護花近衛 - 第605章 藥王的分析 - 翰墨軒

"That is exactly the point!" The Medicine King nodded. "So if Wei Zhao is not a fool, he should not have dispersed his power — or rather, he would not have dispersed it unless he had absolutely no other choice!"

"Or perhaps he truly had no other choice?" Li Cihua frowned. "Wait — could it be that his strength has already recovered?"

"His strength recovered..." Both the Medicine King and Uncle Zhu drew a sharp breath. Li Cihua's conjecture was far too bold. Such a possibility was not absent, but it was far, far too idealistic.

"What? Is there a problem?" Seeing the exaggerated expressions on the faces of the Medicine King and Uncle Zhu, Li Cihua asked in bewilderment.

"The scenario you describe is possible," the Medicine King said. "But it can exist only under ideal conditions. First, if he were in a blessed cave-heaven where true qi is extraordinarily dense, restoring his strength within a single day would not be impossible, for with enough true qi to absorb, restoring his strength would of course be no trouble at all. Of course, to this day I do not know whether such a place exists on Earth; at the very least, I have never heard of one."

"That does sound rather like the fairylands in those television dramas — the sort that could not possibly exist..." Li Cihua shook his head. "Apart from that?"

"Apart from that, the second method is for a master of the same sect to empower him, channeling his own true qi into Wei Zhao's body, which would likewise achieve a swift recovery. But this method has its flaws. First, it must be an expert of the same school, because the cultivation methods of different sects differ, and the true qi within their bodies differs with them; to force the matter would only be to kill the man. Second, though it may save a life, it brings no good to the expert himself: the true qi he has cultivated through such hardship, once given away, makes his own strength plummet, and he may even drop a rank. I think that even between blood brothers, or between father and son, no one would rashly resort to such a method. For the higher the rank, the harder it is to cultivate. To save the life of a Yellow Rank expert, the rescuer must be at least an Earth Rank expert; and once he gives his own true qi to the one he saves, he may well fall back to Yellow Rank, and to climb once more to Earth Rank would demand another long stretch of bitter cultivation. No one, I think, would do such a thing," said the Medicine King.

"So that is how it is!" Li Cihua nodded. "By that account, then, Wei Zhao really did disperse his power? Or rather, he truly has no hope of recovery? For I fished a few things out of Gu Pengzhan as well — Wei Zhao has no fellow disciples, he is utterly alone, so there is no one to save him, and no rare treasures of heaven and earth to nourish him. If he had not dispersed his power, he could only have waited to die."

"That is hard to say..." The Medicine King shook his head. "In any case, I find this whole business very strange."

"Indeed! And that Gu Pengzhan is a most ungrateful fellow. I beat around the bush for the longest time and still could not get a straight answer out of him!" Li Cihua said indignantly.

"Enough, stop studying Wei Zhao. Why study him at all? Whether his strength has recovered or not, I mean to deal with him," Young Master Bing said, somewhat impatiently. "Since he has no backer, that is enough. I will make him die before my eyes! And as for this Gu Pengzhan — by that account, he is determined to protect Wei Zhao? I had not intended to deal with him right away, but since he is so ungrateful, I will deal with him as well!"

"That is true enough!" Li Cihua nodded after hearing Young Master Bing's words. "Master Yao, Uncle Zhu, how shall we deal with Wei Zhao?"