Chapter 2889 — A Plea to Tianchan
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"In this trial, a total of seventeen spirit herbs were successfully retrieved, Second Senior Brother. That is somewhat more than in previous rounds. Do you think it will be enough?" Elder Ancestor Xuanchen reported the tally of spirit herbs to Elder Ancestor Xuanzhen.
"Oh? Seventeen? Was it not fifteen before? How did it become two more?" Elder Ancestor Xuanzhen was slightly taken aback. "If there are seventeen, that should be about enough. Every five zhu can refine one golden pill; added to what we had before, it should be just about enough for the Cloud-Tier Island plan."
"It was indeed fifteen before, but afterward, Zhang Naiyao and Wei Zhao also passed the trial, so two more spirit herbs turned up," Elder Ancestor Xuanchen explained.
In fact, Zhang Naiyao had not originally held only one spirit herb. But while he was being attacked by spirit beasts, his backpack had been lost somewhere, and this single herb was merely one he had picked up along the way back.
As for Wei Zhao's, it had been given to him by Tianchan; he himself had not gone to pick any.
"Oh? Zhang Naiyao and Wei Zhao have both successfully passed the trial? Tianchan has already returned?" At this, Elder Ancestor Xuanzhen's expression turned somewhat strange. Tianchan had returned, and Zhang Naiyao and Wei Zhao had both successfully passed the trial—yet he had received not the slightest word of any of it beforehand...
The Five Luminaries Sect and the Xuandan Sect—it seemed they were still Elder Ancestor Xuanchen's domain! But why had Tianchan not come to report to him? What Elder Ancestor Xuanzhen did not know was that after Tianchan returned, she had been busy handling affairs, then had been separately entangled by Kang Jingming and Elder Ancestor Xuanchen, and afterward had prattled on with Earth Drill Star of the Yellow Earth High Sect for quite some time—leaving her no chance at all to meet with Elder Ancestor Xuanzhen alone.
"Yes—and so, the moment they passed the trial, I came at once to tell you, Second Senior Brother. Rest assured, Tianchan is fine, and Senior Brother's disciple Wei Zhao is fine too," Elder Ancestor Xuanchen said with a genial expression, as though he too had only just learned of it.
"But did they not stay in the Five Baleful Wastelands for more than twenty days? How are they still fine?" Elder Ancestor Xuanzhen was rather surprised that Wei Zhao had not been invaded by the five baleful energies within his body. As for Zhang Naiyao, however, Elder Ancestor Xuanzhen found it easy to understand. "Zhang Naiyao is no problem—it is the nature of the cultivation method he practices; nothing will come of it."
"Oh, according to Tianchan, Wei Zhao seems to have reached some kind of agreement with Zhang Naiyao. Not only is Wei Zhao fine, but the girl he carried back on his back seems fine as well—at least, Steward Sun detected no trace of the five baleful energies on them. So it must be that Zhang Naiyao used the Bee-Snatching Divine Art to draw the five baleful energies out of them," Elder Ancestor Xuanchen said. Though he too did not understand why Zhang Naiyao would reach some kind of agreement with Wei Zhao, he had not been able to press Tianchan on it in Kang Jingming's presence.
"Oh... no wonder..." Elder Ancestor Xuanzhen nodded.
As the two were conversing, a knock came at the door from outside. Anyone bold enough to knock here was someone of consequence—none other than Heaven's Mechanism Star, Heaven, Earth, and Man, or Tianchan—so Elder Ancestor Xuanchen said directly, "Come in!"
"Disciple Tianchan pays respects to Master and Senior Uncle!" Tianchan said respectfully after entering.
"Tianchan, what brings you here?" Elder Ancestor Xuanzhen asked.