Chapter 3639 — Three Questions
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Still, the open instruction day had never stipulated that one must ask questions related to cultivation, and because Xu Lingchong had spoken to him beforehand, Zhao Hongbo was quite content to let Wei Zhao squander the opportunity himself. After all, this was in full view of everyone; even if he wished to target Wei Zhao, he could not irresponsibly spout nonsense, or he would leave behind a fatal handle against himself.
"Those inheritors fell unconscious because their divine sense was damaged during transmission, turning them into mindless vegetables. As for how to heal them, so far as I know only one person has ever done such a thing—the great Master Zhang Lifeng, the Divine Physician of the Pill and the Sage of Healing. Many years ago he healed his wife, Great Master Bing, and Great Master Xue," Zhao Hongbo answered.
Though he was a radical who staunchly advocated banning the experts of the secular world, toward a legendary figure like Zhang Lifeng he held the same admiration as everyone else—only this did not prevent him from remaining steadfast in his convictions.
For Zhang Lifeng was, after all, an exceptional case among the very few; the vast majority of cultivators who came up from the secular world were weak in strength and generally of vile temperament, wasting resources while contributing almost nothing. To Cloud Terrace Island they were pests with no benefit whatsoever, and in his view they ought rightly to be banned.
So it really is Zhang Lifeng I must seek! Zhao Hongbo's answer confirmed Wei Zhao's earlier conjecture and made him breathe a sigh of relief. However it went, since there had been a precedent of successful healing, there was hope!
"Then how may this disciple get to see Great Master Zhang Lifeng?" Wei Zhao asked on.
"It is said that Great Master Zhang Lifeng resides on the Central Island. Only if you become an inner disciple of the three tiered pavilions will you have the chance to go to the Central Island on assignments. But a lofty figure like Great Master Zhang Lifeng is ever elusive as a dragon showing its head but never its tail; even if you went to the Central Island, the likelihood of seeing him is next to zero. There is, however, another opportunity: when the Central Island holds its grand tournament to select disciples, if you can enter the Five Luminaries Sect founded by Great Master Zhang Lifeng, that might raise your chances a little."
Zhao Hongbo answered in painstaking detail, and seeing that Wei Zhao seemed about to ask more, he cut him off with a half-smile. "All right, that already makes the third question. That will do, yes?"
That was it? The newcomers watching from the sidelines broke into an uproar. They had been hoping to hear something useful, and what did they get? Wei Zhao had not asked a single question related to cultivation; all three questions were mere gossip, of no benefit to them at all.
At this, even Wei Zhao himself was somewhat dumbfounded.
After all, this was the instruction day; to better help the newcomers of their own pavilions, the Elders under normal circumstances would generally answer newcomers' doubts as far as possible, and would not even begrudge an extra question or two as an exception. But this Zhao Hongbo—he had simply taken a single question, split it into pieces, and counted it as three. For a Fourth Elder of Azure Cloud Pavilion to be so miserly was truly a rare sight.
"This guy is a total idiot! With such a grand opportunity, he goes and asks idiotic questions like that! He's beyond saving!"
Xu Lingchong, Meng Jueming, and their crowd burst into laughter. They had earlier schemed to keep Zhao Hongbo from answering Wei Zhao's cultivation questions, and in the end Zhao Hongbo had answered anyway for the sake of appearances—only to find that Wei Zhao had asked such idiotic questions, wasting the opportunity all on his own.