Chapter 3053 — Xuanchen Apologizes

"If you're in a hurry, I'd suggest you go take a look around the ** Practitioner Market—they sell these medicinal herbs there year-round!" Bai Lingtou said.

"Of course!" Wei Zhao smacked his forehead. How could he have forgotten the ** Practitioner Market? He decided to bring along some pills and trade them at the market for the herbs he needed. The auction hadn't been held yet, so the pills might not fetch cash, but the ** Practitioner Association also did barter on ordinary days—trading pills for herbs was entirely workable!

With that in mind, Wei Zhao resolved to contact the vice-chairman of the ** Practitioner Association the very next day and trade some of the pills Han Jingyi had refined for him for the medicinal herbs he required!

Having made his decision, Wei Zhao went back to condensing the forging flame. Until he broke through the third layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, this was the only thing he could do! After today's experiments, he could already wield the Fuxi Nine Needles with some proficiency—though his cultivation level was still limited, and so was the power he could draw from them.

Bai Lingtou glanced at the caller ID on his phone and sneered inwardly. He hadn't even gone looking for trouble with Ancestor Xuanchen yet, and here the man was calling first? Could it be he was calling to apologize?

Still, Bai Lingtou picked up, his tone somewhat cold: "Xuanchen? What is it?"

"Senior Brother Xuantian, this... there's something I owe you an apology for..." Ancestor Xuanchen felt utterly wretched and stifled. Little Eleven had been crippled, and now he had to be the one to eat humble pie and apologize! But there was no help for it—he had reasons that compelled him to do so!

"Oh?" Bai Lingtou was momentarily taken aback by Ancestor Xuanchen's words. Had Xuanchen turned over a new leaf? He had only been guessing idly before and hadn't truly expected Xuanchen to call and apologize. He knew Xuanchen's character—how could such a man ever apologize of his own accord?

"Well... previously, I didn't know Sun Jingyan was your **'s wife, so I sent Little One and Little Eleven. But this was all for Tagan Long's sake—you know as well as I do how important Tagan Long is to our Five Luminaries Sect. If we want to return to that level, we have no choice but to do this..." Ancestor Xuanchen sighed.

"Xuanchen, so by your logic, even if you had known Sun Jingyan was Wei Zhao's wife, you would still have done it for Tagan Long's sake—is that right?" Bai Lingtou countered.

"That... well, surely not. I would have consulted you first, and if you didn't agree, I'd have found another way..." Ancestor Xuanchen faltered, his voice weak.

"Is that so?" Bai Lingtou smiled noncommittally. "Fine, I accept your apology. Is there anything else?"

"Well... Senior Brother, I was wondering—was Little One's car driven off by Wei Zhao?" Ancestor Xuanchen asked cautiously.

"Oh? The car? What do you want with it?" Bai Lingtou genuinely hadn't known that Wei Zhao had driven off Little One's car—Wei Zhao hadn't mentioned it in yesterday's phone call either. Besides, Bai Lingtou truly couldn't see what was so important about a car that Ancestor Xuanchen would ask about it specifically. It wasn't as if the Five Luminaries Sect was penniless.

"It's like this... Little One left in such a hurry that he left his heaven-tier divine weapon in the trunk and didn't take it out. Do you think... it could be returned to him?" That was the whole purpose of Ancestor Xuanchen's call today. Otherwise, he would never have apologized to Bai Lingtou of his own accord—at most, he would have apologized when Bai Lingtou confronted him, and if Bai Lingtou said nothing, he would have pretended not to know.

But after Little One left this morning, he soon turned back! The men Little One sent to search for the car near the Sun family's home hadn't seen it anywhere. The man wasn't a ** practitioner of any high tier and didn't dare go to the Sun family to ask questions or cause trouble, so he could only report the situation to Little One truthfully.

Little One's first thought was that Wei Zhao had taken it—who else but Wei Zhao would steal his car? At that thought, Little One was consumed with regret and hatred. If only he had carried the heaven-tier divine weapon with him when he got out of the car, things would have turned out very differently, wouldn't they?

He never would have lost so ignominiously. At the very least, dealing with Huo Shaoyun, Wu Chengtian, and Wei Zhao would have been a trivial matter. Even if Huo Shaoyun had been at the peak of the late Heaven-tier, he would have had an absolute advantage and could have killed him outright!

But a Heaven-tier expert without his divine weapon was like an Earth-tier expert who couldn't use martial techniques—it was as if his arm had been cut off. He had the strength but couldn't bring it to bear. It was utterly humiliating!

And now, to make matters worse, the car had been taken by Wei Zhao. The car itself didn't matter; what mattered was the heaven-tier divine weapon inside it. So Little One had no choice but to beg Ancestor Xuanchen for help in getting his heaven-tier divine weapon back.

Thus, with no other option, Ancestor Xuanchen had to lower himself and call Bai Lingtou! He knew about Little One's heaven-tier divine weapon—it was one of the Five Luminaries Sect's strongest heaven-tier divine weapons, and the one best suited to Little One. With that weapon in hand, Little One could unleash his full strength and fight above his level. Without it, Little One was like a tiger without teeth. So even though it galled him, Ancestor Xuanchen had to make the call.

"That I couldn't say. Wei Zhao didn't mention anything about a car to me—maybe some car thief stole it?" Bai Lingtou replied blandly. "Besides, Sun Jingyan was injured, and you haven't offered any compensation since?"

"That... of course we'll compensate. We're discussing it right now! Tell us what you need and we'll provide some. We just don't know what you're short of..." A man under another's eaves must bow his head—Ancestor Xuanchen could only say this much.

"Oh, I'll ask Wei Zhao when I have time, see if he's come across your heaven-tier divine weapon," Bai Lingtou said offhandedly, though his tone sounded like nothing so much as a brush-off, hardly as if he'd taken it to heart.

"Then I'll trouble you, Senior Brother..." Ancestor Xuanchen was helpless. He didn't dare press Bai Lingtou to act and could only think of urging him again after some time had passed.

"It's fine, I'm hanging up." With that, Bai Lingtou didn't give Ancestor Xuanchen a chance to speak and hung up directly. (To be continued.)