Chapter 4100 — I'll Build Your Foundation
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"Ah? What is it?" Xueli's heart tightened at once. She thought something had gone wrong during the breakthrough just now, leaving some lingering after-effect.
"Do you have the follow-up cultivation method and oral formulas of the Snow Valley?" Wei Zhao asked.
"No." Xueli was taken aback.
"Neither do I." Wei Zhao shrugged helplessly, and said with a troubled air, "So the problem now is this: you have become a cultivator of the early Foundation Establishment stage, but you have no way to continue cultivating further."
"This..." Only then did Xueli come back to herself from the joy of her successful breakthrough. Realizing her awkward predicament, for a moment she did not know what to do.
Succeeding in establishing her foundation was wonderful indeed, but the strength of the early Foundation Establishment stage counted for nothing on Cloud Tier Island—least of all on the Mid Island. She still could not escape the fate of being bottom-rung cannon fodder.
The follow-up cultivation method was a matter of the utmost importance, admitting not the slightest carelessness. Xueli had only just succeeded in establishing her foundation and was not yet stable. If she remained unable to cultivate onward for a long time, not only would she fail to advance further—her strength might even regress to the Heaven Tier. That would leave her dragged down and ruined for good.
"Actually, it is not as though there is no way. Cultivation methods may be treasured by every great sect, but so long as one searches diligently out in the world, they should still be purchasable. The real problem now is that a method bought on impulse may not necessarily suit you for cultivation." Wei Zhao analyzed.
Since they did not have the original follow-up cultivation method of the Snow Valley at hand, they could only seek out another method to continue her cultivation. Yet cultivation methods had always belonged each to its own school, wildly divergent from one another. Once a follow-up method came into conflict with the one originally cultivated, the consequences ranged from qigong deviation at the mildest to death on the spot at the worst.
Barring certain special circumstances, few in the cultivation world would ever change their cultivation method midway—and it was precisely out of this consideration.
Xueli thought for a moment, then said, "Actually, when I first came here, the great sects of the Mid Island all tested us mortal-realm cultivators for physique and method compatibility. They said I had something called an innate ice-cold constitution, with an extremely high degree of compatibility with the Snow Sword Sect's method. That is why I was taken into the Snow Sword Sect."
This was in fact the very reason Xueli had kept her hopes pinned on the Snow Sword Sect all through these past six months. So long as she could cultivate the Snow Sword Sect's method like an ordinary disciple—even if only the most basic level—she believed she would not be inferior to anyone.
She had never imagined that fate would play her such a trick. After inexplicably becoming Situ Qian's maidservant, she had no opportunity even for normal cultivation, let alone any chance at the Snow Sword Sect's method.
"In that case, all we need do is find some way to get our hands on the Snow Sword Sect's cultivation method, and the problem is solved, is it not?" Wei Zhao's eyes lit up as he heard this.
Xueli nodded, but then said helplessly, "That is easy to say, but the Snow Sword Sect is a great sect of the Mid Island. Its cultivation method is the very foundation of the sect, a secret never transmitted to outsiders. There is simply no chance of it leaking out—still less of our being able to buy it."
"That is indeed a problem. But Heaven never bars a man's way. Now that we have found a direction, we will find a solution in the end—it will simply take a little more hard thinking." Wei Zhao consoled her.