Chapter 1515 — Healing His Wounds: Though the Hidden Houses Are Not So Formidable as the Ancient Sects and Ancient Families, the Houses Arbitration Association Is No Idle Body, but an Existence in No Way Inferior to an Ancient Sect, and Should Any Ancient Sect Seek Without Just Cause to Move Against the Hidden Houses, the Houses Arbitration Association Will Surely Issue a Summoning Order for Heaven-Level Masters, Uniting the Heaven-Level Masters of the Hidden Houses and the Common Sects to Resist the Ancient Sects or Ancient Families Together!

Moreover, one of the founders of the Houses Arbitration Association had deep ties with the older generation of the ancient sects and ancient families. Although those men were gone now, vanished none knew whither, the old courtesy still remained, so the ancient level would not lightly interfere in the affairs of the secular world and the hidden level.

With Feng Nitian gone, Zhao Qitan breathed a sigh of relief. In this way he could approach Wei Zhao without fear or scruple, so he offered to stand guard for Wei Zhao, hoping also to curry favor with him.

Wei Zhao pondered for a moment, then nodded and agreed, "Very well. Find a quiet place, and you shall stand guard for me!"

"No problem! Leave it to me, I guarantee it. Rest assured, Brother Ling, heal your wounds in peace. I will not let anyone disturb you, not even a mosquito!" Zhao Qitan thumped his chest in promise. His form of address for Wei Zhao had changed straight from "Ling brother" at the very first to "Brother Ling" now, dropping but a single word, yet the sense was utterly different, and still it did not seem abrupt. Therein lay Zhao Qitan's shrewdness.

Wei Zhao smiled faintly and said no more. He could see that Zhao Qitan was far from favored in the Zhao house, else he would not be in such haste to win over allies, and for that very reason Wei Zhao was not worried that he was of one party with Zhao Qibing.

"Cousin Yubing, I must ask for your kind care hereafter!" Zhao Qitan said with a smile, greeting Yubing.

"We are all just following Brother Ling to make a living, that is all." Yubing answered, finding it hard to say more. Since Wei Zhao had already accepted Zhao Qitan, there was no need for Yubing to be petty and drive him away, and besides, the two of them could even count as kin.

"Indeed, indeed!" Zhao Qitan nodded hastily, "Just as you said, Cousin Yubing, now that we all follow Brother Ling, let bygones be bygones for whatever grudges we had before. We who are underlings must not fight among ourselves!"

Yubing found it rather funny. Before, this fellow had been thick as thieves with Yushan, but now that Yushan was crippled and Feng Nitian maimed, seeing how mighty Wei Zhao was, he came running to bow and scrape. Such a snobbish turncoat Yubing despised from the bottom of his heart, truth be told, yet contempt aside, so long as you were absolutely strong, you could still use such a man as a lackey and vanguard.

"You are all right? Then why did you not get up sooner? You scared us to death!" Yang Qiqi snorted. She would never admit that she had been worried for Wei Zhao.

"Hehe..." When Wei Zhao had been healing inside the jade pendant space, though lying prone on the ground, he could still sense the outside world. Yang Qiqi's expression he had seen with perfect clarity, and her words he had heard as well, but at this moment Wei Zhao was too lazy to bicker with the little girl.

The onlookers round about had long since scattered. In their eyes Wei Zhao was already a legendary existence. First he had crippled Zhang Naipao, then he had maimed Feng Nitian. With such means and strength, it would be no exaggeration to call him the number one man beneath the Earth level!

Before, in the eyes of these Xuan-level masters, Zhang Naipao and Feng Nitian had been the foremost among Xuan-level masters, but now they knew that Wei Zhao was mightier still, and while this shocked them, they naturally kept a respectful distance and dared not draw too near to Wei Zhao!

Who knew whether he, like Zhang Naipao and Feng Nitian, loved to snatch other men's heavenly materials and earthly treasures? Even if he did not snatch them, should they happen to set their eyes upon the same treasure as he, it would mean needless conflict, so the farther away the better!

Wei Zhao found a quiet place sheltered from the wind, untied Feng Xiaoxiao from his back, laid her flat upon the snow beside him, then sat down cross-legged himself and beckoned to the Tianlei Pig, "Come here!"

The Tianlei Pig did not know what Wei Zhao wanted of it and thought it was to be given true energy again, so in great delight it flung itself upon Wei Zhao.

"This little thing is an ancient spirit beast? Quite amusing, a pet, is it?" Zhao Qitan did not know what the Tianlei Pig was for. He looked it over left and right, yet saw no offensive power in it. Perhaps it was only a pet.

"Mm..." Yubing answered faintly and explained no more. He was not yet familiar with Zhao Qitan, so naturally he could not tell him everything.

And Yang Qiqi, toward strangers, always kept a cold and aloof manner, her little face cool, as if she had not seen Zhao Qitan at all. Zhao Qitan, however, was not annoyed. Who knew what relation this cool little girl bore to Wei Zhao? Should the two truly share something, offending her would do him no good, and now, since she ignored him, Zhao Qitan did not mind, so long as she did not reject him outright.

The Tianlei Pig had been all excitement, ready to receive true energy from Wei Zhao, but in the next instant it discovered in horror that not only did Wei Zhao give it not one whit of true energy, but its own energy was swiftly draining away into Wei Zhao's body!

"Jiji--" The Tianlei Pig gave a great start. Could Wei Zhao have learned Zhang Naipao's Bee-Sucking Divine Art as well? Else how could he absorb another's true energy?

"Hush, I will help you recover in a while!" Wei Zhao comforted the Tianlei Pig.

"Jiji!" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, the Tianlei Pig set its heart at rest. Having been with Wei Zhao so long, it had come roughly to know his character. What Wei Zhao promised he basically did, so it was not afraid that Wei Zhao would cheat it!

Luckily he had prepared beforehand, turning the Tianlei Pig into General Weiwu's second junior brother. Otherwise, with all his meridians injured this time, there would truly have been no way. He could hardly go back to find General Weiwu, could he? Then what would become of Feng Xiaoxiao?

And as the Tianlei Pig's energy flowed into Wei Zhao's body, repairing his meridians at flying speed, Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. So long as the meridians were repaired, the rest would be easy. Restoring his strength was only a matter of time!

Although Zhao Qitan and Zhao Qijiu did not know how Wei Zhao healed his wounds, the two of them stood a meter away from Wei Zhao, coldly watching the movements nearby, lest anything disturb Wei Zhao!

And Yubing and Yang Qiqi, while on guard against all around, were also on guard in their hearts against Zhao Qitan and Zhao Qijiu. Though they knew the two men dared do nothing rash, a little caution never hurt.

In the blink of an eye, the sky darkened, and Wei Zhao's meridians were at last fully repaired. In the next instant, Wei Zhao entered the jade pendant space and began to restore the Tianlei Pig's strength! All this, seen from the outside, showed not the slightest strangeness.

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