Chapter 4766 — The Engagement Gift
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"You'll be heading back to the Southern Continent soon, and who knows when we'll meet again, so I must have you take your engagement gift with you now—otherwise, if neither the man nor the gift shows up when the time comes, that would be inexcusable," Wei Zhao said with a smile.
"Engagement?" Qi Wenmo was struck dumb for a moment. These past days he had thought of nothing but being inseparable from Xia Qianqian, and had truly never seriously considered the matter! And this was no small matter. Only... though Xia Qianqian had agreed, the Xia family might not be so easy to persuade.
Beside him, Xia Qianqian's face flushed bright red at once, lovely and charming, her brows and eyes brimming with shyness and happiness.
"Of course—happy occasions like this should come sooner rather than later. Don't tell me you mean to keep Miss Xia dangling like this, Brother Qi? That would be heartless," Wei Zhao said, teasing him with a look, then drew from his robe a finely made wooden box he had long since prepared. He had specifically had Ning Xuefei find it earlier; carved upon the Southern Continent miniature map on its lid was a great 'double happiness' character—elegant and festive at once.
"Brother Ling, I haven't even figured out how to handle this yet. Getting past the Xia family will be no easy thing..." Qi Wenmo shook his head with a bitter smile. He had no idea what was in the box, but since it was an engagement gift, whatever it was he would not refuse it—this was, after all, Wei Zhao's heartfelt gesture.
Xia Qianqian's expression was somewhat complicated as well. To be with Qi Wenmo—she herself was more than willing—but she was not a lone individual; safeguarding the family's interests was the first principle drilled into her since childhood. If Qi Wenmo could not satisfy the Xia family—above all, win her father's approval—then this matter would be harder than reaching the heavens.
"No rush—take a look at the gift first," Wei Zhao said with a laugh.
Qi Wenmo and Xia Qianqian were taken aback. In their eyes, opening another's gift on the spot was a grave breach of courtesy, but under the urging of Wei Zhao's gaze they still lifted the lid, and two pills faintly crackling with arcs of lightning came into view.
"Thunder Profound Pills?!" Qi Wenmo and Xia Qianqian cried out in spite of themselves, and luckily had the presence of mind to clap their hands over their mouths at once—otherwise the passersby would surely have heard.
Xia Qianqian was utterly stunned now, an incredulous light flickering in her eyes; she covered her mouth and for a long while could not speak. The last time Wei Zhao had given away a top-grade Golden Core of Infant Gathering, that gesture alone had been astonishing enough—and now this time it was even more outrageous, straight to seventh-grade Thunder Profound Pills, and two of them at that, counting her share as well!
Before, it had been a Golden Core of Infant Gathering to usher one into the Nascent Soul stage; now hard on its heels came two Thunder Profound Pills. Had she not witnessed it herself, Xia Qianqian would never in her wildest dreams have imagined there could be a man of such grandeur under heaven. Compared with this man, the so-called top geniuses of her own family could not even show their faces—they would only disgrace themselves.
"Brother Ling, this..." Qi Wenmo gulped for a long while before lowering his voice to ask timidly, "Did you refine these yourself?"
Had he not known that Wei Zhao had just recently come into possession of a Thunder Profound Vine, even he would not have dared believe Wei Zhao capable of refining Thunder Profound Pills—after all, a seventh-grade alchemist was a rarity so rare that across the whole Southern Continent, outside the spirit beast race, one could scarcely be found anywhere in the territories of human cultivators!