Chapter 1790 — Worries

"I fear Snow Valley will not sell the Ice Spirit Sacred Fruit to them so easily..." Old Man Wei voiced the worry in his heart. After all, when Wei Zhao had sought the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit, he had gone through untold hardships...

"There will be twists and turns, but the final outcome... should be a good one..." Mo Kongwen was at that moment counting something on his fingers, though when he reached this point he could not help but utter a startled "Hm?"

"What is it?" Old Man Wei's heart tightened.

"There is a result, but the result is not..." Mo Kongwen frowned. "Could there be some accident..."

As he spoke, a flicker of worry passed through Mo Kongwen's eyes, gone in an instant.

"An accident?" Old Man Wei was stunned.

"It is nothing. Perhaps I have judged wrongly... Little Yi's fate, I cannot divine..." Mo Kongwen shook his head, but only he himself knew what his calculations truly signified!

A result that was not favorable meant there would be no return, yet since there was a result at all, it proved that Wei Zhao would come to no harm... The only possibility, then, was that this journey to Snow Valley would claim a sacrifice.

Mo Kongwen did not have the birth dates and horoscopes of the others, so he could not determine who would be sacrificed for this, but he could divine the causal development of the whole affair.

Even so, he was powerless to change anything. Sometimes, even if one foresees the outcome in advance, one still cannot change a thing.

Some things are simply fated. Mo Kongwen hesitated, and in the end said nothing more...

His purpose was simple: so long as Wei Zhao came to no harm, that was enough. As for the others, he could not manage them, nor was he capable of managing them. If the Master were here, then everything would be negotiable, but now...

If, when the time came, Wei Zhao woke and bore a grudge against him, there was nothing he could do about it. Every cause has its effect; to have Wei Zhao safe and sound, a certain price must inevitably be paid.

Old Man Wei caught the hidden meaning in Mo Kongwen's words, but he knew that if Mo Kongwen would not speak, then asking would be pointless.

"Alas..." Mo Kongwen heaved a long sigh and said to Old Man Wei, "It has been many years since we last met. Let us drink a cup or two together..."

"Very well!" Though Old Man Wei was still worried, he also knew that if Mo Kongwen said Wei Zhao would be fine, then fine he should be.

The two turned and walked into the room, and Old Man Wei brought out wine he had treasured for many years...

Meanwhile, the hidden Yu family and the hidden Zhao family had abruptly fallen out, and the conflict between the two houses was still escalating without pause. The younger generation of both sides had already clashed several times, and both families had suffered injuries to varying degrees. Though no one had yet paid with their life, it looked as though that too was only a matter of time!

But since the Yu family patriarch was the Second Elder of the Hidden Families Arbitration Association, the other hidden families had no authority to mediate. And so the matter fell into a deadlock...

After repeated "deliberations" among the other elders of the Hidden Families Arbitration Association, it was decided to use that communicator which had gone unused for so long, to contact the Grand Elder and have him step forward to reconcile the conflict between the hidden Yu family and the hidden Zhao family!

This communicator was the emergency device the Grand Elder had left behind when he departed. It had been said at the time that it was to be used only if the Hidden Families Arbitration Association encountered troubles it could not handle. Though using it now over a feud between two families seemed rather excessive, the true purpose in everyone's mind was to test whether the Grand Elder still existed!

After all, the Grand Elder had already been advanced in years when he left, and he had departed together with that person. Now they had all vanished without word, and whether they still lived was uncertain. Yet the lingering prestige of those days remained, so none of them dared to be the first to stick their neck out; they could only probe in this fashion...

The Right family patriarch and the patriarchs of the other hidden families sat around the conference table, and all agreed that the Right family patriarch should press the communicator's button, for apart from the hidden Yu family, the hidden Right family had enjoyed the highest prestige these past years.

The Right family patriarch did not decline. He pressed the button on the communicator directly, and the indicator light on the device blinked a few times before settling into a state of awaiting a response...

At the very moment the Right family patriarch pressed the communicator, in a small room countless li away, an indicator light on a piece of communication equipment also began to flash, emitting a shrill warning sound...

But at that moment the room stood empty. If one looked closely, the room was very tidy, as though someone had lived there recently; it was simply that no one was there now.

The waiting indicator on the communicator on the Right family patriarch's table flashed for a full three minutes before finally going dark, and yet no response whatsoever came through the device.

"Phew..." Almost at the instant the waiting indicator went dark, all the hidden family patriarchs around the conference table let out a breath at the same time, expressions of incomparable relief spreading across their faces...

"It seems no one answered?" The Right family patriarch was delighted as well, but being a cautious man, he pressed the call button on the communicator once more to be certain... The indicator lit up again and began to flash...

Everyone's breathing tensed once more, and all eyes were fixed on the communicator before them. But once again the waiting indicator went dark after three minutes. It was certain: the other side truly had not answered.

"Still no response?" the Pi family patriarch asked, somewhat hesitant and somewhat elated.

"I fear not..." The Right family patriarch nodded. "But to be on the safe side, let us try calling again tomorrow and the day after. If there is still no answer, then we can be all but certain that the Grand Elder departed with that person back then... They are gone, along with those heaven-tier experts. We are bound no longer..."

"Indeed. But will the ancient sects move to suppress us?" What the Pi family patriarch asked was precisely what concerned them all most!

Everyone knew that behind the hidden Right family there must be the shadow of support from the Xuandan Sect; otherwise, in the span of a mere ten years, the Right family patriarch could not only have advanced to become a heaven-tier expert but also achieved great things in his family's alchemy, quietly threatening to catch up with the hidden Yu family!

Thus only the hidden Right family could know the mind of the ancient sects. If the ancient sects were bent on suppressing the hidden families, then even with the Grand Elder gone, these hidden families would not dare make any move against the vast ancient sects...

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