Chapter 895 — Unwilling to Accept It! The energy, though swiftly drawn into Wei Zhao's body, could not remain within him! It entered through the pores on one side and left through the pores on the other, merely making a circuit through his body before returning to the jade pendant space!
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"What's going on!" Wei Zhao was startled and immediately halted the circulation of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, examining his own body. That was not right—true, his injuries this time were grave, but the last time, after Uncle Zhu wounded him, the damage had been no lighter than this.
"What is it?" Jiao Yazi had noticed that something was off about Wei Zhao too, and asked at once.
"Elder Jiao, the energy... it seems my body cannot absorb it. I cannot convert the energy in the jade pendant space into my own energy!" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide. "My body is like a sieve—the energy enters on one side and leaves on the other..."
"Oh?" Jiao Yazi was taken aback, and his brows knitted. "Circulate the mental method and oral formulas of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art now. Let me have a look."
Anxious as he was, Wei Zhao still nodded hurriedly and once again set the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art in motion. The energy within the jade pendant space was stirred in an instant and came surging madly into Wei Zhao's body...
But the strange thing happened again: after the energy entered Wei Zhao's body, it made a circuit and slipped right back out of him! It was exactly as Wei Zhao had described—his body was like a sieve, and the energy merely passed through him!
"Strange! Most strange!" Jiao Yazi's eyes were wide too, and he stared at Wei Zhao in utter disbelief. "Energy that cannot remain in the body... this is truly strange!"
Ten minutes later, Wei Zhao stopped cultivating the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art in dejection, his face looking terrible. "Elder Jiao, the energy still cannot be converted to my own use... I can clearly feel it draining out of my body..."
"Mmm..." Jiao Yazi sank into thought as well. "Let me think... let me think carefully..."
As he spoke, Jiao Yazi walked over and began examining Wei Zhao's condition.
"Well?" Wei Zhao waited a while, and when Jiao Yazi did not speak, he asked anxiously.
After a moment, Jiao Yazi shook his head with some regret. "Xiaoyi, I have discovered a few problems, and by my guess, this is most likely the reason you cannot absorb and convert energy..."
"What reason?" Wei Zhao asked urgently.
"The reason... when I tell you, don't be heartbroken. I hope you can hold on..." Elder Jiao sighed.
"What do you mean?" Wei Zhao was stunned at first, but in the next instant he understood Jiao Yazi's meaning! Jiao Yazi meant that although he had found the reason he could not absorb and convert energy, he had not found a way to solve it!
Wei Zhao's heart sank, but then he gave a bitter smile. It was good to have a reason; so long as there was a reason, there was no fear that a solution could not be found in time! So he said, "Elder Jiao, speak. I am not so fragile that I cannot take a blow! Earlier I had even thought of perishing together with my enemy—now it is only that I cannot absorb and convert energy..."
"Then I will say it!" Jiao Yazi's expression turned grave. "Your meridians have all been shattered by the backlash of your own energy bomb. You could say that you are a cripple now—when a master of the inner arts has all his meridians severed, he is no different from an ordinary person, and can no longer use true qi..."
Wei Zhao was startled and hastily checked the injuries within his body. Earlier, in his urgency to enter the jade pendant space and cultivate, he had not examined his wounds too carefully, because at the time Wei Zhao was certain that no matter how gravely he was hurt, he could be healed inside the jade pendant space!
Take General Weiwu, for instance: his entire five viscera and six bowels and all his meridians had been shattered by Yukun, and Wei Zhao had still been able to save him with the energy within his body. So Wei Zhao had thought that as long as he stayed alive, it was enough, and had never found the time to look closely at the abnormalities in his body.