Chapter 1820 — A Startling Resemblance

Sure enough, Elder Zhang shook his head and said, somewhat helplessly, "That may be so, but those two sister-disciples were both proud and lofty women. Neither was willing to share a man's love with another. Or perhaps, because they were sisters under the same master, neither could bring herself to yield ground, and neither would give way..."

The Eldest Miss parted her lips slightly. Somehow, she found herself thinking of her own situation. She had a feeling Elder Zhang was making veiled insinuations, yet she knew perfectly well he could not be doing so on purpose, since he had no idea at all about the affair between herself, Little Shu, and Tang Yun...

Then... did she herself truly love Wei Zhao? Or was she simply too proud to share him with another? The moment the thought surfaced, Gu Mengyao broke into a cold sweat. What did her heart truly want?

But before Gu Mengyao could sort out her thoughts, Elder Zhang went on. "Ancestor Xue and Ancestor Bing were both the beloved confidantes of that man, and when he was faced with two young women equally beautiful and equally gifted, he too did not know how to choose..."

"What a fool! He should have just married them both and had himself a threesome. How good would that have been! Nowhere near as impressive as Brother Arrowhead!" Shen Yushu's opinion of the man was thoroughly uncharitable. Wasn't that just wasting a girl's whole life?

"Uh..." Elder Zhang's face was covered in black lines, and he had no idea what to say. He could only stare blankly at Shen Yushu.

"Ahem! Little Shu, don't spout nonsense and interrupt Elder Zhang. Is your skin itching again? Do you want a beating?" Gu Mengyao felt rather embarrassed. Little Shu was far too ready to prattle.

"It's all right..." Elder Zhang gave a bitter smile and said, "The man was no fool. He was a remarkable man in his own right! He was a Medical Sage of his generation, and possessed an extraordinarily high talent for alchemy. He was the greatest alchemist of his time..."

"Then whom did he choose in the end?" Tang Yun asked.

"Definitely not Ancestor Xue!" Shen Yushu said. "If it had been Ancestor Xue, she wouldn't have been so emotionally scarred that she invented the Art of Heartlessness!"

"He made no choice. It was Ancestor Xue who chose to yield..." Elder Zhang sighed and said, "She chose to flee, to turn her back on the secular world and come to this Snow Valley. There, she inadvertently came to comprehend the power of heaven and earth, received the legacy, and founded her own sect!"

"Yield?" Tang Yun and the others were all taken aback. If she loved him, why would she yield?

"Because Ancestor Xue was the elder sister-disciple and Ancestor Bing the younger..." Elder Zhang said. "Of course, that was not truly the root cause of Ancestor Xue's yielding. The root cause was that Ancestor Bing, in those years, had a peculiar constitution. She had been struck by a cold poison and could not live past twenty. So when Ancestor Xue learned of this, she no longer wished to contend with her, and of her own accord gave the man up to Ancestor Bing..."

"Not live past twenty? Then how did she found the Ice Palace... ah!" Tang Yun suddenly cried out in alarm, because she had thought of something very important: Feng Xiaoxiao's constitution. Didn't she too have a peculiar constitution, one that would not let her live past twenty?

Yet in the Ice Palace, her constitution had been discovered to be a yin-cold constitution rarely seen in a thousand years, the same as the founding ancestor of the Ice Palace. Did that not mean that Ancestor Bing had not died afterwards, but had discovered her peculiar constitution?

"Feng Xiaoxiao! The yin-cold constitution!" Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu also exchanged a glance and exclaimed in astonishment at the same moment.

"That's right, the yin-cold constitution!" Elder Zhang nodded and said, "It was precisely because of this that Ancestor Xue chose to yield. But that man was a remarkable figure as well. He took Ancestor Bing to the Snow-Ice Spirit Mountain, where the Ice Palace was located, and found the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit, successfully prolonging Ancestor Bing's life. And on the Snow-Ice Spirit Mountain, Ancestor Bing unexpectedly obtained the mountain's legacy and discovered the ancient ruins of the Ice Palace, and thereupon founded her own sect! But her body grew very poor after she took the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit, for she truly should never have taken it. The Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit is effective only when taken during a qi deviation. Taken in ordinary times, it brings no benefit at all, but rather great harm. So even though Ancestor Bing became a formidable expert at the peak of the late Heaven Rank, her health was never good. And that man, being a famed alchemist and Medical Sage, could only keep refining Ice Heart Jade Bone Pills for her to take, so that her body would not collapse into illness."

"Then since Ancestor Bing didn't die, did Ancestor Xue never go back to look for them?" Shen Yushu asked, rather curious.

"Having already said she would give him up, how could Ancestor Xue, proud as she was, ever bow her head? And though Ancestor Bing did not die, her health was wretched. That man had to stay by Ancestor Bing's side to care for her..." Elder Zhang said. "And Ancestor Xue, wishing to forget them, naturally created the Art of Heartlessness. This is also why the Ice Palace and Snow Valley, though they spring from the same source, support one another and suppress one another in equal measure..."

"How marvelous..." Gu Mengyao could not help but exclaim after hearing Elder Zhang's words. The look she turned on Tang Yun grew somewhat strange.

"Yaoyao, why are you looking at me like that?" Tang Yun asked, rather puzzled.

"Yunyun, haven't you noticed? What happened all those years ago is happening all over again..." Gu Mengyao said. "You stayed in Snow Valley, Xiaoxiao stayed in the Ice Palace, and Wei Zhao... he is that Medical Sage..."

"Ah!" Tang Yun was startled, but with Gu Mengyao's reminder, she too realized how astonishingly similar the events of those years were to what was happening now. The same constitution, the same story, and even the abilities of the man they both loved were similar! Both were men of supreme medical skill...

The only difference was that Tang Yun and Xiaoxiao had temperaments unlike those of Ancestor Xue and Ancestor Bing in those days. The two of them could accept each other and blend into one another's lives, whereas Ancestor Xue and Ancestor Bing could only come to a tragic end.

"Happening all over again?" Elder Zhang, for his part, was bewildered by Gu Mengyao's words and had no idea what she was talking about.

"Feng Xiaoxiao, the heir of the Ice Palace, and Yunyun are his senior and junior wives..." Gu Mengyao pointed at Wei Zhao and said to Elder Zhang.

"Ah?" Elder Zhang was instantly startled by Gu Mengyao's words. He stared at Tang Yun in disbelief, and only after a long while did he recover enough to say, "You mean to say that the heir of the Ice Palace..."

"Yes. Sister Xiaoxiao and I are both... both his girlfriends..." Tang Yun was somewhat embarrassed, but she still nodded and admitted it.

Though Elder Zhang had long since guessed as much, hearing Tang Yun's confirmation still left him sighing with deep feeling and immense shock. He heaved a sigh and said, "The will of heaven. It is all the will of heaven... Heaven's will works in mysterious ways..."

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