Chapter 3513 — It All Came Back
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Wei Zhao, please conduct yourself with some decency. This is the inheritor of our Snow Valley. Keep your hands to yourself, or do not blame me for being ungracious!" Xueli spoke up then as well, warning Wei Zhao. This was the critical moment of Tang Zhi's breakthrough to heaven-tier consummate mastery—if Wei Zhao disturbed her state of mind, it would be an unforgivable sin.
Wei Zhao glanced at Xueli coldly. "You think you can threaten me? Go ask Kang Jingming and Ancestor Xuanchen—even they would not dare speak to me like that."
"You..." Xueli's breath caught. Seeing that Kang Jingming, not far off, gave no response, she could not help but fume inwardly. Indeed, with Wei Zhao's strength, he was essentially invincible beneath the Heavenly Dao—but Wei Zhao's life had been saved by the Snow Valley!
At that thought, Xueli frowned and said to Wei Zhao, "Young Hero Lin, let us speak somewhere private."
"Oh?" Wei Zhao had no wish to step aside, but seeing Xueli's expression, he was unwilling to offend her—after all, her relationship with Tang Zhi was probably quite good, and there might be some hidden circumstances here. So he nodded and said, "Very well."
Wei Zhao followed Xueli to a cliff edge not far away. Kang Jingming saw them, but did not urge them on—Wei Zhao would die sooner or later anyway. What difference did it make whether he died sooner or later?
"Young Hero Lin, you have probably recalled a few things by now, haven't you?" Xueli sighed. She had actually known long ago that the Heartless Herb Potion worked on ordinary cultivators, but once one's strength reached heaven-tier consummate mastery, it was essentially useless.
All it took was a single fortuitous trigger to restore one's memories, and Wei Zhao was already a master of such strength, so it was no surprise to Xueli that he could remember.
"That's right. Why is Yunyun at the Snow Valley? What exactly is going on here? I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation," Wei Zhao said.
"Although your current strength is enough to hold the Snow Valley in contempt, I still must say this: you and Tang Zhi—back then, there was a deal between you and the Snow Valley! I do not wish to see you come and break that deal now that you have strength!" Xueli said. "It is true that the cultivation world respects the strong, but at the very least, we helped you, and Tang Zhi agreed to this deal of her own free will. Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were present at the time as well, and they did not object either, so..."
"Enough. Just tell me exactly what happened." Xueli's words made Wei Zhao even more astonished. Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu knew as well? And it was a deal? Tang Zhi had agreed of her own accord?
"Back then, you suffered qi deviation and needed the Icy Spirit Sacred Fruit, but Gu Mengyao's family had run into some trouble and could not come up with that much money. Just then, Tang Zhi happened to accept the Snow Valley's inheritance, so we set the condition that she stay here, and in exchange we resolved your problem." Xueli spoke simply. "Do you not remember that you suffered qi deviation before?"
"Oh?" Wei Zhao immediately sank into thought. Indeed—that was when he had returned to the West Star Mountain Village and opened the stone door a second time, intending to temper his body according to the methods within. As a result, he had suffered qi deviation...
So that was how his qi deviation had come about! And Gu Pengzhan's company had indeed run into some trouble at the time, though Wei Zhao had not thought much of it then. He had simply stepped in to resolve the problem, and afterward, because of other matters, he had never looked into it carefully again.