Chapter 1607 — A Very Important Person
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Seeing his younger brother — who had once had such a bright future ahead of him — reduced to a cripple just like that, how could Foreman Zhu swallow this bitter pill? But with Bi Lao and Zhao Guangyin's prior warnings, he didn't dare act rashly. This time, Zhao Qibing could no longer hold back, and the two of them hit it off perfectly!
To take out Wei Zhao without confronting him head-on, the Medicine King had come up with this insidious scheme.
It had to be said, these people did have some brains. Although the plan looked hard to pull off, if executed properly, Wei Zhao would be utterly ruined. So a bit of extra trouble was well worth it.
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Deep within the Hidden Tang Family, in the training chamber of Old Master Tang, the family's elder patriarch, a young disciple in his twenties sat bolt upright in a chair, waiting for the old master to finish his cultivation.
Had Wei Zhao been present, he would surely have recognized this young man — one of the trial-takers who had participated in the Ice Palace trials, and one of the poor souls whose haul Zhang Naipao had led a gang to rob on the very first day!
So he had simply failed the trial and returned down the mountain to the Hidden Tang Family with his regrets.
Of course, no one could blame him. How could a hidden clan ever compete with the people of an ancient sect? So when this Tang disciple recounted his ordeal to the clan elders, no one held it against him. Even his second uncle's family — who had always been at odds with him — didn't say a word of criticism.
This Tang disciple was named Tang Yuyu, the legitimate heir of the Tang family. After returning to the clan and reporting the situation to the elders, he hurried straight to an audience with Old Master Tang, the family's founding patriarch — because this matter was something only Old Master Tang could decide!
Tang Yuyu was a shrewd young man. He understood the gravity of this matter only too well, and knew that if his suspicions proved true, it would bring an immeasurable impact upon the Tang family. So he had told no one — not even his own father, the current head of the Tang family — and had gone straight to Old Master Tang's chamber.
Still, Tang Yuyu was the legitimate heir of the Tang family, so coming in person to see Old Master Tang was no breach of protocol, and no one would fault him for it.
After completing a set of the Tang family's internal cultivation method, Old Master Tang withdrew his qi and nodded to Tang Yuyu, who had been sitting and waiting in the chair. "Yuyu, how did the trial go? Did you gain anything from it?"
Tang Yuyu held nothing back. Reverently, he repeated the same account he had given to his father and the grand elder of the clan: "Grandfather, that person is a disciple of the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect. Your grandson did not dare cross swords with him! Had I insisted on asserting myself over a moment's pride, not only might I never have returned, but I could have brought disaster upon our Hidden Tang Family! So I had no choice but to give up this opportunity."
"Yuyu, you did the right thing. The ancient sects and the hidden clans exist on entirely different levels. Yielding to them is the wisest course." Old Master Tang nodded. "Our Tang family's internal cultivation method has always leaned toward the icy cold attribute. The whole reason I sent you to the Ice Palace was to have you stay on as an outer disciple and make some progress in such a uniquely favorable environment... but never mind. Some things simply cannot be forced, and there is no need to try."
"I understand, Grandfather. That's precisely why I didn't want to waste the chance. I stayed at the foot of the Ice and Snow Spirit Mountain and cultivated for a period of time before coming back. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth there is extraordinarily dense — it allowed me to break through my previous bottleneck. I've now reached the peak of the middle stage of the Profound rank!" Tang Yuyu said.