Chapter 5036 — You Call That Getting Online?
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Comparing the two, Leng Leng actually found Wei Zhao, a "commoner" of the secular world, to be far safer and more dependable—at least he would not fly into a murderous rage at the drop of a hat the way those cultivators did, would he?
She finished her breakfast amid these scattered thoughts, then gave her head a vigorous shake and brushed such idle notions aside. Clutching the top-grade spirit jade Wei Zhao had given her, she focused wholly on healing. Those people would not let her off so easily; she had to recover as quickly as possible.
The place she was staying now was well hidden, true enough, but the trouble was that she had gone out several times to buy medicinal ingredients. Given enough time, someone would likely pick up her trail. If they cornered her before her wounds were healed, that would be disastrous. Thank heavens that item of hers had not been snatched away back then!
"Not bad—looks like I'll be more or less recovered after today. All thanks to this top-grade spirit jade of his." Leng Leng gazed at the spirit jade in her hand and, for once, showed a hint of a smile.
Another day slipped by in the blink of an eye. Leng Leng let out a long, foul breath, believing at last that she was fully healed. Yet before she could rise to her feet, her whole body lurched and she dropped back down where she sat. To her horror, she realized that the injuries within her, which ought to have been cured, had for some unknown reason come surging back—relapsed once more!
And this time it struck with ferocious force, even more severe than at the very beginning!
"What a vicious trick!" Leng Leng understood at once. The means that bastard had used against her back then had not been as simple as they appeared on the surface. Her injury came in waves—even once healed, it would relapse. And without a healing panacea like a fourth-rank Great Restoration Pill, full recovery was all the harder, leaving her nothing but her own willpower to endure it.
This realization sent a shudder of dread through her. Thank goodness she still held the top-grade spirit jade Wei Zhao had given her; at least she had some hope of weathering it. Otherwise she would have been driven to despair by now—the meager heaven-and-earth spiritual energy of a piece of waste jade would not even fill the gaps between her teeth.
Even so, her situation remained far from favorable. The heaven-and-earth spiritual energy within the top-grade spirit jade was abundant, to be sure, but the jade was only so large, and sooner or later the energy would run dry. What if, when that time came, her injuries were still flaring up?
Just as she was sinking into worry, Wei Zhao knocked on her door right on schedule, breakfast freshly bought in hand as always.
Leng Leng took the breakfast from him quite naturally, then hesitated a moment before asking, "Where did that jade of yours come from? Do you have any more?"
"You want more? That's easy enough—even if I didn't have any, I could find a way to conjure some up." Wei Zhao smiled faintly. His divine sense had caught every detail of the scene just now, so naturally he knew why she was asking.
"Pfft!" Leng Leng was amused in spite of herself, and the sight was like a snow lotus on an icy peak suddenly bursting into bloom. Even Wei Zhao was genuinely struck by her beauty—this little cold girl was truly a rare sight.
Seeing the odd look on Wei Zhao's face, Leng Leng caught herself at once, and with a touch of embarrassment she restored her usual icy expression. "I don't know whether what you say is true or false, but either way, don't trouble yourself. I'm very grateful, but I truly cannot promise you anything. You and I really are not the same."
"Right you are. I'm a man and you're a woman—we certainly can't be the same. If we were, the world would be in chaos." Wei Zhao feigned ignorance.