Chapter 1821 — Tang Zhi's Decision (Part One)
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"This Art of Heartlessness of the founding ancestor is a real curse..." Gu Mengyao said. "She got her heart broken, so she went and ruined everyone else..."
"You cannot put it quite that way. Perhaps only under such anguish of heart could she have created the Art of Heartlessness, that peerless martial art without equal, and made it Snow Valley's treasure to guard the sect!" Tang Zhi said. "Only, perhaps she never imagined that such a thing as this would come to pass—for all who practice this heart method in Snow Valley have no lovers. They have trained here since childhood and never had the chance for love, so to them it is nothing at all..."
"You have a point. Someone like you, who took up the path midway, is truly rare!" Gu Mengyao nodded. "But to think you have such a formidable constitution—no wonder you endure the cold so well, and in summer your body is cool and can cool Little Shu down..."
"Yes, I am the very opposite of her..." Tang Zhi smiled, and to ease the stifling mood, she made a joke of it. "Little Shu is my exact opposite. Could she be some kind of inheritor? Perhaps even a fire-element inheritor, who knows?"
"Huh? Now that you mention it, that is true! Little Shu really is your opposite—she withstands heat yet fears it, while you withstand cold yet fear it!" Gu Mengyao was rather surprised to discover this strange phenomenon.
"How... how could that be?" Shen Yushu's expression shifted slightly, then returned to normal, and she said with a foolish air, "What are the odds of such a coincidence? If it were so, then Brother Arrowhead would have inheritors all around him—would that not be too formidable? And if I am fire-element and Sister Yun is ice-element, we could play ice and fire with Brother Arrowhead!"
"Heh... you can play with Xiaoxiao... as for me..." Tang Zhi gave a bitter smile, and her thoughts turned once more to the Art of Heartlessness.
"Little Shu, what nonsense are you spouting? It seems you really are asking for a beating today!" Seeing Tang Zhi's distress, Gu Mengyao shot Little Shu a glare. This girl truly had a knack for bringing up the very things one wished to avoid!
"It was not my idea—it was you two who said I was some fire-element..." Shen Yushu said, somewhat aggrieved.
"Then pretend you are not, all right? Now shut your mouth!" Gu Mengyao said.
"Oh..." Shen Yushu obediently closed her mouth.
As for Tang Zhi's affair, no matter how Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu reasoned or what they said, the matter could not be broached. After all, if Tang Zhi stayed, she would suffer greatly; and if she did not stay, then what of Wei Zhao?
So this choice could only be made by Tang Zhi herself. No one else could truly interfere.
And so the night passed... Though Tang Zhi had gone many days in hunger and exhaustion, after receiving the inheritance she seemed reborn, and there was an indescribable presence about her whole person. She had not slept all night, yet felt not the slightest drowsiness or fatigue—rather, she was full of vigor.
The only pity was that her eyes were red-rimmed, as though she had wept all night... But at last, she had made her final decision!
Early that morning, the Grand Elder came with Elder Zhang and Xue Li to the guest rooms where Tang Zhi and the others were staying.