Chapter 3531 — You're Right
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Pfft... really? You're not kidding?" Xue Li's eyes went wide, her face plainly disbelieving. "How old are you this year? How could you have been a highway robber before—when did you even start cultivating?"
"A year ago I was still a Yellow-Rank master. Believe it?" Wei Zhao smiled bitterly. "We said we'd introduce ourselves to each other—there's no need for me to lie to you about this..."
"You level up really fast!" Xue Li looked at Wei Zhao and sighed. "Hey, I'm almost thirty. You're not going to disdain me, are you?"
"...From the look of you, your mind seems even younger than Tang Zhi's!" Wei Zhao was caught between laughter and tears. "Look at you now... There's no way you look thirty to me. Don't try to fool me."
"Hehe." Xue Li could not help but laugh at that. "Then just treat me as eighteen."
"Eighteen is still too old. You're sixteen at most..." Wei Zhao knew the matter could not be undone now; Xue Li's thinking was thoroughly old-fashioned, and he could only comfort her for the time being. Still, this business today had been a fine farce!
Had Wei Zhao not concealed his strength, or had he made a bit of noise earlier, Xue Li would certainly have noticed, and it would never have come to this. But he had done it all so Tang Zhi would not find out...
Xue Li told Wei Zhao about herself, though her life had been exceedingly dull and monotonous, almost identical to Bing Tang's: raised in Snow Valley cultivating since childhood, never exposed to much of anything, and because of the cultivation method she practiced, no one had ever come to propose marriage. Xue Li had never even imagined that she might one day be with a man...
"Huh? That's odd. Don't you cultivate the Heartless Art too? How is it you seem so easily moved? I touch you once, and you make me take responsibility?" Wei Zhao asked suddenly.
"I haven't drunk the Forget-Love herb potion, and I've never been fond of anyone before. I made you take responsibility only because that's how it's written in the books," Xue Li said.
"I get the feeling there's something a bit off about the Heartless Art your founding mistress created. If it were truly heartless, then one wouldn't be interested in men at all. But the situation now is that it's only outwardly heartless—inwardly, there's feeling," Wei Zhao said.
"You're not allowed to slander Patriarch Xue," Xue Li said.
"It's not slander. In the end, didn't your Patriarch Xue end up with Patriarch Zhang Lifeng? Did her Heartless Art just stop working?" Now that Wei Zhao and Xue Li were on familiar terms, he could say such things.
"Don't talk nonsense. How could that be? Patriarch Xue went off in pursuit of the Heavenly Dao—how could she possibly be with Zhang Lifeng!" Xue Li refused to believe Wei Zhao's words.
"Once this business is settled, I'll take you to a place," Wei Zhao thought for a moment. Only by taking Xue Li to the ancient tomb would she believe that their Patriarch Xue had truly gone off to live with Zhang Lifeng—and moreover, shared one husband with Patriarch Bing of the Ice Palace.
"Oh..." Xue Li was still somewhat unconvinced. Patriarch Xue had always been Snow Valley's faith; that she did not believe it was only natural. But after thinking it over, she said, "What you say... does seem to make a bit of sense... The Heartless Art only makes a person's exterior seem cold, but it doesn't affect the feelings beneath... Perhaps Patriarch Xue did keep Zhang Lifeng in her heart all those years."RS