Chapter 2625 — After-Dinner Conversation, Part One — A Successor Gains Insight Through Years of Cultivation and Fortuitous Encounters with Herbs, but Everything Changes After Becoming an Alchemist
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"So that's how it is..." Guan Xin breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the White Leader had not insisted. If he had, would that not have made her Wei Zhao's disciple's disciple, or even more junior? She certainly did not want that.
"Exactly. Wei Zhao, since you and Xinxin already knew each other, come visit our home more often from now on," the White Leader said.
"Of course. Then I'll gladly accept your invitation!" Wei Zhao nodded.
Guan Xin kept stealing glances at Wei Zhao with a smile. There were things she wanted to say to him, but with the White Leader present, she could not bring herself to say them. For now, she could only keep them to herself.
After dinner, the White Leader's wife and Guan Xin went to clear away the dishes, while Wei Zhao followed the White Leader to the study. On the way there, however, Wei Zhao was pondering something extremely important: the joint-strike cultivation method he had obtained from the Hidden Zhuang family.
At first, Wei Zhao had thought the joint-strike cultivation method was not very practical. But now it seemed immensely useful. If Han Jingyi and Guan Xin refined pills together, there was a real chance they could produce a third-grade pill. The trouble was that Wei Zhao could not cultivate this joint-strike method. He possessed the means, yet had no way to put them into practice, which was genuinely frustrating.
Before, he had been troubled by his inability to find suitable and trustworthy alchemists. But with Guan Xin joining them, Wei Zhao would naturally feel at ease. Guan Xin and Han Jingyi were both people he trusted; neither could possibly harm him. Still, this joint-strike cultivation method required further study.
Thinking of the joint-strike cultivation method inevitably brought joint-strike martial arts to Wei Zhao's mind, and from there his thoughts turned to his own Madfire Eight Trigrams Palm and the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm on Tagan Long.
Exactly! Earlier, Wei Zhao had regretted that Xiao Yi had not used the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm, leaving him no way to secretly learn it. But the White Leader was the sect master of Xiao Yi's sect, the Five Luminaries Sect. Could he have a manual for the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm?
Once he and the White Leader entered the study, Wei Zhao could hardly wait to ask, "Teacher Bai, do you know Tagan Long?"
"Of course. Isn't he the man Xuanchen selected to carry out the plan? You beat him into a cripple." The White Leader found Wei Zhao's sudden question rather puzzling and looked at him in confusion. "Why are you asking about him?"
"He knows a martial art called the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm. Have you heard of it, Teacher Bai?" Wei Zhao hurriedly continued.
"The Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm?" The White Leader paused, then shook his head. "The Five Luminaries Sect stands on a level even higher than the ancient sects, and its collection contains countless martial arts. There is no way I could know what Tagan Long cultivated. I don't even know much about the martial arts Xiao Yi and the others use. You know that, before, I devoted myself entirely to alchemy. Apart from the martial arts I practiced myself, I never studied the others, nor did I have the time."
"I see..." Wei Zhao was somewhat disappointed after hearing that, but when he thought about it, the answer was only natural. What ordinary person would spend their time studying a vast assortment of martial arts and memorizing all of them? The White Leader was an alchemist, certainly, but even the hidden clans that possessed only one or two martial arts could hardly be expected to memorize techniques they did not practice.