Xu Shu retorted, "Don’t you have other Dragon Elephant friends? Why wait specifically for my promotion?"
"Oh co on, they definitely aren’t as powerful as you~~ Besides, you Warriors just need to hold enemy aggro up front, while we support types have to think about a lot more." Zhong Xiaoya said.
"Damn, how can you send voice ssages!" In Xu Shu’s mind, an image popped up of the petite Zhong Xiaoya hugging his leg and acting cute.
"What?" Zhong Xiaoya was montarily confused.
"Nothing, when should we go?" Xu Shu, finding this playacting to be frustrating, asked about the timing, clearly agreeing.
He didn’t mind teaming up with acquaintances to explore ruins.
Having friends along reduces uncertainties, and given she reached out, chances are she has a "trigger item," a valuable treasure hard to co by. It’s a win for him no matter how he sees it.
As for risks?
The Sea of Death is indeed terrifying and evil, so much so that even a third-tier Transcendent would et their end if they fell into the sea. No doubt the ruins above are even more perilous.
With the Tai Chu Scroll and its three lives, and considering his own substantial progress, he no longer needed to approach things so timidly.
Before setting out, he can get a glimpse of the future and retreat if things look dire...
Xu Shu waited a bit, even planning out his cultivation schedule along the journey, when Zhong Xiaoya said:
"No hurry, you’ve just broken through, and your strength is still unstable. Wait until you’re close to the third-tier middle stage before we head out. See, others might think of exploiting you, but Xiaoya will only be concerned for you~"
How is she sending voice ssages again...
But, her implication is that one needs to be at least third-tier mid-stage to barely make it into their team?
Seems like he underestimated Xiaoya, her actual strength is probably third-rank late stage, huh?
Xu Shu was slightly surprised, but not rushed, and simply replied "Okay."
For several minutes afterward, Xiaoya didn’t reply.
Xu Shu thought she might have logged off and was about to shut his computer to head ho when his communicator buzzed again.
With a sigh, he checked the Ascension Network to see Xiaoya had sent another ssage.
This ti, she was serious: "Let ask you one last thing, are you really sure you want revenge for what happened back then?"
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Xu Shu opened his mouth in surprise.
What was she talking about this ti?
Was she asking if he wanted revenge on the Archbishop?
Of course, revenge was necessary; he and the cultists were irreconcilable. All the Four Evil Secret Sects in the world, and even the complicit Salvation Army’s White Emperor and Black Emperor branches, and the "Destroyers" of the Star Group, would all face his reckoning sooner or later!
—That was his initial thought.
But on reconsideration, it seed off.
His intuition told him that Zhong Xiaoya wasn’t referring to the "big bang" event in the D8B3 District.
After all, it had been less than two weeks since the D8B3 incident, and describing it as "what happened back then" seed inappropriate.
Considering she was warning him about the Living Repair Organization "Endless Flowers";
And Bai Sanxiang ntioned that the waters in the Penglai District ran deep, the Archbishop ca from there and had old enemies;
It was a warning not to bring Alice near a place called ’Luling Platform’, indicating the events of that ti hadn’t truly ended...
After thinking it over, Xu Shu concluded that Xiaoya’s ntion of revenge likely referred to the Archbishop’s past enmity in Penglai.
Moreover, this matter was surely related to Alice.
Yes, Zhong Xiaoya and the Archbishop were old classmates, and she was among the few aware of the Archbishop’s real na ’Yu Mingluan’, instead of calling him ’Gilbert Tyson’.
It’s obvious she knew who the Archbishop’s enemies were, and she probably witnessed or experienced it all firsthand.
Furthermore,
Xu Shu had always been outwardly carefree, yet inwardly astute, quickly connecting the dots from a single word, sensing sothing unusual.
He surmised this all likely involved conflicts between Living and dead cultivators, and recognized the Archbishop was once a prominent figure here.
But there wasn’t enough information, allowing him only to grasp the surface and not the full truth.
Should he ask directly for an explanation on what exactly happened?
This thought was quickly dismissed by Xu Shu.
He felt certain that if he asked, Xiaoya would feign ignorance, pretending not to know, keeping the secret buried forever...
Xu Shu thought over his reply and said:
"I don’t want to talk about the past, but for those events to truly beco the past, I’ll have to dig out and bury those hidden, so they never resurface."
The implication was, you’re right, I’m here for revenge, but I can’t identify those people! Based on your past with Yu Mingluan, you’ll have to tell about them!
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