Chapter 163: Jian brothers.
The following two days, apart from the nightly beast attacks, were mostly eventless.
Ling Xiaotao and Shu Ying quickly became upset at Lee, who out of nowhere became almost mute. He spoke even less than Xiao Lian and the two girls decided that the only logical explanation was that he had fallen for one of them.
Neither cared for Lee in that sense, but for some reason it became an important matter. For two days they argued which one of them had broken the poor guy’s heart, but in the end agreed that it was the result of joint effort.
Lee couldn’t care less and upon return directly went back to his room. While most of the sect was busy transporting the heaps of blazebloom grass to Refining Hall, Lee sat in a meditative position, trying to understand what was he supposed to do with his life.
Victoria had become stronger. Much stronger than he could imagine. Lee didn’t know if it was the matter of her talent, or the so called divine body. Or maybe it was something any elemental master experienced when they began to cultivate according a more advanced technique.
To deal with her he needed a stronger fire power and as he was right now, there were no hopes in ever achieving that. He wasn’t willing to let go of his revenge, though.
Combining the newly found passion for studying the cultivation techniques and the old revenge, provided him with entertaining prospects in life. He had a goal and a challenging process to achieve it, except now the illusions were kind of shattered.
Obviously Victoria was still a mortal and in theory he could find a way to poison her or kill while she was asleep. But after all these years from the bottom of his heart he wished to stab the bitch in the heart while looking in her ugly red eyes.
He even played out the scenario countless times, especially after he and Xiao Lian began to train the one-stab technique. During the time on the Serrakar Plateau he guessed that he needed something stronger, but he never imagined that the gap between them has become this wide.
But then a realization struck him. What if their strength had always been this far apart, but now, after studying thousands of basic techniques, he was finally able to recognize that? And if his comprehension has grown this much, there definitely had to be a solution.
’Turns out all I needed was a moment of peace and quiet!’ Lee thought to himself with a smile.