Chapter 2914 — The Long-Lost Sister
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Once out of the room, Wei Zhao went straight to Tu Bawang's door and knocked.
"That you, Zuanxing? Door's unlocked, come right in!" Tu Bawang had just finished his call with Tu Qingsong and assumed it was Tu Zuanxing, so he spoke without thinking.
"It's me," Wei Zhao said, pushing the door open as he walked in.
"Ah! Leader Wei Zhao!" Tu Bawang leaped off the bed and rushed to the door to welcome him.
"What's all this blundering about?" Wei Zhao frowned. From their time together he had gathered that Tu Bawang harbored no scheming at all, but in the way he dealt with people he was a hotheaded fool—otherwise he would never have been wounded by Zhang Naipao back then.
Then again, which of these scions of the ancient sects was not brimming with pride? Each had been the finest of his own sect; once out in the wider world, it was only natural that they found this one insufferable and that one unbearable, and that clashes should follow.
"Heh heh... Leader Wei Zhao, what brings you to me? Is something the matter?" Tu Bawang was not the least bit put out. That was simply his nature; hearing himself described so, he did not care in the slightest.
"Let me ask you—my friend, now that she has received the inheritance, is she absolutely required to go off and do that infernal business of unsealing Cloud Terrace Island?" Wei Zhao asked bluntly. Since Xiao Jiu herself had raised no objection, he naturally wanted to secure a few more advantages for her.
"That... does she not wish to ascend to the Heavenly Dao?" Tu Bawang asked, somewhat puzzled. To his mind, nothing mattered more to a cultivator than setting foot upon the Heavenly Dao! Was that not the pursuit of every cultivator?
So it was with Tu Bawang, and so with those around him; so it had been with his grandfather in his day. Thus Tu Bawang took it as a matter of course that cultivators should seek the Heavenly Dao—it had been so since ancient times. The heir's task was indeed somewhat dangerous, but upon success it amounted to a guaranteed ticket of entry to Cloud Terrace Island!
One had to understand that Cloud Terrace Island's sealed passage stayed open only briefly, and the number of cultivators permitted entry was limited. Not just anyone could go in as he pleased; those places were allotted through the Grand Tournament of the Heavenly Ranks—to say people fought tooth and nail for them would not be an exaggeration in the least.
"Every man has his own ambitions. I only ask," Wei Zhao said, his expression unchanged. What mattered most was that he did not want those close to him entangled too deeply with the Five Luminaries Sect and the Mystic Elixir Sect.
"In truth, once your friend successfully comprehends the inheritance, that place will surely sense it. If she accepts the inheritance yet declines to take part in that plan, not only will our Yellow Earth High Sect suffer censure and reprisal from that place—your friend will not be spared either. They will certainly send men to drag her back before they let the matter rest," Tu Bawang said. "That is why I say that once your friend has accepted the inheritance, she must carry out that plan! Leader Wei Zhao, I don't deny that you are formidable, but the people who come out of that place are formidable beyond all expectation. Their ultimate techniques are true arts of the ancient gods—some even of the primordial gods. None of us can match them!"
Wei Zhao nodded. He had, of course, experienced the power of the Five Luminaries Sect for himself. Even the weakest of them, Tagan Long, had been formidable enough; Tian Chan, Little Eleven, Little One—each was a top-tier expert, to say nothing of the Mystic Dust Ancestor who had lurked in the shadows all along.
"I've crossed hands with the Five Luminaries Sect a few times, and I know how powerful they are," Wei Zhao said in agreement.