Chapter 1690 — The Unreachable Dream
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"Indeed, the peak of the late Xuan rank is already a top-tier existence among the great families of the mundane world!" Qiu Lingshan was astonished as well. Since Wei Zhao had said so, it meant that she too could rise to the peak of the late Xuan rank.
"Your ambitions are a little too modest, aren't they? Above the great families there are the hidden families, and above the hidden families there are the ancient sects and ancient clans. What lies above the ancient level is still unknown, but there surely exist ranks mightier than the Heaven rank. Don't you want to pursue a higher martial realm?" Wei Zhao said with a bitter smile. This trial at the Ice Palace had broadened his horizons a great deal.
In the past, Wei Zhao had thought about striving to break through to the Heaven rank one day, yet he had never come so close to a Heaven-rank master. When he saw Little Bingtang, saw Xiao Qing, saw Old Master Tang, Wei Zhao realized that the Heaven rank was not so mysterious after all.
There was a time when the Xuan rank was what Wei Zhao aspired to, because back then the strongest existence he had ever laid eyes on was of the Xuan rank. Later, Wei Zhao broke through to the Xuan rank, but Earth-rank masters came into his view, and his goal became the Earth rank instead.
And when Wei Zhao truly became an Earth-rank master, he discovered that the Heaven rank was, in fact, not far away at all. At every stage there is a pursuit proper to that stage, but if you never attain that strength, you will never come into contact with matters of that level.
It was like a frog at the bottom of a well: as long as it never climbs out, it will always believe the sky is only as big as the mouth of the well. But once it gets out, the world becomes something else entirely.
Still, Wei Zhao could understand the reactions of Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan. The level they currently had access to stopped at the hidden families at the very most; matters of the ancient level could only be reached directly by hidden families and certain ordinary sects. For the great families, they were far too remote.
"Above the Heaven rank..." To be honest, Qiu Lingshan had never once imagined that a day would come when she became a Heaven-rank master. Her first dream and goal had been the early Xuan rank; so long as she reached the early Xuan rank, she could win time for the Song family, wait for her younger brother to grow up, and ensure that the Song family held firmly to its place among the great families.
But even the early Xuan rank had been a dream, an unreachable dream. For the people of the great families, cultivation was merely a means to preserve the family's standing; they had never thought of pursuing the Heaven rank, of pursuing eternal life, the way the hidden families did.
Yet ever since she met Wei Zhao, Qiu Lingshan had realized that she really had been a frog at the bottom of a well. Things she had never dared to imagine had, with Wei Zhao's help, come true step by step. And soon she would become the strongest existence among the great families—the peak of the late Xuan rank!
That was not all. Wei Zhao had told her that a day would come when she too became a Heaven-rank master. Qiu Lingshan's heart surged and churned with excitement. She had never expected to be so lucky, to meet such a formidable man. It seemed she still had to work hard; she had started a little later than Tang Zhi, Gu Mengyao, and Shen Yushu, but at least she was a step ahead of Feng Xiaoxiao, wasn't she?
Now even Feng Xiaoxiao had become Wei Zhao's little wife, while she did not even have the title of a bedchamber maid. Qiu Lingshan felt that her next goal was to secure a proper status—even the lowliest little serving girl would do—so long as she could follow Wei Zhao for the rest of her life. Then the Heaven rank would truly no longer be a dream!