Chapter 2868 — A Way to Save Her
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That was hardly realistic. Given Patriarch Xuanchen's temperament, he might not even have told Patriarch Xuanzhen before making his move, let alone let someone like Bai Ling know! At this thought, Tianchan pouted, gave a huff, and turned her back on Wei Zhao, refusing to speak to him.
"All right, even if I did steal your chance at the inheritance, I'll make it up to you. Will that do?" Wei Zhao said, somewhat helplessly.
"How would you make it up? Give me the attribute inside your body?" Tianchan shot him a glare and demanded.
"I hear that inheritors can pass on attributes through dual cultivation?" Wei Zhao said, eyeing Tianchan's shapely, well-proportioned figure with a faint, knowing smile.
"Dual cultivation my eye! You're no inheritor—you're just a cultivator with a five-attribute constitution. There's a fundamental difference between you and a true inheritor, and dual cultivating with you won't pass on any attributes." Tianchan curled her lip. "What a filthy, twisted mind!"
"Ugh, I was only saying it offhand—how was I supposed to know?" Wei Zhao gave a wry smile.
"Forget it. For the sake of the hardships we once shared, I, this young lady, shall forgive you this time!" Tianchan declared with haughty pride. "No need to thank me too much."
"Fine. But... what about her?" Wei Zhao was still fretting over Yang Qiqi's fate.
"I already told you there's no way. Why do you think the trial sets a limit of twenty days? That's exactly the reason." Tianchan glanced at Yang Qiqi and asked expressionlessly, "What is she to you?"
"A playmate from childhood," Wei Zhao said.
"Childhood sweethearts?" Tianchan frowned.
"You could say that..." Wei Zhao nodded, keeping nothing back.
"Then she's beyond saving," Tianchan said with a shake of her head.
"Ah!" Wei Zhao heaved a sigh. Tianchan knew the Five Baleful Wastes so well—if she said there was no way, then there truly was probably no way.
Wei Zhao stared blankly at Yang Qiqi lying on the ground. Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that being reunited with her would turn out to be a parting of life and death...
All at once, Wei Zhao was filled with regret—regret for the coldness he had shown Yang Qiqi the few times they had met before, regret that he had failed to look after her... If Yang Qiqi really died, how could he ever face his master again?
At the thought that this would be his final farewell to Xiao Qi, even Wei Zhao, whose mind was uncommonly strong, could not hold back bitter tears. Men do not weep lightly, and Wei Zhao, a cultivator besides, was all the less given to crying easily—but this time, he truly wept. He watched helplessly as the life of his childhood sweetheart ebbed slowly away, yet could do nothing at all.
Tianchan had never expected Wei Zhao to shed tears. But this baleful qi of the Five Baleful Mountains was indeed without remedy; otherwise the Xuandan Sect's trial would never have imposed such limits. Even Tianchan, the young sect mistress of the Xuandan Sect, was utterly powerless.
Yet seeing Wei Zhao so grieved dampened her own spirits as well. She had been somewhat uncomfortable with the fact that Wei Zhao had returned to the Five Baleful Mountains to save Yang Qiqi, but now that feeling was gone. Tianchan knew her own position well—the likelihood of her and Wei Zhao ever truly intertwining was not great...
So Tianchan fell into deep thought, trying to help Wei Zhao come up with a way—to see whether the baleful qi in Yang Qiqi's body could somehow be purged.
"Hey, stop crying. I've thought of a way—it should work..." A certain person had come to Tianchan's mind. If they could find him, then the baleful qi in Yang Qiqi's body ought to be curable after all.
"What way?" Wei Zhao was startled and asked at once.
"The precondition is that we must find Zhang Naipao—and only if he is willing," Tianchan said after a moment's hesitation.