Chapter 2423 — An Invitation to Dinner
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
Over the years, his energy had gone almost entirely into cultivation and alchemy, and he had long since washed his hands of sect affairs; he knew of the Xuanzhen Ancestor's plan, but had taken no part in it.
"Second Brother..." The Xuanzhen Ancestor paused there, then said with a note of sorrow, "It did not go well. Second Brother, not long ago, something grave happened!"
"What! Something grave? What happened?" The Xuanzhen Ancestor's face went blank and his steps halted. He turned to look at the Xuanzhen Ancestor. "What on earth happened?"
"Second Brother, Tagan Long has been crippled!" The Xuanzhen Ancestor sighed and spoke with some bitterness.
"What! Tagan Long crippled?" The Xuanzhen Ancestor was greatly shocked. "How? How was he crippled?"
"Second Brother, this is how it happened..." The Xuanzhen Ancestor recounted Tagan Long's situation to the Xuanzhen Ancestor, and only at the end did he say, "Originally I placed my hopes on you, Second Brother, thinking that once you came out of seclusion you might refine fourth-grade pills, and then we could make the Great Return Pill and the fourth-grade Great Channel-Clearing Pill. But..."
"If fourth-grade pills could be refined, then Lingtou, he too..." The Xuanzhen Ancestor gave a helpless, bitter smile. "These three years, I have made no breakthrough, and I reckon that in the years to come I shall make no progress either. Fourth-grade pills are beyond hope..."
"So I took it upon myself to activate the contingency plan first. After all, a person with a five-element constitution is exceedingly hard to find. You and I searched for so many years, and at last found only Tagan Long — one in a hundred million, a composite constitution..." the Xuanzhen Ancestor said.
"The contingency plan..." The Xuanzhen Ancestor nodded. He knew a little of this plan, though not in any detail. "Are you confident the contingency plan will work?"
"Confident... half and half, I would say. Whether the hidden piece comes through, only time will tell." As he spoke, the Xuanzhen Ancestor lowered his voice and murmured into the Xuanzhen Ancestor's ear.
In truth, the Xuanzhen Ancestor was also afraid of being overheard by his two disciples, Xiao'er and Xiao San — after all, only he and Xiao Yi knew of this matter.
The Xuanzhen Ancestor nodded upon hearing this and said, "Let us hope it succeeds. I never imagined that such a great calamity would strike during this seclusion of mine..."
"There is no help for it. If this attempt fails, we can only slowly search again for someone of the right constitution..." The Xuanzhen Ancestor sighed helplessly.
"Is there no way for Tagan Long to recover, other than by taking fourth-grade pills?" the Xuanzhen Ancestor asked.
"Second Brother, you may go and examine him yourself. Beyond that, I truly cannot think of any other stroke of fortune..." the Xuanzhen Ancestor said.
"Then let us go and have a look..." At this moment, the Xuanzhen Ancestor could only treat a dead horse as if it were alive.
The two hurried to the room where Tagan Long was recuperating. Though Tagan Long's injuries had been brought under control, he had not awakened; his pulse was utterly chaotic, and the Xuanzhen Ancestor had merely preserved his life for the time being — restoring him was out of the question.
The Xuanzhen Ancestor carefully took Tagan Long's pulse, his brows knitting into a deep frown, and for a long while he said nothing...
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In the blink of an eye it was noon and school was out. There were no classes this afternoon, so Wei Zhao said goodbye to Wang Xinyan and walked out of the classroom with Han Jingyi.
Kang Jinglong had meant to sidle over and exchange a few words with Wang Xinyan, but thinking of the humiliation he had suffered that day, he gave up in the end. He reckoned that if he went to speak to her now, she would hardly give him a kind look, so he thought better of it.