Chapter 2769 — Love at First Sight!

"Mm, that should be possible." Jiao Yazi nodded after hearing him out. "Theoretically speaking, you really ought to go to the birthplace of the origin power to receive the inheritance."

"Then can I receive it now? What do I have to do to receive the inheritance?" Wei Zhao was thinking that since he had already made the trip to Snow Valley, it would be best to receive the inheritance right here. If he could receive it, so much the better—it would save him from having to come back again later.

"How would I know?" Jiao Yazi shook his head. "Receiving the inheritance requires a great deal of preparation. My memory has not been unlocked, so I am not clear on the details. It is probably not yet time. If you are in a hurry, you can go and find the method to receive the inheritance yourself!"

"Uh... you do not know? What a rip-off!" Wei Zhao was speechless for a moment. Jiao Yazi actually did not know how to receive the inheritance—did that mean his trip had been for nothing? And the worst part was, what was he supposed to do from now on?

How long would he have to wait before he could become an artifact refiner and refine jade pendants? Was this jade pendant just a pit for him to jump into, one he could never climb back out of?

"I remember that for an artifact refiner, the attributes in the body do not need to circulate, right? Then why do I still have to turn them all into the solid attribute?" Wei Zhao asked, somewhat unwilling to accept it.

"They do not need to circulate, but with nothing but the void attribute, you cannot become an artifact refiner. Of the three attributes, at least two must be solid for it to be possible. Otherwise, do you think it is so easy to become an artifact refiner—that any ordinary person could just take three pills and become one?" Jiao Yazi said with contempt. "Artifact refiners would be a dime a dozen!"

"Uh... I suppose so..." Wei Zhao was taken aback, silently chiding himself for thinking too simply. Jiao Yazi was right—if the void attribute alone were enough to make an artifact refiner, then artifact refiners would be everywhere.

With some regret, Wei Zhao shook his head and was about to get in the car and leave, when suddenly he felt as though he were being watched. Wei Zhao turned around and sharply discovered that on a mountain ridge in the distance, a person was standing there!

It seemed to be the beautiful young girl who had been beside the Snow Valley patrol overseer he had met earlier!

Wei Zhao was a little surprised, and somehow he could not shake a strange feeling in his heart. He raised a hand and waved at the girl.

Tang Zhi had not expected Wei Zhao to suddenly turn and look at her, and her heart gave a start! She had only wanted to stand here and quietly watch Wei Zhao from afar; she had not wanted him to discover her. But then she suddenly realized that she was standing very far away, and Wei Zhao surely could not see her clearly. So Tang Zhi gave Wei Zhao a faint smile—a smile like a snow lotus in the wind, soft and delicate, in sharp contrast to her cold exterior.

Only when facing Wei Zhao was Tang Zhi fiery; at all other times, she was icy cold in Snow Valley. Even before the Grand Elder, Tang Zhi remained cold as ice.

That faint smile was like a sharp sword plunging deep into Wei Zhao's heart. Although he could not make out the girl's features clearly, that smile made him feel that she was especially beautiful, and the cold of the snow mountains seemed to melt away in an instant.

But after smiling, the girl vanished in a flash, leaving only the empty snow mountain and the beautiful reverie in Wei Zhao's mind.

Wei Zhao shook his head, got into the car, and drove away from Snow Valley. He thought of Wang Xinyan's illness and so temporarily put the girl out of his mind. Love at first sight, in the end, could not compare to the affection between him and Wang Xinyan; he had to hurry back as quickly as possible.

As Wei Zhao's car drove along the road back, Tang Zhi returned to her cultivation room. From then on, perhaps the two of them would have no further contact. Tang Zhi had seen the Wei Zhao of the present; though she missed him, she was content.

The car sped along the deserted little road. But suddenly, not far ahead of Wei Zhao's car, two people appeared! Two people dressed in black!

"Screech—" Wei Zhao slammed on the brakes and brought the car to a stop.

There was plainly a trace of coldness on the faces of these two, and what made Wei Zhao frown most was that both of them were early-stage Heaven-rank experts! Even if Wei Zhao drove straight into them, he would gain nothing; one martial technique from them and his car would likely be smashed to pieces.

Ill intent! That was Wei Zhao's first thought, because the two of them were clearly not hiding their strength. They had revealed the full power of their early-stage Heaven-rank cultivation without reservation and stood in the middle of the road with overwhelming dominance—clearly they had come to block Wei Zhao's car.

He who comes brings no good, and the good do not come. It was just that Wei Zhao was rather puzzled—when had he ever offended such enemies as these? Judging by either their looks or their attire, Wei Zhao had never seen these two before. He did not know where they had come from, and most importantly, why they had appeared on his road home from Snow Valley!

If they wanted to make trouble for him, why not go to Songshan City or Donghai City?

Or were these two simply highway robbers, standing here to randomly rob cultivators returning laden with goods from Snow Valley?

The last possibility seemed quite likely. After all, most cultivators who went to Snow Valley were there to trade for rare natural treasures. Two Heaven-rank rogue cultivators robbing travelers here and snatching a few good things was only reasonable.

Wei Zhao took a deep breath and got out of the car. Against these two highway robbers, it was useless for Wei Zhao to try to drive away—after all, they were no slower than a car. So Wei Zhao could only choose to flee on foot or fight the two of them.

But as things stood, Wei Zhao did not want to abandon the car and flee alone on foot. After all, there was a Heaven-rank divine weapon in the car, along with four spirit medicines for treating Wang Xinyan's illness. If Wei Zhao ran, what would happen if these things were taken?

Moreover, in Wei Zhao's subconscious, these two had come to rob him, so he absolutely could not flee! Still, if Wei Zhao did want to run, he was quite confident he could get away. The other side was only two Heaven-rank experts, and their strength was not far from his own.

Back when Wei Zhao was at the Mystic rank, his speed had been not much inferior to that of the Bingtang girl. Relying on his lightness skill, the Butterfly Microstep, he could barely keep up with her. Now that Wei Zhao's strength had grown greater, his lightness skill was naturally a cut above as well, so escaping from these two Heaven-rank experts really would not be difficult.

"What do you two want?" Wei Zhao asked coldly, staring at the two before him.

"What do we want? Do you not know?" One of the two black-clad Heaven-rank experts, a man with short hair, gave a snort and said with a cold laugh, "Do not tell me you do not recognize us!"

"Recognize you? What would I recognize you from?" Wei Zhao was startled!