Chapter 5174 — Those Who Came Together
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In truth it was not hard to guess: Chen Xi and Tian Die'er must have been separated during the teleportation. That was why even Tian Chan knew nothing of the two women's whereabouts; otherwise Wei Zhao would not even have had to ask—Tian Chan would have brought it up herself long ago.
Ying Ziyu could not help but feel a little disappointed at this, and asked with concern, "You don't think something's happened to her, do you?"
"I doubt it. Cloud Terrace Island is vast; it's perfectly normal not to have found them yet. But sooner or later I will find them." Wei Zhao patted Ying Ziyu gently on the shoulder and comforted her in a soft voice.
On the other side, Qiu Lingshan too was on the verge of speaking and then holding back. Wei Zhao knew she was worrying about her younger sister Song Lingwei, and could only give her a comforting look in return.
Yet even as he comforted the others, Wei Zhao was in truth far more anxious than Ying Ziyu and the rest. He was simply forcing himself to appear calm before them.
After all, this was not like those early days when he had first gone to Cloud Terrace Island. Back then he had known little of the place and had taken it for granted that the other islands must be as peaceful and stable as the Northern Island—that so long as he had the chance to go out and look around, he would naturally run into these people again. But now his footsteps had covered all five great islands, east, west, south, north, and central, and most of them were still nowhere to be found.
As for all those strangers who had nothing to do with him, never mind them—whether they lived or died was no concern of Wei Zhao's, nor worth any particular thought. But Chen Xi, Tian Die'er, Bing Tang, and Song Lingwei—those few he absolutely had to learn the whereabouts of. For every day they remained unaccounted for, he could not be at ease.
At this thought, Wei Zhao's originally rather excited mood sank at once. He fell silent, disconsolate. With his present strength and connections, he had still not managed to find these people!
What that implied behind it all, he scarcely dared to dwell on; he could only shy away from it instinctively.
At least this much could be certain so far: the Northern Island, the Central Island, and the Western Island almost certainly no longer held these people—otherwise Wei Zhao would have known long ago.
The reasoning was simple. Even if they had been separated in the teleportation and sent to different islands of Cloud Terrace, once the teleportation was over, the secular-world cultivators on each island would initially have gathered together. The Central Island had Tian Chan and Xue Li, the Western Island had Han Jingyi, and the Northern Island had Wei Zhao. Had Chen Xi and the others been teleported to any of those three islands, under normal circumstances they should have run into one another.
Still, another possibility could not be entirely ruled out: a single island might well have more than one teleportation point. As far as Wei Zhao knew, the Northern Island had only one, but the Central and Western Islands might not be so limited—he had not yet made a careful inquiry. As for the Southern Continent and the Eastern Continent, there was even less to be said.
Yet even if such a situation did exist, Wei Zhao could still be certain that none of these people were on the Northern, Central, or Western Islands. After all, he had considerable ties with the powers-that-be on all three. Shangguan Tianxia, the Northern Island's vice-island master, was half a master to him; Ning Shanghe, master of the Western Island, was his prospective mother-in-law; and Ota Zhou, acting master of the Central Island, was deliberately courting and cultivating him as well.