Chapter 96 — Come Shopping with Us
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"There is," Jiao Yazi said with a definite nod.
"What other functions?" Wei Zhao was delighted; so Jiao Yazi did know after all. He asked hurriedly.
"But the specific functions, I do not know." Jiao Yazi shook his head. "This was something my grand-uncle master remade with his own hands. I have never worn it, so how would I know? Once you can open the stone door at the back, there should be detailed instructions inside."
"Should be?" Wei Zhao asked, uncertain.
"I have never been inside the stone door. How would I know?" Jiao Yazi wore a look that said, Do not ask me, I do not know either.
"All right..." Wei Zhao was a little disappointed, but only for a moment. To have gained what he had today was already more than good enough. He only hoped none of it was a dream...
By the time Wei Zhao woke, the sky was bright... it looked to be around eight or nine in the morning. He had slept a long, long while. Wei Zhao could not help stretching, and sat up in bed.
"Wait..." Wei Zhao suddenly remembered last night, that dream of his — the Jiao Yazi in the dream, and the cultivation space.
Wei Zhao instinctively felt at his body. In the dream, his clothes had all burst to shreds when he broke through the first level of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Slaying Art.
But when Wei Zhao's hand found his pajamas whole and undamaged, his heart sank at once. Could it have been only a dream? At the thought, he could not help feeling disappointed.
He had thought that at last he had broken through, that he could meet this five-year deadline and open the stone door smoothly... and yet all of it was only a dream?
"Boy, inside the jade pendant only your spirit entered the virtual cultivation space. Naturally your clothes outside would not be torn."
Suddenly a voice sounded in Wei Zhao's mind and gave him a fright. But the next moment he was overjoyed. Jiao Yazi — it was Jiao Yazi's voice.
"Elder Jiao, is that you?" Wei Zhao asked instinctively.
"Of course it is me," Jiao Yazi said. "When you speak with me, just use your thoughts. There is no need to speak aloud."
"Is that all right? Elder Jiao, can you hear me?" Wei Zhao said to Jiao Yazi in his mind.
"I can," Jiao Yazi answered flatly.
"Elder Jiao, since you can communicate with me through thought, why did you not remind me earlier to enter the cultivation space in the jade pendant?" Wei Zhao asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Before you entered the cultivation space in the jade pendant, I had no way to establish a mental connection with you." Elder Jiao gave a snort. "Only after you entered the cultivation space did your mind establish a link with it. What, did you think the jade pendant was still hanging on your body?"
"Is it not?" Wei Zhao was startled. His hand went instinctively to the pendant at his chest, but closed on empty air. The jade pendant that had hung at his chest was gone. "Where is the pendant? Elder Jiao?"
Hearing the tension in Wei Zhao's voice, Elder Jiao could not help feeling a little smug. "The jade pendant has already established a bond with you. It has merged into your body. It has completed the process of acknowledging its master, and will not easily be taken from you again. So under ordinary circumstances it hides within your body. But you can also summon it out with your will."
"Oh?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. He had not expected the jade pendant to have a master-acknowledging function as well. Following Elder Jiao's words, he summoned the pendant with his mind, willing it to reappear at his chest.
Very quickly Wei Zhao's hand found the jade pendant he had worn for nearly ten years, and he let out a breath of relief. Then he sent the pendant back into his body. This was better — no need to fear losing it.
Before, after he had obtained the jade pendant, though he had not made a show of it and the pendant did not look like much, he had still feared someone might steal it. Now at last Wei Zhao could set that worry aside.