Chapter 2195 — Where Has Zhao Qitan Gone

"Jiang Yang the Great Bandit, I've confirmed the location of the Ulonghot Mountains. Will you come with me?" Sun Jingyan's words brimmed with delight. Perhaps on this trip to Ulonghot she would uncover some of the secrets of her parents from back then—naturally, she was overjoyed.

"You've already confirmed it? Tell you what, I'll come find you at noon. We'll talk when we meet," Wei Zhao said.

"Sun Jingyan?" After Wei Zhao hung up, Gu Mengyao's brows knitted slightly. "You're going to see her?"

"Yes. I promised her I'd accompany her to a certain place to uncover the mystery of her birth parents," Wei Zhao said.

"Oh..." Gu Mengyao answered faintly, seeming less than pleased about it.

"Arrow-brand Bro, Sister Yaoyao's angry now! Do you actually like Wang Xinyan or Sun Jingyan? You can't keep a foot in two boats forever, you know. Or you could just pick Han Jingyi!" Shen Yushu asked the question on Gu Mengyao's behalf.

"What... what relationship do Jingjing and I have..." Han Jingyi said, flustered and blushing. "I'm only following Brother Wei Zhao to learn alchemy."

"I needed something called pure yellow jade, and it just so happens Sun Jingyan has a piece—something her parents left her..." Helpless, Wei Zhao could only explain with a bitter smile. "Sun Jingyan gave me that jade, and by a strange twist of fate, inside the pure yellow jade we found a fragment of a map..."

Wei Zhao had never gone into detail about these matters with Gu Mengyao and the others. But since they had asked, he did not hide it. Everyone in the car was someone Wei Zhao trusted, so naturally he had no reason to be cagey.

"So that's how it is. She was even willing to give you her parents' keepsake—then you'd better not let her down..." Gu Mengyao sighed. It seemed Sun Jingyan really did treat Wei Zhao well, which only made things more of a headache.

Feng Xiaoxiao had set the quota for official wives at one. Right now Wang Xinyan and Han Jingyi were already competing for it, and now along came Sun Jingyan. This was going to be tricky, by the look of it.

"It's just that she's a girl alone, and going off into the deep mountains and wilds by herself isn't convenient. I'm only accompanying her," Wei Zhao said. "It's not as complicated as you make it out to be..."

The group arrived at the school. Meanwhile, at the hidden Zhao family of Donghai.

Old Master Yu and Old Master Zhao had quarreled furiously and parted on bad terms. Afterward, though Old Master Zhao had told the truth and made clear that the Qi-Gathering Pill was a gift that Yu Huoxing had taken the initiative to give the Zhao family, the whole affair still left Old Master Zhao somewhat in the wrong.

Even if Yu Huoxing had offered it of his own accord, the hidden Zhao family still should not have concealed it. After all, this treasure was a treasure of the highest order, exceedingly rare and precious, and the two families were joined by marriage. By any reasonable reckoning, Old Master Zhao should have at least given Old Master Yu a heads-up.

To quietly keep it all to themselves was somewhat indefensible no matter how you looked at it. But since the Qi-Gathering Pill had been given to the hidden Zhao family personally by Yu Huoxing, Old Master Yu wanted to argue his case and yet could find no fitting grounds. When words fail to agree, half a sentence is too many, and the two families could only part in discord.

Zhao Qibing had just bought himself a car, a reward for his diligent cultivation over this period. After the Hidden World Families Summit ended, he had wanted to unwind a bit, but never expected the car to be snatched away by Wei Zhao. Seething with anger, he returned to the hidden Zhao family.

Still, Zhao Qibing did not dare conceal anything. He told Old Bi and Old Master Zhao everything that had happened with Wei Zhao out there, exactly as it occurred. After all, Wei Zhao was now the Zhao family's public enemy, and anything concerning Wei Zhao absolutely could not be kept back.

"This Wei Zhao goes too far!" After hearing Zhao Qibing's account, Old Bi gave a cold snort. He was famously protective of his own, and once he had accepted Zhao Qibing as his disciple, he naturally shielded him with all his might. Even if it was the Zhao family's own younger generation who had started the trouble, he would still lay the blame at Wei Zhao's feet.

"You can't really blame Wei Zhao for this one. It's just Qibing's bad luck that he ran into him out there. Send any hidden family's younger generation out and have them run into Wei Zhao, and I reckon the result would be the same!" Old Master Zhao waved a hand and said mildly. "Even the Fire Wolf Gang comes off second best before Wei Zhao, don't they? Never mind how high and mighty they act in front of us."

"That's true. A while back something big happened with the Fire Wolf Gang. They didn't breathe a word, but word still got out—Wei Zhao broke An Jianwen's leg right in front of one of the Fire Wolf Gang's guardians, a late-stage Earth-rank peak expert, and extorted a hefty sum besides..." Old Bi nodded and said, "So, Qibing, you haven't exactly lost face!"

Of course, if they had known that the Fire Wolf Gang had also recently paid out another two million and a car, they would no doubt have felt even more balanced about it all.

"By the way, Wei Zhao did ask me about one thing!" Zhao Qibing said. "Wei Zhao asked me about Zhao Qitan. He said Zhao Qitan was his enemy and that he hadn't seen Zhao Qitan at the Hidden World Families Summit, but I got the feeling he was lying to me..."

"Just as I thought!" Old Master Zhao nodded. "If Wei Zhao hadn't asked, I still wouldn't be sure whether Qitan was tipping Wei Zhao off that day. But the fact that Wei Zhao asked about him settles it!"

"Indeed. That boy Zhao Qitan was born with a rebellious streak. If he's close to Wei Zhao and grows up, he'll surely become a mortal threat to our Zhao family!" Old Bi agreed.

"Exactly. If Zhao Qitan really were Wei Zhao's enemy, would Wei Zhao have nothing better to do than ask after him?" Zhao Qibing said. "Wei Zhao isn't the sort with that much idle time on his hands. The man's a nobody—out of all those people in the Ice Palace trial, he didn't ask about any of them, but he just had to ask about Zhao Qitan. That says something..."

"Old Bi, what's your read on this?" Old Master Zhao sighed. "Qitan is, after all, a child of our Zhao family. It's possible he's on good terms with Wei Zhao, but he hasn't admitted it himself, and we can't very well force him..."

"Old Master, I do have a good idea!" Old Bi said after a moment's pondering.

"Oh? What idea?" Old Master Zhao asked.

"Before long, it'll be time for the Xuandan Sect's trial. When the time comes, we can have Zhao Qitan take part in the Xuandan Sect's trial. Whether he admits it or not, we simply send him off to the trial—a permanent solution in one stroke..." Old Bi said.

"The Xuandan Sect's trial..." Old Master Zhao's expression shifted slightly. He knew of this trial. Compared with the Ice Palace's trial, the rewards were far richer, but so were the dangers! That was why many hidden families would rather take part in the Ice Palace's trial than the Xuandan Sect's.

And even when they did take part, they sent only disciples who were not of the direct line or not marked for key cultivation, because in recent years the Xuandan Sect's trial had been held frequently, and the disciples sent to it by and large never came back!

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