Chapter 2890 — Xuanchen's Scheme
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"Oh?" Patriarch Xuanzhen said, after hearing Tianchan's words. "Wasn't Earth Tyrant wounded by Zhang Naiyao? Didn't we hear before that his injuries were severe, that he was beyond saving?"
"That is so, but they have been keeping him alive with Great Return Pills..." Tianchan said.
"I happen to have an idea." A scheme had already taken shape in Patriarch Xuanchen's mind. "In this matter, I say we let him go to Wei Zhao!"
"Go to Wei Zhao?" Tianchan was momentarily stunned, and Patriarch Xuanzhen was equally baffled, unable to guess what going to Wei Zhao had to do with anything.
"To Wei Zhao, of course, for Earth Tyrant's sake!" Patriarch Xuanchen said with a faint smile. "It is simple. Isn't Wei Zhao Zhang Naiyao's nemesis? He took Zhang Naiyao's attacks and came away completely unscathed, and even managed to strike a bargain with Zhang Naiyao during the trial, getting him to draw the Five Baleful Qi out of his own body and his female companion's—what a formidable feat that was! So I say that for Earth Drill Star's business, we should go to Wei Zhao. A man as capable as Wei Zhao will surely think of something! Besides, wasn't Senior Brother White Leader's injury healed? Wei Zhao may well have top-grade Great Return Pills on him as well."
"How could that be?!" Patriarch Xuanzhen's expression changed at once. This was plainly making trouble for Wei Zhao. Between Wei Zhao and Zhang Naiyao there was no telling what unspeakable bargain had been struck; for Wei Zhao to extract further benefits from Zhang Naiyao was all but impossible. And now Xuanzhen himself had let slip that Wei Zhao might hold top-grade Great Return Pills—if the Yellow Earth High Sect were to learn of this, would Wei Zhao ever know peace again?
Even if Wei Zhao had none, the Yellow Earth High Sect had only to believe it. At the faintest hint of a possibility, the Yellow Earth High Sect, desperate to see their Young Sect Master Earth Tyrant wake, would certainly go to Wei Zhao and force him to hand over the top-grade Great Return Pills!
In that case, Wei Zhao would likely be subjected to interrogation—just as when Patriarch Xuanchen had sent Little One and Little Eleven to deal with Wei Zhao last time. Naturally, Patriarch Xuanchen ought to oppose this.
"Second Senior Brother, in this matter I am acting for Wei Zhao's own good as well. He is Senior Brother's disciple, so let him cultivate ties with a great ancient sect like the Yellow Earth High Sect. There is only benefit in it, no harm—the more friends, the more roads open!" Patriarch Xuanchen waved his hand and said mildly, "Enough. The matter is settled."
Tianchan's heart gave a faint start. Before Patriarch Xuanchen brought up Wei Zhao, the thought of him had not crossed her mind; but the moment Xuanchen mentioned him, Tianchan immediately recalled what had passed between her and Wei Zhao beneath the cliffs of the Five Baleful Mountains!
Her injuries at the time had been so grave that Tianchan was certain that even with Great Return Pills, she could never have recovered so swiftly and so easily. Yet Wei Zhao had, as if by a miracle, healed her wounds. And he had healed his own as well—even his hand, run through on the cliff face. Wei Zhao had cured these injuries in no time at all.
At this thought, Tianchan found herself hoping that Wei Zhao would win the Yellow Earth High Sect's support as an ally. She believed that with her, Tianchan, working to broker the matter, it would not be difficult to make the Yellow Earth High Sect deeply grateful to Wei Zhao. And Tianchan—without quite realizing it—had already come to hope in her heart that Wei Zhao might gain a powerful arm to lean upon.
"Uncle-Master, then this disciple will contact Earth Drill Star shortly and have him pay Wei Zhao a visit, to see whether this matter can be resolved," Tianchan said, betraying nothing in her expression.
Tianchan's words left Patriarch Xuanzhen stunned—and Patriarch Xuanchen even more so!