Chapter 3537 — Back to West Star Mountain
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"Uh... we're all cultivators, a bit of fighting and killing is only normal, isn't it?" Wei Zhao said, somewhat embarrassed; the memory of old times surfaced, and he couldn't help but smile warmly. "By the way, what state of mind were you talking about?"
"I... when I learned earlier that Sister Xue Li and Wei Zhao had also... done that, I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking you wouldn't stand in the way of Wei Zhao and me anymore. And then afterward, all of a sudden, I sensed a glimmer of breakthrough insight..." Tang Zhi said.
"Eh? That's strange!" Xue Li was startled when she heard it.
"Little Sister Tang Zhi, you have to call her Little Sister Xue Li, not Sister Xue Li!" Bing Tang said.
"Then you have to call her Sister Tang Zhi too—why do you call her little sister?" Xue Li glared at Bing Tang, refusing to let it go.
"I'm her actual paternal cousin. Are you?" Bing Tang said smugly.
"I... I'm her senior martial sister!" Xue Li said.
"Senior martial sister doesn't count for anything—I even have to call Xiao Xiao 'sister'!" Bing Tang shot back.
"Hmph, fine, I'll call her that, what's so special about it—as if I needed you to tell me!" Xue Li said, then turned to ask, "Sister Tang Zhi, did you really find an opportunity for breakthrough?"
"Mm... but it was only a fleeting feeling, as if the heaven and earth spiritual energy around me wasn't enough for me to break through. If I could go somewhere rich in spiritual energy, I think I could break through!" Tang Zhi said. "Or, if I could return to the Five Evils Wasteland, I imagine I could break through under that oppressive might as well!"
"I see!" Wei Zhao frowned and said, "Places rich in heaven and earth spiritual energy really aren't easy to find these days. As for the Five Evils Wasteland—can we even get in again?"
As he spoke, Wei Zhao looked toward Tian Chan, not far away, and asked.
"No. That teleportation array can only be used once in a certain period—one trip there and back and it's spent. To use it again, we'd have to wait a very long time." Tian Chan said. "How long exactly, I'm not sure either."
"What about the trial teleportation array?" Wei Zhao asked, somewhat disappointed, nodding for her to continue. If they went in through the trial teleportation array, the journey to the Five Evils Mountain Range would be longer, but with that ghost thing's oppressive might around, there shouldn't be any danger!
"That one can be activated once a year," Tian Chan said.
"A year—too long to wait." Wei Zhao was rather helpless. If only Tang Zhi could enter the jade pendant space—that was a place of truly refined energy—but Tang Zhi couldn't get in; only he could. "We'll take it one step at a time. Who knows, maybe we'll find a breakthrough on the road. For now, let's start with Yun Yun's situation and figure out why she sensed the opportunity for breakthrough just because her mood improved."
"Could it be... just as Wei Zhao said, that Ancestor Xue truly pined for Zhang Lifeng all those years, and that was how she managed to cultivate the Heartless Art to perfection? And Yun Yun felt the opportunity for breakthrough because she let go of the shackles in her heart?" Xue Li was reluctant to believe it, but the facts were right before her eyes, leaving her no choice.
"Heartless, yet full of feeling?" Wei Zhao agreed upon hearing it. "That must be it. If we'd relieved Tang Zhi's heart of its burden long ago, she probably would have broken through already..."
"This... it's all my fault," Xue Li said apologetically.
"It's not your fault, Sister Xue... little sister. This is a rule our Snow Valley has passed down as well." Tang Zhi shook her head. "I'll just try harder myself. Let's head back—we shouldn't delay the important business!"