Chapter 2956 — The Return of the Pills
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"Heaven rank? So what?" The man in black showed not the slightest fear; his face only grew more contemptuous. "Just a pack of cultivators from hidden families, and you think yourselves so formidable?"
"What is it you actually want? Spare me the nonsense." Old Master Pi's expression was hardly pleasant. He was a Heaven-rank expert, and to be looked down upon by an Earth-rank one—naturally he was not pleased. Had it been an expert like Wei Zhao, that would have been one thing, but this was a man he had never laid eyes on.
"Hmph, I don't mind telling you—I come from an ancient sect, the Palace of Dark Night!" the man in black declared proudly. "I am an elder and envoy of the Palace of Dark Night. Will you not kneel at once?"
"An ancient sect?" Old Master Pi's brows knit sharply. He had heard of the Palace of Dark Night. Though it was one of the weakest of the ancient sects, an ancient sect was still an ancient sect, and its foundations were real enough. So Old Master Pi could hardly afford to make an enemy of it; he could only steel himself and say, "As far as I know, the ancient sects have never meddled in the affairs of the secular world or the hidden stratum. Your presence here—is this not a flagrant violation of the ancient covenant?"
"Hmph. Wei Zhao took part in the Xuan Pill Sect's trial, so he is no longer a man of the secular world. Moreover, we seek Wei Zhao on the Palace of Dark Night's own business—this is no meddling in the affairs of the secular world or the hidden stratum!" The man in black was somewhat displeased at Old Master Pi's words, yet he could not openly declare that the Palace of Dark Night disregarded the ancient rules.
"Then out with it," Old Master Pi said mildly.
"Hmph—can you speak for Wei Zhao? Tell that junior to crawl out here at once!" The man in black from the Palace of Dark Night spoke with icy indifference.
"You seek me?" Pushed in his wheelchair by Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, Wei Zhao emerged from the villa. When he heard the visitor was from the Palace of Dark Night, his head began to ache. He had not expected the Palace of Dark Night to be so vindictive as to stoop to petty retaliation—for an ancient power to come down to the secular world and make trouble for him? And now he was a cripple. How was he to deal with this?
Granted, the visitor was only an expert at the peak of the late Earth rank—Old Master Pi could handle him easily enough. But if Old Master Pi killed him, and then a Heaven-rank came, or two or three Heaven-ranks came, how was he to cope?
In truth, Wei Zhao was overthinking it. Even the Palace of Dark Night, shameless as it was, would not dare openly defy the ancient rules; it had merely found a loophole and skirted the edge. Where the ancient sects' own interests were concerned, so long as a matter might be settled peaceably, those of the ancient stratum were permitted to come into the secular world to conduct private business.
But this elder-envoy's posturing was entirely his own doing. In his view, a little intimidation of Wei Zhao would pass unnoticed—after all, the other ancient sects could not see, and no one could raise a complaint. His true purpose was to force Wei Zhao to hand over the third-grade Great Return Pill he had won in the trial.
"Hmph, so you are the junior Wei Zhao?" The man in black glanced at Wei Zhao, then started. "How have you become a cripple? Surely you've done too much evil and drawn down heaven's punishment?"
"Say what you came to say." Wei Zhao frowned. What exactly the man in black wanted, Wei Zhao could not quite grasp. By rights, he had not killed the two Palace of Dark Night disciples who had trimmed their sails to the wind; there was essentially no enmity between him and the Palace of Dark Night. Even if revenge were sought, it would be the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect coming for him—so how had the Palace of Dark Night got here first?