Chapter 3486 — So You Got Hooked on Qi-Gathering Pills?
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With that, Wei Zhao walked out to the entrance of the inn to wait for Bingtang Xiaoniuer to arrive.
Shopkeeper Li nodded and went back to busying himself with his own affairs.
Wei Zhao had not waited long at the entrance before he saw Bingtang speeding toward him. From the look of her, she seemed nothing like a woman suffering her monthly visit—her movements were as brisk and nimble as could be!
Bingtang had spotted that half-smile on Wei Zhao's face from far off, and it irked her at once. She shot him a glare, came to a stop before him, thrust out a hand, and demanded fiercely, "Where are my pills?"
"You think you can just take the pills with nothing but words?" Wei Zhao regarded her with a faint smile.
"Then what more do you want? I've been looking after your girlfriend Feng Xiaoxiao for you all this time! If not for me, she'd be dead!" Bingtang had rehearsed her lines on the way over, planning to use the matter of Feng Xiaoxiao to persuade Wei Zhao.
"She's your elder sister. It was only proper," Wei Zhao said.
"Elder sister? She's my junior sister..." Bingtang caught herself mid-sentence, suddenly realizing that Wei Zhao was teasing her—implying that she too was one of his itty-bitty-teeny-tiny wives. And if Feng Xiaoxiao was a lesser wife, then that made Feng Xiaoxiao her elder sister...
Bingtang glared at Wei Zhao. "What I promised you, I'll do! Besides, there's no point in me being alone anyway—sooner or later I'll need a companion, and Feng Xiaoxiao and I get along quite well. When the time comes, I'll let you have the best of it. But you know how it is with Inheritors—I must keep my virgin body. So..."
"Who came up with this requirement about keeping the virgin body?" Wei Zhao had always found the demand a little strange. In the past, his strength had been too meager to raise such a question—he hadn't dared to question it. But with the strength Wei Zhao now possessed, he could afford to speak without reservation.
"The Five Luminaries Sect, naturally!" Bingtang said. "It was Ancestor Xuanchen who demanded it."
"Him, was it? And if you don't keep it, what can he do?" Wei Zhao spoke those words with boundless boldness. There had been a time when Ancestor Xuanchen was someone Wei Zhao looked up to from afar, but now, even standing before him, Wei Zhao would remain calm and unruffled—Ancestor Xuanchen might not even be his match!
"Don't keep it..." Bingtang was slightly taken aback. In the past, she had always, always obeyed the Five Luminaries Sect. Even as forceful as she was, on matters that everyone took as given, she had never once questioned them!
It wasn't that she didn't want to question—it was that she simply took it for granted. The Five Luminaries Sect was the mightiest power there was; even as the Palace Master of the Ice Palace, one could not contend with them. Whatever they said, went.
But now, Wei Zhao was saying: don't keep it—what can he do? Yes—don't keep it. What could Ancestor Xuanchen do, after all?
Before, no one had dared to question it. Now, such a person had appeared!
Looking at Wei Zhao before her, Bingtang suddenly felt a little dazed. That somewhat gaunt figure seemed, all at once, to grow tall and straight! There had been a time, back in the Ice Palace, when he carried Feng Xiaoxiao on his back—and Bingtang would be honest: she had never once taken him seriously.
Even the later joking talk of being his itty-bitty-teeny-tiny wife—that was no more than a jest. But now, Bingtang suddenly realized that Wei Zhao had become the only existence across the entire ancient stratum capable of contending with Ancestor Xuanchen!
Sometimes, one's impression of a person can change in a single instant. Such was the case with Bingtang now. She suddenly found that Wei Zhao was not so detestable after all—rather, he was thoroughly magnificent. This was the bearing a cultivator ought to have!