Chapter 518

Chapter 518: The Two of Them Are Very Likely Father and Daughter
Huang Zhong said in a quiet voice: “Everyone, please listen to me.”

Everyone fell still the moment he spoke.

They all stared at him, waiting for what he would say next.

“Although we still do not know who those people are, I can stake my life that they are not here for Sui Bian.”

“What do you mean? Did they not keep saying they wanted to catch Sui Bian?”

“Yeah, did we mishear them, or did they say it wrong?”

“Stop arguing. Let Huang Zhong finish first.”

After a short burst of noise, everyone quieted down again.

Only then did Huang Zhong go on: “I have been in contact with Sui Bian this whole time. Besides Old Black Daoist, there is another person at his side. She is the one those people are after.”

Tie Gu snorted coldly: “It is not another of Sui Bian’s beauties, is it?”

“No. Her surname is Yu and her given name is Zhao. She is a forty eighth generation disciple of the Five Elements Dao Sect.”

“What?”

Everyone was greatly shocked.

Because Ancestor Sui Bian had wanted to give these old fellows a big surprise, he had not told anyone about Yu Zhao’s existence except for Huang Zhong, who was closest to him.

Naturally, none of these people knew that the Middle World now had one more young cultivator from the Cultivation World.

“B but how is that possible? No one from the Cultivation World has ascended for nearly a thousand years.”

Their hearts were tense and uneasy.

Even Tie Gu, who a moment ago had wanted to drag Sui Bian back and beat him up, was now staring at Huang Zhong in excited worry.

“Yu Zhao did not take the normal Ascension path. She came here through the Ancient Dao Arena and gained the favor of a Grand Adept of the Great World, then by accident ended up in the Middle World.”

Huang Zhong briefly told them about Yu Zhao’s experience.

Everyone was half believing and half doubting.

It was not that they did not want to believe him. It just sounded too unbelievable.

Yu Zhao’s talent was so great that a Grand Adept of the Great World valued her, yet through a series of accidents she ended up stranded in the Middle World and just happened to run into Ancestor Sui Bian.

That was far too much of a coincidence.

Qian Si, however, cared more about another problem.

“Huang Zhong, you mean they are here for Yu Zhao? What does Yu Zhao have on her that is worth them coveting?”

“Yu Zhao is a Supreme Water Spirit Root. When she first arrived in the Middle World, she was captured by the Earth, Wind, Fire, and Lightning Clans as a furnace cauldron. She only escaped with great difficulty.”

Huang Zhong only said half of it, but everyone understood what he meant.

Furnace cauldrons also had grades.

A Supreme Water Spirit Root was an excellent, top grade furnace cauldron.

Matched with special cultivation techniques, Yu Zhao was basically a walking, human shaped great tonic pill.

Tie Gu snorted heavily, then said: “Those shameless wastes dare to use someone from our Cultivation World as a furnace cauldron? I will skin them alive!”

“No wonder they were biting people like rabid dogs. They really are a pack of beasts wearing human skin!”

“Sui Bian and Old Black Daoist too. Two people together still could not protect one Yu Zhao. Who knows how much she has suffered out there.”

Just a moment ago, everyone had felt quite unhappy with Ancestor Sui Bian. Now they all changed their tune and started cursing those mysterious cultivators instead.

The worry in Huang Zhong’s eyes slowly faded. He said: “Those people caught Yan Yi and the others only to force Sui Bian to show himself. We cannot let them get what they want.”

“But…”

After they ascended from the Cultivation World to the Qi Lan Realm, these cultivators from different sects and regions had twisted into one rope.

They treated each other like family.

Yu Zhao was important, but they had not even seen her face yet. Compared to that, they cared more about the companions they spent every day with.

Huang Zhong looked around at everyone: “We are anxious, but those people are even more anxious. Now it is a matter of who loses patience first. We will wait until they take the initiative to show themselves, then negotiate with them. Before we see Sui Bian and Yu Zhao, Yan Yi and the others will be safe.”

Everyone thought it over for a moment. They had no better plan, so they had to agree for now.

At the same time.

In the city next to Four Seas City.

The patriarchs of the Feng, Huo, Shui, and Jin clans sat together in one hall. Behind each of them stood junior disciples of their own clans, so the space behind the Tu clan patriarch in the main seat looked especially empty.

“What is the situation now?”

Patriarch Tu spoke in a deep voice.

The other patriarchs were silent for a moment. Then the Patriarch of the Shui Clan was the first to speak.

“The people in Four Seas City are hiding inside their courtyard and will not come out. It seems they have decided to resist us to the end.”

Patriarch Feng also said: “Not only do they refuse to come out, they have also cut off all contact with the outside world. We have no way to see what they are doing inside.”

The Patriarch of the Huo Clan said angrily: “I do not have time to play cat and mouse with them. Tu Zhen Yue, say where you stand. What do you need me to do?”

But Tu Zhen Yue did not even look at him. Instead, he looked at the quiet Patriarch of the Mu Clan.

“Have those captured cultivators said anything?”

The Patriarch of the Mu Clan shook his head and said: “Strange to say, apart from yelling a few times at the beginning, they adjusted very quickly. Today they were even sitting together brewing tea and drinking wine.”

The other patriarchs all showed odd looks when they heard that.

Did those people really not realize they had become prisoners, that they still had the free time to do other things?

“I already sent people to find out. These people all come from one Lesser Thousand World. After they came to the Middle World, they stayed together to keep warm. But I heard that in the last few hundred years, no one has ascended from there.”

The Patriarch of the Jin Clan spoke slowly.

Tu Zhen Yue’s eyes narrowed: “Then does Yu Zhao also come from the same place as them?”

Patriarch Feng looked at Feng Jiusi: “Jiusi, you say it.”

Feng Jiusi said seriously: “From what I have learned so far, there is only a very small chance that Yu Zhao comes from the same place as them.

“When those people ascended to the Qi Lan Realm, their cultivation level had already reached the Void Refining Stage. But when I met Yu Zhao, her cultivation level was only at the Late Nascent Soul Stage.

“Also, the others ascended in the Qi Lan Realm itself, while she came from the direction of the Auspicious Palace.

“Most importantly, a reliable source says they personally heard Yu Zhao call Sui Bian ‘Father.’

“So the two of them are very likely to be father and daughter.”

He said the last sentence without any doubt, each word firm and clear.

Everyone thought it over and agreed with his guess.

If there was no father and daughter bond, who would risk their life to protect someone they had not known for long?

Besides, Yu Zhao and Sui Bian were both famous for loving beauty.

If the two of them were related by blood, it seemed even more reasonable.

“No. If Yu Zhao is only Sui Bian’s daughter, why would those people in Four Seas City also protect her with their lives?” The Patriarch of the Huo Clan raised a question.

“You do not know this. The people who ascended from that Cultivation World are especially united and protective of their own. A few days ago I heard that, to save someone, they even made a big mess in the underground black market. Their names are still on the wanted lists.”

“Yu Zhao is Sui Bian’s daughter, so she is basically half one of their own.”

“Maybe they have not even told Sui Bian and Yu Zhao that we have surrounded them. Those two might still be enjoying themselves outside somewhere right now.”