"So that's what happened... All right, no wonder..." Zi Xiao sounded thoroughly dejected. Clearly, this had come as quite a blow to her.
Qing Shan belonged to a branch of the Purple-Eyed Clan and was also a servant of Zi Xiao's family, so Zi Xiao could hardly blame her.
"Although I never received the thank-you gift you sent me, the fact that you were willing to give me something as rare as Forbidden Lightning Spiritual Essence shows you have a kind heart. Saving you was worth it. Now I finally understand why you always looked at me so strangely afterward. You must have been wondering why I was still so weak, and whether I'd sold your Forbidden Lightning Spiritual Essence, right?" I teased.
"No! Why would I think that?" Zi Xiao hastily denied it, then added, "Anyway, once I gave it to you, it was yours. Whether you used it wasn't really any of my business. But it really is such a shame. I went to a lot of trouble to steal that Forbidden Lightning Spiritual Essence from my mother's treasury."
I smiled wryly to myself. Sometimes luck worked in such curious ways. If Lei Ye had received that Forbidden Lightning Spiritual Essence back then, his strength would certainly have been on an entirely different level.
Lei Ye was diligent and eager to learn, so his memories naturally included the effects of Forbidden Lightning Spiritual Essence. It was a substance formed after heavenly lightning congealed. Once absorbed into the body, it allowed one to bypass foundational cultivation, made the body attract heavenly lightning, and sent one's aptitude soaring.
Of course, obtaining Forbidden Lightning Spiritual Essence back then would indeed have increased his strength more than tenfold, producing a single mutated element of unimaginable power. But it would also have restricted