Chapter 2057 — The Right Pan Hu's Plans, Part One
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"That should be it. Don't try refining pills for now. I'll think of something in the next few days and see if I can get a cauldron for you from somewhere else," Wei Zhao said.
"All right, Brother Wei Zhao..." Han Jingyi nodded.
The Hidden Right family.
"Right Panhu, you're saying Wei Zhao got some pill-refinement materials from Leader Bai?" Having heard Right Panhu's account, Right Zhentian frowned, a trace of displeasure in his heart. What did Wei Zhao have that made Leader Bai think so highly of him?
"Yes. I didn't hear everything clearly, but I caught bits and pieces at the door, enough to make out some key points!" Right Panhu said. "Leader Bai wants to take Wei Zhao as a disciple and pass on some pill-refinement knowledge to him. And when Wei Zhao left, he was carrying a volume of materials—it must have been given to him by Leader Bai!"
"If that's the case, then it would be worthwhile for our Right family to find a way to trade for those materials and have a look. The question is whether Wei Zhao is willing to trade," Right Zhentian said. He knew well enough that Right Panhu and Wei Zhao did not get along, and that the whole Right family's relationship with Wei Zhao was none too warm.
Fortunately, Wei Zhao still didn't know that Right Thirteen came from the Hidden Right family, so relations between the two sides were not yet too strained. If they offered enough in exchange, Wei Zhao would probably be tempted...
"Uncle, I think Wei Zhao will definitely trade—the question is what we put on the table!" Right Panhu said. "However capable Wei Zhao is, he's just a lone cultivator, a penniless wretch who goes to the antique street to buy junk cauldrons. A man like that surely hasn't a single valuable thing on him, so if we offer him something that makes his heart flutter, he'll cave for sure!"
"Oh? Buying junk cauldrons on the antique street?" Right Zhentian's eyebrows rose. "Wei Zhao can't be that pitiful, surely? He has some connection with the Ice Palace, after all—and he goes and buys flea-market goods?"
"What connection does he have with the Ice Palace? Palace Mistress Bingtang only gives Wei Zhao some face on account of Feng Xiaoxiao and Tang Zhi. I'd wager that right now Wei Zhao absolutely cannot get Bingtang to do anything for him!" Right Panhu said with conviction.
"That is true..." Right Zhentian believed it too. Otherwise, with three Earth Rank experts sent to assassinate Wei Zhao, it was impossible that the Ice Palace had gotten no word of it at all. Yet to this day no one from the Ice Palace had come out to investigate, which was proof enough that Bingtang did not care about Wei Zhao.
"Second Young Master Right, Patriarch, I've actually thought of something we could trade!" Huang Mao ventured cautiously.
"Oh? Huang Mao, tell us—what do we trade?" Right Zhentian looked at Huang Mao and asked.
"A pill cauldron! Since Wei Zhao went to the antique street to buy a cauldron, that means he probably doesn't have a good one—at least not a suitable one. Or else his old cauldron broke, otherwise he wouldn't go buying one!" Huang Mao said. "And the fact that he went to the antique street means Wei Zhao has no other way to get a cauldron. As a lone cultivator, all he can do is try his luck on the antique street. But most likely he didn't find one to his liking and just bought some piece of junk as a stopgap."