Chapter 5023 — Another Foundation Establishment Cultivator
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Still, Wei Zhao did not intend to go knocking on her door right away. This little ice queen was clearly hard to talk to at the best of times, and now that she was injured, she would surely be doubly wary of strangers. Under such circumstances, going to ask about such matters would be nothing but asking for trouble.
What was more, Wei Zhao's own strength had recovered nowhere near enough. A mere peak late Heaven Rank—enough to handle an injured early Foundation Establishment expert, perhaps, but not enough to truly overawe her. The most urgent thing for Wei Zhao now was to keep recovering his strength; unless absolutely necessary, he did not want to clash head-on with anyone.
So if he wanted to question her, he would need a suitable opportunity. Forcing the issue would only backfire.
Only once all was quiet across the hall did Wei Zhao push open his door and go downstairs to the convenience store to ask around, only to learn that there was no night market anywhere nearby—he would have to go into the busy downtown.
Fortunately, Wei Zhao was astonishingly fast. What took others half an hour on an electric scooter took him less than five minutes—and that included the time spent asking for directions. Otherwise he would have been even quicker.
Sure enough, the night market was a clamor of voices, all sorts of characters gathered in this one place, each of them drinking beer and eating grilled meat while boasting and venting a few complaints on the side. If one cared to listen, two hours spent here would be enough to learn absolutely everything.
From affairs of state down to neighborhood gossip, from one end of the world to the other, people talked of everything under the sun. Wei Zhao did not even need to strike up a conversation; he simply sat there and ate a little something, and everything worth knowing came to him.
The first thing he could confirm was that the mortal realm was not in chaos—at least, the overt social order had suffered no disruption whatsoever. From this he inferred that the cultivators hidden beneath that social order were not in great turmoil either; otherwise, if things had truly descended into irretrievable chaos, the social order would inevitably have been affected, rather than remaining as calm as it was now.
In other words, there had been no large-scale conflict between these newly emerged Heaven Rank experts and the mortal realm's original cultivation forces. That admitted only two explanations: either very few people knew of their existence, or these Heaven Rank experts had reached some kind of understanding with the hidden clans and ancient sects, and their relations were not hostile.
Either way, neither scenario was bad for Wei Zhao. As long as there was no large-scale conflict, it meant that Qiu Lingshan and the others should not yet have run into any trouble—after all, so many of them were bound together through their connection to him, and any one of them coming to harm would alert them all. At that point the Mystery Investigation Bureau and all those clans and sects would be thrown into chaos, and things would not be as calm as they were now.
Having deduced this much, Wei Zhao could at last set his mind somewhat at ease. He still had to find a way to learn the origins and intentions of these Heaven Rank experts, but at least it was not as urgent as he had feared. He could wait until he had comfortably recovered his strength before making his plans.
Beyond that, Wei Zhao had also worked out his current location. This was a small county town in the southwest, a county-level city called Xima, separated from Donghai City by nearly the whole of Huaxia—not just far, but extraordinarily far.
What was more, transportation here was underdeveloped. There was no airport and no train station to speak of; to travel any distance, one first had to take a bus to the neighboring prefecture-level city, where the airport and train station were.
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