19 Luo Zhirou (2/2)
One has to know that Luo Zhirou was recognized as one of the beauties in town. She was a heavenly-favored daughter within the Kingdom of Heping, and for her to visit him like this and to acknowledge her mistake had to be a challenging and difficult situation.
”Do not worry,” Xue Wei smiled, ”I would also like to be your friend.”
Although Xue Wei did not speak much, Luo Zhirou looked like someone had lifted a stone from her shoulders and she broke out into a great smile.
”Thank you! I am so happy,” she said as she almost jumped on the spot. Her happiness was obvious. But as she realized how she was behaving, she could not help but blush in embarrassment.
Seeing her bashful expression, Xue Wei could not help but smile slightly as he shook his head.
”Now that both Shen Mu and I are at the ninth layer Ordinary Warrior rank, no one will bully you with us around.”
”Oh, you broke through to the ninth layer of the Ordinary Warrior rank?” Xue Wei asked, surprised as he looked at Luo Zhirou.
He had never expected that this person would be the third in their age group to reach the ninth layered level.
”Yes,” Luo Zhirou nodded her head. ”I don't know how, I actually don't train even half as much as my older or younger siblings, but my cultivation is going much smoother than theirs.”
Xue Wei could almost not believe what he heard. It was clear that Luo Zhirou was gifted in terms of cultivation. She was not cultivating a lot, but she was already at the ninth layer of the Ordinary Warrior rank.
Xue Wei was deeply shocked. Although he felt that his cultivation technique was fast, it was after all a technique. If Luo Zhirou had been serious when cultivating, she would have been able to become an Earth Warrior already! Xue Wei shook his head in self-pity.
”Well then, I better go now,” Luo Zhirou said with lowered eyes. Her cheeks were still red.
”Okay, well, I will see you around,” Xue Wei said as he followed her to the mansion gate.
After saying goodbye, the two of them went back to what they had been doing before. Xue Wei was training, and Luo Zhirou returned home.
Xue Wei spent the next many days doing exactly what he had been doing; he was cultivating and training.
At the end of the month, he felt that he was close to making another breakthrough, but he also found that he no longer had any medicinal ingredients for the herbal concoction he had been bathing in.
”I need to go to the marketplace,” Xue Wei sighed. He felt that it was a waste of time to go, but he dared not have his maids or servants get the herbs for him as they knew nothing about the materials he needed.
The only one who he would expect to do a proper job was Manager Su, but Xue Wei did not want to trouble Manager Su with such a small thing.
Since this was the case, Xue Wei went to rinse the sweat off his body, dressed in some nice clothes, took his purse with gold coins, and left the mansion, heading for the main marketplace where he last bought the herbs.
He did not fear anyone right now. Although he knew that the older generation would be able to defeat him and even kill him, he was also perfectly well aware that he had done nothing to warrant them making a move on him.
No matter who from the younger generation made a move, Xue Wei was certain that he could avoid them by relying on the Forbidden Rush. Since things were like this, Xue Wei did not hesitate to leave the mansion.
It was a long time since Xue Wei had been in the city center on his own, back before he was capable of cultivating, but now he went with his head held high and filled with excitement. He no longer received looks of scorn – no one even dared look at him with hatred as he had been invited to a private room with the Diviners.
The only ones who still looked at Xue Wei with hatred were Li Jian and his followers.
As he made it into the city center, Xue Wei found that a caravan of Wayfarers had arrived in the city.
Although Wayfarers were rare in Heping Kingdom, they were much more common than Diviners.
Wayfarers needed the blood of Primordial Beasts to unlock their bloodline, and the Primordial Beasts within Heping Kingdom were much weaker than the ones in the rest of the continent, so they were often hunted by Wayfarers.
The Wayfarers that had arrived sold everything from jewelry to books to beast parts. They brought along souvenirs from the rest of the continent and sold it on their travels to sustain themselves. They also created jewelry themselves that was highly sought after.
Xue Wei looked at the group and found that the caravan of Wayfarers was rather large; there were at least five hundred people in this group.
The old were seated inside the carriages, the young and the children were playing, and the adults were dealing with business.
Amongst the many ethnic groups, Wayfarers were the only ones who were not expected to join the army, as everyone knew they were going to become Primordial Beast Hunters when they grew up. Forcing them into the military would just be the same as making less Primordial Beast Hunters grow up.