Chapter 3486 — So You Got Hooked on Qi-Gathering Pills?
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"That's what everyone has always said, and I've heard that only by keeping the virgin body can one open Cloud-Tier Island—there's no other way," Bingtang said. "As for the specifics, I've told you before—I don't know either... The Five Luminaries Sect wouldn't tell me. But if you insist on having something with me before then, then you'd best not have anything with Feng Xiaoxiao. After all, this is a great matter for the ancient stratum, and I don't want you to ruin it out of selfish desire—even though you do have the strength to contend with Ancestor Xuanchen."
"Hm?" Wei Zhao was slightly stunned. What did Bingtang mean by that?
In truth, Bingtang herself was rather surprised when the words left her mouth, for she realized she no longer loathed Wei Zhao. On the contrary, she was even glad to have found in him a place to belong.
Thinking it over carefully, Bingtang had known very few male cultivators—they were all sect masters or young masters of this or that sect, and every one of them was deep and scheming. She didn't care for any of them. But Wei Zhao—along the way, she had found him not so detestable after all.
Look at the matter from another angle, and she found she was no longer especially averse to fulfilling that agreement! Though as for being in love with Wei Zhao—Bingtang did not think she was there yet. She merely didn't reject him. That was all!
Still, Bingtang's thinking had always been deeply conservative. In ancient times, weren't betrothals merely agreements too? How much did a man and a woman really know or understand of each other? At the very least, she was fairly satisfied with Wei Zhao's current strength.
"Nothing—I only meant, if you want to, then fine; if you don't, forget it," Bingtang said. "Anyway, with Xiaoxiao as an Inheritor, the Ice Palace will gain another fixed quota for its sect master. The sect master or grand elder may regularly attend the Heaven-Rank Assembly, so whether I'm an Inheritor or not no longer matters..."
"Oh? You mean the sect master or grand elder of any sect that has an Inheritor can regularly attend the Heaven-Rank Assembly?" Wei Zhao thought of something and asked.
"Yes, but there's a precondition: one must be a peak late Heaven-rank expert, full Great Perfection..." Bingtang said. "I feel like I'm on the verge of a breakthrough..."
"Oh? There's a restriction like that too!" Wei Zhao nodded after hearing this. "Do you want me to refine a Qi-Gathering Pill for you, so you can advance after taking it?"
In truth, what Wei Zhao had been thinking of earlier was this: if every sect with an Inheritor had a fixed advancement quota, then did Chief Bai have one too? As the sect master of another Five Luminaries Sect, Chief Bai's strength was surely insufficient—he couldn't attend. But if he passed the position of sect master to Wei Zhao, then it would work. So there was still a loophole to be exploited here—even without a fragment-map entry ticket, he could find a way to attend.
But he feared that by then Ancestor Xuanchen would add a restriction requiring one to have served as sect master for over a year, and that would put a stop to it. This thing was aimed at him, and Wei Zhao would have no way around it.
Of course, Wei Zhao could force the issue, but his goal was also to reach Cloud-Tier Island. If things truly fell apart, having someone throw a wrench into his plans would not be ideal.
"So you got hooked on Qi-Gathering Pills?" Bingtang was slightly taken aback. She looked at Wei Zhao and asked, "I heard you've been scouring everywhere for the materials to refine Qi-Gathering Pills lately—so that was what it was for?"
(Second update of the day. Recommending Yunhai Shuku's new work—Top-Tier Cultivation Tyrant Young Master. It's nearly 600,000 characters now, ready to read!) RL