Chapter 3332 — The Envoy of the Five Luminaries Sect
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This time, Manager Li did not lead Wei Zhao in circles either. Instead, he chose the shortest route. He knew that for a man of Wei Zhao's caliber, any so-called secret path into the Ice Palace was nonsense. With perception that powerful, trying to play games before him was nothing but asking for trouble.
Together, the two of them set off toward the Ice Palace.
"Up ahead lies the territory of the Ice Palace. Young Hero Lin, how about this—when we arrive, would you wait a while in the reception room by the gate? Allow me to go report to the Palace Master..." Manager Li was in a difficult spot. Since Bingtang had not come out to receive them, he dared not rashly bring Wei Zhao straight into the Ice Palace, and so he asked cautiously.
"Of course." Wei Zhao gave a faint nod. However one looked at it, Feng Xiaoxiao was the Ice Palace's vice palace master, and there was no need for Wei Zhao to treat it as a hostile sect. If the little miss Bingtang had another fit of her spoiled-princess temper, then let her have it. Wei Zhao would simply pretend he had not noticed.
"Thank you for your understanding, Young Hero Lin!" Manager Li let out a long breath of relief.
"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled and said nothing more.
But when the two of them drew near the Ice Palace's gates, and Manager Li was just about to speak to Wei Zhao, an arrogant, overbearing figure appeared at the Ice Palace entrance with incomparable speed!
Wei Zhao, accommodating the pace of Manager Li—an expert of the Earth rank—was not traveling at full speed, and so that figure simply appeared there at the Ice Palace gates, seeming utterly unconcerned with Wei Zhao and Manager Li behind him.
"Who is that?" Wei Zhao's brows furrowed slightly. He thought to himself, there are still people in the Ice Palace who ignore its rules? He had never heard of any formidable male elder in the Ice Palace.
"Huh? You don't recognize him?" Manager Li was also rather puzzled as to where this sudden arrival had come from. When had the Ice Palace gained such a person? And he appeared to be quite a capable expert.
Wei Zhao, acting on first impressions, had assumed the man belonged to the Ice Palace, but Manager Li actually said he did not recognize him. Only then did Wei Zhao look closely at the figure who had already reached the Ice Palace gates ahead. And no sooner had he looked than he received a tremendous shock!
This man was actually an expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank! The same tier as Bingtang? And a man, at that? Then this man was likely not one of the Ice Palace's own, for the experts of the Ice Palace were not men but women. This person, by the look of it, was probably here with ill intent!
What puzzled Wei Zhao most was that the man's back seemed somewhat familiar, as though he had seen it somewhere before. Yet from the back alone, Wei Zhao could hardly judge where the man had come from.
"So you're saying this man is not one of your Ice Palace's people?" Wei Zhao halted and did not rush forward, intending to observe the situation first. After all, he had come to the Ice Palace on important business. If this man was here to make trouble, Wei Zhao would do well to plan how to respond.
Naturally, an expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank was not someone Wei Zhao took much to heart. What he feared was that this man might be a pathfinder, with others following behind him.
And no wonder Wei Zhao was suspicious. After all, for a single man to come to the Ice Palace looking for trouble was somewhat unrealistic. Bingtang herself was an expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank, and she alone could deal with any comer.
She might not be able to kill the intruder, but for that intruder to actually wreak havoc was equally unrealistic.
That was why Wei Zhao had decided to watch and see.
"Yes, I don't recognize him... Young Hero Lin, shall we go now?" Seeing Wei Zhao halt, Manager Li, not knowing his thoughts, asked in some puzzlement, "Are we not going on?"