Chapter 2699 — Yu Xiaoke Treats
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"True, that is so. Or once I have advanced to a Heaven-rank expert, I could raise your strength to the peak of the late Earth rank," Wei Zhao said. "There is a drawback, though. If you do not accept it, then I will only heal your injuries, and you may cultivate on your own—that way you will be under no restriction at all."
"Cultivate on my own?" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, White Leader gave a bitter laugh. "You surely do not think I could cultivate faster on my own than with you raising my strength for me? By the time you advance to a Heaven-rank expert, I doubt my own cultivation would even get me into the Mystic rank! Compared with becoming an expert at the peak of the late Earth rank by then, it is naturally easier for you to raise me."
"But you were once an expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank, were you not?" Wei Zhao did not even need to ask; he could guess. White Leader must once have been an expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank—otherwise, how could he not be, when even those of his disciples' generation were at the peak of the late Heaven rank? White Leader had, after all, been the sect master of the Five Luminaries Sect!
"That is true enough, but you must also understand how I came by that peak late Heaven-rank strength. First, that place was rich in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, with countless rare treasures and every kind of elixir and cultivation resource at hand—the speed of advancing one's strength there simply cannot be spoken of in the same breath as now!" White Leader explained. "Back then my cultivation advanced a thousand li a day; nowadays, a li in a thousand days would be good enough. There is no comparison at all."
"That is so..." Wei Zhao nodded. He had overlooked this matter before. White Leader was now no different from a wandering cultivator; cultivating on his own, he could not possibly achieve anything.
And that place—when even Little One and Little Eleven disdained the energy stones in Sun Jingyan's hands, how abundant must the cultivation resources of their sect have been? The energy in those stones was nearly exhausted, true, but any other cultivator would not have let them slip by, would they?
Yet in the eyes of Little One and Little Eleven, they were mere trash!
"So if it is possible, raise both my strength and Xinxin's. If Xinxin cultivates alongside me, she will struggle to achieve much in this life, unless..." Here White Leader paused and did not go on.
"What is it?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback.
"Nothing." White Leader shook his head. "There are some matters you are better off not knowing for now."
Wei Zhao nodded and did not press him further. "True enough. That is my plan for Guan Xin as well—I intend to raise her strength all the way up, the same as Jingjing. But as for you, if you have thought it through, then naturally there is no problem. Tonight I will raise yours first."
"Many thanks!" Though White Leader had long guessed this outcome, hearing Wei Zhao agree in person still moved him deeply.
"No need for thanks. You and I are master and disciple; a disciple ought to do all he can for his master's injuries—and besides, you are even going to brave the ancient tomb for the sake of my constitution?" Wei Zhao said with a smile and a wave of his hand.
"Heh, then I will say no more of thanks. But as for the ancient tomb—apart from helping you, I want to go myself as well. It is, after all, the ancient tomb of our Five Luminaries Sect's founding patriarch," White Leader said.
As they spoke, the car had already reached the residential compound of Guan Xuewen's villa. Wei Zhao got out of the car along with White Leader and Guan Xin; he wanted to pay Guan Xuewen a visit first, and then go find Yu Xiaoke.
When Guan Xuewen learned that Wei Zhao, his granddaughter, and his old friend were all coming today, he was overjoyed. He had waited at the villa's gate since early on, and at the sight of White Leader's car he hurried forward at once.