Chapter 5066 — Heading to the Mysterious Investigation Bureau
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"Yes, yes—thank you, Brother Xue." Fei Yangnian was overjoyed at once. A grade-four Great Return Pill would be enough to restore him fully in short order. True, provoking Wei Zhao a second time was somewhat unwise, but when the sky falls there is always someone taller to hold it up—with a man of Xue Jianming's caliber standing in front, what did he have to fear?
"Very good. You may all stay here and await news from me. So long as Xue is present, the people of our Tai Gu Minor Jianghu are not so easily killed." Xue Jianming cupped his hands to the crowd, then swept off with Fei Yangnian in tow.
"Worthy of Xue Jianming." The others all sighed in admiration. Word in the streets had it that the Tai Gu Alliance, formed by the great sects of the Tai Gu Minor Jianghu, was soon to change its leadership. The hour had not yet come, it was true, but when it did, a man like Xue Jianming would surely be a hot new luminary within the Alliance—unmatched by any other of the younger generation.
Emerging from the Shennongjia, Fei Yangnian played his old trick again and commandeered a car, driving straight for Xima City. Yet when he and Xue Jianming reached their destination, the room was long since empty.
"That primordial spirit cultivator must have been afraid of vengeance from our Tai Gu Minor Jianghu and fled ahead of time. What are we to do, Brother Xue?" asked Fei Yangnian.
"Do? Dig three feet into the earth if we must, but we will drag him out!" Xue Jianming snorted coldly. He had boasted grandly before so many of the Tai Gu Minor Jianghu; to return empty-handed now was utterly out of the question.
"But he is a primordial spirit, and ordinarily no different from an ordinary man. Even Sun Baimei and the others of the Evil-Warding Sect would have difficulty finding him. With only you and me, Brother Xue, it is like fishing a needle from the ocean," said Fei Yangnian, his face sour.
"Did I ever say I would go searching in person?" Xue Jianming shot him a glance.
"You mean to rouse the other Tai Gu Minor Jianghu disciples to search together?" Fei Yangnian's eyes lit up. If Wei Zhao were branded a common enemy of the Tai Gu Minor Jianghu and every disciple set to hunting him, the odds of success would indeed rise considerably.
"Foolish. How many disciples came out for this trial? The mortal world is vast—how could they possibly search it all?" Xue Jianming looked at him as though at an idiot.
"Er…" Fei Yangnian could not help but color. It was indeed the truth of the matter. To rely on the handful of Tai Gu Minor Jianghu to turn Wei Zhao out of the mortal world—who knew how many years that would take. He could only ask feebly, "Then how are we to find him?"
"Did you not say this primordial spirit cultivator is a man of the mortal world? Then naturally we make the mortal world hand him over itself. Come." Xue Jianming smiled faintly.
"Where to?" Fei Yangnian blinked.
"The Mysterious Investigation Bureau. They say all cultivators of the mortal world answer to them. Blood debts must be paid in blood—we come to demand justice. Once we arrive, justice will naturally be found, and we shall kill two birds with one stone besides." A look of lofty disdain hung on Xue Jianming's face.
"Two birds with one stone?" Fei Yangnian did not quite follow.
"Demanding justice is but the first. As for the second—we may as well ask them directly for new disciples of passable aptitude, and save ourselves the trouble," Xue Jianming said mildly.
He had always been a radical; at heart he had never taken the mortal world seriously at all. The trial's rules explicitly forbade disturbing the order of the mortal world, and he had in truth thought little of that—especially where the search for new disciples was concerned. To rely on their few dozen trial disciples to fish a needle from the ocean was a method supremely foolish.