Chapter 3485 — Who Are You? He Also Saw That Wei Zhao Was Still Quite Easygoing with the Ice Palace's People, and His Earlier Nervousness Was Gone Too!
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"Nothing much. I came this time specifically to find that little candy girl of yours from the Ice Palace. I mean to marry her and take her home!" Wei Zhao said.
"Gah!" Shopkeeper Li was struck dumb on the spot. What? Marry—marry the little candy girl?
Shopkeeper Li had no idea what to say. Did Wei Zhao and Bingtang have a betrothal agreement? At his level, of course, he knew nothing of the inside story, yet Elder Li did not dare press further. He could only say cautiously, "Young Hero Lin, so... shall I relay your meaning to the Ice Palace Master just as you've stated it?"
Wei Zhao nodded. He might have been joking at heart, but he genuinely wanted to take that little candy girl down a peg.
So, thinking it over, Wei Zhao said mildly to Shopkeeper Li, "That's right. Just tell her exactly that."
"Very well." Shopkeeper Li could only nod helplessly. He had no standing to argue with Wei Zhao and could only relay his words faithfully. In any case, if Bingtang later blamed anyone, it would be Wei Zhao who had ordered it—nothing to do with him.
Shopkeeper Li took a satellite phone from the drawer and placed the call. Bingtang's voice came through before long: "Shopkeeper Li, is something the matter?"
"Palace Master, Young Hero Lin Wei Zhao has arrived at our Bingling Inn. He says he has come to take you as his bride. What do you say?" Shopkeeper Li asked tentatively.
"Wei Zhao? Take me as his bride?" A surge of shame and anger rushed into Bingtang's heart. Last time, Wei Zhao had barely brought the matter up, and she had assumed he had let it drop. Who would have thought he would make a special trip to the Ice Palace just to raise it again?
It left Bingtang somewhat indignant. Yet when she recalled that she had once promised Wei Zhao that if he reached the peak late Heaven Rank or above, or became a Mystic Rank first-grade alchemist, she would be his tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny wife, she found she had no ready quibble.
The Ice Palace was a sect that kept its promises. But that had been no more than words spoken in pique—surely it did not count!
Yet now Wei Zhao had come all this way and dredged up the old matter. What was she to do? After hesitating a moment, Bingtang said, "What is his strength now? Has he reached the great consummation of peak late Heaven Rank?"
"That I couldn't say!" Shopkeeper Li replied, sweating. "But he can kill a peak late Heaven Rank great consummation expert in a single blow, so I'd say he must have."
"Not necessarily. Wei Zhao excels at fighting above his level! What I agreed with him was that when he possessed peak late Heaven Rank strength or above, or became a Mystic Rank first-grade alchemist, he would be my husband. Peak late Heaven Rank or above means only great consummation or the Way of Heaven level. Ask him whether he is!" Bingtang did not believe it. Last time, Wei Zhao had only been mid Heaven Rank.
She congratulated herself on her cleverness. Thank goodness she had specified a strength tier rather than merely saying he could defeat some expert or other.
"This..." Shopkeeper Li stole a cautious glance at Wei Zhao. He dared not offend Bingtang—but he dared even less to offend Wei Zhao.
She's really landed me in it, Shopkeeper Li thought, yet he dared not voice a word of complaint. He could only look at Wei Zhao with a bitter smile, wanting to speak and yet not.
"It's about my strength, isn't it?" Wei Zhao had keen ears and eyes. He was a Heaven Rank great consummation expert, after all—if he could not hear the conversation between Shopkeeper Li and Bingtang, he would be far too weak. "It's fine. A bit of verification does no harm."
With that, Wei Zhao circulated the mnemonic of his heart technique and unleashed his peak late Heaven Rank great consummation strength in full.