Chapter 2633 — Bai Lingtou's Goal
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Wei Zhao had said then: if Bai Lingtou's injuries were to recover, what would Elder Xuanchen do once he learned of it? At the time, Bai Lingtou had thought Wei Zhao was merely joking, speaking offhand. But now it seemed that was not the case at all. Wei Zhao truly must have the ability to restore his injuries!
A glimmer of hope and excitement flashed through Bai Lingtou's eyes. Was his conjecture really true? Could Wei Zhao truly do it? Bai Lingtou found himself faintly expectant...
Yet Bai Lingtou did not immediately call Wei Zhao to ask about these things. Instead, he fell into contemplation of the future...
Now, inevitably, Wei Zhao had been drawn into this future conflict within the sect. Whether Bai Lingtou wished it or not, the mark of this disciple had already been stamped upon Elder Xuanchen. If he himself recovered his strength, then naturally he could overawe Xuanchen. But what if he could not?
Once the Cloud Terrace Island plan was set in motion, once the Five Luminaries Sect was restored to the standing of the ancient sects and its former glory revived—would Xuanchen, his confidence swollen, move against him again, or even against Wei Zhao and Han Jingyi?
But how was such a situation to be resolved? Bai Lingtou thought for a long while and could not come up with any particularly good solution. In the end, everything came down to the fact that his current strength was insufficient—and that was a hard flaw, one that could not be changed.
You Panhu decided to go find Wei Zhao and Han Jingyi and have a word, to see whether he could obtain that special notebook in Han Jingyi's possession. But he absolutely must not breathe a word about Zhang Lifeng the alchemist's notebooks.
You Panhu, though often deceived by Wei Zhao, was by no means a fool. On the contrary, it was only in Wei Zhao's presence that his intellect seemed to fail him; ordinarily he had a fair share of cleverness.
On the one hand, he was genuinely desperate to obtain what Wei Zhao held, and sometimes being deceived was simply unavoidable. On the other hand, Wei Zhao's fearsome reputation—capable of slaying a Heaven-rank expert in an instant—left You Panhu somewhat cowed in his presence, and his wits would short-circuit of their own accord.
Especially when he heard that even the peak late-stage Heaven-rank expert who had come this time had failed to kill Wei Zhao—that left You Panhu all the more aghast. True, Bai Lingtou had intervened, but it was still Wei Zhao's own strength that had stood there. Otherwise, before Bai Lingtou could have stepped in, Wei Zhao would already have been dead!
Who could have imagined that an expert at the peak of the mid-stage Earth rank could hold out so long against one at the peak of the late-stage Heaven rank?
In truth, even Wei Zhao himself had not expected it. But sometimes things happen in just such a coincidental way: a single true-qi bomb had saved Wei Zhao—and this was a matter that even Little One himself had likely never fully understood.
So if You Panhu were to mention Zhang Lifeng the alchemist's notebooks, Wei Zhao would certainly ask how he had come to know of it. And if that were then connected to the earlier business with Little One and Little Eleven, You Panhu would be in dire straits—he might well be beaten to death.
Thus You Panhu could only probe obliquely and ask for some other materials instead. In his view, Han Jingyi spent every day writing and sketching on her tablet, and she must surely be recording alchemical insights and experience!