Chapter 1629 — Going Out Together
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Since entering the Ice Palace, Feng Xiaoxiao had not idled for a single moment. Apart from eating and sleeping, she cultivated here every day; she was very likely the most diligent of all the Ice Palace's disciples. But everyone understood the weight resting on her shoulders—a Successor was a role of great consequence, and one had to exist if Cloud Terrace Island was ever to be opened.
"Senior Sister?" Feng Xiaoxiao finished her practice and lifted her head to find Bing Tang standing not far before her, and could not help but start. "Why have you come?"
With the strength she had now, Feng Xiaoxiao naturally could not have sensed Bing Tang's approach.
"Xiaoxiao, are you settling in well enough at the Ice Palace?" Bing Tang sat down at Feng Xiaoxiao's side, with none of a Palace Master's airs about her.
"Well enough..." Feng Xiaoxiao could not see Wei Zhao, so of course she was not truly happy; but when she thought that this brief parting was for the sake of a long life together afterward, her heart eased again.
"In a few days I am going out. Will you come with me?" Bing Tang asked.
"Going out? Where to? Can I go and see my husband Wei Zhao?" Feng Xiaoxiao came alive at once.
"That..." Bing Tang smiled wryly. A moment ago Feng Xiaoxiao had acted as though it were nothing to her, and at the first mention of going out she was all eagerness. Still, Bing Tang did not want her seeing Wei Zhao. To speak honestly, Bing Tang did not think much of Wei Zhao's strength: he might be hailed as the finest under the Earth tier, but never mind under the Earth tier—were he the finest under the Heaven tier, Bing Tang would still not think much of him.
In time, Feng Xiaoxiao would become the Successor, with hope of crossing into the Heavenly Dao and reaching that plane of legend. By then, Wei Zhao's strength would seem pitifully weak in her eyes. Would she still cling to him so?
Yet from what Bing Tang had observed, it seemed she would. The bond between those two was not measured by strength. Wei Zhao had once been no more than a Profound-tier expert, yet for the sake of a Feng Xiaoxiao with no strength at all he had entered the trials, and had gone from one to the next offending men far stronger than himself—that in itself said enough.
"The two places are far apart, so I cannot promise, but if there is time, you may meet." Bing Tang did not refuse her junior sister's plea. In the Ice Palace she was severe with others, but with this strange, clever little junior sister she could never bring herself to be severe.
Severe or not, her way of speaking to you never changed in the slightest; when Bing Tang was with her, she even found herself unwittingly growing a little peculiar.
"Wonderful!" Feng Xiaoxiao was delighted. "I am a Yellow-tier expert already—when my husband Wei Zhao sees that, he will be so happy!"
Feng Xiaoxiao's cultivation speed was indeed no slow thing; in less than a month she had become a Yellow-tier expert. Only a special constitution paired with a special cultivation method, in the Land of Inheritance, could produce such a result.
"..." Bing Tang was rather at a loss for words.
The next day, Bing Tang, Feng Xiaoxiao, and Xiao Qing set out on their journey, and traveling with them were Old Master Tang, Tang Yu, and Xiao Ming of the Hidden Tang family.
By this time the Hidden Tang family had at last received Old Master Tang's definite word, and learned what the purpose of his journey was.
Before Old Master Tang had confirmed Bing Tang's parentage, he naturally would not have said anything rash; if Tang Yu had truly been mistaken, the affair would have blown up beyond all mending.
Not only would the Hidden Tang family be made a laughingstock—the Ice Palace, too, might well lay the blame at their door.