Chapter 2998 — Tianchan's Plan
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"Don't worry, I'll pass the message on for you," Tianchan said.
Only then did Chen Xi set her mind at ease.
Once a place had been arranged for Chen Xi to rest, Tianchan sank into deep thought. With Zhao Guangyin's arrival at the Xuandan Sect, word had spread that Wei Zhao had advanced to the early Heaven Rank and razed the Hidden Zhao family to the ground.
Tianchan was astonished. Wei Zhao was unharmed? And he had even broken through to the early Heaven Rank? Earlier, Tian Die'er had seen with her own eyes just how grave Wei Zhao's injuries were. Could all of it have been a pretense?
Tianchan simply could not make sense of it. With his meridians and dantian ruined, and unable to circulate the mnemonic formulas of his cultivation method, how had Wei Zhao repaired his own injuries? Yet baffling as it was, she felt genuinely relieved.
Of course. How could the man she had set her eyes on collapse so easily? Whether by genuine skill at recovery or by sheer pretense, Tianchan thought Wei Zhao formidable. That a lone rogue cultivator could annihilate an entire Hidden family—what manner of ability was that?
True, for an ancient sect such a feat was easy enough—but that was a sect. Could a lone rogue cultivator be spoken of in the same breath?
As for the news of Chen Xi, Tianchan did not intend to simply call Wei Zhao and tell him. In what capacity would she phone him? And how would she put it? If Wei Zhao demanded her release, was she to hand the girl over or not?
If she handed her over, Tianchan herself would not mind—but how would Old Ancestor Xuanchen take it? If she refused, Wei Zhao would surely be displeased, and Tianchan would be deeply unhappy as well.
So Tianchan decided to put out a piece of news: that the young master of the Xuandan Sect, Tian Canbian, had acquired a superb cultivation vessel, but because the vessel had not cultivated a suitable matching mnemonic formula, he intended to have her begin her training anew and make use of her two years hence.
In this way, everything became perfectly reasonable, and Wei Zhao need not worry that anything would happen to Chen Xi within those two years.
Naturally, Tianchan was not afraid that Chen Xi might be taken and used by someone else during those two years—not even by Old Ancestor Xuanchen. After all, Tianchan had to keep up her lecherous persona before outsiders, so it was utterly impossible that she would hand over what was already in her grasp.
Only after charting out the path ahead for Chen Xi did Tianchan breathe a sigh of relief.
Zhao Guangyin and his son, along with Old Man Mian, were temporarily settled in the guest quarters, while Kang Jingming went to seek an audience with Old Ancestor Xuanchen.
"Your disciple Kang Jingming pays his respects to the Master!" The moment Kang Jingming stepped through the door, he saw that Old Ancestor Xuanchen's expression was exceedingly grim. He did not know why the Old Ancestor was displeased, but he knelt to the ground in fearful reverence and spoke respectfully.
"Kang Jingming, who told you to give Tian Canbian a cultivation vessel?" Old Ancestor Xuanchen asked coldly.
"Ah?" Kang Jingming was taken aback. He had not expected the Old Ancestor's anger to stem from this matter, yet he could not see where he had gone wrong. "Master, was it not you who said that, as an elder of the Xuandan Sect, I should cultivate good relations with the young master Tian? I reasoned that a maidservant had previously been cultivated to death by him, so I found another vessel to curry favor with him. Is there something improper in that?"