Chapter 1719 — A Letter

"Not really. I handed in my resignation last time. Right now we're just good friends." Wei Zhao said with a smile.

"I see... Then there's no stopping you. Just be careful..." Shen Yushu said, somewhat helplessly. In truth, she was afraid that Wei Zhao might be in danger.

Last time Wei Zhao went to the ancient tomb, he had come within an inch of dying. If that leader, Yu, hadn't been such a coward, Wei Zhao probably wouldn't have made it back so easily. So Shen Yushu really was afraid that something might happen to him!

"I will." Wei Zhao said. "Before I came here, I used to take all sorts of jobs!"

Though Wei Zhao reassured Shen Yushu this way, he knew perfectly well that the jobs he had taken before were never of a very high grade, so the pay had never been especially generous either. A bounty in the hundreds of millions like this one was surely on an entirely different level, and far more dangerous.

The moment the worldly Yu Family was annihilated, the hidden Yu Family received the news. Yu Huoxing was beside himself with fury this time. He had never imagined Wei Zhao would be so bold as to wipe out the worldly Yu Family! Seething with rage, he went before the head of the hidden Yu Family, Yu Xiaochen, and said in the utmost grief, "Patriarch Yu, on this matter, I beg you to stand up for our worldly Yu Family! We of the worldly Yu Family have run ourselves ragged making money for the hidden Yu Family, and in the end this is the fate we meet. You must seek justice for us, for the worldly Yu Family..."

"All right, I understand, Yu Huoxing. For now, restrain your grief. I must first understand the whole sequence of events before I discuss it with my father!" Yu Xiaochen offered Yu Lingtou a word of comfort, then said, "That Wei Zhao is an Earth-Rank expert. Our hidden clan is bound by the Clan Arbitration Association. Earth-Rank experts cannot leave the mountain at will, so dealing with Wei Zhao will be no simple matter!"

"But... if Wei Zhao is an Earth-Rank expert, is he not bound by the Hidden Clan Council Association?" Yu Huoxing felt this was somewhat unfair.

"He is a lone cultivator. In the past, there was no precedent of a lone cultivator reaching Earth-Rank. Generally, Mystic-Rank was already extraordinary, and even then they would pledge themselves to one of the hidden clans while still at Mystic-Rank. Someone like Wei Zhao is a special case!" Yu Xiaochen said. "As for the specifics, I had best discuss it with my father first!"

"Yes!" Yu Huoxing sighed in sorrow. He had never expected that not long after he left the Yu Family, the Yu Family would be destroyed, its people dead and scattered. It struck him like a bolt from the clear blue sky—how could he possibly remain calm? He wished he could go right now and hack Wei Zhao to pieces, but at the thought that Wei Zhao was also an early-stage Earth-Rank expert who knew martial techniques, Yu Lingtou shrank back again!

Revenge was important, but staying alive was more important! Yu Huoxing was a man who clung to life and dreaded death. Knowing he had no assurance of defeating Wei Zhao, he could only pin his hopes on the hidden Yu Family.

Yu Xiaochen was in fact rather furious himself. As the saying goes, even when you beat a dog, you should look at who its master is—yet Wei Zhao had time and again tested the bottom line of the hidden Yu Family. First he had left the worldly Yu Family with one dead and one crippled, and now he had sent both father and son, the very men who spoke for the worldly Yu Family, to the Western Paradise. Yu Xiaochen could scarcely contain his anger any longer!

Yet although in his heart he too leaned toward killing Wei Zhao and being done with it, he showed nothing on the surface. This was, after all, a major matter, and he could not decide it lightly. What he weighed was the overall interest of the hidden Yu Family. If in dealing with Wei Zhao they drew impeachment from the Hidden Clan Arbitration Association, the loss would far outweigh the gain!

So Yu Xiaochen drove straight up the mountain to seek out his father, intending to discuss with him how this matter should be handled!

On the mountain, it was still Yu Yi who led Yu Xiaochen into the place where the Yu Family's ancestral elder cultivated.

"Xiaochen is here." The Yu Family ancestral elder glanced at Yu Xiaochen and nodded.

"Father, Yu Huoxing came to see me just now... He wants our hidden Yu Family to stand up for them..." Yu Xiaochen said.

"Mm, I already know all about this. It's all because of that Wei Zhao, isn't it." The Yu Family ancestral elder nodded and said mildly, "But first, read this letter before we go on!"

"Oh? What letter?" Yu Xiaochen was slightly taken aback. He was not surprised that his father knew what was happening outside, for although Yu Xiaochen could be said to hold complete control of the Yu Family, the ancestral elder still had many trusted confidants within it. These people were Yu Yi's usual eyes and ears, and it was from them that the ancestral elder got his information!

Of course, so long as Yu Xiaochen did nothing to betray the Yu Family, these people would naturally obey him as well. Otherwise, his position as patriarch would be worthless. This was also why Yu Xiaochen, whenever a major matter arose, would come to consult the ancestral elder!

But the ancestral elder's sudden instruction to read a letter left Yu Xiaochen rather puzzled. He took a sheet of letter paper from the ancestral elder's hand and began to read!

"Hm? A letter from Yu Bing?" Yu Xiaochen was at once somewhat surprised. He knew the rules of the Ice Palace as well: newly admitted outer disciples there had no right to correspond freely with their families. Yet Yu Bing apparently labored under no such restriction, which left him very perplexed.

"Mm, it seems this child Yu Bing is doing quite well in the Ice Palace!" The Yu Family ancestral elder said approvingly. "If not for Xiaoning's sake, Yu Bing would in fact be the best candidate for patriarch of the Yu Family!"

"Father, Xiaoning, she..." Yu Xiaochen did not understand Yu Ning's situation very well either; he only vaguely knew the general outline, and the ancestral elder had never spoken of it in any detail. This was precisely why he had always felt that Yu Bing should be the one to succeed as patriarch.

"That is something I cannot speak of. It concerns the great secret of our Yu Family's rise!" The Yu Family ancestral elder said. "The time is not yet right. I cannot tell you the details..."

"The great secret of our Yu Family's rise?" Yu Xiaochen frowned. "Xiaoning is going to receive some kind of inheritance, isn't she? But what inheritance exactly? Is there any hope in it? Wasn't it something you happened to see in the ancient ruins? Does it really work?"

"The ancient ruins—that was merely the story I put out to the world. The truth is otherwise!" The Yu Family ancestral elder shook his head. "Xiaochen, do you truly believe that our hidden Yu Family rose to power simply because we found some so-called ancient ruins? Do you think your father truly has such talent that, by consulting the ancient ruins, he could cultivate and break through to the Heaven-Rank?"

"Then..." Yu Xiaochen looked at the Yu Family ancestral elder in some confusion.

"All you need to know is that our hidden Yu Family does in fact have backers above us. And moreover... Xiaoning's matter is their will!" The Yu Family ancestral elder said. "That is all I can say. Do not let word of it spread..."

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