Chapter 2760 — Getting Ready for Snow Valley!
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"A Lesser Qi-Gathering Pill..." Wei Zhao's mouth twitched twice. That pill was worth a fortune, and even then it could not prolong life for long—a bottomless pit. Still, it was the only option available. Wei Zhao gritted his teeth. From now on, it seemed, he would have to work himself to the bone refining pills for Han Jingyi!
"But don't you worry. I'll look into it some more for you. I can't very well let my granddaughter-in-law die, can I?" Old Man Wei smiled in comfort.
"Heh heh..." Wei Zhao laughed too. He could not say why, but he trusted Old Man Wei a great deal—an inexplicable sort of trust. Sometimes, when troubles came his way, the old man's words had a way of setting his heart at ease. "By the way, what about my jade pendant? Could it ever run out of energy?"
Wei Zhao had suddenly thought of his own jade pendant. He used it every day for cultivation, and that strange ghostly thing that had appeared out of nowhere was lodged inside it, fighting him for the heaven-and-earth spiritual energy within. If his pendant were the same as Wang Xinyan's, wouldn't it be drained in no time?
"Oh, yours won't." Old Man Wei shook his head in denial. "Wang Xinyan's is a trial piece, flawed. Yours is the finished product, without flaws. The energy in your pendant is... oh, put simply, all you need to know is that it's inexhaustible!"
"So that's how it is!" Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. "Never mind the pendant for now—that spirit herb, how do we get it?"
"The spirit herb..." Old Man Wei hesitated, and lapsed once more into silence.
"What is it? Old man, is that spirit herb so hard to find as well?" Wei Zhao's brow furrowed again.
"The spirit herb... truly is hard to find!" Old Man Wei did not know how to tell Wei Zhao—or whether he even should.
"Then... there must at least be some way to search for it, no? That spirit herb of yours back then—where did it come from?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Back then..." Old Man Wei trailed off, sinking into thought. That spirit herb of years past had come from Snow Valley—but it was Xiaoyi's master who had gone to Snow Valley in person to demand it! Times had changed, though. After all these years, Xiaoyi's master was gone, and there was no way Old Man Wei could use the methods of those days to seize another spirit herb by force.
He could not leave West Star Mountain Village. And even if he could, without Xiaoyi's master to back him, that same intimidating presence of years past would be impossible.
There were some things the time had not yet come for Wei Zhao to know. Old Man Wei feared that letting him develop a sense of dependence too early would do his growth no good. Just as Mo Kongwu had said, Wei Zhao, growing through trial and hardship, would reap rewards beyond anything expected.
And Wei Zhao's step-by-step growth had indeed borne out what Mo Kongwu had said back then. In fact, Mo Kongwu's words had never once been wrong! Back then, when he spoke of the karmic thread that would bind Wang Xinyan eighteen years later, Old Man Wei had found it rather strange.
But who would have thought that, in the blink of an eye and truly eighteen years later, Wang Xinyan would become Wei Zhao's girlfriend?
At this moment, though, the reason Old Man Wei held back the name of Snow Valley was not that he wished to conceal the events of the past—it was that Tang Zhi was in Snow Valley! Old Man Wei did not know how to tell Wei Zhao. Should he tell him? Or not?
If he told him, then when Wei Zhao went, might he run into Tang Zhi? Might that produce some undesirable consequences and repercussions?
"Old man, what's wrong? You stop halfway through what you're saying?" Wei Zhao asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Nothing. I was just trying to recall the name of that spirit herb. It's been so long, it's only coming back to me now," Old Man Wei said.
"Oh? What's it called?" Wei Zhao did not seem suspicious.