Chapter 5023 — Another Foundation Establishment Cultivator
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In order to cultivate in peace, he had carefully surveyed his surroundings beforehand. Few people lived in this residential compound to begin with, and the building he was in had only a handful of occupants.
Apart from the small convenience store on the ground floor with someone in it, only the third floor was occupied. His own floor, the fifth, had no one across the hall; the sixth floor above was empty, the apartments not even renovated, so certainly no one was there; and the fourth floor was the same. Given all that, how could footsteps suddenly be coming from outside at this hour?
Could it really be a ghost? Wei Zhao's heart stirred. Though he stayed by the door without opening it, he quietly released his spiritual sense.
The footsteps drew closer and closer, and finally stopped just outside the door. Wei Zhao had been rather excited at first, but he soon realized it was excitement for nothing. It was no ghost at all, but two living people—and one of them he had met just that day: the real estate agent.
Apart from the agent, the other was a tall woman with a cold bearing. Wei Zhao had not noticed at first, but then he discovered that she too was a cultivator—and not a weak one. She was in fact an expert of the early Foundation Establishment stage!
It had been only a single day since his return to the mortal realm, and this was already the third Foundation Establishment expert he had seen. Wei Zhao could not help wondering privately: just what great event had befallen the mortal world?
The woman, however, appeared to be seriously injured; her qi was visibly unstable. An ordinary person could not have detected anything unusual from her outward appearance, but it could not escape Wei Zhao's eyes.
"Miss, the rent on this place really is cheap, but I have to say one thing up front, so you won't turn around and accuse us of deceiving consumers—that would be the death of us." So spoke the agent.
"Speak," the tall woman said, a single word dropping coldly from her lips.
"To be honest with you, someone was killed by an electric saw during the renovations on this place, so they say it's haunted. Your apartment is across the hall, but I still have to make it clear to you in advance. Nobody believes in hauntings, but I figure it's better to believe they exist than not—wouldn't you agree?" The agent rambled on and on. Perhaps because the other party was a beauty, his attitude was far more sincere than it had been with Wei Zhao that day.
"A ghost? If it dares come, I'll cut it down." The tall woman spoke coldly, then took the key, walked into the room, and casually shut the door behind her, leaving the agent standing at the doorway not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
This woman was fierce enough! Wei Zhao clicked his tongue in secret amazement. Cultivators, being powerful, did not share ordinary people's dread of ghosts and monsters—but a female cultivator was still a woman in the end, and however strong she was, she could not change certain womanly habits: fear of bugs, for instance, or fear of ghosts.
This female cultivator was plainly an exception, though. Her words and deeds were cold and domineering, with not the slightest trace of frailty.
"Looks like I'll have to find a chance to have a talk with this little ice queen." Wei Zhao muttered to himself, stroking his chin. It was not that he coveted her beauty—with so many fair companions already in his life, ordinary beauty no longer moved him at all. Even if she were a peerless stunner, he would not feel much astonished.
The thought had arisen purely out of regard for her strength. For an early Foundation Establishment expert to appear so suddenly—if she had nothing whatsoever to do with the two Foundation Establishment experts from before, Wei Zhao absolutely refused to believe it.