Chapter 3001 — His Name Is Lin Dongfang! (Second Update, Asking for Monthly Votes!!)
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"He... actually reached the Heaven rank?" Bingtang said with some emotion. That she herself could enter the Heaven rank at such a young age was already very rare. Although the various sects all had stores of miraculous elixirs, breaking through to the Heaven rank was different from other levels. The Qi-Gathering Pill was best avoided if possible; no one would use it unless absolutely necessary, which was also why the Dark Night Palace had waited until this moment to use it.
After all, once the Qi-Gathering Pill was used, one's strength would be frozen at the moment of advancement. From then on, unless one kept taking Qi-Gathering Pills without end, or received an enlightenment inheritance and no longer faced level barriers, one's cultivation path for the rest of this life would be locked in place.
"Indeed, Palace Master. Wei Zhao really is a young man of great promise. If he weren't already Vice Palace Master Feng's boyfriend, you might well consider him yourself," Aunt Qing said with some feeling.
Bingtang's face flushed at once. Thinking of how she had once promised Wei Zhao that she would be his tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny wife, an inexplicable panic rose in her heart. Watching Wei Zhao grow step by step, was she really going to marry him one day?
What Bingtang had said back then was merely words spoken in anger. She had never imagined that such a day would truly come for Wei Zhao. But now Wei Zhao was already an expert of the early Heaven rank, and what the future held was truly hard to say.
"Aunt Qing, since when have you ever spoken a good word for a man? Didn't you tell me before that all men are unreliable?" Bingtang changed the subject, because she truly could not imagine what she would look like as Wei Zhao's tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny wife.
"Back then, that man and I had feelings for each other, but he rejected me. Perhaps he had his own difficulties. In the past I thought he looked down on me, but after he left for so many years and there was no news of him or the old Palace Master, I gradually came to understand that he rejected me for my own good. If he had accepted me back then, how would I have endured all these years of longing?" Aunt Qing sighed. Though she looked young, she was in truth nearly forty years old.
"Oh? Aunt Qing, you've come around?" Bingtang was startled and looked at Aunt Qing in surprise.
"Yes. After what happened with Wei Zhao, and seeing Vice Palace Master Feng and her lover separated, the two of them unable to be together for one reason or another, I finally understood. Perhaps that man had his difficulties too." Aunt Qing said, "I just don't know how he is now, whether he's living well."
"I'm glad you've come around, Aunt Qing!" Bingtang breathed a sigh of relief. Aunt Qing's affairs had in fact also been a weight on Bingtang's mind. "Aunt Qing, since you've come around, have you decided to marry?"
"Of course not. Back then, that man said that if there was truly any possibility, he would come back to find me. At the time I thought his words were merely perfunctory, but thinking about it now, perhaps they truly were not!" Aunt Qing shook her head and said, "So I will wait for him, always!"
Bingtang nodded. She understood Aunt Qing. This matter had weighed on her heart for more than ten years; how could it be set aside just because one willed it? Still, Bingtang had finally found a chance to ask: "Aunt Qing, I didn't dare ask before because of your feelings, but now that you've come around, could you tell me about those years? Rumor has it in the martial world that those two experts who appeared out of nowhere were both Heaven Path rank experts, and that your lover was actually a Heaven Path expert. That really is incredible!"
"Heh, rumors are not necessarily reliable. In fact, I asked him whether he was a cultivator, whether he was a Heaven Path expert. At the time he did not answer directly, but gave a rather ambiguous answer!" Aunt Qing said with a smile.