Chapter 3328 — A Plan Thrown into Disarray
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"Us? We needn't lift a finger!" Ancestor Xuanchen shook his head and chuckled darkly. "The Paoli are no weaklings. From what I know, they already had three consummate experts at the peak of the late Heaven Rank, and by now they likely have even more. Let them probe Wei Zhao's depths—having them do the killing is a perfectly good approach! As things stand, no one knows whether Wei Zhao can hold his own against a consummate expert at the peak of the late Heaven Rank, so letting the Paoli make the move saves me a great deal of testing—and even if they fail, we lose nothing."
"That is a good idea. I never realized the Paoli were so formidable. But, Father-in-law, will they actually act?" Kang Jingming was confident enough that the Paoli would refuse to trade with Wei Zhao, but far less certain they could be persuaded to kill him, and so he could not help worrying.
"There's no harm in trying!" Ancestor Xuanchen mused for a moment, then said, "Here's what you'll do: set out at once for the Paoli, bearing my token of authority, and negotiate with them."
"What? I have to go in person?" Kang Jingming was taken aback.
"The Paoli have had no contact with the cultivation world of the Central Plains for two or three hundred years, and I have no way to reach them either. Back then there were no telephones, and the messenger pigeon spirit beasts that knew the way are all long dead. Without going to their door in person, there truly is no way to get in touch!" Ancestor Xuanchen said. "But rest assured—when the Paoli's envoys first came to the Central Plains, it was our Five Luminaries Sect they contacted. Go as a disciple of our Five Luminaries Sect, and they will not make things difficult for you!"
"That's a relief!" Kang Jingming thought to himself: if it meant Wei Zhao's death, what did it matter if he had to cross mountains and rivers to reach the Haku Namata Desert? So long as Wei Zhao died, no hardship would be too great.
"In that case, pack your things and set out tomorrow!" Ancestor Xuanchen instructed.
As it happened, Wei Zhao had also been planning to set out within the next few days. But who could have foreseen that just then a major incident would occur, forcing him to halt in his tracks and suspend his plans to journey to the Haku Namata Desert, keeping him instead in Donghai City?
Wang Xinyan had fainted—and fainted without the slightest warning!
The matter was simple enough, really. That morning, Xiaoshu was supposed to get up together with Wang Xinyan and go eat the breakfast Wei Zhao had made, but Wang Xinyan happened to still be sound asleep and had not woken.
At first Xiaoshu thought nothing of it and went downstairs by herself. After all, Wang Xinyan sleeping in was no great matter. In Xiaoshu's view, it was probably because Wei Zhao had only just returned the night before, and Wang Xinyan had been rather excited—the two of them had chatted for a long while in the middle of the night before finally resting.
So when Wei Zhao did not see Wang Xinyan, he asked Xiaoshu about her. Xiaoshu said Wang Xinyan had gone to bed late the night before and had not gotten up, and Wei Zhao thought no more of it.
But when the two of them had finished breakfast and Wang Xinyan still had not come downstairs, Wei Zhao found it rather strange! (To be continued.)