Chapter 3443 — The Secret of the Broken Map
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Kang Jingming had gone, and the Song family had returned home, and now Wei Zhao's own day of departure had come. Xiao Shu was leaving, and Wei Zhao still had to go fetch Xiao Jiu and take him to the Yellow Earth Sect—counting the days, there really wasn't much time left!
The launch of the tier-one and tier-two automatic pill cauldrons had all but wiped out the Mystic Pill Sect's business; the entire cauldron market and the market for tier-one and tier-two pills had been monopolized by the automatic cauldrons with scarcely any suspense—and Ancestor Xuanchen was sick with frustration over it!
"Miss Lan, when will Dr. Benjamin II crack the latest cauldron?" Ancestor Xuanchen asked, every single day.
"Soon. Science and technology aren't like cultivation—how could it be quick? Please be patient, Mr. Xuanchen. I expect we'll have an answer very soon!" Miss Lan said.
"Report!" a disciple suddenly shouted loudly from outside the door.
"Who is it? What's the matter?" Ancestor Xuanchen asked. Xiao Yi was dead now, and Xiao Er had gone off to make trouble for Wei Zhao; of the disciples Ancestor Xuanchen had left, some were dead and some crippled, and he had not yet found anyone to replace Xiao Er—so this shouting disciple was the one in charge of sweeping the room where the soul jade tablets were kept.
"Reporting to Ancestor Xuanchen, a great disaster has struck!" The disciple hurried into Ancestor Xuanchen's room and said, "Second Senior Brother's soul jade tablet has shattered!"
"What?!" In that instant Ancestor Xuanchen's head buzzed, and he sprang to his feet, eyes glaring at the disciple. "What did you say? Xiao Er's tablet has shattered? Are you certain?"
"Ancestor Xuanchen, how could I lie about such a thing? It happened just now..." the disciple said carefully, his face drawn with misery.
"Take me to see it!" Ancestor Xuanchen was frantic. Heedless of Miss Lan still being at his side, he rushed out of the room and followed the disciple away.
Miss Lan paid it no mind. She too knit her brows. She knew Xiao Er's strength—he was a top-tier expert at the Heaven Tier great perfection. If something had happened to him now, what did that mean?
Those three modified disciples of the Zhao family had likely met a grim fate as well. Was this Wei Zhao truly so formidable? To be able to kill so many?
Miss Lan followed after them, all the way to the place where the soul jade tablets were kept, and saw Ancestor Xuanchen take the stairs two at a time to a shattered tablet, his gaze somewhat vacant. "As expected... as expected, Xiao Er is finished too!"
Looking at the row of shattered soul jade tablets, Ancestor Xuanchen seemed in that moment to have aged a great deal! What kind of sin was this, to have brought such ruin?
Could it be that after he had schemed to persecute and drive out Ancestor Xuantian all those years ago, the disciples who followed him then had now come seeking revenge? Which of these disciples' deaths had nothing to do with Wei Zhao?
"Mr. Xuanchen, please accept my condolences and be resigned to what has happened. If something has befallen Xiao Er, then those three Zhao family experts likely won't be coming back either." Miss Lan sighed. "It seems I am not the only one to have suffered heavy losses—you have too! We share a common enemy!"
"That may be so, but if I could truly be resigned to it, that would be fine! Wei Zhao, you wretch—ahhhh, I will most certainly kill you!" Ancestor Xuanchen howled, his face hideous. "That's right—what about Zhaoming's tablet? Is he all right?"
Ancestor Xuanchen suddenly thought of Kang Jingming, and hurriedly questioned the disciple at his side. (To be continued...)