Chapter 3525 — Feng Tianlong Is in Trouble
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So Wei Zhao was not particularly surprised. He merely nodded and said, "Then the only options are to break through in the midst of battle or to look for the flaw in the mental cultivation method itself. Since your Ruthless Art can't be broken through with pills, maybe ordinary cultivation won't do it either. When all is said and done, the problem may well lie in your technique."
"Your technique is the one with the problem!" Xue Li snapped. "Please do not insult the Ruthless Art that our Ancestor Xue founded back in her day."
"..." Wei Zhao was at a loss for words. Your Ancestor Xue has already eloped with Zhang Lifeng, and you still call it the Ruthless Art? The Passionate Art would be more like it! But Wei Zhao kept that to himself; if he said it aloud, Xue Li would probably fly into a rage. So he only said, "Then let's try to break through in battle. Yunyun's combat experience is rather thin. This time it's only resistance against oppressive might, so failure is entirely possible."
"But where is there any chance for battle right now?" Xue Li said. "How about you fight her?"
Wei Zhao gave a bitter smile. Only a fight to the death offered any real chance of a breakthrough in combat. The ordinary sparring and exchange of moves would hardly ever suffice.
Just as they were speaking, Feng Xiaoxiao's phone suddenly rang. Her satellite phone had been cleared for use by Bingtang. Both women counted as Wei Zhao's little wives, so Bingtang would no longer make things difficult for Feng Xiaoxiao.
"Dad?" The call was actually from Feng Xiaoxiao's father, Feng Tianlong. "I'm in a meeting. Can I call you back in a bit?"
Feng Xiaoxiao assumed her father was asking when she would come home. Before the trial, she had promised him that she would return home afterward, see her mother, and see whether her Inherited Body could absorb the cold qi within her mother and drive it out.
But clearly the proper business was not yet finished, so she would have to make her father wait.
"Xiaoxiao, something has happened to Dad. Are you and Wei Zhao together? I can't get through to his phone. Can you put him on?" Feng Tianlong's voice sounded extremely weak.
"What?!" Feng Xiaoxiao was startled and said hurriedly, "Dad, what's wrong? What happened?"
"Your dad and your Sister Song have been beaten badly. Hurry, put Wei Zhao on!" Feng Tianlong said, a note of urgency in his voice.
"All right, all right!" Feng Xiaoxiao scrambled to her feet and handed the phone to Wei Zhao. "Wei Zhao, my dad's in trouble. Take the call!"
"Oh? Uncle Feng is in trouble?" Wei Zhao was startled as well. He took the phone at once and said, "Uncle Feng, what happened to you?"
"Wei Zhao, I can't get through to your phone? Ling Shan and I have been beaten badly," Feng Tianlong said.
"The phone... mine isn't a satellite phone, so there's no signal out here," Wei Zhao said. "Beaten badly? How bad? Who did it?"
Wei Zhao was deeply shocked. Someone still dared to beat members of the Mysterious Investigation Bureau half to death? Who had done it? Who would dare? Were they so cut off from news? Did they not know of his relationship with the Bureau?
And whether it was Feng Tianlong or Qiu Lingshan, both were among the people closest to Wei Zhao. To beat them so savagely was a blatant slap in Wei Zhao's face!
"The Iron Garment Sect!" Feng Tianlong said. "The Bureau was tracking a martial artist who was running amok in the secular world. But this martial artist seems to be a registered outer-disciple of the Iron Garment Sect, and he fled to the sect. Naturally Ling Shan and I took men to the Iron Garment Sect to demand his surrender. We meant to talk it over reasonably and have them hand him over, but who could have known the Iron Garment Sect wouldn't listen to reason at all? Several of them came out and set upon us!"