43 Gao Zexian (2/2)

Although Gao Zexian wasn't at all overweight, Li Lian knew this was her greatest insecurity, so she attacked her where it hurt.

The only thing bad about spirit cultivation pills were the fact that they made people gain a lot of weight. Although, eating higher quality pills would reduce these side effects by a considerable amount, there was no such thing as a 100% spirit cultivation pill so there would still be side effects. Of course, it's nothing some exercise can't fix which to cultivators came naturally.

The two girls fired insults back and forth at each other, each insult being even more harsh than the last.

Xun Wei slowly stepped away from the two, not wanting to be caught up in the crossfire.

Gao Zexian was fuming. She wanted to make fun of Li Lian, but was already falling victim to her poisonous tongue.

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When Li Lian was younger, many girls teased and called her names, but the stronger she got the more she fought back. However, the more she fought back the crazier she seemed. Eventually everyone started teasing her less and less in fear of invoking her fury. Almost naturally, after being called so many terrible things in her life, she became proficient in the language of roasting.

Although the teasing eventually stopped, her loneliness only got worse. As strange as it sounded, she almost missed being called names because at least then there would be someone to talk to. But one day she met Gao Zexian

Gao Zexian would always start the nastiest rumours. If she didn't binge eat so many cultivation pills, Li Lian would have made her regret everything she said by now, but alas she couldn't.

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Gao Zexian had just about enough of Li Lian's trash talk and asked the question she had been meaning to ask in the first place.

”I heard your parents spent an absurd amount of money just to have you become my big brother Gao Chen's concubine. Speaking of Gao Chen, have you seen him? He seems to be missing”.

Li Lian grinned mysteriously. She didn't mind them telling them where to find his body. The sooner they did the sooner they could cancel the marriage. She thought as long as they didn't associate his death to Xiao Fang there shouldn't be anything to worry about.

”The last I saw him we were on a mission together before he suddenly dissapeared. If he still hasn't shown up then he's probably dead, don't you think?”

”Stop spouting nonsense, do you think he could be killed so easily?!”.

Gao Zexian knew they would always go on missions together, so she believed her to be telling the truth, but didn't believe he would die from doing a tier 2 mission.

”Why are you asking me such a pointless question. If he's dead then he's dead. If not, then you should be out there looking for him. There is no point in you talking to me about it”, Li Lian shrugged then walked away.

”I'm not done talking to you!”, Gao Zexian said as she fired a spirit attack at Li Lian.

Unexpectedly, her spirit attack was neutralized by another spirit attack that came from Xun Wei's direction.

”Attacking someone with their backs turned to you is dishonorable”, Xun Wei said calmly, sounding almost like a true swordsman.

The reason why she was able to neutralize it was because Gao Zexian only put a fraction of her strength into that attack. She only meant to get Li Lian's attention, not to inflict too much damage to her. However, upon seeing Xun Wei's spirit attack her heart suddenly sank.

”Sonic fist... Where did you learn that technique from?”.

It was at that moment that Li Lian and Xun Wei felt as though they were figured out. Xiao Fang had given Xun Wei Gao Chen's spatial pouch full of spirit attacks for her to train with. So the only spirit attacks she knew were the ones once owned by Gao Chen.

Xun Wei tried to play it off as if it were no big deal:

”Gao Chen gave it to me to practice as a way to pay off a favour he owed me. Tell him I said thanks the next time you see him”, Xun Wei said.

Xun Wei wasn't a remarkable liar, but it was difficult to discern whether anything she said to be truthful or not because of how expressionless she usually was.

She didnt believe Gao Chen would give her his strongest spirit technique for any price or to pay for any favor, but she also didn't believe they had the strength to take him down either. She eventually nodded and convinced herself that Xun Wei was telling the truth.

After that she left, but not before gesturing with her two fingers that she would be watching Li Lian. Li Lian simply responded by sticking her tongue out at her, a simple but highly effective counter play that made Gao Zexian grimace before turning away.

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Xiao Fang and Chun Hua eventually caught up to Li Lian and Xun Wei, but not before buying a number of clothes for Little Hei.

”Did you both have fun?”, Xiao Fang asked.

”Yeah! We saw a lot, ate a lot, and played a lot. We even managed to gather a small audience for our little play, you should have seen us!”, Xun Wei seemed far more excited than she usual was. Coming from such a humble background, there were many things she had yet to experience.

Xiao Fang was happy to see Xun Wei this way, and knew exactly what she was talking about because he saw the whole thing. Though they knew he had great hearing, they didn't know just how good it truly was.

”Xiao Fang, be careful of Gao Zexian. We ran into her today and she was asking about Gao Chen. We managed to shake her off, but I believe she still suspects us”, Li Lian said worriedly.

”I understand, I'll be careful”, he replied simply.