Chapter 3524 — Convening a Meeting to Study the Matter
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Only after Zhong Yongliang had gone did Wei Zhao knit his brows slightly. Helping Zhong Yongliang was not only for Wang Xinyan's sake; having the Mingri Fumingri Sect involved was a good thing in any case. Ancestor Xuanchen now held all power in his grasp, and with Zhong Yongliang, who owed him a favor, taking part, if Xuanchen tried any tricks when they landed on Cloud-Rank Island, Zhong Yongliang could lend a hand at the crucial moment.
Not long after Zhong Yongliang left, a knock came again at Wei Zhao's door. Wei Zhao opened it and, sure enough, it was Xueli. It seemed she too had found no good way to help Tang Zhi break through after returning, and could only come seek out Wei Zhao.
"Young Hero Lin, I thought it over after I went back, and what you said makes a great deal of sense. So I intend to invite you to the meeting room so we can all discuss the matter of Elder Tang Zhi together. The inheritors will be there, and so will Young Sect Master Tianchan—we will pool our wisdom and all think of a solution for Elder Tang Zhi!" Xueli said.
"Fine. When?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Now," Xueli said.
"Good, then I will go with you." Wei Zhao nodded, and bringing Wang Xinyan and Han Jingyi, he left the room and followed Xueli to the inn's meeting room.
Xueli had rented the meeting room from the inn; saying it was to study the problem of Tang Zhi, the inn naturally had no reason to refuse.
When Wei Zhao and Xueli arrived at the meeting room, he found the other inheritors and Tianchan already there, Tang Zhi among them. Wei Zhao was the last to arrive. Clearly Xueli had summoned the others earlier but had not called him, and only after they had likely reached no conclusion had she come to find Wei Zhao.
Wei Zhao did not call her out on it, though. He understood Xueli's worry well enough: Tang Zhi was the Snow Valley's hope, and she feared that old feelings might be rekindled between Wei Zhao and Tang Zhi.
"Yaoyao, Xiaoshu, Xiaoning, Xiaoxiao, Xinxin, Xiaojiu... and Yunyun and Tianchan. It has been a long time." Wei Zhao drew a breath and sat down in the head seat of the meeting room, while Wang Xinyan and Han Jingyi smiled and greeted everyone, then found places to sit.
"Hey, that is my seat..." Xueli pointed at the head seat and said to Wei Zhao. She was the one who had convened the meeting, so naturally she should sit in the head seat—but now Wei Zhao had seized it.
Wei Zhao, for his part, paid her no heed. It would be impossible to say he had no complaints about Xueli, and so at this moment he did not mind giving her the cold shoulder.
"Everyone is worried about Yunyun's problem. But Yunyun did not advance and break through under the oppressive force in the five baleful dragons' cave. I think that next, either she takes Qi-Gathering Pills to break through to Great Perfection, or she breaks through in the midst of battle. If neither works, then I am afraid we will have to look for the cause in her cultivation method itself. Is it that her Heartless Art simply cannot be cultivated to Great Perfection? Or perhaps she should cultivate something like the Passionate Art instead?" Wei Zhao spoke.
"The Heartless Art's mnemonic has its constraints—one cannot use pills to advance and break through. Your suggestion will not work!" Since Wei Zhao had not given up the seat, Xueli was in no mood to be gracious either, and she said so bluntly.RS