Chapter 946 — Recovery! Breakthrough!

"Mr. Yu, when you do things, I beg you to leave a little room — don't push them to the absolute extreme. There's a saying: when things reach their peak, they reverse. I wonder whether you've heard it?" Gu Pengzhan truly had no other recourse; he could only speak with a veiled threat.

"Oh?" Yu Bide regarded Gu Pengzhan with keen interest, then burst into laughter. "So you're trying to threaten me?"

"I wouldn't dare!" Gu Pengzhan was furious at heart, yet there was nothing he could do; he could only swallow his pride and yield. "I am merely stating an eternal truth."

"Ha? Preaching truths to me? Haitian, did you hear that? He's preaching truths to me? Hahahaha!" Yu Bide laughed without the slightest restraint. "He says I should leave a little room in what I do, that I shouldn't push things to the extreme — did you hear him?"

"Third Uncle, I heard him!" Yu Haitian nodded, smiling as he echoed.

"And do you find it funny?" Yu Bide asked mockingly.

"Funny — incredibly funny!" Yu Haitian laughed heartily too.

"Hmph!" Yu Bide's tone shifted abruptly, and he looked coldly at Gu Pengzhan. "When I do things, I leave no room at all! I push things to the absolute extreme — what can you do about it? Hm? What do you want to do about it? Just glare helplessly, do you? Furious, are you? Hahahahaha!"

Watching Gu Pengzhan's pathetic, helpless state, Yu Bide felt a surge of exhilaration, as though he had vented a bellyful of pent-up spite! If Yu Shuixing had not forbidden him from killing Wei Zhao, he would have wanted to kill Gu Pengzhan right now, then go deal with Wei Zhao!

The pleasure of humiliating another filled Yu Bide with immense satisfaction!

Gu Pengzhan's face flushed a dark purple. The Yu family simply did not reason; there was no reasoning with them at all! His chest heaved violently, and he was so enraged he could not speak...

Inside Wei Zhao's room, within the jade pendant, an anxious expression surfaced unbidden on Wei Zhao's face!

Though Wei Zhao's person was within the jade pendant, his whole being remained fully conscious; everything happening outside, Wei Zhao heard with perfect clarity!

Including the conversation between Gu Pengzhan and Gu Mengyao in the living room — Wei Zhao had caught it all! Gu Pengzhan's words had moved him deeply, and the devotion of the young miss and little Shu touched Wei Zhao as well!

Wei Zhao had not imagined Gu Pengzhan's situation had grown so dire — the Xiao family and Zhao Qibing's people had actually come knocking, and even the Yu family had found their way here! And the Yu family actually intended to carry off the young miss to be a concubine — they truly dared to dream such things!

Though the young miss was not Wei Zhao's woman, Gu Pengzhan's attitude had already made Wei Zhao regard caring for the young miss as his own duty! To put it in the most extreme terms, he was still the young miss's bodyguard — how could he let the Gu family's people be abducted by the Yu family?

Very well. Since you are so arrogant, then every last one of you shall pay the price for that arrogance!

Yet Wei Zhao's heart was frantic with anxiety — his strength had not yet recovered, and at this moment he truly could not go out to stand up for the young miss!

Faster, a little faster...

Within the jade pendant's space, Wei Zhao madly absorbed the energy of that realm!

Listening to the Yu family's relentless pressure outside, Wei Zhao wished he could rise right now and charge out — but Wei Zhao knew it was not yet possible! The moment he walked out that door would be the hour of these people's deaths; therefore, the recovery of his strength was of the utmost importance!

Wei Zhao clenched his teeth. The vast energy of the jade pendant's space poured into his body, and as Wei Zhao's Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art circulated faster and faster, that energy grew ever stronger!

"Whoosh—"

Wei Zhao's eyes flew open. The energy within his body had already filled to the saturation of his state before his strength had plummeted!

At last, recovered... his strength had finally returned!

Yet Wei Zhao did not stop circulating the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. He knew from past experience that each time his strength was utterly spent, once it returned he could draw another portion of energy into his body, and very likely force a breakthrough!

But if he stopped now and tried to cultivate again later, he feared the effect would never come again. So Wei Zhao kept absorbing the energy from the jade pendant's realm, for he could clearly feel that although the energy in his body was saturated, he could still, with effort, draw in more.

The energy gathering around Wei Zhao grew denser and denser, and as the energy drawn into his body climbed ever higher, that surrounding energy began to pulse violently, whirling into a vortex that spun rapidly about him.

An expression of unbearable agony flooded Wei Zhao's face. He felt his body was about to burst; the energy within was on the verge of its absolute limit, and if he did not release it now, he would blow apart like an overinflated balloon.

But Wei Zhao did not halt the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. Gritting his teeth, he quickened the pace of his cultivation yet again.

Once more the energy around him was stirred into motion, surging swiftly into Wei Zhao's body, and the energy within him climbed to a new height.

As the energy within grew ever denser, an unnatural flush spread across Wei Zhao's face, made grotesque by the swirling vortex of energy.

Almost there — truly almost there! Wei Zhao gave a low grunt. Let the storm come on all the fiercer!

"Boom!"

With a thunderous roar, Wei Zhao felt as though his whole being would fly into the heavens. Under the colossal impact of the energy within, the barrier between tiers shattered with a deafening crash. In an instant more energy came pouring into his body, yet this time there was none of that sensation of bursting past every limit — instead came a most comfortable feeling of nourishment...

A breakthrough! And with it, the meridians within Wei Zhao's body could now take in still more energy!

The energy vortex around Wei Zhao grew weaker and weaker, most of it drawn into his body, and the color of his face shifted from that fevered flush to a healthy hue. Then Wei Zhao sprang up from his bed!

So this was the power of the mid Mystic Tier? Truly a world apart from the peak of the early Mystic Tier! No wonder it had been so difficult back then to fight that external-school expert at the peak of the mid Mystic Tier! A single tier's difference could sometimes mean the difference between victory and defeat!

"Phew!" Wei Zhao exhaled a breath of stale air and patted the mighty general beside him. "The time has come, Mighty General. This time, we shall be the protagonists!"

"Woof, woof..." The unconscious Mighty General seemed to sense the powerful, surging aura radiating from Wei Zhao, and it roused as well, barking twice at him in delight!

Those barks were full of joy; it seemed to have sensed the return of Wei Zhao's strength as well.