Chapter 1081 — Wei Zhao's Coldness — For Qiu Lingshan, Things As They Stood Were Already a Joy Beyond All Expectation! She Was Now Beyond Doubt the Finest of the Younger Generation, and Given Time, Breaking Through to the Profound Stage Would Pose Her No Problem!

And now, the one Qiu Lingshan cared about most was Wei Zhao! She turned her head to look at him, her beautiful eyes full of gratitude and tenderness. If the old Qiu Lingshan had felt for Wei Zhao mostly a reckless, broken-jar resignation, now she knew she truly had feelings for him!

What Wei Zhao had done would move anyone to tears of gratitude!

"Thank you, Wei Zhao! How are you feeling now?" Qiu Lingshan asked, gazing at him with concern. "You passed all your true qi to me, then you..."

"I'm fine. I'm all right," Wei Zhao said lightly. In fact, Wei Zhao really was perfectly fine! This time he had done nothing but take a good nap inside the jade space. At most he had wasted half a day of cultivation with nothing to show for it, but his own strength had not lost one fraction!

All the energy passed to Qiu Lingshan had come from the jade space, and Wei Zhao's body had been no more than a vessel and a medium.

Though he said so, Qiu Lingshan naturally did not believe him! How could he lose so much true qi and be all right? When her grandmother had passed only a little true qi to her grandfather, she had needed a long closed-door recovery. How much more so for Wei Zhao, who had given her so much?

"Wei Zhao, thank you. I know you must be suffering now!" Qiu Lingshan said, deeply moved. "I never thought you would be so good to me, giving me so much true qi and raising my strength so far all at once. I truly don't know what to say!"

In Qiu Lingshan's original plan, today was only to flirt with Wei Zhao and then cultivate together in passing. Even a small gain in cultivation would already have been fine for her. She had never imagined that Wei Zhao would not dual-cultivate with her at all, but would instead use another method to transmit true qi to her directly, forcing her cultivation upward by sheer power!

Moved as she was, Qiu Lingshan also breathed a secret sigh of relief. Though she had held a broken-jar attitude toward Wei Zhao, this was still her first time. How could she not care?

Even if the goal was dual cultivation, Qiu Lingshan still felt it ought to be romantic. Best of all if her first time were not done for the sake of cultivation, but for love.

Now she had kept her first time intact, yet in her heart there was a trace of loss!

She found she could no longer quite read Wei Zhao's heart. Did he have feelings for her or not? If he did, in that situation earlier he could easily have gone with the flow and taken her, yet he had not done so!

But if he had no such feelings for her, why would he spend so much true qi to raise the strength of someone he did not care for? True qi does not come on the wind. It is so precious, yet he spent it freely on a stranger?

Looking at Qiu Lingshan, who was moved to a hopeless mess, Wei Zhao said quite calmly, "It's nothing. My dog is also at the peak of the late Yellow Stage!"

"Ah?" Qiu Lingshan froze for a moment, then one sentence from Wei Zhao sent the blood rushing to her face in anger! By saying that, was he putting her on the same level as a dog? Meaning that raising her strength was no different from raising a dog's?

"All right, it's getting late. I should go," Wei Zhao said, rising straight to his feet. Without another word, he walked toward the door!

Wei Zhao's behavior was far beyond anything Qiu Lingshan had expected! His coldness left her at a loss!

Qiu Lingshan could not understand. Wei Zhao had spent such tremendous effort to raise her strength, only to refuse all credit in the end. What did that mean? Of course, she did not believe a word of what he had just said! His words angered her only for a brief moment, and then she regained her calm!

Though Wei Zhao called her a brain-dead girl and a silly little girl, in truth Qiu Lingshan was neither stupid nor brain-dead. Otherwise she could never have sat in her present position!

Qiu Lingshan felt Wei Zhao had spoken so and acted so coldly on purpose. Back in the hospital, when Wei Zhao had healed Liu Bojia, he had been drenched in sweat and utterly exhausted. Today he had given far more true qi. How could he possibly be fine?

True, as Wei Zhao said, perhaps Mighty General had indeed become a master at the peak of the late Yellow Stage, but there must have been a reason for it. Idle as Wei Zhao might be, he would never raise a dog's strength for no reason!

"Wait..." Having thought all this through, Qiu Lingshan quickly called out to stop him!

Hearing her, Wei Zhao could not help frowning inwardly! The reason he acted so cold was that he feared Qiu Lingshan, swept away by gratitude, might do something like offer herself to him! Their relationship and the mood between them had already been ambiguous enough. Now that she had broken through, she might well do something impulsive!

Wei Zhao's willpower was firmer than most men's, but with beauty before his eyes, if she seduced and tempted him without restraint, he might just surrender! And that was certainly not what he wanted to see!

For now, Wei Zhao defined Qiu Lingshan only as a good friend, at most an ambiguous bosom confidante! She was still some distance from being a lover!

Though Wei Zhao thought the Song girl was fine, pretty in face and fine in figure, he feared that once something really happened between them, she would press him all the harder to do this and that for her. He did not have that much time to spare!

Besides, in Wei Zhao's way of thinking, taking a lover was really nothing. So long as Tang Yun did not object, it was no great matter.

But right now Wei Zhao truly had no time to help Qiu Lingshan crack cases. He still had so many of Feng Xiaoxiao's wishes unfulfilled. He could not afford to distract himself with anything else!

So, all things considered, Wei Zhao decided it was better to stay a little cold toward Qiu Lingshan, lest their relationship advance by leaps and bounds.

And as he rose to leave, Wei Zhao felt annoyed himself! He thought, how nice it would be if the Song girl did not have so many troublesome affairs!

"Is there anything else?" Wei Zhao asked faintly.

"You must be tired? Why not rest a while before you go? Shall I cook for you?" Qiu Lingshan asked softly, showing not the slightest change because of his harsh words.

"Heh..." Wei Zhao could not help giving a bitter laugh, then knitted his brows. "You brain-dead girl, you keep throwing yourself at me like this. Are you asking me to push you down?"