Chapter 1493 — A Visitor in the Dead of Night

"You're right!" Yu Bing clenched his jaw. "I will do my best!"

"Great men are not bound by trifles. Do not let your thoughts run on so. Leave it all to me." Wei Zhao said.

"By the way, are you confident you can handle them?" Yu Bing asked.

"Somewhat. But it will come down to seizing the moment as it comes. Fifty percent." Wei Zhao spoke the plain truth. "I have worked through several possibilities, and I hope one of them will serve."

"That is already very good!" Yu Bing let out a breath of relief. An even chance of victory or defeat was remarkable enough; between experts of comparable strength the outcome was always half and half, and no one could promise a sure win! All the more so now, when he and Wei Zhao were so hopelessly outmatched.

"Get some rest early. The trial begins tomorrow." Wei Zhao said.

"All right!" Yu Bing nodded and made to rise and take his leave.

"Sleep here. I fear Yu Shan may move against you tonight. This is his last chance to put you to death before the trial." Wei Zhao remembered the cold gleam that had been in Yu Shan's eyes earlier, and pointed to the bed beside him.

"And you? There is only a single bed here." Yu Bing asked.

"I don't sleep. I can cultivate sitting on the sofa." Wei Zhao said. "You sleep. Don't worry about the time. When the hour comes, I will wake you."

"Very well..." Yu Bing nodded without refusing.

That night, just as Wei Zhao had expected, Yu Shan and Feng Nitian crept on tiptoe to the door of the room next to Wei Zhao's.

"Brother Nitian, it all rests on you! In a moment you hold him fast, and then I will strike!" Yu Shan whispered to Feng Nitian beside him, a sinister coldness flashing through his eyes.

"No problem!" Feng Nitian nodded.

Feng Nitian's Defying Heaven Divine Art consumed a great deal of true qi when used; unless the matter was important, he would not employ it, and there was a limit to how many times a day it could be used. Yet tonight he had come to help Yu Shan deal with Yu Bing.

The reason was not that Feng Nitian was so righteous as to stand up for this newly acknowledged little brother of his. It was because Yu Shan had promised him that once he killed Yu Bing, he would have hope of contending for the position of head of the Yu family; and if he became that head, he would surely make the Yu family a vassal of the ancient Feng family!

Though the Yu family was a hidden house, it was the strongest of the hidden houses, possessing two Heaven Rank experts. If he could draw the Yu family into the Feng family's camp, then for Feng Nitian it would also be a great merit, a bargaining chip in his own contest for the position of family head!

Originally, Feng Nitian had promised Yu Shan that he would help him finish off Yu Bing during the trial, but he had not expected the rules of the trial to be changed. Even though he came from an ancient family, he did not dare lightly defy the Ice Palace's trial rules.

If he defied them, the Ice Palace would certainly not dare kill him, but they would certainly negotiate with the elders of the Feng family, and that would cost Feng Nitian standing in the elders' eyes, harming his bid for the position of family head.

So there was no help for it. He could only choose to act tonight. The trial had not yet begun, so even if he killed Yu Bing, it would not count as violating the Ice Palace's rules, and the Ice Palace could say nothing against it.

Yu Shan took a small laser ID card decoder from his pocket and waved it over the card reader. Yu Bing's door lock clicked open in response. Even had Yu Shan never met Feng Nitian, he had already prepared to find an opportunity to kill Yu Bing during this trial!

This laser ID card decoder had been prepared precisely for cracking the room's door card. Clearly he had brought it from home rather than buying it here, for in such a short time it would have been impossible to purchase such a thing.

"No one?" Yu Shan had not turned on the light, but by the glow from the plaza beyond the window he could see clearly into the room. Cultivators had sharper eyes and ears than ordinary folk, so Yu Shan could tell at a glance that there was no one in the room at all.

What Yu Shan could see, Feng Nitian naturally could see as well. There were no cabinets or the like in the room in which to hide, and the bed frame was of closed wooden construction, so no one could be hidden beneath it.

"Is there anyone in the bathroom?" Feng Nitian asked.

Yu Shan opened the bathroom door and glanced inside, then shook his head. "No one either..."

Feng Nitian casually turned on the room light. This time he could see even more clearly. There was indeed no one at all in the room.

"Not here?" Feng Nitian was somewhat disappointed. He had gone to the trouble of circulating the mantra and the technique for nothing, and in the end had not even had the chance to unleash it.

"Could he be in Ling Yi's room next door? My cousin and Ling Yi are on very good terms. He is always going over to his place!" Yu Shan guessed.

"That is possible too." Feng Nitian nodded.

"Then... shall we go next door? In for a penny, in for a pound. Why not finish Ling Yi off as well?" A trace of viciousness flashed through Yu Shan's eyes. "Anyway, Brother Nitian, your effective range is three meters. Within three meters, no matter how many people there are, they cannot move. Let us kill Ling Yi too!"

"That won't do!" Hearing that Yu Shan wanted to kill Ling Yi as well, Feng Nitian shook his head.

"Why not?" Yu Shan was slightly taken aback.

"Ling Yi is the one Zhang Naipao named by name as his target. If I move against him, that amounts to meddling in another's business!" Feng Nitian waved his hand. "Besides, I hear Zhang Naipao does not even want to kill Ling Yi outright. He wants to keep Ling Yi alive so that a certain Brother Liang of his can finish him off with his own hands. So if I kill Ling Yi now, that would be making an enemy of Zhang Naipao!"

"We would be doing him a favor, so surely it would be fine? Besides, Brother Nitian, are you afraid of Zhang Naipao?" Yu Shan pressed him, unwilling to give up.

"It isn't fear. It is that I do not wish to offend him over this." How could Feng Nitian fail to see through Yu Shan's little provocation? But he did not take the bait at all. "We are all people of the ancient level. Making enemies among ourselves is meaningless!"

"I see..." Yu Shan was instantly overcome with disappointment. "Then we simply let it go?"

"Rest easy. During the trial, I will settle it for you! Though we cannot put anyone to death in the trial, crippling someone is no problem at all. So long as he has a breath left in him, it does not count as breaking the rules. Turning him into a cripple, isn't that just as good as removing the threat to you?" Feng Nitian laughed indifferently.

"That is true!" Yu Shan's heart was set at ease at once. "Then I will trouble you, Brother Nitian! The matter of dealing with Yu Bing is in your hands!"

"A trifle!" Feng Nitian nodded, and the two of them withdrew from Yu Bing's room...

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