"What did Li Chenglong say?"
"Li Chenglong kept pestering him, saying, maybe some more had built up over the past few days? It wasn't the ten thousand ordinary cases he feared, but that one exception. They couldn't build a mountain nine fathoms high only to fall short of the final basket of earth!"
"And then?"
"Then the two of them practiced back-to-back again. They both practiced until their faces were red and their necks bulged, as hot as steamers, and then they started fighting. Well, mostly Zuo Xiaoduo beating up Li Chenglong..."
Looking utterly speechless, Wen Xingtian said, "This basically happens every few days. Every time, Li Chenglong asks over and over, while Zuo Xiaoduo refuses for all he's worth... Sometimes Li Chenglong gets his way, and sometimes Zuo Xiaoduo gets his way... It's hard to say who has the upper hand. They both have their wins and losses!"
"Xingtian..."
Ye Changqing looked conflicted. "The way you put that... You've been single for so many years. Maybe it's time you found a wife."
Wen Xingtian stared expressionlessly at Ye Changqing. "..."
"Ahem, carry on." Ye Changqing coughed twice.
"Based on their conversations, I've roughly pieced together some of the situation. It seems that Li Chenglong originally had some inexplicable cold energy hidden inside him. At first, it remained concealed without showing itself, but it slowed Li Chenglong's cultivation progress, leaving him lost among the crowd. After he met Zuo Xiaoduo, though, during one chance practice session, Li Chenglong discovered that this cold energy was actually lurking inside him, and the Flame Sun True Scripture even evaporated it out..."
"According to the information I have, before meeting Zuo Xiaoduo, Li Chenglong was a martial arts good-for-nothing with basically no prospects for cultivation. But after doing it once with Zuo Xiaoduo, he