Chapter 5076 — Heading to Snow Valley
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"Fine, fine, fine, I misspoke, all right? Who told you all to be grasshoppers tied to the same string as me—if you drop dead from exhaustion, you've only yourselves to blame. Satisfied now?" Wei Zhao said, raising his hands in surrender.
"That's more like it." Only then did Wu Chengtian and the others break into grins.
Wei Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Just then Ying Ziyu suddenly slipped over, sniffed her way up and down his whole body, and said with a frown, "Big brother Wei Zhao, what's that smell on you? Don't tell me you've been out chasing women again?"
"Huh?" Wei Zhao blinked. Seeing Qiu Lingshan and the others stifling their laughter, he realized—how could a primordial spirit body like his have any smell at all? He had nearly been taken in by the little minx.
The reunion stirred up a brief round of merrymaking, but it did not last long, for Qiu Lingshan suddenly remembered the news she had received earlier and hurriedly told Wei Zhao all about the trouble at Snow Valley and Tang's mother being injured.
"Outrageous!" Wei Zhao's good mood vanished in an instant, replaced by a surge of fury. He said in a low voice, "There's no time to lose. I'll head for Snow Valley right now. The rest of you stay here and wait for my return."
"Right!" Everyone nodded in unison. Having witnessed Wei Zhao's clash with Xue Jianming just now, they knew their own strength was too poor to be of any help; Wei Zhao going alone would let him cut loose far better anyway.
With that, Wei Zhao made to set off, but on second thought he first went up to the second floor to look in on the women lying unconscious. He checked each pulse in turn and found them unchanged from before, which brought him a measure of relief. As things stood, no change was itself good news.
His true body was now at the early Xuan Sheng stage. Once he advanced further and became a titan-realm expert, Wei Zhao was confident his chances of finding Zhang Lifeng would rise greatly. Zhang Lifeng might appear and vanish like a dragon showing its head but never its tail, but if the two of them were roughly on the same level, then the places they moved about in would overlap considerably, and a meeting would naturally follow. He had always firmly believed that so long as he could find Zhang Lifeng, Gu Mengyao and the other women would be saved!
Coming out of the villa, Wei Zhao had only one man with him: Fei Yangnian. Fei Yangnian was still the driver—except when he had arrived he was driving for Xue Jianming, and now his boss had become Wei Zhao.
To Wei Zhao's considerable surprise, this fellow Fei Yangnian was actually a decent driver. Apart from barreling along and ignoring every traffic law in sight, he was impressively fast—a regular whirlwind. A plain private car was somehow revved up like a beast on stimulants into a top-tier sports car. On reflection, it really was enough to make one speechless.
Still, that style of his rather suited Wei Zhao's taste. Wei Zhao wanted to reach Snow Valley as fast as possible; if the fellow drove like a snail, he would have had to take the wheel himself, so this saved him no small amount of trouble.
"What's your connection to that Xue Jianming?" Wei Zhao asked from the passenger seat.
"Senior, he's the senior disciple of our sect. He was leading this excursion into the secular world, so I didn't dare disobey him—that's how this whole mess came about..." Fei Yangnian answered cautiously.
"What sect?" Wei Zhao asked offhandedly. In truth, he did not much care what sects made up the Tai Gu Alliance—unless things developed to the point where he wanted to divide and conquer them, and only then would he take a real interest in these sects. For now, this kind of intel was worth less than nothing. (To be continued.)