Chapter 4549 — Old Wounds
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This was hardly surprising. Even if Ghost Thing was a top-tier master of the spirit beast race, Zhang Lifeng had a reputation that preceded him—a man's name casts its shadow. Though Zhang Lifeng was famed throughout the world for his alchemy and healing arts, his strength could not possibly be weak. Across the entire Five Great Islands of the Cloud-Tier, those who could reliably overpower him numbered but a handful—perhaps not even that many.
Wei Zhao was not a gossipy sort, but where it concerned a peak showdown between Ghost Thing and Zhang Lifeng, his soul of gossip was, at this moment, burning bright.
"Hmph. Nothing much—just crossed hands once, is all." Ghost Thing snorted sullenly. He had not intended to say more, but seeing Wei Zhao so worked up, he finally relented. "Back then, that old calf Zhang Lifeng discovered a way to travel freely to the mortal realm. But it required all seven of his wives working together to have any chance of opening the formation passage."
"Wait! Seven? How could it be seven? Doesn't he only have two wives?" Wei Zhao was stunned. Zhang Lifeng's two wives, the Ice Ancestor and the Snow Ancestor, were common knowledge. Even after coming to Cloud-Tier Island, the locals all said the same. Where had all these extra wives come from?
"Heh heh. A brat like you who's never even met the man has a whole flock of beauties around him—so how could that old calf have only two?" Ghost Thing gave a strange laugh, then added with a touch of envy, "Honestly, that old calf's luck is downright overflowing. Before coming to Cloud-Tier Island he had only two wives, and then came a flood of romantic fortune—he went and found five more, one after another. And the strangest part? Those seven wives of his just happened to cover the five elements and seven attributes of spiritual roots. Now what kind of luck is that?"
As a spirit beast, Ghost Thing had no interest whatsoever in how many wives a human took. But the fact that Zhang Lifeng's seven wives happened to make up the five elements and seven attributes—now that was truly rare and enviable. After all, it could be put to enormous use.
Listening to Ghost Thing's strange laughter, Wei Zhao was at a loss for words. How Zhang Lifeng had found those seven wives really left one speechless. This cheap master he had never met—he couldn't have gone looking according to the standard of the five elements and seven attributes, could he? Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence? But then he thought of himself... never mind, best not to mutter about others behind their backs.
"Then is he himself a five-element attribute too? Otherwise, even if his seven wives covered the five elements and seven attributes, without a medium there'd be no way to open the formation passage, right?" Wei Zhao asked instead.
"No, he's not a five-element attribute. Didn't I say it? You're the only freak I've ever seen who carries all five elements and seven attributes in one body," Ghost Thing said with a curl of his lip.
"Then how did he..." Wei Zhao was puzzled. Unless this cheap master of his had truly created a revolutionary formation passage, no matter how he did it, a five-element medium would surely be indispensable.
"Simple. That old calf isn't a five-element attribute himself, but he carries a Five-Element Divine Stone on him," Ghost Thing explained.
"Five-Element Divine Stone? What's that?" Wei Zhao raised an eyebrow.
"A supreme treasure rarely seen in this world. It can serve as a substitute for a five-element medium. Apart from the one in that old calf's hands, you'd be hard-pressed to find a second anywhere under heaven." Ghost Thing's tone was somewhat sour. If he had possessed such a Five-Element Divine Stone himself, perhaps he would never have had to beg that old calf, and all the trouble that followed would never have happened.