Chapter 5167 — Wei Zhao's Origins, Part Two
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"All right. Since you've asked so earnestly, I'll graciously humor you with a bit more sincerity. I didn't tell you these things before because your level wasn't high enough, boy—say a hundred things and it'd still be wasted breath. But now, well, it's still useless, but at least it can point you in the direction you should be striving toward, so you don't just mark time and grow smug with yourself. That good enough for you?" Lin Dongfang said, glancing at him sidelong.
"Still completely insincere, but at least it sounds more like human speech." Wei Zhao chuckled. "Actually, even without all that, I would never mark time. Because I don't cultivate just for myself—I cultivate for the people around me. For their sake, I could never stop moving forward."
That was the truth. Take what he had done on Cloud Terrace Island: returning to the mundane world to heal his bevy of beauties had been his greatest driving force, and it was precisely for that reason that he had never dared slacken for a moment. In a mere three years he had shot all the way from the early Foundation Establishment stage to the early Mystic Ascension stage—a miracle that, quite apart from outsiders finding it hard to understand, seemed unbelievable even to him when he looked back on it.
"Not bad. So you do have some sense of responsibility after all," Lin Dongfang said—a rare word of praise.
"Oh, right—there's one more thing I've been wanting to ask." Wei Zhao suddenly produced the jade pendant he wore close to his body and asked, "What's the story with this jade pendant of mine? You must know, don't you?"
Although the pendant had come to him by chance encounter in the cave dwelling, once he had gradually discovered its wondrous properties, he knew its origins could not be simple. And from Lin Dongfang's subsequent behavior, it was plain that the old man was definitely in the know—and very likely, this wondrous jade pendant had everything to do with the old man.
At that, Lin Dongfang was silent for a moment, as though recalling the past, and then he slowly began: "Back then, your master and I, and your father too, roamed together through the valleys of Miao Territory. There we came to know a very formidable doctor of science and technology. His name was Sun Jichuan."
"Wait! Sun Jichuan?!" A flash went through Wei Zhao's mind, and he leaped up in shock. "Isn't Sun Jichuan Jingjing's master? He was actually a friend of yours?"
"Not only that—he was one of the mad scientists under your grandfather's command. Back then he came to Earth precisely to protect your father. In a sense, it was even a pair of his wondrous spectacles that made your master what he is—that was the starting point from which your master rose from the ordinary to the extraordinary." Here Lin Dongfang could not help but grow a little wistful.
He thought back to those years—his own days had been as full of legend and color as Wei Zhao's. The name of the Twin Vajra Fiends had once struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it, and now here he was, tucked away in West Star Mountain Village, living out his old age. The thought drew a sigh from him.
"Then what does he have to do with the jade pendant?" Wei Zhao was utterly bewildered by all this.
"The connection is simple. He made it." Lin Dongfang's words were shocking.
"Huh? He made it? This thing can actually be made by human hands?" Wei Zhao was absolutely dumbstruck. The longer he had it, the more he discovered the marvels of his jade pendant—to call it a thing that steals the craftsmanship of heaven and earth was no exaggeration at all. He had always assumed it must be some exotic treasure of the natural world, and never imagined that Sun Jichuan had created it. What level of technology would that take?! (To be continued.)