Chapter 1482 — Late Xuan Rank
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Only after Feng Nitian spoke did Zhao Qilei and Yu Shan sense the spiritual qi in the vicinity growing dense. They had not noticed it before. As scions of a Hidden family, they were still a notch below Feng Nitian of an ancient family, and their senses were not as keen as his.
"Boom--" Hardly had Feng Nitian's words fallen when, on the plaza below the inn, the spiritual qi of heaven and earth gathered violently together, then burst apart and swiftly dispersed...
"The late stage of the Xuan Rank! He actually broke through to the late Xuan Rank. What a domineering mental cultivation mantra!" Feng Nitian sighed.
"True, but Brother Nitian, you are no lesser yourself!" Yu Shan said quickly.
"Heh. Late Xuan Rank merely puts him on par with me. Nothing much." Feng Nitian waved a hand. "Let us continue our earlier topic. What else would you like to know about the ancient families?"
Feng Nitian had been answering Zhao Qilei's and Yu Shan's questions all along, enlightening them on the lore of the ancient sects and ancient families. Of course, what he told them was nothing secret; such matters were common knowledge among those of the ancient level, yet scarcely any scion of a Hidden family knew of them. So Feng Nitian did not mind showing off a little before them, to raise his own standing.
But just after Zhang Naipao's breakthrough, the innkeeper narrowed his eyes. He glanced outside the inn, then lifted his head and looked up toward the upper floor. A flicker of surprise crossed his gaze, and in a voice barely audible he muttered to himself, "Someone upstairs has broken through as well? Could it be that one... It seems this trial is truly brimming with talent!"
That said, the innkeeper's eyes regained their former calm, and he said nothing more.
"Whoosh--" Wei Zhao exhaled a breath of turbid air, a faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth. "At last, a breakthrough... Zhang Naipao, I truly must thank you. You leveled up as well, true enough, but without you I would never have found the opening for this breakthrough of mine!"
For some time now, Wei Zhao had shown faint signs of breaking through to the late Xuan Rank; all that was lacking was the right opening. Seizing the chance that came today, Wei Zhao accomplished the breakthrough in one stroke. This counted as an unexpected gain for him.
Wei Zhao stretched lazily, his whole body suffused with an indescribable ease. A natural upgrade was indeed far more comfortable than forcing a breakthrough with compressed energy. At least his clothes had not been blasted to shreds, and the process had not been so agonizing.
"Chirp chirp--" Tianlei Pig looked at Wei Zhao with something like envy. The little creature simply could not understand: a moment ago Wei Zhao had seemed stripped of every scrap of strength, so how was it that in the next breath he had grown stronger than before? What in the world was going on?
"Heh... little thing, you want to level up too?" Having broken through to the late Xuan Rank, Wei Zhao was in exceptionally high spirits, and his manner toward Tianlei Pig warmed of its own accord.
"Chirp chirp--" Tianlei Pig nodded hastily.
"Good!" Wei Zhao agreed readily. "Riding the momentum of this breakthrough, we press on in one breath and turn you into a high-ranked Xuan pig!"
"Chirp chirp--" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Tianlei Pig at once pranced and danced on the spot in excitement.
"But the task of finding the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit falls on you. When the time comes, you had better put your back into it!" Wei Zhao reminded him.