Chapter 786 — Xiaoke's Boyfriend?
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Wei Zhao quietly set the Xuan Yuan Dragon-Taming Art circulating within him, and the energy born inside his body poured in an unbroken stream into Yu Xiaoke. Her injuries were in truth not severe, and the amount required was not great, so Wei Zhao felt no dizziness or exhaustion; before long, color returned to Yu Xiaoke's cheeks.
The old woman's eyes went wide with shock. Wei Zhao had done nothing but hold Yu Xiaoke's hand, yet Yu Xiaoke's condition was steadily improving? How could that be? It defied all reason.
Suddenly, a frightening possibility came to the old woman's mind... When she was young, she too had suffered a grave injury; not only had her martial arts been crippled by another, but her whole person had been left hanging by a thread. To keep her alive, her master had passed on the cultivation of a lifetime to her through the transmission method.
And after the transmission, her master was like a lamp with its oil spent and its wick burned out, walking toward the end of her life.
The old woman was deeply grateful to her master, and it was through this that she had come to understand the strange and almost unbelievable business of transmitting cultivation. Could it be that Wei Zhao was now transmitting cultivation to Yu Xiaoke as well?
What exactly was the relationship between Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke, that Wei Zhao could do such a thing? What kind of sacrifice was this—could ordinary friendship accomplish it? If it were the old woman herself, and Yu Xiaoke lay injured beyond cure, she could without hesitation give up her own life to save Yu Xiaoke's—but that was only because she was Yu Xiaoke's master, and the bond between master and disciple ran deep.
But why should Wei Zhao make such a sacrifice? Could it be that Wei Zhao was the boyfriend of this child Yu Xiaoke? The old woman suddenly struck upon this possibility and began to wonder. If not, then on what grounds would Wei Zhao sacrifice himself to save Yu Xiaoke? Was he a fool?
Once the thought took hold, the old woman grew ever more certain of her guess. Yu Xiaoke was eighteen this year, after all, old enough for love. She herself had overlooked the matter, still treating the girl as a child—but in truth, Yu Xiaoke was no longer small.
And the pressure Yu Xiaoke bore every day was simply too great. Supporting an orphanage all on her own was too hard and too exhausting; with the comfort of affection, her burden might at least be eased a little.
Of course, the old woman's standards for Yu Xiaoke's boyfriend were strict. But now, seeing Wei Zhao use his true qi to save Yu Xiaoke, she dismissed her doubts about his character at once. If he did not truly care for Xiaoke, who on earth would go to such lengths?
"Phew..." Wei Zhao let out a long breath and released Yu Xiaoke's hand.
The true qi Yu Xiaoke required was far less than what Feng Xiaoxiao, Gu Mengyao, or General Weiwu had needed, so although Wei Zhao had lost some true qi, to him it was no more than a drop in the bucket.
"There, she should wake before long." Wei Zhao let out a breath of relief. He had his own standards for how to conduct himself; though he could help Qiu Lingshan solve her case, he could just as well thwart Qiu Lingshan's pursuit of Yu Xiaoke. "I'll be going now."
"What? You're leaving already?" The old woman was truly baffled now. What baffled her, first of all, was that after using his true qi to save Yu Xiaoke, Wei Zhao neither flushed nor panted—which struck the old woman as very strange.
There were only two possibilities for such a thing. One was that Wei Zhao's strength far exceeded anything she could imagine. The other was that what Wei Zhao had used was not true qi at all—then what was it?
The second thing that baffled the old woman was this: Wei Zhao had spent such effort to save Yu Xiaoke, and by any normal reckoning he ought to be waiting for her to wake, at which point Yu Xiaoke would surely be touched beyond measure.