Chapter 2743 — Promising Benefits
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"Xuanzhen Ancestor, I know that brat Wei Zhao. He is stubborn and impervious to reason. If you try to trade with him, he will certainly demand an exorbitant price. The way to deal with someone like him is to play rough..." Kang Jingming hesitated a moment, then said, "Otherwise, this task will be very difficult to complete!"
"Play rough?" Xuanzhen Ancestor frowned. How would that be any different from Xuanchen Ancestor's methods? And Xuanchen Ancestor had played rough and gained nothing at all. Why were cultivators these days so restless and impetuous, doing things without the slightest regard for rules?
"Yes, just send two experts at the peak of the late Heaven Rank to find Wei Zhao and demand the pill formula. If he refuses, kill him, and see whether he hands it over then!" Kang Jingming said.
Xuanzhen Ancestor was left somewhat speechless, and his heart was suddenly filled with disappointment toward this boy Kang Jingming. He had originally held a rather good impression of Kang Jingming, seeing how hard the boy had worked refining pills under his guidance these past days. But now he felt this youth's heart was vicious and cruel. As a disciple of Xuanchen Ancestor, he would surely be liked, but Xuanzhen himself did not care for such disciples. So he merely said lightly, "No need. You will still do as I said. If you do well, I will introduce you to my junior fellow disciple and have him take you on as a nominal disciple. Your standing would be absolutely higher than remaining here as the Eighth Elder."
To get Kang Jingming to do the job, he naturally could not avoid promising him some benefits; otherwise the man would not apply himself. So he had offered to have Kang Jingming become Xuanchen's nominal disciple!
Regarding the matter of Little One and Little Eleven last time, Xuanzhen Ancestor had said nothing, but he had already begun to harbor some misgivings about his junior fellow disciple Xuanchen's outward obedience and inward opposition! Xuanchen Ancestor clearly knew of the relationship between Wei Zhao and Xuanyue Ancestor, yet concealed it and moved against Wei Zhao, and afterward assumed he had kept Xuanzhen in the dark. Did he really think Xuanzhen had no channels of information at all?
At the very least, within the Xuandan Sect, Xuanzhen Ancestor's voice carried more weight than Xuanchen Ancestor's. There was no other reason: this was a sect of pill refinement, and they naturally favored a master alchemist like Xuanzhen Ancestor.
Nevertheless, this incident had also planted a trace of doubt in Xuanzhen Ancestor's mind about the events of that year. He had seen through Xuanchen's nature well enough by now. Could the events of that year have had something to do with him? Xuanyue Ancestor's qi deviation—could it be that...
At this thought, Xuanzhen Ancestor hardly dared to imagine it! Fellow disciples of the same sect, killing each other over the position of sect master? Xuanchen Ancestor was ambitious, but it was precisely because his ambition was too great that their master had not passed the position of sect master to him back then.
Xuanchen Ancestor's ambition was very likely to become his ultimate fatal weakness in the end. White Leader, by contrast, was even-tempered and amiable, and harbored great aspirations in his heart. Such a person possessed the bearing a sect master ought to have. Xuanchen was fit only to be a fighter and a pathbreaker.
Xuanzhen Ancestor was the one with the least personality—no ambition, no grand aspirations, his mind wholly buried in pill refinement, uninterested in anything else. And such a person was exactly the kind Xuanchen Ancestor liked to keep around: no competition with him whatsoever, and useful as a helping arm.