Chapter 2896 — What Are You Saying?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Earth Green Pine's father had left the Yellow Earth High Sect following the visit of two unexpected guests, and his whereabouts remained unknown.
The Earth Tyrant's father, having failed to reach the Heaven rank before twenty, had died young.
Earth Green Pine had only one daughter, who in her childhood had also departed with his father because of that same unexpected visit, and afterward all trace of her was lost.
After that, the Earth Tyrant became the sole continuation of the Yellow Earth High Sect's bloodline. How could Earth Green Pine not worry?
He was still in his prime, of course, and could father another son without difficulty. But the crux of the matter was that raising another Heaven-rank before the age of twenty was easier said than done—difficulty piled upon impossibility!
"Drill Star, any news? How are things going with the Mystic Elixir Sect? Is there any hope for the Earth Tyrant?" Earth Green Pine said hurriedly as soon as he picked up.
"There is!" the Earth Drill Star said at once. "Sect Master, today I went to see the Young Sect Master of the Mystic Elixir Sect, the Heavenly Silkworm Transformation, and he introduced me to someone..."
Thereupon the Earth Drill Star recounted everything to Earth Green Pine—the matter of Wei Zhao, his own visit to beg Wei Zhao to treat the Earth Tyrant's injuries, and the terms Wei Zhao had set forth.
After hearing the Earth Drill Star out, Earth Green Pine was stirred to his core, yet as the Sect Master of an ancient sect he swiftly calmed himself and fell into deep thought. Wei Zhao's terms looked somewhat outrageous—two vials of Earth-Element Essence Liquid demanded at the first word—yet by comparison, the Earth Tyrant's life mattered far more.
The trouble was this: if Wei Zhao could restore the Earth Tyrant to normal, that would be one thing. But Wei Zhao would only bring him back to life, not heal him—the Earth Tyrant's meridians would remain ruined. Nor would Wei Zhao trade treatment for any other terms. The only workable path was for the Earth Tyrant to become Wei Zhao's subordinate, so that Wei Zhao might treat him.
This was precisely why Earth Green Pine hesitated. For a sect as vast as the Yellow Earth High Sect to have one of its own serve as a mere follower to a lone cultivator—first, it would sound disgraceful if word got out; second, Earth Green Pine had no wish to bend the knee to another. And yet face and reputation were as nothing weighed against the Earth Tyrant's life.
This was the sole heir to the Yellow Earth High Sect's bloodline. Earth Green Pine would not let the bloodline end for the sake of a little face and reputation. True, the nephews of the sect's other elders were fine enough, and some were material fit to be raised as Young Sect Masters—but then the Yellow Earth High Sect would forfeit its qualification to pass down the earth-element power. An ancient sect without an inheritor would rank as a second-rate sect in that plan of the future, and Earth Green Pine would not see the Yellow Earth High Sect toppled from its pedestal.
"A lone cultivator with that much power?" Earth Green Pine mused for a moment, then asked, "Even the Tomorrow-after-Tomorrow Cult dares not touch him?"
"That is how it looks for now. Even the Young Sect Master of the Mystic Elixir Sect says as much. I fear this Wei Zhao has some tricks about him—he is no ordinary man," the Earth Drill Star said.
"Wei Zhao... a lone cultivator..." Earth Green Pine frowned. "That name—why does it feel somehow familiar? And yet I cannot place it..."
"Sect Master, what are you saying..." The Earth Drill Star had not understood Earth Green Pine's muttering.