Chapter 2864 — Tianchan Pays a Visit
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"Mm-hm, I'm sure Brother Kang will become the most formidable elder in the whole Xuandan Sect!" Xiaotaohong said expectantly.
"Haha, of course—no doubt about it!" Kang Jingming chuckled.
After leaving the side courtyard of the traveling palace, Tianchan went straight to the Xuandan Sect's inn and sought out the manager on duty that day: "Manager Sun, give me the guest register!"
"Yes, Young Sect Master!" Manager Sun nearly jumped out of his skin. He had never imagined that Tianchan would come to the inn in person. He had no idea what she wanted the register for, but he hurriedly produced it all the same: "Young Sect Master, here it is. Please have a look!"
"Mm. One question—has a man named Zhang Naipao come back to the inn?" Tianchan took the register and asked offhandedly.
"Zhang Naipao? One moment, let me check." Manager Sun swiftly opened the computer and began searching, but soon shook his head. "No. Zhang Naipao has not returned to the inn."
"And Wei Zhao?" Tianchan asked again. Zhang Naipao had only been a lead-in; though she was sure Manager Sun would never gossip or repeat her questions, she could not help feeling a little guilty, like a thief with something to hide.
"Not him either..." Manager Sun shook his head after checking.
"I see. Then never mind." Tianchan waved a hand, signaling that he could get back to his own work. She had known all along that Wei Zhao could not possibly have returned to the inn out of thin air without passing through the teleportation array, but she would not feel at ease unless she asked.
But how would Manager Sun dare busy himself with anything else in Tianchan's presence? He merely stood to one side, cautious and trembling, awaiting the Young Sect Master's next order.
Tianchan held the guest register in her hands and examined it carefully.
She looked first at Wei Zhao. Wei Zhao had arrived at the inn together with Zhao Qilei of the hidden Zhao family—this was noted on the register—while Zhang Naipao had come with Mo Ba and Mo Jiu, fellow members of the Tomorrow After Tomorrow Sect...
Zhao Qilei—Tianchan remembered him as one of the last four trial-takers to pass the Xuandan Sect's trials. Her memory was excellent, so the name came back to her at once. But Mo Ba and Mo Jiu she had no recollection of; she had not seen either name on the list of those who had passed.
"Manager Sun, have you seen Mo Ba and Mo Jiu of the Tomorrow After Tomorrow Sect?" Tianchan asked.
"To answer the Young Sect Master: Mo Ba went with Zhang Naipao to take part in the trials, and neither has returned. As for Mo Jiu, he is lying in his room right now, unconscious, his life or death unknown," Manager Sun said.
"Oh?" Tianchan was slightly taken aback. "Why is Mo Jiu unconscious? What happened to him?"
Manager Sun was quite well informed about Mo Jiu's affair—after all, it had happened right here in the Xuandan Sect's inn, so it had left a deep impression on him: "It was in the dining hall before. Zhang Naipao of the Tomorrow After Tomorrow Sect brought Mo Ba and Mo Jiu to provoke someone, and then that Wei Zhao you mentioned struck Mo Jiu crippled with a single palm. He is still alive only on pills, and has not woken up."
"What? Wei Zhao did that?" Tianchan was stunned. She had never expected such deep enmity between Wei Zhao and Zhang Naipao. She knew a little of Wei Zhao's affairs, but not that he was at odds with the Tomorrow After Tomorrow Sect.
"Yes. Wei Zhao is only an expert of the late Earth Rank, yet he managed to wound a mid Heaven Rank expert grievously with one palm—that is rather strange," Manager Sun said. "But for some reason, Zhang Naipao and Mo Ba chose to bide their time and did not press the conflict with Wei Zhao any further. Still, Zhang Naipao did say one thing then: that they would settle it in earnest at the trials!"