Chapter 1449 — The First Date

Chen Yutian's injuries looked severe, but they were not as grave as General Weiwu's had once been; at worst they were on par with Wu Chengtian's. So Wei Zhaodian healed Chen Yutian's wounds quickly enough.

And once Chen Yutian's meridians were repaired, his strength naturally returned as well! This injury had cost him almost nothing of his power; his strength was what it had always been. He had never once crossed hands with Yu Feng, so there had been no depletion of strength to speak of.

His meridians had merely been injured, suppressing his power — this was not the same as Wei Zhaodian's own case, when every meridian in his body had been severed. Wei Zhaodian had compressed all the true qi within him and blasted it outward; Chen Yutian had done nothing of the sort.

So the treatment took very little time. It lasted only a few hours, and Chen Yutian was as good as new.

Qiu Lingshan had long since grown used to Wei Zhaodian's miracles; she had been astonished so many times that astonishment no longer had any hold on her. So she said: "I'd say you've recovered too... See? I told you long ago, Wei Zhaodian is capable of anything."

"I... I just didn't want to cause trouble for Wei Zhaodian, that's all. Who'd have thought my strength would come back so easily." Chen Yutian smiled bitterly and rubbed his once-broken legs. There was no trace of discomfort left in them at all.

"Do the other families all know about your injury?" Wei Zhaodian asked.

"Yes, more or less everyone knows. Thanks to the Yu family's tireless publicity, the whole thing has turned into a joke about me overestimating myself..." Chen Yutian said, a little embarrassed. "But Wei Zhaodian, I truly have no such feelings for Lingshan anymore. Don't misunderstand..."

"I know. The girl's a bit of a simpleton. It's only natural you'd lose interest in her," Wei Zhaodian said, cracking a joke with a smile.

"..." Qiu Lingshan wanted to kill Wei Zhaodian. Who's a simpleton? You're the one who thinks I'm a simpleton!

"Haha..." Chen Yutian could not help laughing, but one glance at Qiu Lingshan's dark face and he promptly shut his mouth.

"In that case, there's no hurry to spread the news of your recovery. When the Great Families Gathering comes, we'll hit back and turn the tables on them — only that will have the stunning effect we want!" Wei Zhaodian said. "Otherwise, it won't do to let them be on their guard. Only, that means your old grandfather will have to suffer a little first — let him grieve for a while..."

"I know what matters and what doesn't. Don't worry. The moment I appear at the Great Families Gathering, as long as Grandfather is happy, that's enough for me!" Chen Yutian understood the urgency of the matter, and was in no hurry to tell his grandfather. If by any chance the old man's expression slipped and the Yu family caught on, it could very well throw the whole plan into disorder.

"I'll be going. Guan Xin has something to see me about." Having settled Chen Yutian's affairs, Wei Zhaodian made ready to go find Guan Xin.

"So I just keep lying here in the sick ward, pretending to be ill?" Chen Yutian asked.

"Yes. I'll have a word with Guan Xin's grandfather. You stay here and wait for me to come back; it won't hold up your cultivation here," Wei Zhaodian said.

"By the way, speaking of cultivation, there's something I've been wanting to ask you..." Rather than fretting over the matter of Guan Xin, Qiu Lingshan deliberately put her out of her mind.

"What is it?" Wei Zhaodian had been about to leave the ward, but at Qiu Lingshan's words he stopped in his tracks and asked.

"It's about my progress in cultivation. After I advanced to the early Xuan rank, I've been busy handling cases these past few days, but even when I rest I haven't given up cultivating — I seize every minute and every second for it. Yet there seems to be no progress at all?" Qiu Lingshan asked, looking puzzled. "I wasn't Xuan rank before, and I don't understand these things, so I wanted to ask: is cultivation after the Xuan rank really this difficult?"

"Once past the Xuan rank, improving your strength even a little is extremely difficult — that much is true. What's more, the spiritual qi of heaven and earth is thin here, so it's only normal that your progress is negligible," Wei Zhaodian said.

"But... somehow it feels as if there's no effect at all? Back when I was Huang rank, I could feel a little progress every time I cultivated," Qiu Lingshan said, somewhat perplexed.

"No effect at all?" Wei Zhaodian was slightly taken aback. "Perhaps the effect is simply too slow for you to feel? After all, the difference between the Xuan rank and the Huang rank is enormous!"

Apart from at the very beginning, Wei Zhaodian had always cultivated inside the space of the jade pendant, so he too was not entirely certain whether one could cultivate at the Xuan rank in the present environment. The spiritual qi of heaven and earth here was, after all, far too thin, and slow progress was only natural.

"Maybe so..." Qiu Lingshan nodded helplessly.

Wei Zhaodian did not take Qiu Lingshan's words too seriously. After leaving the ward, he dialed Guan Xin's number.

"Wei Zhaodian?" Guan Xin was delighted to receive his call. "Are you done with your business?"

"Yes. Where are you? Still at the hospital?" Wei Zhaodian asked, glancing at the time. It was already past seven in the evening; Guan Xin should have been off work by now.

"Yes, I'm at the hospital. I worked a bit of overtime. Are you at the hospital too?" Guan Xin had arranged things with Wei Zhaodian beforehand, so naturally she had stayed on.

"I am. Where are you? Shall I come find you?" Wei Zhaodian asked.

"No need. Let me pack up my things, and we'll meet at the hospital entrance?" Guan Xin asked.

"Fine. Let's meet in the parking lot at the hospital entrance, then — that's where I parked," Wei Zhaodian said.

Ten minutes later, Wei Zhaodian saw Guan Xin hurrying toward him across the parking lot. She had changed out of her nurse's uniform into a rather demure blouse, her hair tied carelessly behind her head, giving her the air of a student doing an internship at the hospital.

"Dressed like that, you look very young," Wei Zhaodian said with a smile.

"I'm not that old to begin with..." Guan Xin knew Wei Zhaodian's age, and knew she was a little older than he was, so when she dressed she unconsciously and deliberately made herself look childish. Now it seemed as though Wei Zhaodian were the older of the two.

"Hah... You haven't eaten yet, have you? Let me treat you to dinner." Wei Zhaodian glanced at Guan Xin's stomach and guessed that she had not eaten. He was a doctor, after all, and his powers of observation were sharp — or perhaps she had eaten, but only a little.

"Mm... all right..." Guan Xin agreed happily. It was the first time Wei Zhaodian had asked her out to a meal, and it gave her a small, secret happiness. Though she knew it was nothing more than an ordinary social occasion between friends, in her heart she treated it as a date!

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