Chapter 1473 — Other Allies, for Wei Zhao Could Think of Nothing Else to Tempt the Ice Palace
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One Fire Spirit Holy Fruit might still be bought with money, but for two, the Ice Palace would likely refuse to sell at any price, and for one of them Wei Zhao would have to offer a Qi Gathering Pill in exchange.
When the time came, Yu Bing would surely see the Qi Gathering Pill and connect it with what had happened to Elder Yu before, so rather than leave him to suspicion, it was better to tell the truth himself! Of course, Wei Zhao did not know that after returning, Elder Yu had concealed the robbery of the Qi Gathering Pill, flatly lying that he had never found it!
"It was not us, it was you and my father... But this sort of thing belongs to whoever seizes it, so there is no hatred to speak of," Yu Bing said. "Still, you are formidable enough. Now I finally understand what you meant when you said you were confident of handling an Earth Rank master... It is only a pity, my father was but one step away from breaking through to Heaven Rank..."
"I intend to trade this Qi Gathering Pill for a Fire Spirit Holy Fruit, so forgive me, I cannot give it to you. I know how important this thing is to your family, but I need it just as much," Wei Zhao said. "But I left Elder Yu a Qi Gathering Pill. Was it not meant for your father? Does your Yu family have someone else about to break through to Heaven Rank?"
"What! You left him one?" Yu Bing froze in astonishment. "You mean... Elder Yu still has a Qi Gathering Pill in his hands?"
"Yes. What, you did not know?" Wei Zhao looked at Yu Bing with some puzzlement and asked, "Did Elder Yu never tell you?"
"No..." Yu Bing drew a deep breath, a shadow crossing his face. "It seems the cultivator who came from the secular Yu family is indeed not of one mind with us. He kept that pill for himself..."
"The secular Yu family? You mean Elder Yu came from the secular Yu family? Can he be Yu Shuixing's elder brother? That Earth Rank master?" Wei Zhao asked, startled.
"Yes, that is him," Yu Bing said with a cold laugh this time. "Well, you need not worry now. If Yu Huoxing really pocketed that Qi Gathering Pill for himself, then our hidden Yu family need not back their secular Yu family any longer, and the conflict between you and our hidden Yu family can be resolved..."
"The problem is not that. It lies with Yu Ning herself..." Wei Zhao was reluctant to speak the name, but matters had come to this and it could not be avoided. "Your family expects too much of her, and too little of me... I do not know if any of that can change in the future... but at least not now, and... I already have a girlfriend..."
"You... already have a girlfriend?" Yu Bing was slightly startled. He had only paid attention to how Wei Zhao had stirred up storm after storm in Songshan City of late and made enemies of so many powers, and had never spared a thought for Wei Zhao's private life, so this sudden revelation sank his heart...
He wondered whether his little sister could accept such news. Yet Yu Bing could hardly blame Wei Zhao for anything, for Wei Zhao had never given his sister any promise back then. It had all been her own one-sided longing.
At first Yu Bing had even thought that his sister, raised within the family from childhood and having seen little of the world, had only lost her heart to Wei Zhao at first sight, and that after returning to the family for a time or meeting other outstanding young men she would forget him.
But the truth had proved otherwise, and as his own dealings with Wei Zhao grew, Yu Bing came to see how remarkable he was. This time above all, Yu Bing truly admired him, daring to do anything, snatching food from a tiger's jaws in the hands of an Earth Rank master. Even with his background, Yu Bing would never have dared such a thing, yet Wei Zhao had done it, and succeeded. In that, he admitted himself far inferior.
"Yes, I do," Wei Zhao nodded. "And I have two..."