Chapter 1820 — A Startling Resemblance
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Sure enough, Elder Zhang shook his head and said, somewhat helplessly, "That may be so, but those two sister-disciples were both proud and lofty women. Neither was willing to share a man's love with another. Or perhaps, because they were sisters under the same master, neither could bring herself to yield ground, and neither would give way..."
The Eldest Miss parted her lips slightly. Somehow, she found herself thinking of her own situation. She had a feeling Elder Zhang was making veiled insinuations, yet she knew perfectly well he could not be doing so on purpose, since he had no idea at all about the affair between herself, Little Shu, and Tang Zhi...
Then... did she herself truly love Wei Zhao? Or was she simply too proud to share him with another? The moment the thought surfaced, Gu Mengyao broke into a cold sweat. What did her heart truly want?
But before Gu Mengyao could sort out her thoughts, Elder Zhang went on. "Ancestor Xue and Ancestor Bing were both the beloved confidantes of that man, and when he was faced with two young women equally beautiful and equally gifted, he too did not know how to choose..."
"What a fool! He should have just married them both and had himself a threesome. How good would that have been! Nowhere near as impressive as Brother Arrowhead!" Shen Yushu's opinion of the man was thoroughly uncharitable. Wasn't that just wasting a girl's whole life?
"Uh..." Elder Zhang's face was covered in black lines, and he had no idea what to say. He could only stare blankly at Shen Yushu.
"Ahem! Little Shu, don't spout nonsense and interrupt Elder Zhang. Is your skin itching again? Do you want a beating?" Gu Mengyao felt rather embarrassed. Little Shu was far too ready to prattle.
"It's all right..." Elder Zhang gave a bitter smile and said, "The man was no fool. He was a remarkable man in his own right! He was a Medical Sage of his generation, and possessed an extraordinarily high talent for alchemy. He was the greatest alchemist of his time..."
"Then whom did he choose in the end?" Tang Zhi asked.
"Definitely not Ancestor Xue!" Shen Yushu said. "If it had been Ancestor Xue, she wouldn't have been so emotionally scarred that she invented the Art of Heartlessness!"
"He made no choice. It was Ancestor Xue who chose to yield..." Elder Zhang sighed and said, "She chose to flee, to turn her back on the secular world and come to this Snow Valley. There, she inadvertently came to comprehend the power of heaven and earth, received the legacy, and founded her own sect!"
"Yield?" Tang Zhi and the others were all taken aback. If she loved him, why would she yield?
"Because Ancestor Xue was the elder sister-disciple and Ancestor Bing the younger..." Elder Zhang said. "Of course, that was not truly the root cause of Ancestor Xue's yielding. The root cause was that Ancestor Bing, in those years, had a peculiar constitution. She had been struck by a cold poison and could not live past twenty. So when Ancestor Xue learned of this, she no longer wished to contend with her, and of her own accord gave the man up to Ancestor Bing..."
"Not live past twenty? Then how did she found the Ice Palace... ah!" Tang Zhi suddenly cried out in alarm, because she had thought of something very important: Feng Xiaoxiao's constitution. Didn't she too have a peculiar constitution, one that would not let her live past twenty?
Yet in the Ice Palace, her constitution had been discovered to be a yin-cold constitution rarely seen in a thousand years, the same as the founding ancestor of the Ice Palace. Did that not mean that Ancestor Bing had not died afterwards, but had discovered her peculiar constitution?
"Feng Xiaoxiao! The yin-cold constitution!" Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu also exchanged a glance and exclaimed in astonishment at the same moment.