Chapter 1535 — Obstruction! The Ice Palace Master Ignored Wei Zhao, Instead Picking Up Feng Xiaoxiao and Turning to Walk Away, Exiting the Reception Room in the Blink of an Eye
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The Ice Palace Master nodded. Wei Zhao was unwilling to say more, and she did not press him. Every cultivator's technique was kept secret -- just as the Ice Palace would never carelessly hand its method to a stranger.
At this moment Xiao Qing also approached, and the great crater in the Ice Palace wall left her no less stunned!
"Rest assured, the Palace Master can wake her," Xiao Qing told Wei Zhao with a reassuring look. "No man is permitted within the Ice Palace's inner grounds. That is the rule of the Ice Palace, and it cannot be broken."
"So that is how it is!" Wei Zhao nodded. "Very well, Senior, Palace Master. I shall wait here. I am sorry for the trouble!"
Since they had promised they could rouse Feng Xiaoxiao, then whatever their motives might be, Wei Zhao owed them his thanks.
The Ice Palace Master and Xiao Qing drifted away like wraiths. Wei Zhao watched their retreating figures, a knot of worry in his heart, yet utterly helpless to do anything about it.
"Palace Master... she is, after all, Wei Zhao's girlfriend..." Xiao Qing said with a wry smile.
"Aunt Qing... was I not merely anxious..." Where would the Ice Palace Master ever admit that she had, in fact, looked down on Wei Zhao moments before? "Though I must say, that Wei Zhao is no ordinary fellow. To be able to employ compressed true qi -- a technique that 'slays a thousand enemies at the cost of eight hundred of one's own' -- yet for him it seems to slay a thousand enemies without losing a single one?"
"I have told you already, this lone cultivator is unlike the others. If we can forge a good bond, we should not make an enemy of him," Xiao Qing said.
"An enemy is out of the question. His girlfriend will become our Ice Palace's inheritor. Once she has received the inheritance, I shall step down and cede my seat to a worthier one, and join the Council of Elders..." the Ice Palace Master said.
"She truly does possess the Yin-cold constitution! If she can indeed receive the inheritance, that would be a tremendous blessing for our Ice Palace. The inheritor we have sought for so long has finally been found!" Xiao Qing nodded in agreement.
"Indeed. The Heaven-tier Assembly is only a few years away, and never did I imagine we would find our inheritor before it came!" the Ice Palace Master said. "Fortunately Wei Zhao came to our Ice Palace seeking the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit. Had he gone to Snow Valley seeking the Ice Spirit Sacred Fruit, she would have become Snow Valley's inheritor instead!"
Both the Ice Palace and Snow Valley cultivated techniques of the icy-cold attribute, so their requirements for a cultivator's constitution were remarkably similar. The Ice Heart and Jade Bone constitution was the most perfectly suited to such cultivation. Yet of the four great sects of Cloud Rank Island, it was precisely these two ancient orders that had opened them.
And for both houses to seek an inheritor of the same constitution made the task doubly, triply harder. Who could say how envious Snow Valley would be upon hearing that the Ice Palace had found a inheritor of the Yin-cold constitution?
As they spoke, the two arrived at the Elder Court, where the Ice Palace's Council of Elders held session.
"All elders, come forth and greet the Palace Master. The Palace Master has an important matter to announce to everyone!" Xiao Qing's clear voice rang out into the Elder Court.
In ordinary families or sects, a palace master who went to the Elder Court to discuss matters would show the elders every measure of respect. To summon them out to receive her was rare indeed -- and this alone spoke volumes of the Ice Palace Master's and Xiao Qing's standing within the Ice Palace.