"What do you mean by Game of Deception?" Elder Shan asked Yang Wei.
Yang Wei held her hand tightly as he walked her over to the couch.
"Did you question me in the game whenever I told you that you have hit nothing?" Yang Wei then asked her.
Elder Shan pondered for a moment before shaking her head.
During the battleship game, she was concentrating on guessing the battleships Yang Wei had arranged in and was disappointed to always guess the wrong one.
However, the thoughts of Yang Wei deceiving her had never crossed her mind as she believed and trusted Yang Wei.
"No, I trusted you so I didn't think you would do some foul play." Elder Shan said as she bit her lips softly.
She was acting like a naive little girl who got played on by an evil man.
Yang Wei patted her hand softly as he smiled lightly. "This is the point of this whole game, Elder Shan."
"You believed people too easily on the one you decided to give your trust in. Hence, you would feel bad about sending the outer disciples to the mandatory summon." He added.
"B-But this and that are two different things." Elder Shan argued as he glared at him. "How is this battleship game even related to the mandatory summon from the Phoenix Sky Sect?"
"Elder Shan, you are too kind sometimes." Yang Wei sighed softly.
"Let me ask you this question. From the outer disciples, you chose, how many of them are affiliated with Tang Xin or not." He asked.
Elder Shan became dumbfounded. "I-I don't know…"
Elder Shan kept her head low as she realized she had been blind-sighted by the event of choosing disciples to their doom but she had forgotten that there could be some traitors among them.
Qin Xiaobo was the perfect example of a traitor to the outer disciples as he managed to obtain a modified pill created by Tang Xin.
Who was to say that there are no other traitors among the outer disciples?
Yang Wei patted her shoulders lightly as he stood up. "Now that you understand my meaning, you shouldn't feel downcast by sending the outer disciples."
"Where are you going?" Elder Shan asked.
Yang Wei showed an amused expression toward her. "I promised that I would leave you alone when you're feeling better."
Elder Shan looked at Yang Wei for a good moment before recalling his words.
'You can tell me to leave when you're feeling better.' Elder Shan repeated the words from Yang Wei in her mind as she glanced at him.
Elder Shan was astonished by Yang Wei's mature behavior and unique way of showing her a new perspective on things.
"Yang Wei…" Elder Shan called out when Yang Wei was about to leave.
Yang Wei halted his movement as he turned around and stared at Elder Shan.
"Yes, Elder Shan?" Yang Wei asked.
"Why are you leaving when I hadn't told you to leave?" Elder Shan replied as she stood up. "I'm going to brew you some tea so would you stay for a while longer?"
Yang Wei was dumbfounded by the sudden invitation to tea.
"I guess that's the payment for my lovely service." He teased her slightly as he gave her a slight nod.
Elder Shan grinned as she walked away to brew some tea for Yang Wei.
Sometime later, Yang Wei was sitting on the couch and smelled a refreshing aroma.
"What tea is that? The aroma is fragrant." Yang Wei asked when Elder Shan came back with two teacups.
Elder Shan handed the teacup to Yang Wei as she sat next to him.
"Try to guess the flavor." Elder Shan said.
Yang Wei nodded his head.
Yang Wei sniffed the aroma and discovered multiple tea leaves were mixed in the tea.
'Hmm, it can't be ginseng tea or green tea…' Yang Wei wondered silently as to what kind of tea leaves could produce such fragrance.
However, after another few minutes, Yang Wei still couldn't come up with anything.
The tea was simply too unique and Yang Wei wasn't a tea expert to understand the tea leaves.
"I give up, Elder Shan." Yang Wei raised his hand in surrender.
"Hehe, why don't you take a few sips first then?" Elder Shan urged him to try another guess after tasting it.
Yang Wei sighed inwardly as he took a few sips. Instantly, a wave of umami seemed to slam onto him as he felt like swimming around the clouds.
Yang Wei showed a blissful expression as he took another sip and before he realized it, the tea was drunk completely.
"Did you enjoy the tea?" Elder Shan asked when he saw Yang Wei tried to lick the teacup for any leftovers.
Yang Wei nodded his head.
"The tea was refreshing and I feel like my aura is rising up." Yang Wei suddenly realized his spiritual qi seemed to increase drastically.
'Wait a minute, the spiritual qi is about to overflow my core.' Yang Wei was dumbfounded as this was a sign of him breaking through to the new stage.
Yang Wei quickly sat in a lotus position as he focused on cultivating the newfound spiritual qi gushing into his core.
While cultivating, Yang Wei's soul drifted inside his body and he could see his core started cracking open.
'What the?' Yang Wei didn't understand why his spherical core was cracking open.
Suddenly, Elder Shan's voice resounded to him.
"Yang Wei, your core is going to form a lotus platform which is the initial stage of the Foundation Core." Elder Shan said.
And she continued, "The tea you just drank is called Soul Revering, an extremely precious tea that can't even be bought with money. It would help you stabilize your core when it started spreading itself."
Within a few minutes, Yang Wei saw his core slowly spreading out, almost like a lotus flower was about to bloom.
"It actually bloomed…" Yang Wei muttered as he witnessed the magnificent sight of his new core.
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