Chapter 940 — A Hound of the Same Sect
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Yet because Wei Zhao's outer body was holding the nearly dead General Valiant, and because he was at that moment circulating the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, the energy pouring into him did not linger there. It halted only after repairing the meridians within him, and then treated his body as a carrier and a medium: the energy was merely drawn from the jade pendant space into Wei Zhao's body, and after completing a process of conversion, surged into General Valiant's body...
So at this moment Wei Zhao could snatch a little leisure from his busy task. The energy was not being absorbed by Wei Zhao, so he could open his eyes and speak.
"Whew!" Wei Zhao let out a long breath of turbid air. Since being injured, he had never felt so free and easy!
Seeing Wei Zhao open his eyes again, Jiao Yazi looked at him somewhat oddly: "Little Wei Zhao, why have you stopped cultivating? Why have you halted? Hm? No, that's not right. You're still absorbing energy..."
"No... it's only that the energy I'm drawing in now is all being supplied first to General Valiant. It's right here beside my body." At this moment Wei Zhao felt clear and fresh throughout, his whole body filled with the passion for battle!
"Mm... I never imagined you would recover your strength under such circumstances! It was my negligence earlier; I forgot you had such a fellow-disciple hound!" Jiao Yazi spoke with some feeling: "Had I remembered sooner, your meridians would not have waited until now to be repaired!"
"By the way, Elder Jiao, I'd like to ask something: why can the energy inside General Valiant be used by me?" Wei Zhao asked, somewhat puzzled. "Yet the energy in my own body can only be released after I circulate the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art?"
"Heh heh, because you and that dog are not the same. Its strength comes entirely from you, not from itself!" Jiao Yazi seemed to have known all along that Wei Zhao would ask this, and chuckled. "So it can only be called a quasi-Yellow-Rank internal-school top-grade hound!"
"A quasi-Yellow-Rank internal-school top-grade hound?" Wei Zhao repeated this rather incongruous designation, and looked at Jiao Yazi in confusion. "What does that mean?"
"The meaning is quite simple. Like other Yellow-Rank internal-school adepts, it possesses Yellow-Rank internal-school strength, but it does not understand cultivation methods, cannot absorb energy on its own, and cannot break through and advance on its own. To put it plainly, it is an adept you created; however you made it, so it will remain." Jiao Yazi explained. "And as for why the energy in its body suddenly surged back into yours, that is even simpler! Because you created it, all the energy in its body comes from you. It is as though you had deposited your energy in its body. When you do not need it, it may borrow your energy and make itself a Yellow-Rank top-grade hound; but when you do need it, you may take that energy back at will!"
"Oh? So that is how it is!" Wei Zhao was suddenly enlightened. He had thought himself truly formidable for being able to create a Yellow-Rank internal-school adept, never guessing that what he had made was merely a flawed adept that could not advance! And as for the energy returning to his body, he understood that even better: what had been his own from the very start would naturally return to him when his body needed it!