Chapter 5035 — Cold Cold
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"What is it? Is the jade no good? You really don't want it?" Watching her stunned expression, Wei Zhao secretly gloated.
If he had not seen how much she treasured a piece of waste jade the night before, this idea would never have occurred to him. After all, life on Cloud Terrace Island had drilled a fixed pattern into his thinking; he instinctively regarded spirit jade as worthless—mere currency, far beneath the various pills. But now it seemed that to the little cold girl and her kind, a single piece of top-grade spirit jade was worth even more than pills!
"..." For a moment the tall woman did not know how to react. Of course she wanted it. She treasured even a piece of waste jade—how much more a top-grade spirit jade brimming to the utmost with heaven-and-earth spiritual energy!
Yet she was too embarrassed to simply accept it. Truthfully, if it had been an ordinary fine thing, she would have taken it without a second thought, and at worst repaid Wei Zhao later with something of the same grade. But this was a top-grade spirit jade—where under heaven was she supposed to find a treasure of the same grade?
And yet to refuse it outright—that she truly could not bring herself to say. At ordinary times it would have been one thing, but her injuries were still unhealed, and this was precisely when she desperately needed spirit jade to replenish her spiritual energy, while the energy in her own piece of waste jade was plainly running dry. Wei Zhao's top-grade spirit jade was nothing less than charcoal in the snow!
While she was still hesitating, Wei Zhao without another word stuffed the top-grade spirit jade into her hands, then turned and went back to his own room. This time the two of them had traded places—now it was the little cold girl's turn to stare blankly at his door.
After standing stunned for a good while, the tall woman looked down at the top-grade spirit jade in her hands and shook her head with a helpless smile. "Now I owe him a debt of gratitude as vast as heaven. What am I to do, what am I to do..."
Troubling as it was, she truly did need this top-grade spirit jade, so she could only turn and return to her own room. Sensing the heaven-and-earth spiritual energy within the jade, abundant to the utmost, she grew all the more puzzled. Where on earth had he gotten this piece of spirit jade?
With this top-grade spirit jade to replenish her energy, she at once felt fully confident again. For a cultivator, abundant spiritual energy meant abundant physical strength; even if the injuries were somewhat severe and the medicine slow to act, she would ultimately pull through. The opposite—her situation before—was what was truly dangerous.
So to her, Wei Zhao's top-grade spirit jade was not merely charcoal in the snow; it was in effect a second life. This debt of gratitude was simply as vast as heaven.
Early the next morning, Wei Zhao knocked on her door once more. Her complexion was noticeably better than the day before.
"Jade nourishes a person—the old saying is not one bit false." Wei Zhao looked at her and smiled a smile with hidden meaning.
His words made the tall woman's heart skip. Could he know this was spirit jade, know that she was healing herself by absorbing the heaven-and-earth spiritual energy within it? But the thought was dismissed the very next instant. The words surely meant only their literal sense; he was nothing but an ordinary man without a shred of strength—how could he know such things?
"I just bought these breakfasts from downstairs. Won't you have some too?" As he spoke, Wei Zhao handed over a portion of steaming hot breakfast.