Chapter 2252 — Indifference
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Ha, thank you." Wei Zhao was briefly startled, and rather moved, but he pushed the little box back to Sun Jingyan. "I have my own way of cultivating. I've no use for this thing, so you keep it. It must be something your parents left you—how could I take it? Besides, your auxiliary art is quite fine. Who knows, it may be of great use to me someday!"
The first half of Wei Zhao's words did not particularly strike Sun Jingyan. After all, even if this was something her parents had left her, it was truly of no use to her. Even if she cultivated the Sun family art to its utmost, in the end she would only be making a wedding dress for another. But the latter half of his words set her heart pounding...
Was he hinting at something? He knew perfectly well how peculiar her art was—was he claiming her in advance, so that the true qi she cultivated hereafter would all be given to him?
At the thought, Sun Jingyan flushed. Yet after a moment's hesitation, she accepted the little box. Since Wei Zhao did not want it, she could not possibly give it to anyone else—nor breathe a single word of it. If the thing became known, it would bring great trouble upon her, and drag Wei Zhao down with her besides.
Never mind anything else—if the powers behind the Grand Protector came looking for Wei Zhao, that would be trouble of the gravest kind.
"All right, then I can only accept it. For your sake, I'll cultivate hard," Sun Jingyan said.
"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled. "Tired? You rest a while too. These past two days you've been on edge as well—you haven't slept well, have you?"
"Yesterday, in the fire lion's den, I slept all right," Sun Jingyan said. "But today I really am a bit tired..."
"Then sleep..." Wei Zhao said. "I'll cultivate..."
This wounding and total loss of power had not advanced Wei Zhao a single grade. To break and then build, to build only after breaking—it was the method Wei Zhao had used time and again, always with success, to break through the barriers of his limits. Frankly, it was a little like seeking abuse; but on the path of martial cultivation, every person has their own way of cultivating and breaking through. All roads lead to Rome, and no two are alike—it was hard to say whether these opponents had abused Wei Zhao or helped him.
Only, Wei Zhao had just recently advanced to the mid Earth Rank, and not long before coming to the Ulaganhot Mountains he had stabilized his power through Wang Xinyan's fragrance. To hope for another promotion this time was little short of wishful thinking, so Wei Zhao was not much disappointed.
In the middle of the night, as Wei Zhao was cultivating, he suddenly heard a strange cry!
Wei Zhao started and hastily opened his eyes. Though he had been cultivating, his divine sense and spiritual power had been fixed on the situation within and without the cave all along...