Chapter 2903 — Great Understanding
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"You... know that I'm in contact with her?" Wei Zhao was startled. His contact with Xiao Jiu was one-way only—such had been the rule of the assassin organization in the past. By rights, Yang Qiqi should not have known. But...
"You're an assassin of the Assassin Group, of course. Any assassin carrying out missions in the outside world is in contact with Xiao Jiu; it's only that many of them don't know who the others are. But Brother Wei Zhao must surely know who Xiao Jiu is," Yang Qiqi said.
"I'd forgotten that..." Wei Zhao could only laugh wryly at this. "Then... you won't blame me for never coming back to find you all, or for never contacting you?"
"Of course not. Father said that after an assassin finishes a mission, he shouldn't contact his teammates under his original identity—if one person runs into trouble, it could easily drag the others down. That's exactly why Little Seven hasn't made up her mind to go looking for Brother A-Yi all these years..." Yang Qiqi shook her head. "I never thought fate was written in the stars, and Little Seven would run into Brother A-Yi again. But from the look of it now, Brother Wei Zhao, you're no longer an assassin—you've set foot in the cultivation world?"
"Mm. An assassin is confined to the mundane world. In truth, if not for certain people and certain things, I might never have had anything to do with the cultivation world in my whole life. But the people and things around me forced me to swim against the current and step onto a higher plane—if I don't go after them, they come after me and the people close to me..." Wei Zhao said. "Like this time. Without my reputation in the cultivation world, no matter how much Tianchan helped, there was no way the Yellow Earth High Sect would have handed over two vials of earth-attribute essence liquid so willingly."
"That's true enough. I never expected Brother Wei Zhao to be so formidable—good at whatever line of work he takes up. In the cultivation world, he's actually carved out a place for himself too! From now on, Little Seven will follow Brother Wei Zhao and make her way with him!" Seeing Wei Zhao's strength made Yang Qiqi happier than if it had been her own.
Wei Zhao knew Yang Qiqi's character well. Though she seemed cold and aloof on the surface, she was in fact a girl with a tough exterior and a fragile heart. She was not cut out to be an assassin. Because of her parents, she had been trained as one from a very young age; she had walked that path not out of any personal preference.
At first Yang Qiqi had been somewhat resistant, but after they came to know each other, Wei Zhao could sense that she trained for his sake—and by now, she was striving for Xiao Jiu's sake.
In the trials of the Ice Palace and at the cultivators' market, Yang Qiqi had shed tears, laying bare the fragile side of her heart. Beneath that cool disguise, Yang Qiqi's strength came only from a single unwavering conviction.
One could feel just how hard the years had been for Yang Qiqi. Once, the assassin organization had been renowned far and wide in the mundane world, but in the cultivation world it counted for nothing at all. Everything had to start over; the background of the past was nothing but passing clouds. RS