Chapter 2982 — What Do You Think?
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All of this was the root of the conflict with Wei Zhao, yet the old master Yu was powerless to resolve it. He knew full well how matters would unfold, yet there was nothing he could do, for he had no way to contend with a force at the level of the Five Luminaries Sect.
Even giving Shen Yushu to Wei Zhao might ease the relationship between the Yu family and Wei Zhao—but Shen Yushu was out of the question too! Not a single one of them would do. That was precisely what gave the old master Yu the most headaches.
"Father, what are you thinking about?" Yu Xiaochen entered his father's room and found the old master Yu sunk in thought, saying nothing. At last Yu Xiaochen could not help but ask.
"Xiaochen, what do you make of Wei Zhao?" the old master Yu asked, lifting his head.
"Wei Zhao?" Yu Xiaochen was briefly startled, not knowing why his father had suddenly asked such a thing, but he answered honestly all the same: "To be frank, I have no particular feelings about Wei Zhao. Since he can't possibly become Xiaoning's boyfriend, then he's fated to be our Yu family's enemy..."
"If he can't be her boyfriend, must he necessarily be an enemy?" Yu Tianxing pressed on.
"This... Father, forgive Xiaochen's dullness, but I don't know what you mean by asking that. Are we in the Yu family going to change our strategy? But hasn't Wei Zhao already been crippled?" Yu Xiaochen asked, rather puzzled.
"You think he's crippled too?" Yu Tianxing gave a faint smile and looked at Yu Xiaochen with a peculiar expression.
Seeing that look on his father's face—a smile that was not quite a smile—Yu Xiaochen's heart gave a sudden thud: "Could it be a sham? Wei Zhao wasn't crippled at all, but is brewing some kind of scheme?"
"Whether he's brewing some scheme, I can't say, but today, at Wei Zhao's villa, someone broke through—and it was a breakthrough of a major power tier," the old master Yu said.
"Father, you mean Wei Zhao... has broken through to the Heaven rank?" Yu Xiaochen asked in astonishment.
"Very likely!" The old master Yu nodded. "At least I think that possibility is rather great."
"Hmm... In that case, the days to come will bring another storm of blood and slaughter. It's a good thing that when the Hidden Zhao family was making ready to deal with Wei Zhao, our Hidden Yu family stayed out of it," Yu Xiaochen said with some lingering fear. He was only at the peak of the late Earth rank, after all—if Wei Zhao had reached the Heaven rank, what could the Yu family possibly use to fight him?
Surely they could not go crying to the Five Luminaries Sect that their family could not even beat a lone rogue cultivator? And although the Five Luminaries Sect had never stated anything explicitly, the Hidden Yu family had more or less known about the time Xiao Yi and Xiao Shiyi came to deal with Wei Zhao, and in the end the matter had simply been let drop. Clearly there was some unspeakable secret agreement behind it all, and this too gave rise to Yu Xiaochen's worries.
"Even if Wei Zhao hasn't advanced, we still wouldn't take part. Wei Zhao is already beyond our ability to deal with, and there's no need for us to dash our eggs against a stone. Besides... the future of the Yu family belongs to Yu Bing and Yu Ning. If Wei Zhao dies, they won't be happy." The old master Yu waved a hand. "By the way, tell me why you've come. What matter is it that you can't decide on your own and must ask me about?"