Chapter 2460 — The Problem of a Heaven-Rank Spirit Beast
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
The spirit beast had nothing to do with Wei Zhao; if anything, they were adversaries. There was no need for Wei Zhao to keep it secret—and whether the hidden You family dared provoke such a beast was not Wei Zhao's concern.
"If your You family has the nerve, you can go catch it," Wei Zhao said.
"..." You Panhu's expression was more pitiful than a weeping face. "A Heaven-Rank Spirit Beast—forget it. Who'd dare provoke one? And catching it would be useless anyway; it couldn't be made to guard the You family."
"Oh? Heaven-Rank Spirit Beasts are precious things. Your You family has no need of one?" Wei Zhao asked, betraying nothing.
"Precious or not, you need your life to catch it," You Panhu said with a shrug, and said no more.
Yet Wei Zhao could not shake the feeling that You Panhu's words held something more. Yellow-Rank and Mystic-Rank Spirit Beasts seemed to be highly sought after, yet toward a Heaven-Rank Spirit Beast, You Panhu showed no interest at all, behaving quite indifferently—which struck Wei Zhao as odd.
Of course, what You Panhu said might well be true. Heaven-Rank Spirit Beasts were exceedingly difficult to bind to a master; even using a special contract to turn one into a puppet spirit beast was impossible. Comparatively speaking, Yellow-Rank and Mystic-Rank Spirit Beasts were easier to capture.
What Wei Zhao did not know was that while Heaven-Rank Spirit Beasts were rare in the secular world—scarce enough to be called precious—the hidden You family was one of the few who knew the truth: finding a Heaven-Rank Spirit Beast was not difficult. It was exactly as You Panhu had said—you still needed your life to catch one.
The helicopter flew straight back to the resort and set down on the open ground there. Wei Zhao, Wang Xinyan, Kang Jinglong, and You Panhu disembarked one after another. You Panhu exchanged a few words with the pilot, and the helicopter slowly lifted off, leaving the resort and flying back to the hidden You family.
Kang Jinglong was in low spirits. Not one part of the plan he had laid out beforehand had come off perfectly; worse still, he had ended up covered in injuries. For him and You Panhu alike, it was a textbook case of losing the lady and the troops into the bargain.
His fiancée had been embraced by Wei Zhao; the You family's men were one dead and one wounded. That proverb might have been tailor-made for the two of them, a pair of brothers in misery! The ancients truly had wisdom—they could even predict the future, Kang Jinglong thought gloomily.
Entering the resort with Wang Xinyan, he found Bai Lingtou already waiting anxiously in the lobby. Seeing Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan return safe and sound, the knit of his brows smoothed out. He thought very highly of Wei Zhao and meant to groom him as his successor—only Wei Zhao seemed to have some obstacle when it came to pill refinement, which left Bai Lingtou somewhat hesitant.
Bai Lingtou's greatest skill was pill refinement; his medical art was merely supplementary, and could even be said to be inferior to Wei Zhao's. So if Wei Zhao were to study only medicine, there would be little point—learned or not, it made no difference. But as for pill refinement, Bai Lingtou felt that Wei Zhao's case was highly unusual, and the solution could only be found slowly.
In any case, Bai Lingtou did not want anything to happen to Wei Zhao.
"Wei Zhao, how are things? Nothing wrong, I hope?" Bai Lingtou asked, without so much as a glance at Kang Jinglong.