Chapter 1529 — Are You Speaking for Him?
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And if Zhang Lifeng was a Heaven Rank expert, then why had he not healed his friend himself? Why travel ten thousand li in search of the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit? This struck Wei Zhao as strange beyond reason; there must be something in it that he did not know!
Unless Zhang Lifeng did not know that a Heaven Rank expert could also cure the cold poison—but Wei Zhao felt this reason could not hold. With Zhang Lifeng's erudition and his wide web of connections, what Old Man Wei and he himself both knew, Zhang Lifeng could not possibly have failed to know.
So Wei Zhao guessed: might it be that a Heaven Rank expert's healing of the cold poison was inferior in effect to the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit? Or that after such healing, some defect would remain?
This too was why Wei Zhao had not chosen to give up. The future is unknowable; only the present may be seized!
"Palace Master, Ling Yi is still outside..." In the morning, when Xiao Qing came to see the Ice Palace Master, she said.
"Aunt Qing, why does it feel as though you are speaking for that Ling Yi?" Hearing Xiao Qing's words, the Ice Palace Master could not help laughing. "Could it be that you deliberately refrained from driving him off, letting him linger here, so as to move me?"
"This..." Xiao Qing, her heart thus seen through, grew somewhat embarrassed. "Palace Master, I only feel that this Ling Yi is a pitiable child, and I am soft-hearted, as you know..."
"Yes, I know... Had you not picked me up back then, I might long since have frozen to death in the streets..." The Ice Palace Master sighed. "Aunt Qing, I do not blame you. By rights, since you say so, I ought to help. But you know how much the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit means to our Ice Palace, so... if he cannot produce solid proof that he truly can find an alchemist, there is no way I can agree to it. Though I now hold the Ice Palace utterly in my grasp, there is still the Council of Elders after all. So long as it does not go against the Ice Palace's interests, my word is law; but should I do a thing contrary to the Ice Palace's interests, then even as its Master, the Council of Elders would overrule my command—though they would not lightly invoke that right!"
"I am a member of the Council of Elders too, so of course I know... But if an alchemist truly can be found, and you have the Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill, then you will have no need of the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit, and as for the Council of Elders, I can take charge of settling them!" Here Xiao Qing revealed for the first time her imperious air!
Before the Ice Palace Master she was respectful, yet more than that, kindly and doting; but in the Council of Elders, Xiao Qing was absolutely a figure who stood on equal footing with the Grand Elder! Even the Grand Elder dared not lightly contradict Xiao Qing's words!
This too was why the Ice Palace Master could, at so young an age, hold the Ice Palace wholly in her grasp. Without Xiao Qing's support, though the old Palace Master and the Supreme Elder had lent their strength in those years, it would never have gone so smoothly as it did now.
"Aunt Qing, I yield to you." The Ice Palace Master knew that Aunt Qing was determined to speak up for Wei Zhao.
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