Chapter 1818 — Heartless
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Ice Heart Jade Bone—what one cultivates is the ice heart, and the mental method you cultivate is also called the Heartless Art. The so-called Heartless Art means heartlessness! If there is love in your heart, it will greatly hinder your cultivation!" the Grand Elder said. "So to ensure you smoothly cultivate to the peak of the late Heaven rank, I will give you a dose of medicine prepared with Emotion-Forgetting Grass. From then on, you will forget him; in your heart, this person will no longer exist!"
"Ah!" Tang Zhi could not help crying out at the Grand Elder's words. She had never expected that if she stayed here, she would never be able to see Wei Zhao again—and moreover, she would have to take some Emotion-Forgetting Grass to forget him!
"There's no need to be surprised. Earlier, your pleas did not move me in the slightest—that too is because of the Heartless Art!" the Grand Elder said mildly. "Gain and loss go together. Think it over yourself!"
"I..." A look of pain flickered across Tang Zhi's face, and Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were astonished as well. They had never imagined that cultivating this Heartless Art required taking Emotion-Forgetting Grass—that one had to forget Wei Zhao. To Tang Zhi, this was simply unbearable pain!
"You should have sensed it—Little Li and I carry an air that naturally keeps others a thousand miles away. When you come near us, there is a chill. That is the Heartless Art!" the Grand Elder said.
Had the Grand Elder not mentioned it, Tang Zhi might not have noticed; but with the reminder, she recalled that from their first meeting until now, they indeed carried an air of coldness and distance that kept people away—an air that made one unwilling to approach them and involuntarily bred a fearful sense of distance.
"I... can I not take it?" Tang Zhi asked hesitantly. She desperately wanted to save Wei Zhao, but she did not want to forget him for the rest of her life! If she forgot Wei Zhao, what meaning would cultivation have? Was not her greatest dream in this life to become a cultivator so that she would not be a burden to Wei Zhao?
"There is love in your heart. If you don't take it, it is not entirely impossible, but overcoming the inner demon will become very difficult. If you are the slightest bit careless, love and heartlessness will intertwine and affect each other, and you will suffer qi deviation!" the Grand Elder said. "Even without qi deviation, the mutual restraint would be extremely painful! Of course, you are Bingtang's younger sister—if you do suffer qi deviation and ask her for a Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit, she will surely give you one."
"This..." Tang Zhi was at a loss after hearing the Grand Elder's words. She knew the Grand Elder was by no means making idle threats—it was simply the truth. A cultivator of her level would not fabricate such lies to deceive Tang Zhi!