Chapter 3029 — The Fire Lion Sect and Mount Flaming Flame

"I see." Wei Zhao suddenly understood. No wonder the little rock candy girl was surnamed Bing! And now he could also understand why Mount Flaming Flame had not rushed forward without hesitation to help when Uncle Qing's sect ran into trouble.

The two sects might have maintained a good relationship, but the familial bond they had shared at the beginning was gone. Mount Flaming Flame could not possibly sacrifice its own interests to save the Fire Lion Sect.

"Actually, though, I am not particularly familiar with Mount Flaming Flame either. My master used to have more dealings with them," Uncle Qing said.

"By the way, speaking of your master, I saw the old man again when I went back this time!" Wei Zhao said.

"Oh? You saw him again? What do you mean? How did my master end up in your hometown?" Uncle Qing was puzzled by Wei Zhao's words. After all, Wei Zhao's hometown was in a remote region. Why would Uncle Qing's master have gone there?

Wei Zhao did not mention the three heaven-tier experts who had been wiped out. He merely said, "You know what my master is like. He's half-mad and half-senile. When he's lucid, he's fine, but when he isn't, no one can possibly understand why he decides to do anything."

Wei Zhao called the heaven-tier oddball his master as well, and the two of them did have a certain bond.

"That is true." After hearing this, Uncle Qing no longer found it suspicious. After all, one could not measure a madman's actions by the standards of an ordinary person. "So, is my master doing well? Is he still with you?"

"No, he isn't!" Wei Zhao shook his head. "He gave me a bamboo scroll, saying it was some sort of secret manual from an enemy or something. But he said it was for Li'er, so I never looked at what it actually contained."

"If it's for me, then it's as good as being for you, isn't it? Go on and open it. There's no point in my looking at it anyway. With my current strength, I couldn't cultivate any powerful secret manual!" Uncle Qing hurriedly said. "Besides, with the relationship between us, do you really need to be so formal?"

"All right. Since you put it that way, I'll open it and take a look." Wei Zhao nodded. He had been curious himself, but without Uncle Qing's permission, he could only restrain himself. Now that Uncle Qing had agreed, there was no need for him to keep pretending otherwise.

"As for Fire Burning Cloud from Mount Flaming Flame, Little Yi, see for yourself whether you can help him. If you can, then help him; if you cannot, refuse him. And if you cannot refuse him, I will speak to him personally," Uncle Qing said.

"All right. I'll think it over," Wei Zhao said.

After ending the call, Wei Zhao eagerly fetched the bamboo scroll and unrolled it. Written across it were eight large characters: "Mind Method for Using the Nine Fuxi Needles"!

The Nine Fuxi Needles? The moment Wei Zhao saw those words, he grew excited. Did he not happen to possess a set of the Nine Fuxi Needles himself? Among the items he had brought out of Zhang Lifeng's ancient tomb back then was precisely such a set!

At the time, however, Wei Zhao had not known what the Nine Fuxi Needles were used for, because there was far too little information about them. He had only known that they were probably a powerful set of acupuncture tools for healing illnesses. Never had he imagined that they were actually a heaven-tier divine weapon!

Come to think of it, when Wei Zhao had been in the ancient tomb, he had not seen Zhang Lifeng's divine weapon. He had only seen the divine weapons belonging to Mistress Bing and Mistress Xue. Wei Zhao had assumed that Zhang Lifeng was an alchemist who did not use divine weapons. He had never imagined that Zhang Lifeng's divine weapon had simply been overlooked by him.

"So the Nine Fuxi Needles are a heaven-tier divine weapon! In that case, the mind method my master stole from the Five Luminaries Sect must be the method for using Zhang Lifeng's weapon back then!" Wei Zhao suddenly understood, muttering to himself.

Wei Zhao had been worrying about his heaven-tier divine weapon before, but in the blink of an eye, he had acquired one of his own! With this mind method, he could use the Nine Fuxi Needles he had obtained from Zhang Lifeng's ancient tomb!

Although the Nine Fuxi Needles were not in Wei Zhao's hands at the moment, he was merely practicing the techniques with his hands rather than using them against an enemy. He therefore did not need needles of exceptional strength. Ordinary silver needles would do.

Naturally, the shortcomings of ordinary silver needles were obvious as well. They could neither be infused with true qi nor display any real power. They could only be used for practice.

For Wei Zhao, however, that was already enough. There were no enemies for him in Weststar Mountain Village, and there was no need to practice with real blades and weapons. This way, he could even conserve a considerable amount of physical strength and true qi.

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After Shen Yushu finished speaking with Wei Zhao, she came downstairs. Gu Mengyao glanced at her and asked, "What did Wei Zhao say?"

"Oh, Arrow-Brand Bro said he won't be coming back for now. Fire Burning Cloud must be looking for his help against Zhang Naipao, but given Arrow-Brand Bro's current situation, it isn't yet time for him to fall out completely with the Tomorrow Repeats Tomorrow sect..." Shen Yushu said.

"Then what do we do about Fire Burning Cloud at the gate? Should we tell him that Wei Zhao isn't coming back?" Gu Mengyao frowned. "That would be awkward too!"

"Arrow-Brand Bro said to let him wait until he gets tired of it and leaves on his own. We don't need to bother with him," Shen Yushu said.

"All right, then." Gu Mengyao nodded. "But he has pitched a tent right across from our villa. However you look at it, it's a little strange."

"I'll call the property management company and have security come drive him away!" As she spoke, Shen Yushu called the property management company and told them there was a vagrant at the villa gate, asking them to send people to drive Fire Burning Cloud away.

The property management company naturally agreed at once. The residents of these villas were all major clients who paid substantial property fees every year. The company hurriedly dispatched five security guards, who drove a patrol cart to the front of the villa...

"Sir..." The security captain had just begun to tell Fire Burning Cloud to leave when he saw something that left him utterly stunned!

Fire Burning Cloud had set up camp here intending to stay for the long term, so he had to secure the tent firmly in the earth. The security captain watched with his own eyes as Fire Burning Cloud drove a tent pole more than a meter long into the soil without the slightest effort. He was instantly dumbfounded!

This man clearly was not someone to provoke. The captain had originally intended to intimidate Fire Burning Cloud into leaving, but now he no longer dared. He could only speak to him in a mild, conciliatory tone: "Sir, this is a public area of the residential compound. You cannot occupy it privately..." (To be continued)