Chapter 3299 — Drawing Out Wei Zhao
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Therefore, Ancestor Xuanchen wanted to force Wei Zhao back and see how those sects preparing to make trouble for Wei Zhao would react. If they did not go after Wei Zhao, that would mean something was wrong with the earlier affair; if they did go after Wei Zhao, then Ancestor Xuanchen could watch the fire from the opposite bank.
Yet no matter how he racked his brains, he could not find a suitable pretext. But a single remark from Kang Jingming opened Ancestor Xuanchen's eyes! Kang Jingming, brimming with wicked schemes, had in a flash hit upon a fine idea: to make Gu Mengyao the target.
As Kang Jingming's status rose, Ancestor Xuanchen had also confided certain secrets to him, such as the Cloud-Tier Island plan and the like. And at this very moment, Kang Jingming also understood that the reason those junior sect masters of the Xuandan Sect, with their heaven-silk transformations, wanted to take wives and concubines, and wanted to marry Bingtang as a wife, was simply to secure the title in advance, to prevent them from losing their virginity before the Cloud-Tier Island plan commenced in the future and thereby affecting the plan.
The wife and concubines reserved for the junior sect master of the Xuandan Sect were, in effect, the junior sect master's people, and thus they could all remain virgins for the time being.
So Kang Jingming suggested that the junior sect master of the Xuandan Sect go to the Dark Night Palace to propose marriage. After all, this was something Ancestor Xuanchen was bound to do in the coming years anyway. When Gu Mengyao ran into trouble, could Wei Zhao sit idly by?
In this way, Wei Zhao would surely return to the country, and his enemies would come knocking at his door! Even if his enemies did not act, Ancestor Xuanchen could hint to certain others to make a move against Wei Zhao within the Dark Night Palace.
Of course, all of this rested on the premise that Wei Zhao must show himself. And that was how the scene of Kang Jingming calling Zhao Qibing came about.
"Ah, that is currently the case!" Zhao Qibing nodded and said, "Right now, in the Dark Night Palace, what the one surnamed Chu says carries the weight of a tripod cauldron; even the Grand Elder generally does not oppose her."
"Is that so..." Kang Jingming furrowed his brow. If the Xuandan Sect went to propose marriage and the Grand Elder blocked it, refusing to yield no matter what, what then? He knew the Grand Elder's temper was foul and stubborn. If she stood on Gu Mengyao's side, the matter would indeed be somewhat difficult to handle.
It was like Bingtang of the Ice Palace back then. The Ice Palace had the capital to be forceful; if Bingtang refused, Ancestor Xuanchen could do nothing about it. After all, he could hardly send the Xuandan Sect to attack the Ice Palace, could he? That was unrealistic! And fortunately, Bingtang also knew that activating the Cloud-Tier Island plan required maintaining virginity. As a branch of the Five Luminaries Sect, the Ice Palace's ancestral precepts surely explained such matters, so there was no worry that Bingtang would act recklessly.
The same reasoning applied to the Snow Valley. What displeased Ancestor Xuanchen was that the Ice Palace and the Snow Valley had, one after the other, replaced their inheritors with Wei Zhao's wives, major and minor. That was truly a nasty trick. Even if they remained virgins now, when the time came to execute that plan, there would surely still be resistance.
That resistance was Wei Zhao. So in Ancestor Xuanchen's eyes, Wei Zhao had to die! It was only out of consideration for the wood-element inheritor on the White Leader's side that Ancestor Xuanchen had refrained from moving against Wei Zhao again.