Chapter 2869 — A Growing Distance
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
When Wei Zhao had asked earlier, she had actually already guessed it. Since Wei Zhao had a five-element constitution, it was only natural that he would want to learn the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm.
"Ha ha, I was only asking offhand. Actually, I already know it." Wei Zhao shrugged. He did not want to put Tianchan on the spot; he could tell she had reasons she could not speak of. Wei Zhao did not believe that the Tianchan of now would hide it from him if she were free to teach him the technique.
After all, Tianchan had given him even her sachet, and she had returned to the Five Baleful Wastes to rescue him. Wei Zhao knew that affection full well. Her silence now surely had its reasons.
"You know it?" Tianchan was startled.
"Yes. Don't forget how Zhang Naipao went mad—what I'm best at is mimicking other people's martial techniques. It's not identical, but it's about fifty percent similar!" Wei Zhao smiled. "The Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm—I learned it from someone else..."
"Tagan Long?" Tianchan knew that since Wei Zhao had recognized the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm, he must have guessed her identity and her connection to the Five Luminaries Sect. Though neither had said it aloud, both understood perfectly.
"That's the one. Is he well these days?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Not dead, but not awake either," Tianchan said with a shake of her head.
"Mm..." Wei Zhao nodded and did not pursue the subject, which had grown awkward for them both.
"Hey, why does it feel like we've grown so distant?" Seeing Wei Zhao fall silent, Tianchan felt somewhat stifled. She wondered if she had been too bored and insisted on exposing the truth about Wei Zhao receiving the inheritance—leaving them both uncomfortable.
"Actually, I was just thinking—why didn't you get hurt again earlier..." Wei Zhao flashed a toothy grin. He too sensed the awkwardness, so he made a joke of it.
"You're impossible!" How could Tianchan miss his meaning? She shot him a glare. "How can you be so filthy? Can't you be serious for once?"
"A moment ago I was serious and you said we'd grown distant; now I'm not serious and you call me filthy. I'm truly wronged!" Wei Zhao shrugged and smiled bitterly.
"I didn't tell you to act like a rogue either!" Tianchan rolled her eyes. "Hey, tell me about you and your childhood sweetheart."
"You mean her?" Wei Zhao pointed at Yang Qiqi. He hesitated, then nodded—but he chose his words carefully. Some things could be told, and those Wei Zhao naturally told; others could not, and those he left out...
The story was plain, one might even say dull and dry to the extreme—every day was nothing but training and more training—yet Tianchan listened with keen relish...
When Wei Zhao finished, Tianchan was somewhat puzzled and surprised. "So by that account, you should be an external-school cultivator. You never trained in internal-school mental methods at all growing up?"
"No. I started training in the internal school at eight," Wei Zhao said.