Chapter 1213 — Having to Give Up
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Wei Zhao first set about restoring the blood his body had lost. The process was not complicated; for Wei Zhao, it was like repairing an injured body, using energy to accelerate the production of blood.
Once his body had returned to normal, Wei Zhao began the restoration of his cultivation. At this moment, his body was like a huge empty vat, greedily gulping down the elemental energy of the jade pendant space in great, rapid draughts!
Time, in the course of cultivation, always passed in the blink of an eye. Wei Zhao could feel the energy accumulating within his body growing ever more abundant—from having no cultivation whatsoever, to the early Yellow Stage, then from the early Yellow Stage to the pinnacle of the late Yellow Stage, and then to the early Profound Stage...
Finally, Wei Zhao reached the middle Profound Stage, the very level he had held before his cultivation had dropped!
This process passed without the slightest mishap, for Wei Zhao had done it many times before and was completely familiar with the road.
Having returned to his previous level, Wei Zhao did not slacken his efforts. He continued to circulate the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, preparing to break through in one fell swoop to the pinnacle of the middle Profound Stage!
So it is with many things: the first surge carries you through, the second falters, and the third is exhausted.
If one cannot charge all the way through in a single breath, then breaking through afterward becomes far more difficult! Thus Wei Zhao did not wish to waste this opportunity of breaking down to build anew; he gritted his teeth and pressed on!
But then again, how easy was breaking through? Even with favorable timing, advantageous terrain, and harmonious human relations, many people remained stuck at a bottleneck for years on end; some might never break through to a higher level for their entire lives! Was it that they had never touched the barrier? No, that was not the case—they had touched it and stood on the very edge of ascension, yet breaking through that layer of obstruction was a feat of a thousand difficulties and ten thousand hardships!
Wei Zhao did not want to admit it, but he was forced to: this time, his assault on the barrier had failed!
Failed, no doubt about it! Break down to build anew—for the first time, Wei Zhao tasted the flavor of defeat; he had broken down, but nothing was built!
This attempt to break through to the pinnacle of the middle Profound Stage was somewhat different from his previous several attempts. In the last few days, each attempt had been extremely difficult—even absorbing a little bit of energy into his body was already hard, and in most cases, he could not absorb even a single wisp!
It was like a bag already stuffed full of things; no matter how small the item, there was simply no room to squeeze in even a tiny bit more! That was also the reason Wei Zhao had struck the barrier several times without breaking through!
This time, however, he had indeed been able to absorb a little energy into his body—but still, he had failed!
"Hoo... it really doesn't work after all!" Wei Zhao let out a long sigh and opened his eyes. After catching his breath for a moment, he resolved to launch yet another assault on the barrier to the pinnacle of the middle Profound Stage! He was unwilling to accept this failure; he wanted to break through in one fell swoop!
The elemental energy of the jade pendant space was once again stirred into motion by Wei Zhao, swirling around him at an almost inconceivable speed! He had now mastered the method of drawing in energy, and the first layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art could be employed with consummate skill. One could say that breaking through to the second layer was within easy reach. Everything was prepared; only the east wind was wanting—all that remained was for the stone door to open once more, and he would obtain the cultivation manual of the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art!