Chapter 3333 — Enemies Meet
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And what the man had said was, an envoy of the Five Luminaries Sect—an envoy of the Five Luminaries Sect—what was he doing here?
But whatever the man had come for, Bingtang could no longer pretend he was not there. The Five Luminaries Sect's great name was displayed right out in the open, and the Ice Palace and the Five Luminaries Sect shared a bond too tangled to explain. Moreover, Bingtang had a vague sense of who was backing the Mystic Core Sect in its arrogance. So this was a man she had no choice but to receive.
At that thought, Bingtang did not hesitate. She rose straight from her room, swept out, and drifted lightly toward the Ice Palace gates.
"The Palace Master of the Ice Palace puts on quite the airs, making this old man wait so long before you deign to appear! Could it be that you hold our Five Luminaries Sect in no regard at all?" the Five Luminaries envoy outside the gate demanded haughtily.
"An envoy of the Five Luminaries Sect? Might I ask what business brings you to our Ice Palace?" Bingtang glanced at the newcomer's strength and saw that he was merely a skilled hand at the peak of the late Heaven rank, equal to her own. Naturally she would not be overly courteous. After all, she was, at the very least, the head of an ancient sect; coming out to receive him in person was already generous. And he still thought she had been slow?
"Hmph! Bingtang, let me spare us both the blather. The marriage matter with the Mystic Core Sect—have you thought it over? Will you agree, or will you not?" the Five Luminaries envoy barked. He had come here to settle this very business. Patriarch Xuanchen had been balked by Wei Zhao and was in a foul mood; suddenly recalling the affair on the Ice Palace side, he had sent his disciple Little Six to the Five Luminaries Sect on an errand.
That was right—this Little Six was the same Old Six who had once blocked Wei Zhao in the Urankhot Mountains! Old Twelve had been killed off, but Old Six had come through unscathed; only, because the business back then had failed, Patriarch Xuanchen had made him shut himself away in penitence for a time. Now that Little Three, Little Four, and Little Five had all perished, and Taganlong had fully recovered, Little Six was at last able to return to the world. This was the first errand he had run since his comeback. Cooped up in his room for so long, his mood was naturally none too pleasant, and so he vented it all on Bingtang.
One had to understand that this marriage contract was the thing Patriarch Xuanchen valued most, the thing of vital importance! For that plan to be carried out, these inheritors had to agree to the marriage contract. Otherwise there was no guaranteeing they would not harbor private motives when the time came—and then all would be lost beyond redemption.
The matter on Bingtang's side had already dragged on far too long. Patriarch Xuanchen had sent Little Six this time, first, to give the Ice Palace a dressing-down and vent some of the spleen he had swallowed over Wei Zhao, and second and most importantly, to sound out Bingtang and see whether the inheritor was, in the end, Feng Xiaoxiao or Bingtang.
At the mention of the marriage contract, Bingtang's expression changed at once! A flash of fury rose on her face. "So it really was you Five Luminaries people pulling the strings! I wondered what this marriage contract was about, and why the Mystic Core Sect was so overbearing—so it was you backing them all along!"