Chapter 1814 — Snow Valley's Shock: Tang Zhi Gently Closed Her Eyes, Savoring This Moment of Warmth, Happiness, and Beauty
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"You mean that for these fifteen days she has never gone into the carriage to warm herself, but has remained kneeling in the snow the entire time—even while eating and sleeping?" the Grand Elder asked in astonishment.
"That is exactly the case. The valley patrol ** have witnessed it all with their own eyes..." said Elder Zhang.
"Come. Let us go and see her." The Grand Elder's brows drew together slightly, as though she were deep in thought.
"Grand Elder, have you been moved by her determination?" Xueli asked, somewhat astonished. The Grand Elder had always told her to cultivate composure, yet now she had been the first to feel sympathy for Tang Zhi...
"Moved?" The Grand Elder shook her head.
Her answer left Elder Zhang, Xueli, and all the other elders present staring blankly. If she had not been moved, why did she still want to go and see Tang Zhi? Could it truly be because of Bing Tang—that she feared Tang Zhi might die here?
"Fifteen days. Don't you find that strange?" The Grand Elder looked at the bewildered crowd. "Before you advanced to the Heaven rank, before taking any pills to replenish your strength, which of you could kneel in the snow for fifteen days without dying?"
"This..." After hearing the Grand Elder's words, everyone shook their heads. Before advancing to the Heaven rank, not even an Earth-rank expert could kneel in the frozen wilderness for so long, let alone an ordinary person.
Had it not been the same during the trial at Ice Palace? Of all the Xuan-rank experts who had come to take part in the trial, which one besides Wei Zhao had not brought a full supply of pills? Pills that replenished energy were not particularly rare, but they could stave off hunger and restore strength. Yu Bing had relied on them as well.
Wei Zhao, however, was an exception. With the jade pendant providing him with an inexhaustible source of energy, he naturally had no need for those pills to maintain his strength. It was precisely for this reason that Bing Tang and Aunt Qing had found the matter so extraordinarily strange.
"You mean... her constitution..." Elder Zhang's heart stirred, but he asked in an impassive voice.
"As the old saying goes, when something occurs against all reason, there must be a cause behind it," said the Grand Elder. "Since none of you could do it, how did she manage it?"
"But Grand Elder, you examined her yourself. There is nothing unusual about her body. She does not even possess an ordinary yin constitution, let alone some False Iceheart Jadebone constitution..." Xueli asked, puzzled.
"That is correct. She does not." The Grand Elder nodded. "If she did—and if she truly were Bing Tang's younger sister, as she claims—do you think Bing Tang could have failed to examine her in secret?"
"That is true. Then what do you mean..." Xueli was even more confused.
"In the founding ancestor's ** notes, she once recorded three constitutions suited to the cultivation methods of Snow Valley **..." The Grand Elder spoke slowly. "The rarest is the Yin-Cold constitution—the one possessed by the inheritor Ice Palace found. Yet although the Yin-Cold constitution is well suited to Ice Palace's ** cultivation method, it is somewhat useless to Snow Valley. It is not even as suitable as the second constitution, the Iceheart Jadebone constitution. After all, Snow Valley's founding ancestor herself possessed that constitution. That was why she created the Heartless Art, ** a single heart of ice... Though the Yin-Cold constitution contains more cold energy than the Iceheart Jadebone constitution, in Snow Valley it cannot display its greatest potential. This is probably also why Bing Tang rejected us... Because the inheritor with the Yin-Cold constitution is better off remaining in Ice Palace..."