Chapter 5164 — Discovered
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"I challenged Lin Dongfang," Bing Wushuang said, his expression unchanged.
"Lin Dongfang? Why would you go challenge him? Didn't I already tell you all not to provoke Wei Zhao?" The spectacle doctor nearly jumped out of his skin. Lan Xiaoru had impressed it upon him, with a thousand warnings and ten thousand cautions, that Wei Zhao was absolutely not to be provoked—that was a hard order from above. And now Bing Wushuang had gone and challenged Lin Dongfang. Was the man trying to land him in trouble?
"I didn't provoke Wei Zhao. I only challenged Lin Dongfang," Bing Wushuang said, shaking his head.
"Lin Dongfang and Wei Zhao are one and the same. Can't you even see that?" The spectacle doctor was furious. He appreciated Bing Wushuang, and he was willing to give him plenty of latitude to act on his own—but this had crossed a red line. It even threatened his own career and his own life. He had every reason to be alarmed and angry.
Bing Wushuang met this with silence. The spectacle doctor fumed for a good long while before saying at last, "Fine, fine, fine. I know you hate Lin Dongfang down to the bone. After all, you were the one who fell at his hands. Now that your strength has grown, it's understandable that you couldn't hold the thought back. But this is a hard order from above—if something goes wrong, even I won't be able to protect you! Tell me, how did it turn out?"
Lin Dongfang's strength was a mystery as well—in some ways even more unfathomable than Wei Zhao's. If this opportunity could be used to sound out Lin Dongfang's true strength, that would be no bad thing. Of course, the precondition was not truly provoking Wei Zhao, since the higher-ups were still counting on their side to curry favor with Wei Zhao, and perhaps even to win him over.
"It never happened." Bing Wushuang was no fool, of course. Having chosen to throw in his lot with Wei Zhao, he couldn't very well just casually reveal Lin Dongfang's strength—and besides, he genuinely did not know Lin Dongfang's specific strength. He only knew it was unfathomable, and that he himself was no match.
"Why not?" the spectacle doctor said, frowning.
"He wouldn't take up the challenge, and Wei Zhao was standing right there beside him. There was nothing I could do." Bing Wushuang deflected the whole matter cleanly. He wasn't worried in the least about the spectacle doctor sending people to investigate—even if they did, they wouldn't find anything, because he had never truly fought either Wei Zhao or Lin Dongfang. It had been a mere testing of the waters, without much commotion, and no one else knew a thing about it.
"Is that so? Then let it go. I still have every confidence in you. But remember—it must not happen again. Understood?" the spectacle doctor said, feigning a tone of solicitude.
"Yes," Bing Wushuang said with a nod.
"Also, you need to put more effort into winning over the disciples of the Primordial Alliance. Progress has been far too slow, not at all satisfactory..." The spectacle doctor was barely halfway through when he saw Xue Jianming approaching and could not help but start. I didn't summon this one, did I?
"Chief, this subordinate has a matter I'd like to report in private. Would you permit it?" Xue Jianming said, glancing at Bing Wushuang as though he had more to say but thought better of it.
"Well then..." The spectacle doctor paused a moment, then nodded. "Fine. There's nothing else to discuss anyway. Bing Wushuang, you may go back first."
Only after Bing Wushuang had gone far off did Xue Jianming say, "Chief, it seems Bing Wushuang paid a visit to the Northern Island Cangwu Sect earlier. That wasn't by your instruction, was it?"
"No. But I've already questioned him about it," the spectacle doctor said, glancing at him.
"It seems Canlong and Jing Yueming also each made a trip to the Northern Island Cangwu Sect, one after the other. Were you aware of that as well?" Xue Jianming asked.