Chapter 4975 — Raising Her Power
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"It's just—that! We're engaged, you know. I know it's a bit improper, but who knows when we'll see each other again? Leaving a child behind is only proper..." Ning Xuefei's voice trailed off smaller and smaller, until at last it was barely audible.
"Leaving a child?!" Thank heavens Wei Zhao had not been drinking tea just then, or he would have sprayed it all over her face again. The girl's thought process truly vaulted clean over the horizon—all he had done was ask her to come by that evening. How had she leapt all the way to *that*?
"Isn't it?" Ning Xuefei, for her part, seemed genuinely puzzled.
"Er—Feifei, you've misunderstood. I really didn't call you here for that. We're not parting forever, it's only a temporary separation. Why on earth would we leave a child behind for no reason..." Wei Zhao was caught between laughter and tears.
"Ah?" Ning Xuefei's already flushed cheeks burned scarlet. She hurriedly covered her chest with her hands and stammered in a fluster: "Then let me go change my clothes..."
With that she turned to leave. Wei Zhao hastily called her back: "Come back here. You're already here—what's the point of changing? You'll have to take them off anyway."
"Take them off?" Ning Xuefei gave a start, staring at him blankly. "Didn't you say we weren't leaving a child?"
"I never said we were. But what comes next is something you can only do with your clothes off. Hurry up—we don't have much time." Wei Zhao gestured with his hand.
"Oh..." Ning Xuefei was thoroughly muddled, but she obediently did as told. Embarrassed as she was, this was hardly the first time she had appeared before Wei Zhao in such a state—why, the very first time they met, on the island in the Far North, it had been exactly like this. Then, pert and pretty, she asked: "So do you have to take yours off too?"
"I'm only raising *your* power, not my own. Why would I undress?" Wei Zhao pursed his lips, half amused.
"Raising my power? So *that's* why you called me here!" Ning Xuefei finally caught on.
She had heard about this from Shangguan Lan'er hundreds of times. Back then she had envied the other girl for being able to shoot up in power without cultivating at all, and had pestered Wei Zhao about it more than once. But Wei Zhao thought the method pulled the seedlings up too fast, doing them no good in the long run, and had never agreed. Who would have thought he would suddenly bring it up today?
"That's right. I know a girl with your temperament could never buckle down and cultivate alone, so this is the only option left—the least of all evils." Wei Zhao sounded a little resigned.
If Ning Xuefei had shown even a shred of diligence, he would never have raised her power this way. After all, only strength won through one's own bitter cultivation could be relied upon. Unfortunately, Ning Xuefei was exactly like Shangguan Lan'er: for all that she had clapped her chest and sworn solemn oaths before, Wei Zhao could state flatly that she would never manage it. It was pure nature. Unless the two of them were driven into a corner, they would never come to such a realization.
As things stood, Wang Xinyan, Huang Xiaotao, and Huo Yudie had all reached the early Xuan Ascension stage, and one day they would surely set out together for the Xuan-tier sea. If Ning Xuefei's power was not raised soon, she alone would be left behind.
True, with Leng Rufeng and Yang Qianshuang standing guard here, Wei Zhao had nothing to worry about—but he could hardly leave Leng Rufeng and Yang Qianshuang on watch here forever, could he?
The resources of a Yellow-tier academy were nowhere near enough to sustain cultivators of the Xuan Ascension stage, and waiting for Ning Xuefei to cultivate her way there on her own would take until the cows came home. To make Leng Rufeng and Yang Qianshuang waste all those years here for her sake—even a genius of the highest order would be ground down into worthless scrap. Wei Zhao would not have that on his conscience.