"The situation is basically like this."
In the teahouse, Wang Chen said to Zuo Xiaomo, "I have to leave today. I can't guarantee I'll be back before the first day of the fourth month."
Zuo Xiaomo gave a bitter smile. "Senior Brother Wang, I dragged you into this."
He understood very well that if not for his own sake, Wang Chen would never have received such a mission.
"Just who have you offended?"
Wang Chen asked in puzzlement, "It's not even an assessment for entering the Inner Sect from the Outer Sect. Was there really a need for such painstaking scheming?"
Zuo Xiaomo was currently a reserve disciple of the West Sea Sect's Outer Sect. Passing this assessment would merely make him official. Strictly speaking, it was hardly such a major matter.
It was completely different from Wang Chen rising from a mere Rogue Cultivator into the Inner Sect.
One had to know that the West Sea Sect had over a million Outer Sect disciples. Even if official disciples held a higher status than reserve disciples, it should not have been enough for others to rack their brains and pull strings at the top to stop him, should it?
Faced with Wang Chen's question, Zuo Xiaomo's expression twisted with conflict. Hesitating and stumbling over his words, he revealed the truth.
It turned out he had fallen in love with a female cultivator from the Myriad Spirit Lu Clan. Though she was not a direct descendant of the Lu family, she possessed considerable talent for cultivation and was regarded as a Golden Core seed.
Moreover, she had already caught the eye of a Golden Core True Person from the West Sea Sect and stood a good chance of entering that person's tutelage.
But that meant Zuo Xiaomo was not worthy of