Chapter 3010 — Wei Zhao's Affairs
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"A birthday banquet?" In Tang Zhi's mind, memories of her time hidden away with the Tang family suddenly surfaced—Wei Zhao gripping her hand, breaking all ties with the Hidden Tang. Back then, helpless as she had been, standing at Wei Zhao's side had filled her with a profound sense of safety and peace. But now he had forgotten her, and she and he had become an eternal impossibility. And who should come calling at her door but the very "birth father" who had abandoned wife and daughter and cut all ties with her!
Tang Yuyi looked awkward. He glanced at Patriarch Tang, then at Tang Zhi, and with a sigh said, "Sister Tang Zhi, I know there is resentment in your heart, but this man, after all, is the father of you and me both..."
"I know." Tang Zhi nodded. Her impression of Tang Yuyi was still fairly good, and since he had spoken up, she did not make further objections. She merely asked, "But what have you come here to do?"
"Sister Tang Zhi, the matter is... actually like this. I expect you have heard the news as well? It concerns Senior Wei Zhao..." Though Tang Yuyi's relationship with Tang Zhi was decent, they had met far too briefly for him to be sure she would do him this favor, so he chose his words with great care.
"Wei Zhao? Senior? What news?" Tang Zhi did not understand. Since when had Wei Zhao become a "senior" in Tang Yuyi's mouth? Even though she had seen Wei Zhao at Snow Valley last time and learned of some of his heroic deeds—how, at the Earth rank, he could instantly slay Heaven-rank cultivators—that was still no reason to call him a senior, was it?
Tang Yuyi was taken aback. He knew nothing of the inner circumstances behind Tang Zhi's trip to Snow Valley; he had only gathered from peripheral rumors that she had gone there and become an important Elder, and knew nothing beyond that.
But if Tang Zhi was so important at Snow Valley, and the disciples there even addressed her as Elder Tang, how could she possibly not know news about Wei Zhao? So Tang Yuyi could not tell whether she was deliberately feigning ignorance to avoid talking with him, or truly did not know.
"Sister Tang Zhi... you don't know?" Tang Yuyi stared at her, trying to read from her face whether she was unwilling to speak or genuinely ignorant. To his regret, though she had asked the question, her expression had not changed at all—still keeping others at a thousand miles' distance.
"I have been in secluded cultivation all this time. I only came out of seclusion just now and heard that you had arrived, so naturally I know nothing." Tang Zhi shook her head. "Go on, then. What has happened to Wei Zhao?"
She was desperate to know about Wei Zhao, but she showed only indifference; she did not want Tang Yuyi or Patriarch Tang to see through her.
"The matter is like this..." Tang Yuyi did not hold back. Since Tang Zhi had asked him to speak, he recounted in full detail how Wei Zhao had been injured, poisoned, and crippled, then miraculously recovered and annihilated the Hidden Zhao—all of it, for Tang Zhi to hear.
Tang Zhi was astonished beyond measure. Wei Zhao was already an early Heaven-rank expert? It had not been long at all since she last saw him—his rate of advancement was truly frightening!
And the Hidden Zhao had already been wiped out? To think that the Hidden Zhao—a formidable enemy Wei Zhao had provoked back in Songshan City—had been reduced to a stepping stone beneath his feet.
Tang Zhi was genuinely happy for Wei Zhao. Though she knew there was likely to be no intersection between them, she still harbored the fantasy that even if she cultivated the Heartless Art, became an Inheritor, and ascended to the Heavenly Dao—if Wei Zhao ascended as well, then perhaps she and he could still meet again.