Chapter 4548 — Meeting Zhang Lifeng
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"Since you're not a fool, boy, then what are you waiting for? Get cultivating! This place is a gift from heaven—no, it's as if it were made for you and no one else. If you don't seize the moment and cultivate now, you'll be throwing away the very chance the heavens handed you!" Ghost Thing's tone was thick with envy.
"Hm? What do you mean?" Wei Zhao blinked, momentarily at a loss. He did not fully understand, but some instinct told him this might truly be a rare opportunity—a chance that could make even Ghost Thing, a former Azure Dragon, burn with envy was surely something that came once in an age.
"This is the Five-Venom Marsh, and you, boy, just happen to be a cultivator of the five-element spiritual root attributes. Perhaps there is no second such person under heaven—you tell me what I mean." Ghost Thing answered his question with another.
At that reminder, a flash of insight struck Wei Zhao and he seized the crux of it at once, his whole being stirring with excitement—though he was still not entirely certain. "But isn't this place a five-element mutual-destruction? At most those five-element killing auras won't attack me. How am I supposed to use them to cultivate?"
"To anyone else, this five-element mutual-destruction is utterly lethal, but to a freak of nature like you, those killing auras are of enormous use—it is not simply a matter of them not attacking you." Ghost Thing paused, then could not help sighing in wonder. "Honestly, to possess all five elemental spiritual root attributes at once is exceedingly rare on Cloud-Tier Island. I have lived a very long time, and never once have I heard of any human cultivator—leaving aside spirit beasts—who possessed all five at once. To call it unique under heaven is no exaggeration at all."
"Oh?" Wei Zhao raised an eyebrow slightly. He had long known that he carried seven attributes across the five elements, but he had never thought it anything remarkable—at most it meant a few more spiritual root attributes than others, at most a broader range of choices when it came to techniques and martial arts, and surely it was impossible to make full use of every single attribute.
Even after the Morning Star Academy selection, when he had learned the advantages of multiple spiritual root attributes, he had still never imagined that his five elements and seven attributes could be so rare as to be utterly without peer.
"Even those five-element mediums who opened Cloud-Tier Island were ultimately nothing but chess pieces, doomed in the end to collapse under the strain and be discarded. You, boy, are the sole exception." Here Ghost Thing's voice grew thick with feeling. "Those inheritor sweethearts of yours—to keep you from harm, every one of them fought to the death to shield you, willing to die themselves rather than let you take the hurt. Such true devotion could move heaven and earth. That you finally made it onto the island at all—every bit of that chance was bought for you by their desperate struggle."
As a former Azure Dragon, Ghost Thing's values were worlds apart from those of human cultivators. The loves and passions of humans especially—he had always scoffed at them, dismissed them with a curl of his lip. Yet this time, what Wei Zhao's inheritor sweethearts had done moved him genuinely for the first time in his life.
Never before had he known that the bond between man and woman could be so selfless, so magnificent. It was truly beyond comprehension. Such a thing could never happen among spirit beasts—perhaps this was the greatest difference between humans and spirit beasts.
"Yes. And who knows how they are faring now." As Ghost Thing sighed, Wei Zhao's thoughts were pulled at once back to the mortal realm. From the day he set foot on Cloud-Tier Island until now, a full year and a half had passed. If it were possible, how he longed to fly back to the mortal world this very moment and see with his own eyes how his beloved women fared.