23 Blame Him, Blame You (1/2)
Xue Wei felt his heartbeat quicken, and he escorted the three girls to a crowded area where Li Jian definitely would not disturb them. Not to mention that Li Jian would be busy dealing with his two friends that had had their muscles severed by Xue Wei.
Since he was confident that the three girls would be fine, Xue Wei did not hesitate and once more started searching for Wang Xiaoyun.
Having seen her leave in rage as she had earlier, Xue Wei was worried sick and wanted to explain the situation to her, but if he could not find her, he would have no luck.
It was not before an hour had passed that Xue Wei finally located Wang Xiaoyun. She was with her friends at a dumpling stall buying dumplings, but while the other friends were giggling and having fun, Wang Xiaoyun's face was still overcast with anger.
”This woman seems to hold a grudge,” Xue Wei thought while his heart trembled. Although he was new to these emotions, he knew that he would feel uncomfortable if she continued looking this troubled, and he wanted to talk with her.
Xue Wei walked towards the dumpling stall, and when the girls noticed him, they whispered in hushed voices and suddenly stood up. With loud shouts, they declared the weirdest things, ”I forgot to water the Fierce Beasts, I better go back.”
”I forgot to buy some rice cakes for old granny; I have to go back too.” Excuse after excuse was said almost in unison before they scrambled to rush away one faster than the other. The only one who was remaining was Wang Xiaoyun, and from the glare she sent Xue Wei, it was clear that he was anything but welcome.
”Sorry that I am annoying you again,” Xue Wei said with a slight smile on his face when he sat down, ”I did not mean to intrude, but it seems to me that you misunderstood the situation from earlier.”
”I don't know what you mean,” Wang Xiaoyun said with a cold, dismissive voice and turned to look away while she ate a dumpling and chewed on it aggressively as if she imagined that the dumpling was Xue Wei.
”I am sure you know what I mean,” Xue Wei said with a sigh. ”I am very interested in you. You seem like the most interesting woman I have ever met, so why don't we get to know each other a bit better?”
”Hey, loverboy,” Wang Xiaoyun said while finally facing Xue Wei, her face looking slightly confused, ”you talk about wanting to get to know me when all you do is run around breaking hearts. My mother has taught me that I should be careful who I give my heart to, and you are not ready for mine yet.”
”So there might be a possibility in the future?” Xue Wei grinned, and Wang Xiaoyun realized that her words had implied this. ”Maybe we will meet again in the future and time will tell,” she said as she pursed her lips, but her eyes were much kinder now and her voice a lot more cheerful.
”Don't let it be too long into the future,” Xue Wei grinned and ordered a plate of dumplings which he started eating together with Wang Xiaoyun.
The two were talking about everything and nothing. Wang Xiaoyun had long since heard the story about him being incapable of cultivating and then suddenly breaking through the bottleneck and soaring through a few layers in a few months.
”Your situation reminds me of myself,” Wang Xiaoyun said as she stole a dumpling on Xue Wei's plate, as she had no more of her own. ”I am able to cultivate a bit, but until I activate my bloodline, it will be much slower than others.”
”It might seem like a lousy cultivation base right now, but it has taken blood, sweat, and tears to reach this layer, and I am very proud. In a year, when I have activated my bloodline, I will become a much stronger cultivator; I will even be able to jump straight to the Earth Warrior rank.”
”You were completely incapable of cultivating, but you broke through at the same as I would have my bloodline activated, and suddenly your cultivation base has rapidly increased. Looking at you, it even seems as if it is a very stable and solid foundation.”
The two talked about their past; Xue Wei could not speak too much about it as he did not remember much, but what he did remember amazed Wang Xiaoyun.
Wang Xiaoyun was used to life on the road. She had traveled far and wide, seen many things that others had not seen, and experienced things that the young people from the city of Tiankong could only dream about.
At the same time, Xue Wei was amazed by everything that Wang Xiaoyun told him about. The rest of the continent was filled with experts, and the real geniuses of the middle of the continent were only fifteen but already at the ninth layer of the Earth Warrior rank. A few of the supreme geniuses had reached the Sky Warrior rank already.
”In this kingdom, the Heavenly Warrior rank is the highest rank possible, but in the vast continent, geniuses exceed this rank and reach an even higher realm!” Wang Xiaoyun said with shining eyes. ”I will become one of them too when my bloodline is activated.”
Xue Wei's eyes shone. He had heard about the higher realms before, but only vaguely. When he asked Wang Xiaoyun about it, the woman just shrugged her shoulders. ”Sorry, no one will tell me about it yet either. They say I am not ranked high enough.”
”I have been in the Northern Taiga before,” Wang Xiaoyun said. ”The northern Taiga is a part of the northern areas of the Kingdom of Heping, but it spreads outside of the kingdom's borders. The taiga is truly massive.”
”The taiga is very dangerous. The lair of some of the most dangerous Primordial Beasts lies within its innermost regions, and no hunter who has ventured too deep into the forest has ever emerged alive.”
”Not even a group of Wayfarers or Diviners?” Xue Wei asked with big eyes filled with surprise. He knew that the Northern Taiga was dangerous, and he knew it was tremendous, but he had never known that no hunter had ever survived venturing into the innermost regions of the place.