Chapter 3373 — Xiao Ning Is a Prophet

"Yu Yi, go pour the tea!" Yu Tianxing gave the order, then settled himself opposite Wei Zhao and began slowly, "Young Master Lin, the reason I asked you here this time—it is in fact to secure your support..."

"My support? What do you mean by that?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback, unable to grasp what Yu Tianxing was driving at.

"Earlier, when I refused to allow matters between you and Yu Ning, it was not out of any lingering resentment over the friction between us. I did it because I had no choice..." Here Yu Tianxing sighed softly. "To be frank with you, Yu Ning is a water-element inheritor..."

"What?!" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide, and he shot to his feet from the sofa! He had expected that Yu Tianxing's summons this time had something to do with inheritors, but he had assumed it concerned Shen Yushu—not Yu Ning! Yu Ning was an inheritor too? And a water-element inheritor at that?

"Young Master Lin, I did not mean to conceal it. The truth is, the backers of the hidden Yu family forbade me to speak of it..." Yu Tianxing had no choices left now. He could not afford to offend the Five Luminaries Sect, but Wei Zhao he dared offend even less!

Previously, Yu Tianxing had still cherished the hope that the Five Luminaries Sect would step forward on his behalf and settle the business with Wei Zhao. But now the Five Luminaries Sect had fallen silent—no one dared move against Wei Zhao. What was Yu Tianxing to do?

To live wedged in a crack is the hardest thing of all. He could only choose compromise, offending neither side, and hope for Wei Zhao's understanding.

"It is the Five Luminaries Sect—Ancestor Xuanchen." Yu Tianxing readily named his backer. "The reason the hidden Yu family can summon wind and rain across the hidden plane, can serve as the leader of the hidden clans and press down the alchemist clan, the hidden You family, is precisely that the Five Luminaries Sect stands behind us. Without the Five Luminaries Sect's support, our hidden Yu family could never possess the strength we have today!"

"The Five Luminaries Sect?" Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised. No wonder the hidden You family, for all the Xuan Dan Sect's backing, had never been able to overcome the hidden Yu family—so the hidden Yu family's backer was the more formidable one! "But I had heard that it was because the hidden Yu family—that is, Old Master Yu and your father—discovered an ancient relic site in those years and obtained some ancient inheritance, and that this is how the family came to be what it is?"

"That was all my fabrication! Ancient relic site—when were such things ever so easy to find?" Yu Tianxing gave a bitter laugh. "So many ancient clans have never found an ancient relic site to settle upon—and we could? It was nothing but a smokescreen to deceive the eye."

"So it was because of the Five Luminaries Sect—and because Yu Ning is an inheritor—that you refused to let me be with her?" Wei Zhao grasped the point at once. He was already an enemy of the Five Luminaries Sect.

"Precisely. Young Master Lin is perceptive." Yu Tianxing nodded. "You must know that an inheritor must remain a virgin. Fearing some mishap, I could not possibly permit you and Xiao Ning to be together. But the Five Luminaries Sect would not let me announce to the world that Yu Ning is an inheritor, so last time I had no choice but to refuse you. I hope you will not take offense..."

"That much I did know, and I understand your predicament." Wei Zhao nodded slightly, which might be taken as forgiving Yu Tianxing's concealment last time—after all, in such a matter, Bingtang had once set great store by it as well. "Then why are you telling me the truth now?"

"Ahem!" Yu Tianxing coughed, his old face reddening. "Young Master Lin, I am caught in a vise these days! The Five Luminaries Sect places many restraints on me, but you, Young Master Lin, I cannot afford to offend either! Now even Ancestor Xuanchen's side dares not move against you. If I kept things from you and our hidden Yu family then fell on hard times with no one at our back, would we not be finished?"

"Ancestor Xuanchen has moved against me—you simply did not know it. A few days ago he sent Xiao Yi to kill me." Wei Zhao smiled as he spoke.

"Er... and then?" Yu Tianxing was stunned. This he had not known. So Ancestor Xuanchen had not been leaving him alone—he had been acting in secret.

"Xiao Yi is dead," Wei Zhao said.

"Pff..." Yu Tianxing froze, dumbstruck. Xiao Yi dead? His first thought was that Xiao Yi had been done in by Wei Zhao! For who else would have made a move but Wei Zhao? At that thought, he grew all the more elated over the wise decision he had made! Had he not curried favor with Wei Zhao today, had he simply sent Yu Ning and Yu Shu away, Wei Zhao would surely have torn the place down, would he not? And then the hidden Yu family would not have been enough for him to demolish.

"Let us get to business," Wei Zhao said, waving a hand, unwilling to dwell on the matter.

"Very well." Yu Tianxing nodded. "As an inheritor, Xiao Ning must go to the Endless Western Sea to receive the water-element inheritance. It has all been arranged. A master of the esoteric sect from a foreign realm will sacrifice all his own strength to empower her through initiation, forcibly raising her cultivation to the peak great perfection of the late Heaven rank..."

"A master of the esoteric sect? Is there any danger?" Wei Zhao was slightly startled; he had not expected such a secret art existed, one that could raise a person's level through initiation. But on reflection, how different was it, really, from the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art of the jade pendant's space?

Only, the one who performed the initiation would be left with no strength of his own, whereas Wei Zhao still had his! So the danger, he reasoned, should not be great—and thus Wei Zhao was not overly stirred.

"Danger there is not—if there is any, it is on the other party's side. Xiao Ning will come to no harm. The Five Luminaries Sect values Xiao Ning exceedingly and will not let anything happen to her!" Yu Tianxing said. "Only, there is a drawback. Because Xiao Ning will be upgraded by the purest energy and true qi, the end result is similar to having taken a Qi-Gathering Pill: she will no longer be able to adapt to the heaven-and-earth spiritual qi of the outside world to advance her cultivation..."

"I see..." Wei Zhao thought a moment, then asked, "And does that affect advancement to the Heavenly Dao?"

"It may—because it is unknown. No one knows the conditions for advancing to the Heavenly Dao. But no one is willing to take that risk..." Yu Tianxing said. "If there were any chance of cultivating on one's own, no one would take a Qi-Gathering Pill."

"Then why can't Xiao Ning cultivate on her own?" Wei Zhao asked after a moment's thought.

"Xiao Ning's mission differs from that of an ordinary inheritor. In that plan, she also bears a very important role." Yu Tianxing smiled bitterly. "That of prophet. We must predict a suitable time for the opening of Cloud-Tier Island, and only then can we breach the trap together. If there is any deviation in timing, it will gravely affect the execution of the plan! Because the physical true qi in our bodies is limited—if it is spent at the wrong time, we will later lack the strength to open the plan..."

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