Chapter 1534 — Rarely Seen in a Thousand Years

"Moreover, even for this single fruit, I must ask everything clearly." The Ice Palace Master said, "You say you seek a Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit to cure your girlfriend, yet as far as I know, the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit can hardly be counted among medicinal herbs. How would you use it to heal her?"

"Within my girlfriend's body there dwells a Yin-cold aura, or in common speech, a cold poison." Wei Zhao said, "She must take a Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit before the Yin-cold aura inside her can be suppressed, or her very life will be in peril..."

"A Yin-cold aura? A cold poison?" The Ice Palace Master knitted her brows. A cold poison was a thing of legend only. In the real world no one had ever heard of a man suffering from it. Ordinary people often called a common cold or a chill a touch of cold poison, but that was no true cold poison at all.

"Yes!" Wei Zhao nodded. "I have searched the ancient records, and upon them is written the cure for cold poison, which is to take a Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit."

"Let me see your girlfriend." The Ice Palace Master nodded, yet she still had to verify it herself. This was a duty not only to the Ice Palace, but still more to Elder Qing! Should Elder Qing's kindness bestow a Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit upon a liar, Elder Qing would surely reproach herself without end.

"This... very well!" Wei Zhao pondered a moment, then still nodded.

By instinct, Wei Zhao felt the Ice Palace Master would do Feng Xiaoxiao no harm, for before her he was little more than an ant. If the Ice Palace Master truly wished to move against him, Wei Zhao knew he could never escape. The gulf between their strength was too vast. They were not upon the same level at all.

Thus, even if the Ice Palace Master meant harm to Wei Zhao and Feng Xiaoxiao, Wei Zhao was powerless to stop her, so he agreed with open grace. He untied Feng Xiaoxiao from his back and gathered her into his arms, signaling that the Ice Palace Master might examine her condition.

The Ice Palace Master nodded and laid her fingers upon the meridians of Feng Xiaoxiao's arm. Though the Ice Palace Master was no physician, a master of the Heaven level had seen much of the world, and common ailments could still be perceived. Much more so with a thing like cold poison. If it truly existed, Feng Xiaoxiao's bodily state must surely differ from that of a normal person.

"To cure cold poison with a Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit is indeed a curious thing..." The Ice Palace Master had spoken only half her sentence when, in the next instant, disbelief spread across her face! She had been seated upon her chair, yet in that moment she sprang to her feet with a start and stared at Wei Zhao in excitement. "You... you say what afflicts her is cold poison?"

"Is it not..." Wei Zhao found the Ice Palace Master's violent reaction strange, and felt utterly bewildered.

The Ice Palace Master wished to answer him with a coarse retort, yet feeling it beneath her dignity, she left it unsaid. Besides, in her excitement she was now too eager to argue with Wei Zhao. She placed her hand upon the meridians all over Feng Xiaoxiao's body and began to examine her with care.

"Palace Master... what is this..." Elder Qing was likewise curious at the Ice Palace Master's conduct.

"Elder Qing, you have seen much and know much. Come and help me look. This girl's constitution... greatly resembles the Ice Heart Jade Bone constitution of which my master spoke... yet it is not quite the same. The cold aura within her body seems even purer!" The Ice Palace Master said in excitement, "Can it be that..."

"What!" Upon hearing the Ice Palace Master's words, Elder Qing's expression froze, and she hastened to seize Feng Xiaoxiao's wrist. At once shock showed upon her own face as well!

"Hiss--" Elder Qing drew in a sharp breath of cold air. "It is not the Ice Heart Jade Bone constitution, it is certainly not... Palace Master, you mean..."

"The legendary Yin-Cold Body! That such a constitution should truly exist!" The Ice Palace Master said in great astonishment, "Such a constitution has not appeared for a thousand years!"

"Indeed. Legend holds that our founding patriarch bore this very constitution, yet through all these years even a constitution of Ice Heart Jade Bone has been hard to find. Our Ice Palace and Snow Valley have both sought an inheritor of the Ice Heart Jade Bone, and never did we think..." Elder Qing grew ever more excited as she spoke. "It is truly the cold aura of utmost Yin!"

The talk between the two left Wei Zhao quite bewildered. He did not know what they intended with this answering back and forth, whether they would not grant him the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit, or whether they harbored some other design. Yet Wei Zhao did not speak to interrupt them. If the two had another intent, they would surely put their questions to him.

"You would have her eat a Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit?" Sure enough, after examining Feng Xiaoxiao, the Ice Palace Master raised her head and asked Wei Zhao.

"Yes. Is there anything improper in it?" Wei Zhao asked.

"A wanton waste of Heaven's treasure!" The Ice Palace Master said, "She bears the Yin-Cold Body, rarely seen in a thousand years. If you give her a Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit, it may indeed suppress the Yin-cold aura within her, but have you ever thought of the consequence of such an act? She is no cultivator. At first her body may show no trouble, but as time passes, her frame will grow ever weaker! Moreover, the suppression of the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit is but temporary. It will not last her a lifetime!"

"This..." Wei Zhao was somewhat startled. Feng Xiaoxiao's constitution he naturally knew. He had always taken it for a sickness passed down in her family, and never thought it was a Yin-cold constitution rarely seen in the world, and what was more, it seemed a constitution of great moment to the Ice Palace.

"The Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit is precious to the Ice Palace because, in our cultivation, we may fall into qi deviation, and the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit can suppress that portion of cold aura born of deviation within our bodies, so that we may then slowly refine that portion of cold aura!" The Ice Palace Master said.

"Then..." Wei Zhao frowned, not knowing what the Ice Palace Master wished to convey. It seemed matters had taken a turn...

"She is your girlfriend?" The Ice Palace Master suddenly thought of a most important question.

"Yes..." Though puzzled, Wei Zhao still nodded.

"Then has she already lost her maidenhood?" The Ice Palace Master's eyes stared keenly at Wei Zhao, as though Wei Zhao had done her some mortal wrong, so that Wei Zhao shivered without cause.

"No..." Wei Zhao shook his head and spoke truthfully.

"That is well..." Upon hearing Wei Zhao's words, the Ice Palace Master suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. "Splendid. Truly splendid..."

"What is splendid?" Wei Zhao asked.

But the Ice Palace Master did not answer Wei Zhao. Instead she suddenly lifted Feng Xiaoxiao into her arms and said, "Elder Qing, we return at once! I must immediately call upon the Council of Elders to verify her constitution..."

"What are you doing!" Seeing the Ice Palace Master lift Feng Xiaoxiao up, Wei Zhao was greatly alarmed! Yet the Ice Palace Master's speed was simply too swift. Before Wei Zhao could even react, Feng Xiaoxiao was already in her hands.

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