Sigh, she's become as dark as charcoal again.
Right at the moment Wei Wei was sighing, the white cat returned, strolling over and speaking in an indifferent voice. "I just took a look at the name list. So far, the only person placing their bet on you is yourself."
"Very good." Wei Wei's thin lips curved up with satisfaction. She could almost see all of the pieces of silver sprouting wings and flying towards her direction. Her life simply couldn't be anymore beautiful.
At the same time, people who looked at the name list all roared in laughter. "There surprisingly are still people who bet on that good-for-nothing winning, my goodness, must be some problem with their brains!"
Having heard that, the horsekeeper performing his duty swung his head around towards his master and took a glance, but only saw the same cold appearance as before, as if he simply didn't hear those people talking at all.
Even as an ancient spirit beast, there were times when it truly still couldn't guess what the hell its master was thinking...
Time moved on more and more quickly. One after another, the organizers already sat in the judging panel's seats on stage.
The seat within the assembly that drew the most attention belonged precisely to that exceptional young man dressed in fluttering white clothes, Liancheng's Jing Wu Shuang.
The side of his face appeared more cultured and refined than at any other time. His every gesture carried an aura of pure nobleness. Merely by sitting there, he drew everyone's gazes at once.
Included among those gazes was Helian Jiao Er's.
Today, she wore a solid pink cotton dress. The collar was made of the highest quality fox fur. Her little oval face was smiling. The light in her eyes rested on Jing Wu Shuang's person as she again recalled the words her maid previously said to her. Her beautiful eyes were a picture of delicateness.
This Young Master Wu Shuang indeed easily made a person's heart beat faster.
Having a man like that admire her, increasingly made Helian Jiao Er feel absolutely self-confident, even the smile at the ends of her mouth grew somewhat wider.
Helian Jiao Er's figure was as graceful as a willow; the movement of her steps were like a lotus touching upon the water's surface. Her bashfulness was infused with gentleness and tenderness, attracting a spell of admiring exclamations from the crowd.
As the host introduced her to the crowd, the veiled Helian Jiao Er was like a goddess standing in the clouds thoroughly enjoying the mortals' worship.
Suddenly, it seemed as if she saw something, as poisonous malevolence emerged and smeared her little face.
Her gaze fell at the middle of the crowd.
It's her! Helian Wei Wei!
As it turned out, that s.l.u.t really came!
She even thought that those gambling joints and what not were making a joke.
After all, ever since Wei Wei left White Academy, she had already considered this s.l.u.t as good as dead.
Have her properly understand what was known as the disparity between one person and another!
Helian Jiao Er walked over with graceful lotus like steps. Her vermillion colored lips raised slightly, her voice as clear and penetrating as a starling bird. "Elder Sister, I didn't expect to run into you here. Is Young Master Hei also with you? You guys left White Academy just like that without also taking into consideration your families' reputations. Father will also feel awkward, you know."
Helian family's eldest daughter? Who was that, oh, the capital's biggest joke.
Not to mention the complete lack of qi on her body, her engagement got annulled yet she still hadn't straightened herself out. She depended on Grandmaster Zi Zun, brazenly curried his favor, and even really thought that merely based on being his disciple, she could be recognized as an armament master?
Simply ridiculous!
Chapter 115 - The Joke, Wei Wei
Helian Wei Wei just stood in the midst of these kinds of disdainful gazes from thousands of people, billows and billows of gazes, her fresh and elegant face appeared as if it wasn't the least bit bothered by people's discussion. Her pair of clear and limpid eyes slowly scanned all around, and finally fell on Helian Jiao Er's body. "Family? Have you forgotten, I have already been driven out from the Helian clan by you and that ungrateful father."
"This Helian family's eldest daughter is indeed crude. Look at the younger sister and look again at the elder sister, merely by their appearance alone, one could already tell who is benevolent and who is evil."
"Come on, a person who ran away from the academy with a man in the middle of the night, how good can they be."
Listening to the sounds of everyone's comments, Helian Jiao Er lowered her head and insincerely used a handkerchief to wipe at the corners of her eyes. "I know Oldest Sister loathes me in her heart." After saying that, she slowly moved her gaze from Wei Wei's body and withdrew it. With an empathic expression, she smiled modestly at everyone. "Everyone, don't talk about Elder Sister like that, it'll just upset her. Just blame it on me."
As expected, this again stirred up another show of approval for the beautiful and kind person.
Wei Wei's cinnabar colored lips slanted down in disinterest. A set of people in front, a set of people behind, Helian Jiao Er didn't tire of playing these kinds of cheap tricks, but she was tired of watching them.
Helian Jiao Er gripped her handkerchief and spoke as if she was hesitating. "However, Elder Sister hasn't even touched armaments before, why would you come to an armament convention? Did you deliberately come just to make your life more interesting? If it's truly like that, then this younger sister, um, advises Elder Sister to stop it."
Wei Wei narrowed her eyes and looked at the expressions of everyone beneath the stage. Sure enough, there was somewhat more disdain. Those gazes which fell on her body seemed as if they were looking at the smelly bugs inside the gutters, exuding a strong feeling of disgust.
