Chapter 2970 — A Letter from Home: So Either Something Momentous Has Happened, or Some Disciple Who Knows No Manners Has Arrived.
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"Patriarch Kuanglong, Sect Master, your disciple has a matter of grave importance to report!" The speaker was a disciple in the retinue of Zhong Yongliang, the Pure Yang Heavenly Venerable.
"Come in!" Hearing that it was one of his attendant disciples, Zhong Yongliang knew at once that something serious must have happened. He admitted the man and asked, "What exactly has happened?"
"Word has come in that Wei Zhao—the very man Patriarch Kuanglong bade us watch so closely—has been struck by a strange poison. His meridians and his dantian have been destroyed. He is a cripple now, nothing more!" the disciple said.
"Oh? How did this come about? Tell me everything, in detail!" Zhong Yongliang was taken aback and pressed him at once.
"It is like this..." And so the disciple recounted to Zhong Yongliang all the intelligence he had gathered. That Wei Zhao had fallen out with the Hidden Zhao family, that the Hidden Zhaos had poisoned him and then destroyed his meridians and dantian—this was no secret anymore. He also relayed what had followed: how the Night Palace had gone to make trouble for Wei Zhao, and how the young sect master of the Xuandan Sect had stopped them.
Zhong Yongliang, however, paid no mind to the interference of Tian Canbian. How could two people with nothing whatever to do with each other possibly be connected? To his mind, Tian Canbian had done it for no reason other than to flaunt the Xuandan Sect's fairness and justice, and so draw more trial participants to the next Xuandan Sect trial.
"This news is good news indeed. Wei Zhao has so many enemies that even if we do not lift a finger, others will do the deed for us!" the Pure Yang Heavenly Venerable said after hearing it out. "Master, if others strike, it saves us the trouble of covering our tracks."
"Mm. Then let us wait and see. If no one else moves against him, we shall finish Wei Zhao ourselves," Zhong Yongliang said with a nod of agreement.
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The Hidden Zhao family.
These past days the Hidden Zhaos had kept close watch on Wei Zhao's every move, hoping someone would step forward and do away with him. So when the black-robed elder of the Night Palace appeared, they were elated—only for the outcome to be Zhao Qibing's arm severed and the black-robed elder slinking away in dejection.
"Zhao Qilei, does Wei Zhao know Tian Canbian, the young sect master of the Xuandan Sect?" Old Master Zhao likewise found the business somewhat baffling. Why should the Xuandan Sect stir itself over such a trifling matter?
In times past, these ancient sects had been lofty beings above the clouds; Old Master Zhao could go years without seeing one of them appear. How was it that they had all surfaced at once?
"No, he does not. If anyone were to appear, it should have been Feng Xiaoxiao, the vice palace master of the Ice Palace—not Tian Canbian." Naturally, Zhao Qilei did not mention that during the trial Tian Canbian had come to question him about Wei Zhao.
In truth, Zhao Qilei had not given it much thought. He kept silent only for fear of stirring up complications. To his mind, it was nothing strange that Tian Canbian should have inquired about Wei Zhao and the others during the trial and afterward upheld justice; it merely showcased the Xuandan Sect's principle of fairness and equity, a consideration for the trial participants' sake—a most humane arrangement.
"By the way, if you had not brought it up, I would truly have forgotten about Zhao Qiwu. How is he? How far has his cultivation progressed? I heard word some time ago that he had already set foot upon the Heaven Rank?" Old Master Zhao inquired with feigned "concern."