Chapter 2779 — Xuanzhen's Phone Call
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
After dinner that evening, Han Jingyi went back to her own home. Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and Wang Xinyan went upstairs to sleep. Wei Zhao, afraid that he might lose control in the middle of the night and start cultivating before he could stop himself, did not ask Wang Xinyan to stay. And Wang Xinyan was all the more embarrassed to stay—before, she had been helping Wei Zhao cultivate, but now what excuse could she possibly use?
Wei Zhao returned to his room and called White Leader, first letting him know he was safe, then asking, "Teacher Bai, that matter of my body receiving the inheritance—how is it going? Any news?"
"I am still looking into it for you, but so far there is no word at all... Ah, if only I were still at the Five Luminaries Sect. But as things stand, I cannot ask them yet..." White Leader said, somewhat helplessly.
"It is all right, there is no rush." Though Wei Zhao said this, he was still very anxious at heart.
"Hmm... Tell you what. If the chance comes, I will give my second junior brother a call and ask him..." White Leader naturally understood what Wei Zhao was thinking. After a moment's hesitation, he made up his mind. His relationship with Xuanchen was poor, but his relationship with Xuanzhen was very good. White Leader's alchemy master had passed away early and had taught him almost nothing; it was Xuanzhen whose alchemy skills he had personally brought up. So his bond with Xuanzhen had always been close. It was only that they had not been in contact for many years, and he did not know whether Xuanzhen was still the Xuanzhen of old, or whether he had thrown in his lot with Xuanchen's faction.
"This... will there be no ill effects or consequences?" Wei Zhao asked, somewhat worried.
"I will give it a try. If it works, it works. If it does not, then it does not." White Leader smiled and said indifferently, "At worst I lose a bit of face. What else could be so terrible?"
"Thank you, Teacher Bai..." Wei Zhao sighed. The man who had once been sect master of the Five Luminaries Sect now had to beg a favor of his former junior brother, and might even lose face for it—and all of it was for Wei Zhao's sake. How could Wei Zhao not be moved?
"If you can grow, that is the greatest comfort to me. I am still counting on the day when you and I return to the Five Luminaries Sect together!" White Leader said.
Wei Zhao said nothing more. Words of gratitude were superfluous; everything now would be proven by what he did in the days to come.
White Leader hung up on Wei Zhao. He hesitated a long while before finally dialing Xuanzhen's number. Within the Five Luminaries Sect, the satellite phone numbers of Xuanchen and Xuanzhen had not changed in many years. He had always kept them, but had never once taken the initiative to call. He would rather have forgotten them altogether.
But today, for Wei Zhao's sake—for the sake of this disciple of his—he had no choice but to dial the number of Ancestor Xuanzhen.
Ancestor Xuanzhen was studying the pill formula Kang Jingming had brought back—a fourth-grade pill formula. This formula was flawless, yet he could not refine it, and his heart was filled with endless emotion. If his senior brother Xuan Tian were here, he would surely be able to refine this pill, would he not?
"Senior Brother, are you well?" Only when no one was around did Ancestor Xuanzhen dare to show his true feelings. All these years, under the pressure of Ancestor Xuanchen, he could only swallow his anger and bide his time; for the sake of the sect's grand plan, he had no choice but to play along with Xuanchen.
A phone rang. Ancestor Xuanzhen assumed it was Ancestor Xuanchen calling, telling him to return to the sect—after all, Ancestor Xuanzhen had been staying at the Xuandan Sect all this time.
But when Ancestor Xuanzhen glanced at the caller display on the phone, he was slightly taken aback. It was an unfamiliar number.