Chapter 1355 — Chen Yuxuan's Breakthrough
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"In that case, I won't argue with you. I'll let you play the man for once!" Qiu Lingshan smiled. "If you had been as decisive back then as you are now, I wouldn't have looked down on you so much."
"Haha, what's past is past. It was Wei Zhao's influence that changed me." Chen Yuxuan smiled with easy unconcern. "All right, Wei Zhao, I'm ready. We can begin!"
"Good, then let's begin!" Wei Zhao said no more. Chen Yuxuan and Qiu Lingshan were grown adults who knew what they were doing, and there was no need for him to say more. "In a moment, when I tell you to circulate your cultivation method, you begin!"
"No problem!" Chen Yuxuan sat down cross-legged and made his preparations.
Wei Zhao did not dare compress too much true qi. He estimated the amount of energy he himself had used back when he broke through from the Yellow Rank to the Mystic Rank; with this sort of thing, enough was enough—too much and it would burst a man open.
"That will do." Wei Zhao quickly finished compressing the energy. It was not meant to serve as a bomb, so there was no need to compress it too much.
Chen Yuxuan circulated his own internal cultivation method, yet found that he could not absorb true qi from Wei Zhao at all, and could not help feeling puzzled. It had not been like this before; that time just before they set out, he had absorbed the true qi Wei Zhao sent over quite smoothly!
Chen Yuxuan tried once more, and the result was still failure. He could not help growing bewildered.
"What is it?" Wei Zhao had not sensed Chen Yuxuan absorbing the energy, but he did see the puzzled expression on his face, and so asked.
"It seems I can't draw true qi from you..." Chen Yuxuan said after trying once again.
"Oh?" Wei Zhao frowned, recalling the bottleneck between his own rank and Chen Yuxuan's. He himself was a Mystic Rank expert, and once Chen Yuxuan reached the peak of the late Yellow Rank, he could no longer absorb energy from Wei Zhao. That bottleneck could not be changed.
At the thought, Wei Zhao felt suddenly deflated and dispirited. Earlier he had believed this trick could be used on Chen Yuxuan and Qiu Lingshan, yet unexpectedly it had failed! His own means of acquiring energy was the jade pendant space, which carried no rank restrictions whatsoever.
But Chen Yuxuan and Qiu Lingshan were different. Their way of acquiring energy ran through him, as a medium of transmission, and so the bottleneck existed.
Yet Wei Zhao was unwilling to accept it. He had gone to such trouble to think of a way to deal with Old Yu, only for it to prove unworkable.
Seeing Wei Zhao's expression, Chen Yuxuan guessed that some difficulty must have arisen. He did not dare make a sound to disturb Wei Zhao, and merely sat quietly to one side.
"Old Jiao, is there no way to break through this bottleneck?" Wei Zhao shifted his hopes to Jiao Yazi.
"Since when does good fortune come so easily? It's already invincible when you use the jade pendant space—and now you want others to use it too? Are all the good things supposed to land in your lap?" Old Jiao shook his head, flatly rejecting Wei Zhao's idea.
"Then there's no other way?" Though Wei Zhao had long known the answer, he still asked, unwilling to let it go.
"Hmm... you brat, all you ever do is make trouble for me. Let me think..." Old Jiao knew how serious the matter was, so though his words were full of displeasure, he truly was thinking of a way for Wei Zhao. "That's right—this bottleneck of yours only takes effect up to the peak of the late Yellow Rank, isn't that so?"
"Yes, that is exactly where the bottleneck lies," Wei Zhao said with a nod.