Chapter 1656 — Utterly Frustrated

If Wei Zhao did not want her to become the inheritor, then Feng Xiaoxiao would follow his word without hesitation, give up the opportunity of the inheritance, and wait for Wei Zhao to refine the Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill for Bing Tang so that she could become the inheritor.

"I didn't expect you to figure it out so quickly!" Wei Zhao had no particular thoughts on the matter; it was Feng Xiaoxiao who was overthinking. On the one hand, Wei Zhao did want his woman to be formidable. On the other hand, he had confidence in himself. An Earth Rank expert? What of it? With the jade pendant as his cheat and the domineering ancient art of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Formula, could he really not surpass a mere inheritance from the Ice Palace?

So Wei Zhao was not worried about being left behind by Feng Xiaoxiao; on the contrary, he was fully supportive: "Pursuing a higher martial arts realm is the ultimate goal of every cultivator. You've set foot on the path of cultivation now, so it's only natural to have such thoughts. However, I won't let you become the inheritor alone. I'll refine an Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill for the little Bing Tang girl and have her undergo the inheritance alongside you. That way the danger to you will be much reduced, and if anything happens, she can step up front and take the fall for you!"

"Pfft..." Feng Xiaoxiao could not help but laugh. "Wei Zhao darling, you're really wicked. If Senior Sister heard that, she'd die of anger..."

Though Feng Xiaoxiao said so, she was delighted inside, because Wei Zhao cared about her and was concerned for her. Not only did he respect her choice, but he also guaranteed to the greatest extent possible the safety of her future cultivation.

"Die of anger? She can't. She'd be too happy for that." Wei Zhao said mildly. "The Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill is her dream. How could she be angry?"

"That's true. But Senior Sister is very good to me. Even if you hadn't said it, she wouldn't let me come to harm!" Feng Xiaoxiao said.

Wei Zhao nodded. He could tell as much. Bing Tang was indeed very protective of Feng Xiaoxiao.

The two of them walked out of the room together. Tang Yun hurried forward to ask after him with great concern, while the Earth Rank girl turned her face away and refused to look at Wei Zhao, a faint blush coloring her cheeks.

"That Qi-Gathering Pill—when I broke through, it actually blasted all the clothes off my body. Truly frightening." Wei Zhao seemed to be talking to himself, but was in fact explaining the earlier awkwardness to Bing Tang: this sudden mishap had not been his intention, but the result of an accident.

"That Qi-Gathering Pill—when I broke through, it actually blasted all the clothes off my body. Truly frightening." Wei Zhao seemed to be talking to himself, but was in fact explaining the earlier awkwardness to Bing Tang: this sudden mishap had not been his intention, but the result of an accident.

Bing Tang gave a soft huff, but after hearing Wei Zhao's explanation, her expression eased considerably...

The news that Wei Zhao had been struck by the Five-Step Power-Dissolving Powder and lost all his strength spread through the great families and the hidden families like a wind. With the hidden Zhao family deliberately fanning the flames, the matter became known to virtually everyone!

Yet although everyone knew, not a single person dared to go looking for trouble with Wei Zhao!

When the Xiao family heard the news of Wei Zhao's poisoning, they immediately informed the hidden Pi family, but the hidden Pi family merely said mildly that they had heard, and then there was no further word!

The hidden Pi family was not foolish either. How could they not know what the Xiao family knew? Moreover, since the hidden Zhao family had deliberately released the news, they had learned of it even earlier, and they had also discussed it at a family council meeting. The conclusion they reached was that Wei Zhao could not be measured by common sense. Last time they had also said he had lost his strength, and what had come of it? Pi Bo had been beaten to death!

So on Pi Zhishan's suggestion, the Pi family too adopted a wait-and-see stance. Of course, Pi Zhishan still did not know that this Wei Zhao was the very Ling Yi he had seen during the trial!

As for the families that had feuds with Wei Zhao, there were only the hidden Zhao family, the secular Yu family, and the secular Xiao family—these few with some power. As for the rest, the Golden Bell Sect's sect master and his prized chief disciple were either dead or crippled, so naturally they could not come looking for trouble with Wei Zhao again.

With the hidden Pi family keeping out of it, how would the Xiao family have the nerve to go looking for trouble with Wei Zhao? And the secular Yu family, though they hated Wei Zhao to the bone, were busy preparing for the Great Family Assembly and had no time for the moment to deal with him!

The key problem was that the secular Yu family was running out of people. At present, the only cultivators who could stand and walk normally were Yu Shuixing and Yu Feng. The Yu family was also the host of the Great Family Assembly, and at such a time they were so busy they could hardly keep up—would they really go all the way to Songshan City to make trouble for Wei Zhao?

Moreover, Yu Feng had just crippled Chen Yutian, and this was precisely the time to avoid suspicion. Going to Songshan City was even more out of the question.

And so the matter of Wei Zhao losing his strength simply fizzled out.

Zhong Yongliang and Zhang Naipao were not cultivators. After being bitten by the venomous snake and struck by the Five-Step Power-Dissolving Powder, they showed no strange symptoms; once they had gone to the hospital for disinfection, there was nothing more to worry about. Chen Xi had also been struck by the Five-Step Power-Dissolving Powder, but Chen Xi was not a cultivator in the true sense either, so Chief Zhu had no need to worry that Chen Xi would run into any trouble.

Chen Xi had been raised by the hidden Zhao family as a cultivation furnace. A furnace, as the term went, was a tool for others to draw true qi from during cultivation. The hidden Zhao family had heard that a certain powerful figure practiced an evil cultivation method and needed many furnaces, and that Chen Xi's constitution was precisely suited to exist as the most powerful kind of furnace—a fire-attribute furnace. So in order to curry favor with this powerful figure when the time came, the hidden Zhao family had begun plotting this scheme long ago, raising Chen Xi as a pawn of the hidden Zhao family under Chief Zhu's tutelage.

In truth, every hidden family was scheming, trying every means to establish connections with sects and families of the ancient level in order to obtain their help—to secure their own position, and ideally to elevate it and gain some benefits besides. This was what these people dreamed of day and night!

As a furnace, Chen Xi naturally need not worry about losing her strength, because what she cultivated within her body was not a cultivator's true qi in the first place, but rather the refinement of her fire-attribute furnace constitution to ever greater purity!

Otherwise, Wei Zhao would have realized she was a cultivator at the very first glance, and it would have been impossible for him not to have noticed anything amiss until now.

And so the matter passed, much to the disappointment of the hidden Zhao family—especially Chief Zhu, who could not shake the feeling that he had administered the poison for nothing, and in the end still could not deal with Wei Zhao. He was utterly frustrated!

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