Chapter 5096 — Not in the Slightest
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
"Of course it has everything to do with it. An affair this big naturally needs a middleman. I represent the cultivation powers of the secular world, Yi Jie represents the Primordial Alliance, and Leng Leng is the go-between chosen by both sides. Once she is gone, this disciple selection assembly cannot be held at all. That would be to make an enemy of the entire Primordial Alliance and the secular world. Are you certain the Snow Sword Sect has the nerve for that?" Wei Zhao countered.
"That..." Xue Jianming did not know how to respond for a moment. His insistence on dragging Leng Leng back for punishment had been born of selfish motives from the start, and if anyone truly examined the matter, his position would not hold up at all. Now that Wei Zhao had dragged out this title of middleman as well, if he kept stubbornly pushing ahead, the affair would surely blow up, and once that happened there would be no reining it in.
"Let's go." Wei Zhao paid the clown no further attention. Smiling, he took Leng Leng by the hand and strode off.
Xue Jianming could not help but want to strike out and stop them, but one glance from Wei Zhao sent him shrinking back in terror at once, his face a pageant of shifting expressions. Watching the two of them leave with his own eyes, he was of course ten thousand times unwilling—but what could he possibly do?
By now the Primordial Passage had already been activated. Xue Jianming even wished he could make the trip back himself; if he laid on the embellishments and concocted a few excuses, then let his old man work some connections within the Primordial Alliance, there might still be a chance of finding a Golden Core expert to deal with Wei Zhao.
But there was no guaranteeing such a thing would succeed. The key point was that Wei Zhao was also the martial uncle-founder of the Cangwu Sect of North Island. Since his Snow Sword Sect could call for help, the Cangwu Sect of North Island could naturally do the same—and Xin Yi'an was the expedition's martial uncle besides. To rely on such a method to deal with Wei Zhao, the odds of success were exceedingly slim.
After turning it over and over in his mind, Xue Jianming could at last only choose to endure. If he wanted revenge, he could only swallow it down, and wait until the proper opportunity appeared before washing away his shame!
On the other side, Wei Zhao and Leng Leng strolled hand in hand along the mountain path, taking in the pristine scenery of Shennongjia while savoring their own little world.
Leng Leng could not resist stealing a glance at Wei Zhao. At that moment she actually had a thousand words to say, yet she did not know what to say, and a bellyful of words she did not know how to express. She could only walk on in silence, led by his hand.
"You..." The two of them spoke at the same moment, then both paused at the same moment, looked at each other and smiled, and said together, "You go first."
"We really are perfectly in sync—such rapport!" Wei Zhao could not help laughing, then asked, "How have you been these past days?"
"I just found a secluded cave and cultivated. Thanks to the pills you gave me, I advanced two levels in a row. Nothing else particularly happened." Leng Leng smiled. Though advancing two levels at once was a tremendous stroke of fortune for the vast majority of people, set against Wei Zhao's deeds it was utterly insignificant. A little unable to hold back, she asked, "You, on the other hand, are a different story. You did so many earth-shaking things, and then suddenly became the founder-elder of the Cangwu Sect of North Island—what on earth happened?"
"Actually, all of it was thanks to you," Wei Zhao said with a smile.
"Thanks to me?" Leng Leng blinked, at a loss.