Chapter 1537 — Refusal
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"But... are men not forbidden from entering the inner court of the Ice Palace?" Xiao Qing asked, taken slightly aback.
"He is no outsider... he is the husband of our next Ice Palace Master..." The Ice Palace Master shook her head, so vexed she laughed at herself.
"Ah... very well!" Xiao Qing answered and left the room.
Hearing the Ice Palace Master send Xiao Qing to fetch Wei Zhao, Feng Xiaoxiao finally breathed a sigh of relief. Before this, although the Ice Palace Master and Xiao Qing had told her Wei Zhao was fine and waiting outside, Feng Xiaoxiao had not quite believed them.
After all, everyone here was a stranger. Though they had all been at her side when she awoke, and by all reason they must be her saviors, with Wei Zhao absent Feng Xiaoxiao could never feel entirely at ease.
"Do not worry, he is unharmed. The number one expert below Earth-tier is no simple figure..." The Ice Palace Master felt a headache coming on. Feng Xiaoxiao seemed utterly obedient to Wei Zhao's every word, forcing even someone as unskilled at flattery as herself to speak a few kind words about him before Feng Xiaoxiao!
For things had strayed from what she had foreseen. In the Ice Palace Master's view, once Feng Xiaoxiao awoke, she had only to propose taking a disciple on her master's behalf and Feng Xiaoxiao would gladly agree. She could not believe anyone would refuse such generous terms!
Yet after hearing it, Feng Xiaoxiao seemed utterly unmoved, as though joining the Ice Palace were nothing remarkable at all, and she even wanted Wei Zhao to decide for her. It nearly drove the Ice Palace Master to distraction!
To bring Feng Xiaoxiao into the Ice Palace, the Ice Palace Master could only humble herself and force out a few words of praise for Wei Zhao before Feng Xiaoxiao, hoping to leave a good impression on the girl. Should she truly refuse to join, the loss to the Ice Palace would be immense!
Admittedly, becoming an inner disciple of the Ice Palace was an exceedingly difficult thing for an ordinary cultivator, but likewise, for the Ice Palace to find a disciple after its own heart, one of outstanding talent, was every bit as hard as scaling the heavens!
That was why, all these years, the Ice Palace Master and Xiao Qing had searched in vain for one with the Ice Heart Jade Bones constitution, while Feng Xiaoxiao was precisely the person the Ice Palace sought. Indeed, her aptitude even exceeded the Ice Palace's expectations. How could the Ice Palace possibly let her go?
Powerful though the Ice Palace was, keeping Feng Xiaoxiao here to cultivate, to accept the legacy, and even to open Cloud Tier Island all required Feng Xiaoxiao's own willing consent. Otherwise, forcing her would be useless. They could hardly kill her, after all?
"The number one expert below Earth-tier? What does that mean?" At anything concerning Wei Zhao, Feng Xiaoxiao's interest quickened at once, and she hurried to ask.
The Ice Palace Master was by nature no lover of idle chatter, but since Feng Xiaoxiao had asked, and to build goodwill with her future junior sister, she had no choice but to patiently recount how Wei Zhao had taken part in the trial and sought medicine for her.
Feng Xiaoxiao listened entranced, and when she heard how Wei Zhao had carried her on his back and stood for fifteen days and fifteen nights before the gates of the Ice Palace without rest and without touching a morsel of food, she could no longer hold back her moved tears. "My hubby Wei Zhao is so good to me..."