As luck would have it, the one who came to deal with them was none other than Guan Xinglan, former top-ranked champion of the Prodigies Ranking. Guan Xinglan had a fairly good relationship with Zheng Jin and had met the three of them a few times. Wen Xu had originally only had his mouth covered, but now, to keep up the pretense of being blind, even his eyes had been covered.
Wen, whose treatment was getting worse and worse: ...
After Guan Xinglan learned why the four of them were gathering pills, she immediately said she could help, on the condition that she be taken along. Thus, the original three clingy plasters immediately became four.
"Let go of my poor disciple. Keep covering him, and you'll give him a rash." Cheng Wei smiled with narrowed eyes at the four of them. "If you want to bring them along, covering only my disciple's mouth won't do. Give me your reasons. If you can persuade me, I'll send you into the city."
The proper reasons were naturally plentiful. For instance, Bian Chunchou had accepted a task to find someone's relatives; Zheng Jin still had blood relatives in the city; Mingxuan City was under the protection of the Hehe Sect, so it was perfectly proper for Guan Xinglan, as the senior sister, to enter. But saying any of that clearly would not be enough to persuade a Divine Venerable.
Instead, Chen Zui, the most straightforward of them all, spoke with his saber in hand. "Why do we need reasons? We have always been together, through life and death alike."
"Yes, we beg the Dragon Venerable to grant it," Bian Chunchou immediately followed.
The other two promptly copied them, skipping straight past the reasoning stage. "We beg the Dragon Venerable to grant it."
Wushan: