258 Chapter 258 (Part 1/2)
Under Wu Huaiwei's scrutinizing gaze, Wei Xizhen neither dodged nor avoided it.
Wu Huaiwei asked him, "Then why didn't you say so earlier?"
Wei Xizhen replied, "You didn't ask."
Wu Huaiwei was so exasperated she laughed.
Especially when he answered with such utter seriousness, without the slightest hint of joking.
Wu Huaiwei patiently asked, "Then what have you discovered?"
Wei Xizhen looked again at the vines wrapped around Ou Rushuang. "In Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, what comes after water nourishes wood?"
"Wood feeds fire. Why?"
"The Exotic Fire Prophecy is only six or seven hundred years old, while Geothermal Core Power has existed for a thousand." Wei Xizhen gazed at the vines. "Which do you think would win if these two forces clashed?"
"Why not let the exotic fire burn it and find out?" Wu Huaiwei said without expression. "Just as no Sage had ever died within Taiyi's bounds before, this is our first time seeing Geothermal Core Power protect a Sage. No World Destroyer has ever come to burn Taiyi before, either."
Wei Xizhen said, "Burning Taiyi alone may not trigger Geothermal Core Power. It would have to burn a Sage chosen by Geothermal Core Power."
Wu Huaiwei looked at him with a faint, sardonic smile. "Are you willing to put yourself to the test for the sake of all living beings?"
Wei Xizhen raised his head slightly and gazed at the vines climbing high above them. His expression was calm. "I am."
Wu Huaiwei: "..."
She said expressionlessly, "You are not."
Oh?
Liang Zhen and Yin Ziwu both glanced toward Wu Huaiwei out of the corners of their eyes.
Before Wei Xizhen could say anything, Wu Huaiwei continued, "Even if Geothermal Core Power can withstand the exotic fire, it only protects Taiyi