Chapter 5127 — Coming to Seize Someone
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Then let us go." Bing Wushuang glanced at Xue Jianming. Truth be told, he thought little of this second-generation cultivator, yet the man had shown a flash of quick wit just now. Without that remark of Xue Jianming's, Xin Yi'an might not really have relented—and so long as he could see Leng Leng without hindrance, whether he took her away would rest on a single thought. And if it came to force then, would Xin Yi'an really risk his life for the sake of a Leng Leng who meant nothing to him?
After a word to the prospective disciples, Xin Yi'an at once led the two to another spirit eye. The scene there was bustling with life: Wu Chengtian had a whole crowd of people hard at work building seaside villas.
A few rather elegant little wooden cabins had already been put up beside the spirit eye, though these were only temporary stopgaps. Wu Chengtian had found people to draw up a great pile of blueprints, and even for nimble hands like theirs—Heaven-rank grand completion masters though they were—building so much as a rough approximation of the designs would take at least half a year. For now they were still only laying foundations.
Seeing Xin Yi'an bring visitors, Wu Chengtian and the rest came up one after another to greet them. These days Xin Yi'an dropped by from time to time to have a look, and on account of Wei Zhao the group got on with him well enough; by now they were long since familiar faces to one another.
"Old Xin, what did you bring this thing here for?" Qiu Lingshan asked, frowning at Xue Jianming with open disgust, while the others exchanged glances. In their eyes Xue Jianming was a repulsive clown, thoroughly unwelcome here.
Under such undisguised looks of loathing, Xue Jianming shook with rage. Had Xin Yi'an not been present, he would have liked nothing better than to cut down these insolent wretches with a single sword stroke. But with both Xin Yi'an and Bing Wushuang before him, he had no room to erupt at all, and could only choke down his fury by force.
Qiu Lingshan, Wu Chengtian, and the others were merely puzzled; but Leng Leng, sitting amid several girls and listening to their gossip, caught sight of Bing Wushuang and went pale, springing to her feet in a rush of alarm.
"Oh? Already mid Foundation Establishment?" Bing Wushuang's gaze fell upon Leng Leng at once, and he could not help feeling some astonishment. Even with his formidable talent he could not match Leng Leng's Crushed Ice constitution; if there was one disciple in the Snow Sword Sect who could make him look at her with new eyes, it was Leng Leng alone. As for Xue Jianming, he did not even rank.
Here was a seed of boundless potential! Such was the verdict of most sect elders upon Leng Leng. Bing Wushuang did not wholly agree, yet he had to admit the girl's talent was extraordinary—and now, in a scant two months, Leng Leng had actually vaulted two levels from early Foundation Establishment to mid Foundation Establishment. That alone was near enough to the strongest proof of that verdict!
"Martial Uncle Bing, this too is evidence of her betrayal of the sect. That Wei Zhao gave her vast quantities of pills to buy her over—otherwise how could she have broken through so fast?" Xue Jianming said, sowing discord.
Bing Wushuang neither affirmed nor denied it, and simply said to Leng Leng in a tone of command, "You are coming back with me."