Chapter 941 — The Astonished Wei Zhao
"But isn't the energy inside me universal? So if my opponent is wounded, will it absorb General Valiant's energy on its own?" A rather terrifying possibility suddenly occurred to Wei Zhao, and he asked at once.
If this skill was passive, then when others needed energy, would they not also produce the very scene of today?
"No!" Jiao Yazi spat out a foreign word.
"Why no?" Wei Zhao was rather at a loss.
"The Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art is in truth a universal formula for energy conversion. Through this formula, you can draw the energy of the natural world and of the jade pendant space into your body, converting it into the energy in true qi form that you require and storing it within yourself!" Jiao Yazi explained. "But the skills others cultivate are not the same as yours, so the type of true qi their bodies require is naturally different as well. The reason the energy in your body is called universal energy is that you can use the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to convert it into whatever kind of energy you need to produce, and so you can heal the injured! But General Valiant does not know the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. The energy within it is forever your own energy; apart from you, no one else can use it at all, because it cannot convert it!"
"So that is how it is!" In an instant Wei Zhao understood the principle behind it all. No wonder the energy inside General Valiant's body could be used by him without first circulating the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to convert it—because it was his own energy to begin with!
General Valiant had never cultivated true qi on its own before, so whatever Wei Zhao had fed into it, that was what it became.
But others were different. Without conversion through the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, Wei Zhao's true qi energy was of no use to anyone else either!
"It is lucky you held something back, or this time it would truly have been trouble!" Jiao Yazi said with feeling. "Still, all things are ordained by heaven in the dark. So long as you can pass through the crisis smoothly, that is enough!"
"Heh, but with General Valiant, from now on I have one more trump card for preserving my life. It seems the true qi bomb can still be used after all..." A trace of a smug, cold smile flickered across the corner of Wei Zhao's mouth. With this card in hand, he could do battle with experts several levels above his own!
"Still, you had best not use it if you can avoid it," Jiao Yazi said, shaking his head.
"Hm?" Wei Zhao was doused with a bucket of cold water and froze on the spot.
"First, if it does not detonate properly and blows straight into your heart or your skull, you need not wait to find that dog and ask it for energy—you will simply be dead," Jiao Yazi said.
"Hm..." Wei Zhao smiled bitterly and nodded. Indeed, this true qi bomb was very dangerous, entirely the sort that harms others without benefiting oneself, essentially a certain-kill technique of the mutual-destruction variety.
"Second, if one strike fails to kill your opponent, then your opponent will kill you," Jiao Yazi said. "So I advise you to make cultivation and the raising of your strength your proper path. This sort of offbeat trick—best to use it sparingly, and only when there is truly no other way!"
"I understand!" Wei Zhao nodded. "You are right. Only the raising of one's strength is true strength. These tricks—using them once in a desperate moment is one thing, but to keep using them is to harm both others and oneself!"
"Heh, so long as you can see it clearly, that is enough..." Jiao Yazi nodded with a smile, speaking with heartfelt gratification.
Beside Wei Zhao, General Valiant was rapidly absorbing the energy flowing from Wei Zhao's body. It nestled against Wei Zhao in incomparable comfort, enjoying the nourishment of the energy.
Before this, General Valiant's heart had nearly exploded from fright! It had only been reluctant to part from Wei Zhao and wanted one last moment of closeness with him, but it had never expected that upon touching Wei Zhao's body, the energy within General Valiant was uncontrollably drawn into Wei Zhao!
Though General Valiant did not know what was happening, by instinct it was very afraid! Earlier, it had gained some nameless energy from Wei Zhao that made it incomparably fierce, so that one kick from it could kill a man outright!
And now this energy was surging back into Wei Zhao's body—how could it not be afraid?
Yet General Valiant had never thought of struggling to escape. Afraid as it was, when it saw the inexplicably comfortable look on Wei Zhao's face, it understood that what was happening at this moment was, in all likelihood, beneficial to Wei Zhao!
General Valiant was a loyal dog. Its life had been saved by Wei Zhao, and all its strength had been given by Wei Zhao. So if Wei Zhao wanted to take it back, then let him take it back whenever he wished! General Valiant was afraid, but it bore not the slightest resentment!
And so General Valiant held on until the very last thread of energy in its body had poured into Wei Zhao, and only then did it sink into a dazed faint, not knowing whether it could still live on. But if Wei Zhao could recover, then he could protect Yao Yao and Little Shu!
How long passed, General Valiant did not know, but when it awoke again, what astonished it was that the familiar energy capable of making its strength soar was once more pouring ceaselessly from Wei Zhao's body into its own! It was much like the process of gaining the energy the first time, except that this time Wei Zhao was lying down, as though in a deep sleep...
General Valiant instinctively assumed it had begun drawing back into itself the energy it had poured into Wei Zhao's body, and was about to leap away—only to discover, to its astonishment, that it could not move. Its body seemed glued fast to Wei Zhao!
General Valiant gave a start of fright, but when it saw that Wei Zhao's complexion was ruddy as ever and that nothing at all seemed amiss, it settled down once more, lowered its body, and let the energy flowing from Wei Zhao's body nourish it...
How long passed after that, it could not tell, but General Valiant began to grow uncomfortable—for it plainly sensed that the energy within it had all but reached saturation, and yet the energy pouring in from Wei Zhao's body still surged into it in an unbroken stream!
"Boom..." General Valiant's fur stood on end! It felt as though Wei Zhao's energy had swollen it until it burst...
The next moment, it knew nothing at all. It had fainted dead away beside Wei Zhao...
This gave Wei Zhao, inside the jade pendant space, a severe fright as well. He had no idea how much energy General Valiant needed to recover, and so he had kept pouring it across without pause—whatever the other side could take, he fed to it—and in the end, unable to govern the amount, he had blown General Valiant up outright...
Wei Zhao hurried back from the jade pendant space to the real world, felt General Valiant over, and found that its heartbeat and pulse were normal and that it had merely fainted; only then did he breathe easy... But the next moment, the look on Wei Zhao's face turned strange again!