Chapter 2860 — The Heavenly Thunder Pig Seeks Help

"So it seems we have no choice but to find another cultivator of the five elemental attributes—or else manufacture one ourselves!" Ancestor Xuanzhen was somewhat disappointed as well. Though he thought it terribly dangerous for Tianchan to carry out that task and had no wish to send his own disciple into peril, for the sake of the sect's grand plan he still chose to agree.

And now that Tianchan could no longer remain the most vital link in that plan, he felt strangely bereft—after all, she was the sect's hope!

"Cultivators of the five attributes are hard enough to find as it is! Tagan Long only found one after untold hardships, and manufacturing a five-attribute cultivator is no easy matter either!" Ancestor Xuanchen said. "Unless we find a cultivator bearing the three attributes of wood, metal, and earth!"

Ancestor Xuanzhen fell silent at Ancestor Xuanchen's words. Indeed—how hard it was to find a cultivator who matched those three attributes! As for wood, ever since Tianchan had opened the inheritance of the five baleful elemental sources, there was for the time being nowhere left to receive the inheritance of the source power; thus one had to possess the true wood attribute oneself.

As for the metal and earth attributes, there was no way to create false attributes through pills. Though the pill formulas for altering one's constitution did exist, some of the ingredients had long since gone extinct and could not possibly be refined—so one had to possess the metal and earth attributes oneself as well.

The other attributes, water and fire, could be handled by first creating false attributes and then going to the lands of inheritance for those two attributes to receive the legacy! The pill ingredients for water had also been lost, but the Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill could serve as a substitute; one could go to the Ice Palace to receive the inheritance of the ice elemental source power in place of the water attribute. As for fire, one had to journey to Flame Mountain in the vast Hakunamata Desert to receive the inheritance of the source power!

It was only that, while three-attribute cultivators were not so rare as four- or five-attribute ones, those who matched these three particular attributes were exceedingly few. To this day, Ancestor Xuanchen had yet to discover a single one.

Otherwise, the Dark Ones could not possibly have been limited to Tianchan alone. Given Ancestor Xuanchen's temperament, he would surely have bred several Dark Ones to be activated at need.

"Alas. I had best devote myself to studying how to cure Tagan Long..." Ancestor Xuanzhen said with a sigh.

"Yes, indeed—this matter will have to trouble you, Second Senior Brother!" Ancestor Xuanchen said hurriedly.

"But you should keep an eye out for three-attribute cultivators on your end as well. Otherwise, I fear this plan of ours will be hard to carry out..." Ancestor Xuanzhen waved a hand.

"Naturally." Ancestor Xuanchen nodded, then turned to Tianchan. "By the way, where is Zhang Naipao? He passed the trial smoothly—he should be out by now, shouldn't he?"

"Not yet!" Tianchan shook her head. "I was just about to report this to Master and Uncle-Master. As ordered, after the trial ended I resumed my identity as the Heaven Silkworm and waited here for Zhang Naipao—but to this moment, he still has not come out..."

"What?! Zhang Naipao still hasn't come out?" Ancestor Xuanchen was startled. Though he had spent years suppressing the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow sect, suppression merely meant keeping them from growing too powerful and securing the Five Luminaries Sect's position as leader of the cultivation world—not eradicating them root and branch. Zhang Naipao was a crucial link in the plan as well, which was precisely why Ancestor Xuanchen had instructed Tianchan to let Kang Zhaoming know that Zhang Naipao might be shown some leniency.

No one wished Zhang Naipao any harm. True, if he died there were other ways to make up for it—but without Zhang Naipao, the danger to the inheritor would rise dramatically. So of course it was best that Zhang Naipao came through safely.

"Yes. Elder Kang Zhaoming just reported to me the list of cultivators who passed the trial." Tianchan shook her head.

"It's been eighteen days already... I hope nothing has gone wrong!" Ancestor Xuanchen pondered a moment. "Tianchan, if you hear any word of Zhang Naipao, tell us at once!"

"Yes, Uncle-Master!" Tianchan said hastily and with care.

Ancestor Xuanchen and Ancestor Xuanzhen did not linger long; they went elsewhere to rest. Tianchan, meanwhile, waited anxiously for news from Kang Zhaoming...

In the Five Baleful Mountains, the Heavenly Thunder Pig had waited past fifteen days, and now on the eighteenth still saw no one else come to this place. In an instant it grew anxious! Though the Dragon of the Five Baleful had paid it no mind, the Heavenly Thunder Pig could not sit still.

At last it could bear it no longer and decided to go down the mountain to have a look. Over these days it had watched the Dragon of the Five Baleful issue orders to the spirit beasts of the Five Baleful Wasteland, and that had given it a fine idea: if it could find a Yellow-rank flying spirit beast, then as a spirit beast at the peak of the late Mystic rank, could it not simply command that beast to go rescue Wei Zhao?

So once the Heavenly Thunder Pig made up its mind, it wasted no time. It soon came down to the foot of the Five Baleful Mountains and went racing off.

At last, after running for half a day, the Heavenly Thunder Pig spotted a flying spirit beast of the Yellow rank. It hurriedly called out to it: "Oink oink! (Hello there, I have a favor to ask of you!)"

"Coo coo... (Sorry, not now—I'm very busy!)" the flying spirit beast replied.

"Oink oink... (I command you to help, by my authority as a Mystic-rank spirit beast!)" said the Heavenly Thunder Pig.

"Coo coo... (I am carrying out an order from the lord, the Dragon of the Five Baleful. Unless your rank is higher than his, I can only obey the commands of a higher-ranked spirit beast first!)" said the flying spirit beast.

"Oink oink... (Fine, then—are there any other flying spirit beasts not currently carrying out orders?)" The Heavenly Thunder Pig was crestfallen at once. The Dragon of the Five Baleful was a spirit beast at the peak of the late Heaven rank, nearing great perfection, already very close to the Heavenly Dao. Unless it were itself a Heavenly Dao spirit beast, it could never command this flying beast again.

"Coo coo... (No. Every spirit beast is carrying out orders.)" said the flying spirit beast.

"Oink oink... (Thank you all the same...)" The Heavenly Thunder Pig was helpless. It seemed its idea had been far too simple. The spirit beasts here were all carrying out the Dragon of the Five Baleful's orders and would never obey it. It could only head once more for the safe zone and consult Zhao Qitan and the others, to see whether there was any way to rescue Wei Zhao!

Wei Zhao had still not come up after all these days, and the Heavenly Thunder Pig was naturally frantic with worry.

Yet when it reached the safe zone, the Heavenly Thunder Pig was disappointed, for there were no cultivators left within it. It seemed Zhao Qitan and the others had already gone on ahead. Of the cultivators in the Five Baleful Wasteland, those still alive had for the most part departed; those who remained were all dead.

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