Chapter 2744 — The Worsening Condition
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
Shaking his head, Xuanzhen Ancestor could only force those thoughts aside. Some things he could not change; he could only endure them in silence.
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Wei Zhao had stopped cultivating with the fragrance from Wang Xinyan's body, which left Wang Xinyan rather puzzled. She looked at Wei Zhao, who was earnestly reading his book and listening to the lecture, and asked with a strange expression, "You... why have you stopped cultivating?"
"Oh, isn't it almost finals? I'm doing some reviewing," Wei Zhao said offhandedly.
"Reviewing? Weren't you specially exempted by Teacher Bai? You can skip the finals and get the credits directly, can't you?" Wang Xinyan blinked, somewhat surprised by his answer.
"Heh, that's what they say, but I still have to take the exams..." Wei Zhao said with a smile.
"Then you still don't need to review so seriously..." Wang Xinyan bit her lip and said anxiously, "How about you cultivate? I'll take off my outer clothes?"
"Huh?" Wei Zhao was taken aback, staring at Wang Xinyan.
"I... I just want you to make the most of your time cultivating, nothing else..." Wang Xinyan truly meant nothing else. She wanted Wei Zhao to cultivate as quickly as possible and gain the strength to contend with the Xuandan Sect as soon as possible, so that she would no longer have to live in constant fear every day. That was why she wanted to help Wei Zhao raise his strength however she could.
At first, Wei Zhao had not wanted to say anything, but seeing the look on Wang Xinyan's face, if he did not explain clearly, she was clearly poised to dig to the bottom of it. Helpless, Wei Zhao could only explain, "Xinyan, it's not that I don't want to cultivate—it's your body... it seems the problem arose because of my cultivation!"
"My body? What's wrong?" Wang Xinyan was startled, not quite understanding what Wei Zhao meant.
"Lately, haven't you been having this trouble of drowsiness? I suspect it's because I absorbed the fragrance from your body," Wei Zhao said.
"What? The fragrance on my body?" Wang Xinyan stared at Wei Zhao in astonishment, but at that moment, prompted by his reminder, something occurred to her: "So on the nights when you're not there, I can get up normally the next morning—is that it?"
"Yes, that's exactly it." Wei Zhao nodded. "I'm not absolutely certain, but it's probably close to the mark. That's why I stopped cultivating, to keep your body's problem from getting worse."
"Ah... this... then what about your cultivation!" Wang Xinyan immediately grew worried. In her plans, Wei Zhao could use her fragrance to cultivate rapidly during these few years of university, and by graduation he ought to be able to contend with the Xuandan Sect. But now that Wei Zhao could no longer cultivate with her help, the pace of his cultivation would naturally slow down, and this made Wang Xinyan rather despondent.
"It's fine. Before you came along, didn't I cultivate all the same?" Wei Zhao shrugged indifferently. "Besides, I've cultivated for so long already—I've gotten more than my share. Later on I'll just think of some other way to cultivate."
"Sigh!" Wang Xinyan sighed. She knew that, given it concerned her own body, Wei Zhao could not possibly keep cultivating, so she said, "Then can you think of a way to cure my body's problem as soon as possible? That way you could keep cultivating?"
"Hard to say for now. I give you medicine every day, but the effects aren't especially obvious. Your body seems to grow weaker by the day—you may not feel it yourself, but this is a change over a long cycle," Wei Zhao said. "So we can only wait until I've stopped cultivating and see whether you slowly recover."
"I see, all right. I really hope I get better soon..." Bolstered by her mother's support from yesterday, Wang Xinyan had grown a little bolder. "Then when the time comes, I can help you keep cultivating!"