Chapter 1490 — The Unlucky Pi Brothers
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"Heh..." The next in line to register after Pi Zhitao was Wei Zhao, who stood closest. Watching Pi Zhifeng's agonized expression, he could not help but be amused. Wei Zhao knew well enough which family the Hidden Pi were; for a family so unfriendly, the only thing he could offer was mockery.
Hearing Wei Zhao's laugh, Pi Zhifeng's expression froze. A flicker of hatred crossed his face, and he turned to fix his eyes on Wei Zhao. "It's you? That cripple? Very well, Ling Yi, is it? I, Pi Zhifeng, will remember you! We'll meet again!"
Pi Zhifeng was full of rage and dared not vent it on the Ice Palace. As he saw it, a "poor wretch" had just blundered into his path, and he would hardly be polite. Later he would find this Ling Yi and take it out on him.
"As you like," Wei Zhao said mildly. "Next time we meet, you might buy yourself a coffin in advance."
"Hmph!" Pi Zhifeng sneered. "Cheap talk!"
With the Ice Palace's people present, he naturally dared not strike at Wei Zhao. So after the sneer he and Pi Zhitao hurried off, but he had fixed Wei Zhao's face in his mind.
The feud with the Hidden Pi family could no longer be resolved. His little brother Ergoudan had beaten several of their people to death; even without today's affair, the hatred was to the death. So Wei Zhao had no fear at all of offending the Pi family.
"Enough talk. You, come and register!" The innkeeper glanced at Wei Zhao, a strange light flashing in his eyes. He had seen with his own eyes the business of Wei Zhao being crippled, and now Wei Zhao had not left but was instead entering the trial, which only confirmed the innkeeper's earlier guess: the person upstairs who had broken through was none other than Wei Zhao before him.
"Yes!" Wei Zhao registered his particulars: strength, late-stage Profound Rank; affiliation, unaffiliated cultivator; name, Ling Yi.
Reading Wei Zhao's registered strength, the innkeeper was now certain: Wei Zhao had indeed broken through. It made him deeply curious and deeply puzzled. How on earth had the man done it? Of course, such things were a person's private secret. Even the Ice Palace, powerful as it was, had no right to inquire into another's cultivation methods; that would be against the rules.
"Hold out your hand!" The innkeeper was rather impatient to confirm Wei Zhao's strength.
As for Wei Zhao, he too wanted to use this chance to test the innkeeper's ability. Wei Zhao also had the power to conceal his own strength. The energy within him was omnipotent energy; when he did not circulate the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, the energy did not move, nor did it transform into true qi. So Wei Zhao wanted to see: if he did not run his heart method, could the innkeeper detect his true strength?