Chapter 5092 — The Tier-Five Great Rejuvenation Pill
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Leng Leng's aptitude was indeed heaven-defying, but aptitude alone could never have advanced her so quickly. The pills Wei Zhao had given her were the key: with the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill and the Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pill in her belly, and her aptitude on top of that, rising two levels had come as naturally as water flowing into a channel—nothing to be astonished at.
Xue Jianming was startled too, but his concern lay elsewhere. He strode over, frowning: "Do you know Wei Zhao?"
"Of course I know him. Back then Sun Baimei coveted the treasure my master had passed down to me and ambushed me, leaving me gravely wounded. Later, while I was recovering, he came again to kill me and seize the treasure—I escaped that calamity thanks only to Wei Zhao," Leng Leng explained. She had but one aim in saying all this: she wanted to clear Wei Zhao's name.
"So you and he are close, then?" Xue Jianming's face darkened once more.
"Senior Brother Xue, I spent half a month in Wei Zhao's company, and I stake my life that he is truly not a bad man. I only returned alive this time because of him, and he even gave me a pile of pills so that I could advance smoothly and break through. I dare guarantee he has no intention of making an enemy of our Snow Sword Sect—there must be some misunderstanding here," Leng Leng said hastily.
Every one of the deeds Wei Zhao had done left her still unable to digest it all: when had Wei Zhao come to possess such formidable strength, and how had he become an ancestral elder of the Cangwu Sect of the Northern Isle?
Doubts upon doubts wound through her heart, and Wei Zhao's image in Leng Leng's mind grew ever more unfathomable. Even so, she did not believe Wei Zhao could be a match for the entire Snow Sword Sect—after all, the sect held not only Golden Core masters but old monsters of the Nascent Soul. If he were truly branded a sworn enemy of the Snow Sword Sect, Wei Zhao's prospects would be dire indeed.
So no matter what, Leng Leng had to stamp out Xue Jianming's hysterical thirst for revenge. As things stood, Xue Jianming had only lost his dantian, and a Tier-Five Great Rejuvenation Pill could still buy room for a turnaround; but once revenge was set in motion, the feud would only grow deeper and deeper. Leng Leng did not care whether Xue Jianming lived or died—but she feared Wei Zhao would come to harm!
"Junior Sister Leng, our Snow Sword Sect thought so highly of you and gave you so many cultivation resources, and in the end you collude with the enemy—what is your crime to be?" Xue Jianming had once harbored feelings for Leng Leng, but at a moment like this, whoever dared block his vengeance against Wei Zhao was his enemy. Furious, he cried: "A misunderstanding? He destroyed my dantian—and you call that a misunderstanding?"
"Senior Brother Xue, a ruined dantian can be repaired, but feuds are best dissolved rather than deepened. You heard Uncle-Master Xin's words just now—why let a moment's anger bring things to an irreparable pass?" Leng Leng urged earnestly.
"Hmph, easy for you to say. Repairing a dantian requires at least a Tier-Five Great Rejuvenation Pill—do you have any idea what that costs?" Xue Jianming snorted.
"Then if I gave you a Tier-Five Great Rejuvenation Pill, would you stop making trouble for Wei Zhao?" Leng Leng glanced at him, then suddenly drew a pill from her bosom.
"A Tier-Five Great Rejuvenation Pill?!" The crowd was startled, and the looks they turned on Leng Leng were full of shock. A pill of that caliber might not be found even in the whole of the Snow Sword Sect—and she could simply produce one from her sleeve?!
Xue Jianming was equally thunderstruck. For him the most urgent matter at present was not in fact revenge on Wei Zhao, but finding some way to repair his dantian—only the mundane world offered no such means. Never had he imagined that Leng Leng would have a Tier-Five Great Rejuvenation Pill in hand! (To be continued.)