She really didn't care in the least and slowly smiled in a perfectly composed way. Withdraw? She still hadn't won money yet, heh, why would she withdraw?
Hei Ze also didn't know that Wei Wei would appear here. After all, when they'd talked it over, these circ.u.mstances hadn't been in play.
At that time, they talked about bringing the armaments from their armament shop to the auction to sell.
That's why during these couple of days, Hei Ze had always been over at the auction gaining experience. He waited for half a day, yet didn't see his partner. He even thought that the other party probably wouldn't show up.
He didn't expect that she actually would immediately take part in an armament competition as soon as she arrived!
Hei Ze furrowed his brows. His eyes didn't blink as they stared at the activity onstage, his entire face was an expression of seriousness.
At the other side, the imperial guard sitting inside another private room anxiously lifted his brows. "Young master, the gambling joint opened with overly high stakes this time. If this Helian Wei Wei fails to win, then..."
"So it's like that." The beautiful youngster sitting at the seat of honor seemed as if he didn't hear the sound of the imperial guard's words as he talked to himself. "It's a technique to change one's appearance? Eh? Doesn't look like it."
The light in the imperial guard's eyes sparkled. "Change of appearance?" What their aristocratic family specialized in was precisely appearance changing techniques, and their young master's appearance changing techniques were considered to be one of the best within Dragon War Empire. No matter who the other party was, or how they've changed, the young master could always immediately distinguish their true appearance.
That beautiful youngster seemed as if he'd come across an extremely fascinating matter. His long and narrow eyes were so bright they shined somewhat. "I truly didn't expect that the Helian family's good-for-nothing disgraced daughter's true appearance was like that. He-he, interesting. Truly extremely interesting."
That imperial guard was having more and more difficulty making sense of what his yo
ung master was saying.
However, what made him apprehensive was the light in his young master's eyes, that kind of contemplation which seemed as if he found a plaything that pleased his eyes.
And the plaything that pleased the young master's eyes, under normal circ.u.mstances, only had one ending, and that was destruction...
This was actually even inherited from 'that' person.
When compared to that Highness, the young master could still be considered cute. At the very least, when he could not obtain the thing he wanted, his temper would just go off until it's finished and that's it.
However, that other Highness...his thoughts were deep, there's no one who was capable of escaping from him.
When he was younger, the young master was entrapped by that Highness very miserably.
The imperial guard silently turned his head and took another glance at the beautiful youngster with delicate features.
He wondered if the young master still bore a grudge against that Highness for the matter of tricking him into wearing female clothes...
"What is it?" The beautiful youngster slapped the tabletop. His long and narrow eyes looked up and over, sweeping a glance at the imperial guard.
That imperial guard thought long and hard about how to phrase his words before responding. "Subordinate received news which came from the imperial palace."
After hearing the two words imperial palace, the beautiful youngster's back shook slightly as he curved his lips into a cold smile. "Continue."
"It seems that Highness has also come." The imperial guard lifted his head towards the sky. "Right now, it's unknown if he's entered the city, however, the journey should've been a secret. Not even one imperial guard was brought along."
Bang!
That beautiful youngster grabbed the imperial guard's collar and dragged him over while his voice was kept down very low. "Find an opportunity to capture him."
"Young Master, that's His Highness the Prince." The imperial guard wiped off the cold sweat on his forehead as he thought to himself [even if you guy are cousins, you still should not be this brash, sigh].
The beautiful youngster's narrow eyes narrowed further. "Don't worry, listen to this young master. Deal with him!"
Ever since ancient times, Armament City had been different compared to other cities.
Because it possessed a special status and was basically not under the imperial family's control.
In short, the beautiful youngster only wanted to convey one idea, and that idea was that this place was their territory. They could catch whoever they wanted to catch!
The imperial guard thought and thought before speaking. "You should still think it over for a bit, OK? Right now, your health still has not recovered and is not fit enough to directly go against His Highness the prince."
"Don't need to think it over!" The beautiful youngster exposed two beautiful canines. "That year, when he tricked me into wearing women's clothes, he also didn't think over anything! This young master will say once again, deal with him! Right now, he actually doesn't possess any bit of qi, very convenient for making a move!"
The imperial guard coughed fiercely, he especially wanted to say 'young master, is it good for us to fight a one-sided battle like that?'
But then he recalled how when the young master and His Highness were merely children, they were already simply more shameless than anyone else...
"Yes." Ultimately, the imperial guard accepted the order.
The beautiful youngster smiled and instructed seriously. "Capture him alive."
Imperial guard:...this... no one would dare to kill that Highness, right?
"Fine. You can leave now, I still want to continue to watch this good show." The beautiful youngster waved his hands and looked through them at Wei Wei's face as he mixed in a hint of something different from previously.
Using the identity of a man to approach me?
Ah, contrary to expectations, this Helian Wei Wei was seriously clever.
It's just that he didn't know if she truly could differentiate armaments, or if she's only pretending...
