Chapter 2616 — Xuanchen's Phone Call
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Xuanzhen Ancestral Master was simple of heart and had none of Xuanchen Ancestral Master's devious twists and turns. The truth was that Xuanchen Ancestral Master feared Xuantian would reveal what had really happened all those years ago, and so he dared not let Xuanzhen and Xuantian speak directly. Instead he put them off with excuses about being unable to reach him and the White Leader not wishing to be disturbed.
Fortunately, Xuanzhen Ancestral Master did not brood over such things. If Xuanchen Ancestral Master could have had his way, he would long since have done away with Xuantian Ancestral Master, but for the sake of that future Cloud-Tier Island plan, he had no choice but to keep him alive.
"Yes, Master!" Xiao Yi answered hurriedly. He and Xiao Shiyi got into the car and sped off in the direction of that place...
Xuanchen Ancestral Master, meanwhile, dialed the number of Xuantian Ancestral Master—the White Leader. It had been a very long time since he had last called this number. He had only ever sent people to secretly watch the White Leader's every move. Making the call himself this time, his heart was still somewhat uneasy.
On the White Leader's side, he had just found a construction crew to repair the great pit at the school gate and was hurrying with Sun Jingyan and Wang Xinyan to the Xueshang Hotel to look for Wei Zhao and Han Jingyi, when his phone rang. Thinking it was Wei Zhao, the White Leader answered at once. "Hello? Yes?"
"..." Xuanchen Ancestral Master heard that familiar voice and fell into a silence tinged with fear. After all, it was he who had secretly engineered things back then, causing the White Leader's injury—and he believed the White Leader knew it perfectly well. Vicious as he was, when it came to speaking with the White Leader face to face, he could not help but be overcome with emotion.
"Hello? Who is this?" The White Leader frowned. There was no sound from the other end, and he assumed it was a wrong number. "If it's nothing, I'm hanging up."
"Eldest senior brother, it's me..." Hearing that the White Leader was about to hang up, Xuanchen Ancestral Master spoke up hurriedly.
"Xuanchen?" The White Leader was no stranger to Xuanchen's voice and recognized it at once. For a moment his heart was flooded with feeling. Toward this junior brother who had once done him harm, the White Leader's emotions were tangled indeed. Kindhearted as he was, he was no indiscriminate do-gooder. Had their master not taught them, back in the day, that the brothers of the sect must always live in harmony, the White Leader would likely have stopped troubling himself over sect affairs years ago.
But he had not. He still regarded himself as the sect master of that place, still threw himself into that grand plan for the future, still searched for and nurtured inheritors.
"It's me, eldest senior brother. I'm sorry. I did not know Wei Zhao and Han Jingyi were your disciples. I meant no offense, and I beg your forgiveness..." Xuanchen said cautiously.
"No offense? And you still remember to call me eldest senior brother?" The White Leader gave a cold laugh and snorted. "You expect me to believe you didn't know those two were my disciples?"
"Eldest senior brother, you must know how important Tagan Long is. Wei Zhao has crippled him, and now he's nothing but a wreck..." Xuanchen Ancestral Master said after a moment's silence.
"The five elemental inheritors, plus the two supporting inheritors—is that not enough? Why must it be Tagan Long as the medium?" The White Leader knitted his brows.