Chapter 5101 — Leading the Young Astray
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"Casting pearls before swine!" Xin Yi'an was speechless. These people lacked the cultivation to follow him and their thinking was rigid; they simply assumed that whatever they had learned before was immutable law. They could not hear the brilliance in the guidance Wei Zhao had just offered. Even if he argued with them now, it would do no good—they would only take it as unprincipled favoritism.
Wei Zhao did not much care. He had shared those cultivation insights purely out of goodwill; whether anyone listened was their own affair. As for what the senior brothers leading these Ancient sects thought of him, that mattered even less.
"I'd say he's simply run out of arguments," Xue Jianming said with a smug smile. Stirred up by his prodding, the senior brothers leading the other Ancient sects now regarded Wei Zhao with unmistakable hostility. Anyone would be sickened as though they had swallowed a fly by someone who schemed to mislead their own quasi-disciples—but unfortunately, Xin Yi'an was present. The crowd was merely displeased and dared not do anything to Wei Zhao; otherwise, with a little more goading, they might well have come to blows on the spot.
"What are you still standing there for? Do you mean to keep listening to his heretical brainwashing? Get over here, now!" The senior brothers leading the various Ancient sects frowned and snapped at their quasi-disciples.
It was not only the Five Luminaries Sect. The other secular-world cultivators, having heard all this, were now wavering as well. Facing the sharp rebukes of their own sect's senior brothers, they offered no resistance and stepped away without hesitation. The looks they turned on Wei Zhao no longer held even a trace of the gratitude and admiration from before; instead, there was a measure of distaste and ill will.
By now, only Leng Leng, Qiu Lingshan, and three secular-world cultivators remained at Wei Zhao's side—all of them quasi-disciples of the Cangwu Sect of North Island. Though what they had just heard set them murmuring doubtfully in their hearts, Xin Yi'an had declared it incisive and original insight, and they were inclined to believe him. In any case, even if they had not believed it, they could hardly move farther from Wei Zhao—Xin Yi'an was right there beside him, after all.
"Are all of you blind? Have you forgotten how much Wei Zhao has done for the secular world? Do you really think he would harm you?" Qiu Lingshan was grinding her teeth in fury. She did not mind suffering a little indignity herself, but she could not bear to see Wei Zhao wrongly accused.
Leng Leng, too, felt aggrieved on Wei Zhao's behalf, but she said nothing. Instead, she regarded the senior brothers leading those sects with the look one might give an idiot. What Wei Zhao had said was not profound; think it over carefully and even she, a mid-Foundation Establishment expert, could taste something of its subtlety—and much of it did not even conflict with mainstream Ancient Alliance understanding, it was merely more incisive. Were these people all pig-brained?
"We haven't seen him do anything for the secular world. He's just trying to establish his authority while he has the chance—that little scheme is plain enough to us. We're not fools..." a Five Luminaries Sect disciple retorted with a cold laugh. He was now a quasi-disciple of the Snow Sword Sect, and in saying this he was in fact declaring his loyalty to Xue Jianming. So long as he could smoothly join the Snow Sword Sect in the days to come, what could Wei Zhao do to him?
Though the Five Luminaries Sect's new sect master had become Patriarch Xuanzhen, most of the disciples left behind were still Patriarch Xuanchen's people—especially those of higher cultivation. As for the disciples Patriarch Xuanzhen had newly taken in, it was already quite good enough if they could reach the Profound Rank at this point.