In fact, almost everybody believed it to be a joke that Wei Wei came to the armament convention.
They hadn't forgotten that a month ago, Wei Wei shamelessly participated at that little armament test at Phoenix Tower.
And the outcome was that she merely stayed in there not more than a moment before Master Tu Tian impatiently drove her out.
And now, at this kind of gathering of armament masters, in a sacred place, she even dared to come and make a scene. This, she was just simply humiliating herself!
Chapter 116 - Wei Wei’s Going to Lose
Badum!
The sound of drums died down.
The competitors then each returned to their respective positions.
Just as they brushed past one another…
Helian Jiao Er lowered her voice and spoke by Wei Wei's ear. "If you don't want to lose miserably, I advise you to quickly scram, and after that, hide in a secluded place on a destitute mountain. Know your place and peacefully live out your next life! Otherwise, heh, don't count on yourself able to be able to encounter such good luck several times like you have in the past!"
Facing this kind of provocation, Helian Wei Wei only raised her brows and smiled with an attitude that no one else could fathom. After all, when a dog bit you, you couldn't bite it in return, right?
"Girl, you're being looked down upon by people again." Yuan Ming's lazy voice transmitted from the void.
Wei Wei's lips curved a little as she again glanced over at the gambling joint. "What I wanted was this effect."
"Why? You finally want to show you real strength?" Yuan Ming became excited.
Wei Wei looked at the armament competitors slowly getting pushed upstage not very far away, and didn't speak at all. It's only that the smile by the side of her lips even made the liquid inside Yuan Ming's blood vessels boil immediately afterwards!
"Young Master." While standing behind Jing Wu Shuang in order to serve him, when Uncle Liang saw Wei Wei's appearance onstage. Pure astonishment streaked across his eyes. "That face of hers..."
Jing Wu Shuang faintly 'mm hm'd a sound. His smooth as jade handsome appearance still didn't make any expression, and only sipped a mouthful of tea. His eyes only blandly swept towards the girl standing as firm as a pine tree in the middle of the convention hall with her eyelashes hanging down slightly.
Uncle Liang watched his young master's not cold not hot (apathetic) manner and thought to himself that's just like his young master to keep his composure in this way.
Looking at Helian Wei Wei's current face, he even wondered a little if that goddess-like person that he'd seen previously was a real person or was a mirage.
That…..wasn't that skin just a bit too dark?
It's basically because of the skin color, yet all of the virtues she possessed seemed as if they'd all been concealed, buried within the dust, making her look not pleasing to the eye at all.
"Clang!"
The noise from wooden hammer hitting the gong immediately made Uncle Liang's focus return.
The competition formally began!
Eighteen pieces of armaments, one behind the other, were arranged on top of the wooden table. Their shapes were all different. The texture and quality of the materials used were also different.
Each armament had their own application. Everyone of them came from the hands of armament masters.
Wanting to choose the armament forged by Young Master Wu Shuang from among so many armaments, simply was as a trial within a trial.
People who were familiar with Young Master Wu Shuang could still make some comparisons based on his previous habits, and from that, choose an armament from among them.
However, those people not familiar with Young Master Wu Shuang, what could they do?
There would be absolutely no leads, like fishing up a needle from the ocean.
The newly minted armament masters took a gla
nce at each other. One after another they saw the distress within the respective person's eyes.
As a matter of fact, when a martial artist chooses an armament, they'd base it on whether the armament emitted a small or large amount of martial qi in order to make a decision.
The stronger the martial qi, the better that made the armament.
Helian Jiao Er herself was a ninth level martial artist. Her resonance with armaments could be considered excellent among this group of people.
Yet it's obvious that she was wavering between that jade green long double-edged sword and the dark tortoise bow and arrow.
There was also a most important consideration when choosing an armament, and that was that speed was very important!
If you looked favorably upon an armament, and your opponent also looked favorably at the same armament, then whoever could make a grab and keep a hold on it would be considered the winner.
That's why when the gong sounded, everybody rushed in front of the armaments and scrambled to feel and stroke those armaments as if they were insane.
Only Wei Wei didn't immediately move. Instead, sliding over every inch of those armaments' surface, the light in her eyes was so profound it made people unable to see through what she was thinking.
Some people burst into laughter beneath the stage. "Look at her, couldn't be she's been struck dumb, right?"
"I reckon she simply didn't know which armament to aim for. Not having qi, indeed it's impossible to even have the most basic ability to react."
"It looks like we'll win this gamble for sure."
"Is there even a need to say that, ha ha ha..."
The sounds of derision one after another unceasingly transmitted over. Those aristocratic young masters watched and also laughed along immediately afterwards. "This sounds quite interesting, hey, I say, should we also place our bets, see who wins and who loses, hm?"
"Sure." Someone immediately approved.
"Lord, who are you going to bet on?"
"Is it still necessary to ask that? Of course bet on Helian Jiao Er to win." Murong Chang Feng didn't hear the mockery all around as he absent-mindedly 'mm hm'd and after that placed a small token of money on Helian Jiao Er.
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