Chapter 1529 — Are You Speaking for Him?
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And afterward came the trial. Wei Zhao, fearing that Tang Zhi and Gu Mengyao and little Shu would worry, said nothing to them of it, thinking only to wait until the trial was done before he got in touch with them again.
Who could have guessed that once the trial ended there would be a host of other troubles; and the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit was not to be had—how could Wei Zhao simply leave? And during the trial, lest the teams call one another by satellite phone, there seemed to be some interference upon Ice Snow Spirit Mountain; the phones had no signal here at all!
So even had Wei Zhao wished to reach Tang Zhi and the others and explain his plight, he could not! Yet he could not leave either, and must wait until he returned before making contact again.
"Let us hope so..." Tang Zhi nodded, though for all her words a thread of worry still clung to her heart...
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Sun rose, sun set; another day passed.
The disciples patrolling near the Ice Palace changed batch after batch, yet Wei Zhao still stood at the gate of the Ice Palace, waiting for Elder Qing to persuade the Ice Palace Master to give him the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit!
Wei Zhao's heart was filled with bitterness and helplessness—the defeat a man feels before a cruel reality!
Wei Zhao's temper was proud and aloof; never in the past had he bowed his head to any power, not even before the Yu family, who had once been mightier than he!
But in this moment Wei Zhao had no recourse at all. The Ice Palace's might surpassed anything he had known, and he understood well that beneath such power, the only way to save Xiaoxiao was to bow his head!
What else could he do? Fight, and he could never win; seize it, and he could never take it—he would likely lose his own life here, and Xiaoxiao would be finished besides! So all that Wei Zhao could do was move the Ice Palace by his own stubborn devotion.
Laughable it might seem, yet it was his only way! Fortunately he bore the halo of first place in the trial; so long as he did nothing contrary to the Ice Palace's rules, the Ice Palace truly had no way to deal with him!
Surely they could not kill a man merely because he begged piteously for a cure for his sweetheart? Domineering as the Ice Palace was, it disdained to do such a thing; and even had it done so, none would have dared speak against it—but then who would ever dare come to the next Ice Palace trial?
If every trial-goer who came hoping to trade the Ice Palace for some treasure of heaven and earth were killed off simply because the thing he sought to exchange for was one of the Palace's own treasures, then what would the Ice Palace become? So Wei Zhao had taken the measure of this, and he simply squatted here, refusing absolutely to leave!
Whether shameless clinging would work, whether it held any hope, Wei Zhao did not know; what he did know was that if he turned and walked away, there would be even less hope! A Heaven Rank expert, it was said, could also heal the cold yin within Xiaoxiao's body—but whether such healing would truly succeed, Wei Zhao could not be sure.
It was only a scrap of miscellany that Old Man Wei had read in some ancient text; yet that the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit could heal Xiaoxiao had been verified by Zhang Lifeng!
And what made Wei Zhao most suspicious was this: Zhang Lifeng must himself have been a Heaven Rank expert. Since he could refine Qi Gathering Pills, and two of them still remained in the tomb, it showed that Zhang Lifeng had already broken through to the Heaven Rank and no longer needed to take them!
Otherwise, Wei Zhao did not believe a cultivator would leave such wondrous elixirs untasted and carry them into his tomb! As for the side effects of the Qi Gathering Pill, Elder Qing had said they did not exist in ancient times—so Zhang Lifeng had no reason whatsoever to refrain from taking them!