Chapter 1435 — A Little Silly
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
This was what was meant by one side failing while the other shone. For instance, if an external expert's external cultivation reached the Mystic rank first, then breaking through to the Mystic rank internally would become utterly effortless, with none of the bottlenecks felt before. Likewise, if the internal cultivation reached the Mystic rank first, raising the external would become far easier as well!
And an early-stage Mystic-rank cultivator of both internal and external could hold their own against a mid-stage Mystic-rank cultivator of the internal school alone without much trouble—the two would be roughly equal in strength. This worked on much the same principle as Wei Zhao's unique mental cultivation method, only his was rather more profound.
"The meridians in your ears are intact," Wei Zhao said after examining Wu Chengtian's ear. "So you didn't mishear. I don't care to say things twice. Your Wu family should have an internal cultivation method as well, shouldn't it?"
"Internal... we do!" Only when Wei Zhao brought up the internal cultivation method again did Wu Chengtian finally become certain that Wei Zhao was not joking with him but speaking in earnest! Which meant Wei Zhao truly intended to make him an expert who cultivated both internal and external!
Every external school or clan possessed an internal cultivation method. Though it was not particularly high-grade, it was the one that best matched the external method they practiced—the two could support each other.
Nor was this low-grade internal method any secret; many families kept a copy, and the Wu family was naturally no exception!
Only, none of the Wu family were well suited to practicing an internal method, and besides, the Wu family didn't have time enough for their external cultivation as it was—where would they find the hours to study the internal?
Everyone knew that cultivating the internal as well could yield greater strength, but the crux of the matter was whether you could actually cultivate it. In the whole Wu family, only the old master Wu Gonggao had studied the internal method for a spell, yet he had achieved nothing by it and given up.
So if even Wu Gonggao, the strongest in the family, had gotten nowhere, there was no need to speak of the others—they would make even less progress.
Naturally Wu Chengtian had trained at it for a few days as well, only he had made even less headway.
"Do you know the mnemonic? In other words, have you practiced it?" Wei Zhao asked.
"I have, and I still remember the mnemonic. But I only ever felt a faint trace of true qi. The heaven-and-earth spiritual energy around my home is far too thin, and there were no spiritual medicines for internal cultivation either, so I gave it up afterward," Wu Chengtian said honestly.
"Good. I'll heal your injuries first, and in a moment, when I tell you to circulate the mnemonic, you begin. The breakthrough may be very painful—can you bear it?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Huh? I can break through, too?" As Wu Chengtian saw it, even if Wei Zhao enabled him to practice the internal school, it would yield only a bit of progress—there was no chance he could break through to the internal Yellow rank. But now it seemed he might actually break through and become a Yellow-rank internal expert? Surely not? Wouldn't that put him on par with his own external strength?