Chapter 1848 — The Ice Palace and Snow Valley: The Ice Palace
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Although the Ice Palace had no intelligence network like the Shadow Group, and the friendship they had built with the hidden Tang clan had also collapsed, word of Wei Zhao's qigong deviation—something every hidden clan knew—still reached Bingtang's ears.
"Palace Master, don't you think... the Ice Palace ought to lend a hand?" Xiao Qing had told Bingtang the news the moment she received it.
"Lend a hand? Lend a hand with what?" Bingtang gave a light snort. "Don't breathe a word of this to Xiaoxiao."
"But... what if Wei Zhao runs into danger this time..." Xiao Qing was slightly taken aback.
"Danger? If he can't even get himself out of a trifle like this, then he doesn't deserve Xiaoxiao. Better he dies—saves her from being dragged down by him later!" Bingtang rejected Xiao Qing's suggestion outright.
In truth, there was one more thing she had not said, and was too embarrassed to say: if this fellow Wei Zhao was that weak, how did he expect to marry her as his little-little-little-little wife? Bingtang still nursed a deep grudge over the way Wei Zhao had teased her back then.
She was, after all, a formidable expert at the peak of the late Heaven Rank and the head of an ancient sect—and yet she had been toyed with by a mere early Earth Rank practitioner who had the nerve to declare that she would be his little-little-little-little wife. Bingtang did not forget a slight.
Since you are so capable, then face it on your own.
Xiao Qing shook her head and said no more. After all, the one who now held authority in the Ice Palace was Bingtang; Xiaoxiao had not yet become the Inheritor, nor succeeded to the position of Palace Master.
Snow Valley.
At last the Grand Elder had noticed something amiss!
Tang Zhi had done her utmost to keep up the pretense that she had already forgotten Wei Zhao, but how perceptive was the Grand Elder? Tang Zhi was merely an Inheritor who had just received the transmission, without a shred of real power to her name. One could only say that, from now on, Tang Zhi's path of cultivation would be free of any further stumbling blocks; the limit barriers that others hit in cultivation no longer existed for Tang Zhi!
To receive the inheritance was equivalent to at once possessing a constitution at the peak of the late Heaven Rank, able to press on toward that higher step. So long as Tang Zhi cultivated step by step in the proper order, she would reach the peak of the late Heaven Rank.
Of course, in the Grand Elder's eyes Tang Zhi was still far too green, and it did not take long before the Grand Elder spotted the flaw!
"You never took the Forget-Love herbal draft?" The Grand Elder's heart lurched; staring at Tang Zhi, she asked in shock and anger.
"I... I did not!" Now that she had been found out, Tang Zhi simply stopped hiding it and shook her head.
The Grand Elder looked at Tang Zhi, grief and indignation surging through her, yet she did not know what to say. Wei Zhao was gone; even if another vial of the Forget-Love draft could be brewed, without Wei Zhao's blood in it, it would be of no use to Tang Zhi even if she drank it. So for all her fury, the Grand Elder had no remedy left.
"Ah..." Once the grief and anger had passed, the Grand Elder could not help but give a long sigh. "You gave the Forget-Love draft to Wei Zhao to drink?"
"Yes. I wanted him to forget me. I did not want him to see how heartless I have become—that would only make him suffer." Tang Zhi nodded and spoke with determination.
"Why did you not say so earlier? If you had wanted it, I would have brewed another dose of the Forget-Love draft for you..." The Grand Elder shook her head somewhat helplessly.
"No, I will not drink it. I want to remember him forever, to remember the days we spent together. That will be the most precious memory of my whole life, and I do not want to forget it!" Tang Zhi shook her head. "Those days will never come again, and I will keep them forever in the depths of my heart. No one can take them away!"