Chapter 2354 — The Yu Family's Phone Call
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So he held nothing back, and told Zhao Qilei the whole story of how Zhao Qibing had swindled the Qi Gathering Pill out of the hands of the hidden Yu family.
Hearing Old Master Zhao's words, Zhao Qilei fell silent at once. The resentment and doubt in his heart dissolved into nothing in that instant, leaving only a silent lament at Zhao Qibing's good fortune. Of course—with merits like that, how could he possibly compete?
Zhao Qilei gave a self-mocking smile. "I understand. So that is how it is... Heh... It seems no matter how hard I try, I can never become the patriarch..."
"It is good that you understand." Old Master Zhao nodded. "If you keep colluding with Wei Zhao, you are walking a dead-end road. Though that brat Wei Zhao has been asking after you constantly of late—it seems he trusts you quite a bit?"
"If I do not go to Wei Zhao, will you let me off? Once Zhao Qibing's wings are full, I will likely be the first he cuts down." Zhao Qilei shook his head, seeing it all too clearly. "Grandfather, I know you do not like me, because my mother came from a village. My father died early on her account, and you laid the hatred for that on me and on her. My mother was driven back to the countryside, and as for me—if not for my diligence in cultivation, I would long since have had no place in the Zhao family at all, would I not?"
Old Master Zhao's expression shifted. Zhao Qilei's words had struck home. Though Zhao Qilei was his grandson, because of all that had come before, he had never thought much of him.
"So I have hit the mark?" Zhao Qilei smiled. "At first I thought that through my own efforts I could make you all change your view and accept me. But ever since Zhao Qibing appeared, I have seen that it is impossible. I am not resigned to it. I took Wei Zhao as my leader—partly because he truly is powerful, and partly because I wanted a patron, to take back everything that is rightfully mine in the Zhao family."
"Do not cling to your delusions," Old Master Zhao said with a sigh.
"Cling to my delusions? So what if I do? Grandfather, let me speak plainly—this visit of yours, is it to have me killed?" Zhao Qilei asked mildly, as though he had already foreseen this outcome.
"Life and death are in your own hands," Old Master Zhao said. "Enter the Mystic Pill Sect's trial. If you die, you die. If you do not, and you win the Mystic Pill Sect's reward, I can guarantee you a place as an elder of the Zhao family—a role like Elder Bi's."
"The Mystic Pill Sect's trial? You think I can come back from that?" Hearing Old Master Zhao's words, Zhao Qilei's heart sank into boundless despair. "All these years, those who went to the Mystic Pill Sect's trial included people from the hidden households, people from the sects—even men from ancient sects, ancient households, and powers beyond the borders. But how many of them ever came back alive?"
"That is why I say life and death are in your hands," Old Master Zhao said. "Before this, Guangyin advised that you must be killed."
"Heh... If I remember rightly, the reward for success in the Mystic Pill Sect's trial is a third-grade pill. The Qi Gathering Pill is a third-grade pill. If I bring that back, why should I still be content to rank below Zhao Qibing and serve as an elder?" Zhao Qilei raised his head sharply. "The same third-grade pill—he is a bastard son, yet he can be the young heir and successor, while I, a son of the Zhao family born and bred on its own soil, can only be an elder?"
"Elder Bi is injured and needs the Great Restoration Pill. You will go for that, not for the Qi Gathering Pill," Old Master Zhao said with a sigh.
"Ha? Is there a difference?" Zhao Qilei was filled with disappointment in Old Master Zhao. "It is the same third-grade pill, and it is not that I do not want the Qi Gathering Pill—it is you who would have me fetch the Great Restoration Pill!"
"The matter is settled. Make your choice," Old Master Zhao said.