Chapter 1421 — Young Master Bing's Frustration
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
What Zhao Guangyin was wary of was his wife Yu Xiaojin's attitude. By doing this, was Zhao Qibing not openly setting himself against the Yu family?
"What? Father, are you blaming me?" Zhao Qibing was instantly displeased. He felt his father was forever fretting over this and that, and would never accomplish anything great.
"That is not it... but Qibing, this price really is a little high. Wouldn't something more reasonable do?" Zhao Guangyin could hardly say it was on account of Yu Xiaojin, so he put it that way.
"Father, hear me out before you speak!" Zhao Qibing said. "The truth is, I have learned an enormous secret. Aunt Yu is not at your side, is she?"
"A secret? No... I am alone in my study!" Zhao Guangyin said, startled.
"The truth is, I have learned that Yu Huoxing carries on his person a top-grade divine pill called the Qi Gathering Pill!" Zhao Qibing had already worked out how to make the most of the credit, and so he turned an accident into a long-laid plan.
"What! The Qi Gathering Pill? How could he have such a divine medicine?" Zhao Guangyin was so astonished he nearly flung the phone from his hand. The news was simply too stunning! Three years earlier, when old Master Zhao had failed to break through to the Heaven Rank, he had gone in search of this very pill; but how could such a pill be found so easily? His search had come to nothing and he had been forced to give up. Yet who would have thought that Zhao Qibing would have word of such a Qi Gathering Pill!
"He must have come by it by chance — who cares how!" Zhao Qibing said. "So I began to think: how can we get that pill into our hands and present it to Grandfather? Seizing it by force would never do, so I talked it over with the Medicine King and we named the price of a billion. Under the Medicine King's prompting, Yu Huoxing willingly handed over the pill himself!"
Zhao Qibing was a man who knew well how to win over his subordinates; in speaking to his father, he made a point of mentioning the Medicine King's contribution, so that the Medicine King would think all the more that Zhao Qibing was a fine master to serve.
"What! The Qi Gathering Pill... it is in your hands now?" Hearing Zhao Qibing's words, Zhao Guangyin was both shocked and delighted, and he rose abruptly to his feet. "Is it true? Such a divine medicine — Yu Huoxing was willing to hand it over?"
"Haha, of course! It is right here in my hands!" Zhao Qibing said smugly. "Naturally Yu Huoxing did not want to give it to me, but to save his own life he had no choice but to hand it over!"
"Then... does the hidden Yu family know of this matter?" Zhao Guangyin suddenly thought of something important: would the Yu family come looking for trouble?
"They certainly do not. Otherwise, even if Yu Huoxing had ten thousand times the courage, he would never dare give the pill to us behind their backs. Even if we cured his poison wounds, once he returned to the hidden Yu family he would certainly face severe punishment!" Zhao Qibing was untroubled. "So, Father, this matter cannot be told to Aunt Yu. It is enough that Grandfather knows!"
"You are right!" Zhao Guangyin nodded. This was a matter touching the future rise and fall of the Zhao family; of course he knew its weight. "Qibing, you have done very well this time. I will tell your grandfather exactly how it stands. This time, I expect you will be formally acknowledged and brought back into the family, and then I will ask your grandfather for a Foundation Building Pill, so that you too may set foot upon the path of cultivation!"