same.
Delighted at the sight, Qin Chan avoided the eyes of the distant onlookers and swiftly drew a tiny, plain wooden box from her robes, handing it to Wei Zhao. Her face full of entreaty, she said, "If by some chance I do not walk out of this tribulation point, please, Master Lin, help me deliver this to a man named Jiang Yuechuan at Xiangyun Academy. This humble woman would be endlessly grateful."
"What?" Wei Zhao was even more bewildered. When he opened the box, his eyelid twitched involuntarily—inside lay two pills. One was an Infant-Condensing Golden Pill. The other was a Nurturing Origin Pill, and there were actually more of them than Jiang Yuechuan had given him!
Seeing Wei Zhao's strange expression, Qin Chan thought he meant to refuse, and at once dropped to her knees. "Master Lin, this humble woman knows the request is most presumptuous, but I truly have no other way. I beg you, Master Lin, to grant it—in my next life I will serve you as an ox or a horse to repay your kindness!"
Wei Zhao grew all the more astonished. From the look of her, Qin Chan seemed already to have resigned herself to death. He had never seen anyone attempt the Xuan Ascension stage with such a mindset.
What struck him as even more curious was that Jiang Yuechuan and Qin Chan had both, without any coordination, come to him to carry something for them. Did he really look that much like a courier?
Then again, it was hardly surprising—who else but him happened to have ties to both academies, and to be regarded by all as such an exalted figure?
Had it been an ordinary disciple of middling strength, no matter how trustworthy they seemed, Jiang Yuechuan and Qin Chan would likely never have dared ask for help so rashly. After all, whether the Infant-Condensing Golden Pill or the Nurturing Origin Pill, these were pills rarely seen in a lifetime—nine and a half out of ten ordinary people would have pocketed them for themselves. Only a man like Wei Zhao could look down on such paltry profit.