Chapter 761 — Strength Ascendant Once More
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Time passed, second by second. He did not know how long it had been, but the mighty general's pace of absorption had not slowed. Its injuries were evidently grave, and Wei Zhao dared not stop. Though he was already feeling somewhat dizzy and blinded -- a warning that his inner energy was overdrawn -- Wei Zhao thought: to keep the young lady from grieving, I will endure it.
Thinking of the young lady as she usually was, she had in fact treated him rather well. Apart from some hostility at the very beginning, once she had accepted him she had cared for him a good deal. And had he not touched her chest before?
He wondered when he might touch it again. Wei Zhao savored the memory... and as he thought, he could not help drifting off to sleep.
Wei Zhao had expended far too much energy, and so he lapsed straight into the sleep of energy replenishment.
In the space of the jade pendant, Wei Zhao saw Jiao Yazi. "Elder Jiao, I'm in here again?"
"I don't know. I don't know either." Jiao Yazi shook his head. "I'm not certain whether your energy can save the dog, though a fair amount of it has certainly been absorbed by him... But the urgent matter now is for you to replenish your own energy at once. Passing out at a time like this -- what if an enemy came?"
Wei Zhao was startled, and dared not ask more. He hurriedly set the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art circulating again, frantically drawing in the energy from the jade pendant's space...
The energy elements within the jade pendant's space seemed inexhaustible. Wei Zhao had absorbed them so many times, yet they had never shown the slightest thinning; they remained as rich as ever. He felt as though every pore in his body had opened wide, each one drinking in the energy elements...
How much time had passed, he could not say, when suddenly he felt the energy within his body reach a fullness he had never known before!
The peak of the early Mysterious Stage? Wei Zhao was mildly startled, and returned from the jade pendant's space to reality. To his astonishment, he found that he had gone from the early Mysterious Stage all the way to its peak -- which meant he was now but a single step from the mid Mysterious Stage!
What was going on?
After his energy had been depleted and then replenished, Wei Zhao could clearly feel his strength had risen, just as it had after he healed Feng Xiaoxiao that last time.
Could this be the legendary truth that nothing is built until it is broken? He had lost a portion of his energy, and then replenished it, and in doing so broken through to a level beyond his former strength?
Wei Zhao did not know whether his guess was right, but the fact was wondrous enough! He had never expected to turn disaster into blessing and raise his strength so greatly in one stroke.
"Woof woof!"
All at once General Weiwu's barking sounded beside him, and Wei Zhao started, then abruptly remembered the matter of General Weiwu! He had slipped into his energy-replenishing state in a daze earlier and had paid no heed to how General Weiwu was faring. Upon waking, he had been so astonished by the rise in his own strength that he had overlooked the beast's presence entirely!
From the look of it now, General Weiwu had woken before him. Wei Zhao turned toward the sound and saw General Weiwu crouched before his bed like a guardian spirit; seeing him awake, the creature was wagging its head and tail in high excitement. H