Chapter 4981 — How Did He Deal With You Before?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
The three went straight upstairs, leaving the business below in Wei Shenjin's care for the time being. In the old busy days Wei Shenjin had helped out often enough, and after two years he had the work down pat.
"So you finally came to see us!" The moment they stepped into the room—before the door was even shut—Tianchan and Xueli had burrowed, impatient, into Wei Zhao's arms.
"It's been hard on you both these two years. The fault is mine—I should have come to see you sooner." Guilt threaded Wei Zhao's voice.
The two women sniffed in unison. These two-odd years had indeed been bitter ones for them—not that they begrudged the labor of holding up the Heavenly Elixir Pavilion alone; it was purely that they could not see Wei Zhao. True, they knew he could not be at their side always, but surely twice a year was not too much to ask? And yet one parting had stretched into more than two years, until the two of them were near to turning into stones waiting for their man.
"You'd better believe it. From now on you're not allowed to run off and leave us two sisters like this again, or else—" Tianchan broke off abruptly.
"Or else what?" Wei Zhao smiled.
"Or else I'll kick you!" Tianchan, cheeks flaming, gave him a light little kick.
"Me too!" Xueli, on his other side, followed suit—though when she caught hold of Wei Zhao it turned into a gentle embrace.
Wei Zhao did not know whether to laugh or cry. The two women had no real wish to kick him, of course; it was only a bit of fondness, that was all.
"After so long apart, when did you two learn to start kicking people? So savage! It seems I'll have to come pay my respects to you honestly and often from now on." Wei Zhao put on a show of meekness.
"You said it yourself—no taking it back!" Tianchan and Xueli exchanged a smile.
"That reminds me—I wonder how Brother Tian has been lately. From what Diao Huanshan said just now, can it be that he's no longer on Middle Island?" Wei Zhao turned the subject.
"That's right, he's not on Middle Island. If Brother Tian were here, would that piddling Diao Huanshan dare be so insolent?" Xueli said indignantly. Given the Heavenly Dao Walker's towering fame on Middle Island, Diao Huanshan would not have dared come swaggering in to make trouble if he'd been lent ten times the nerve; had he truly dared show his face before the Heavenly Dao Walker, he'd have been slapped to death on the spot.
"Oh? Has Brother Tian some pressing business, then—a mission to another Cloud-Tier Island?" Wei Zhao asked, curious. Just as Chu Wentian had been sent to West Island last time, the Heavenly Dao Walker, likewise a vice-island lord of Middle Island, would quite naturally be dispatched to represent Middle Island on other Cloud-Tier Islands.
"Not that. Brother Tian had reached the bottleneck of Nascent Soul Great Perfection, so some time ago he set out for the Eastern Continent, meaning to make his breakthrough to Mystic Ascension there," Tianchan explained.
"I see." Wei Zhao nodded. In the past he would surely have wondered why one had to go to the Eastern Continent for a Mystic Ascension breakthrough, but after his own journey along the Road of Giants, he understood it perfectly now.
It was not, to be sure, that a Mystic Ascension breakthrough could not be attempted elsewhere; but under ordinary circumstances it was very hard to draw down a tribulation lightning by one's own power alone—one had to meet with the right weather. And to reach the intensity of a tribulation lightning, an ordinary thunderstorm would never suffice; only if the heavenly thunder grew powerful enough to a certain degree would it serve. Plainly put, it came down to the will of Heaven.