Three Tasks

"Be careful around this person!"

Ever since Zhang Xuezhou had stepped into the ring in place of sequencer 29749, Zhang Manqian had stopped shouldering everything on her own and chosen to discuss things with him instead.

When Unrivaled Hunk (Zuo Teng) came up again, Zhang Xuezhou pointed to the flashing profile picture of the person who had sent the message.

"In the ring, I heard a supervisor from the Weiyang Martial Arts School address someone as 'Young Master Zuo.' He might have some connection to the Zuo Household," Zhang Xuezhou said.

"Only with a connection like that could he give me the referrals for sequencing," Zhang Manqian said.

"But the Zuo Household isn't clean!"

Zhang Xuezhou had used several names, including "Proud and Pretty Little Beauty" and "Pure White Little Princess," and had found some fresh, wholesome pictures to use as profile pictures, but Zuo Teng had not accepted a single one of his friend requests.

That left Zhang Xuezhou's attempts to probe for information about Zuo Teng a dead letter.

He recalled the voices he had heard talking at the ring and could not help giving Zhang Manqian a very solemn warning.

"He has that kind of circle around him, and the ideas that come out of it will be completely different from ours," Zhang Xuezhou said. "Besides, we aren't particularly strong right now. If an underground force like that targets us, we'll hardly have the power to fight back!"

Whether it was Zhang Xuezhou, a minor cultivator in the Meridian Circulation Realm, or Zhang Manqian, a sequencer who had only gained an initial grasp of the Crane Form Fist, both stood merely on the fringes of the extraordinary.

And in the Weiyang Martial Arts School's underground casino, Zhang Xuezhou had seen far too many gamblers.

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