Chapter 5165 — Hidden Words
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Wei Zhao dared not be negligent. This was no small problem. They were fortunate Bing Wushuang was alert enough to notice; had it been someone like Qin Yuanming, he might not have detected it at all—indeed, these people might already have given themselves away.
It was a crisis that had come out of nowhere. Yet it was not enough to throw Wei Zhao into a panic; to him, after all, this was merely a small scene, nothing beside the storms he had weathered on Cloud Terrace Island in the past.
"Don't be nervous. Since the center is being so careful, let's give them that much face and lie low for now." Wei Zhao's voice suddenly sounded in Bing Wushuang's mind, though his lips had not moved at all.
Bing Wushuang was startled, then understood: Wei Zhao was using the technique of condensing sound with true qi. Ordinary people might not know it, but he was, after all, a Golden Core expert who had seen much and heard much in the Tai Gu Minor Jianghu—he knew the technique, though he rarely used it.
"Won't condensing sound with true qi be detected?" Bing Wushuang replied the same way. He knew the technique, but of the mundane world's technological means he understood nothing, and he did not know whether it could evade them.
"Of course not. You don't understand the principle of listening devices—they detect sound waves, but they cannot detect true qi fluctuations. The center may be formidable, but it cannot manage that, because technology and cultivation are two things that never intersect. Truly merging technology with cultivation is not a matter of a few years or a few decades. Perhaps in the distant future it may be possible, but not now." As Wei Zhao passed this along, he could not help thinking of Han Jingyi. If anyone had merged technology with cultivation, that girl had surely left everyone else behind—when all was said and done, you could search the whole world and not find a second automatic pill-refining artifact.
Wei Zhao spoke simply and clearly, but Bing Wushuang did not quite follow. He did not understand the mundane world's technology, and so he could only stand in awe of what he could not grasp.
"All right, I understand. So what comes next is to watch and wait?" Bing Wushuang asked.
"Correct. Watch and wait for now. If anything happens, I will let you know." Wei Zhao nodded. Besides Bing Wushuang, he would also have to find a chance to warn Qin Yuanming, Yao Long, Jing Yueming, and the others, all by condensing sound with true qi. He kept in contact with each of these people on a separate line—after all, a little caution never hurt.
Returning from the undersea spirit jade mine, the first thing Wei Zhao did was seek out Lin Dongfang. He smiled bitterly. "I've just had word: the center has begun installing listening devices on Bing Wushuang and the others. It seems that summoning all these people to our little island, one after another, has put them on their guard. You needn't busy yourself any further, Elder—Jing Taiyang and his lot are off the table for now."
"Heh. Expected. Entirely normal," Lin Dongfang said with a laugh.
"Normal?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. This was not what he had expected. Had he known the center's vigilance was so high, he would not have acted so boldly—at the very least he would have waited a while longer before moving to turn Bing Wushuang. (To be continued.)