Chapter 1775 — Suspicion, Part One — Perhaps This Was Also Why the Xuanyuan Yulong Art Was Invincible Before the Earth Stage, and Why I Was Hailed as the Foremost Man Below the Earth Stage in Those Days!
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But once he had entered the Earth Stage, everything changed. Whenever he faced an enemy, he found it exceedingly difficult to cope.
Even against an opponent of the same level, unless he brought out an overbearing trump card like the True Qi Bomb, he had no confidence of securing victory.
Thinking of this, Wei Zhao immediately felt somewhat dejected. If he had to bring the second layer of the Xuanyuan Yulong Art to full perfection before opening the third stone gate and obtaining a martial art, the day would be long gone before he got there! Yet the situation was already what it was, and there was nothing Wei Zhao could do to change it.
The only thing he could do was study this martial art while hurrying to bring the strength of the second layer of the Xuanyuan Yulong Art to full perfection, then open the third stone gate.
After sighing, Wei Zhao copied down the body-tempering prescription from the second silk scroll. He then carefully folded all three silk scrolls, tucked them close to his body, and took the prescription to Old Lin so they could study it together.
Most of the ingredients listed in the prescription were common medicinal herbs, but there were also several whose names Wei Zhao had never even heard. Old Lin was widely learned and well traveled; he should know what these herbs were.
Even if the worst came to pass, they could find substitutes. At least that would keep Wei Zhao from being unable to cultivate the second layer of the Xuanyuan Yulong Art. After seeing that martial art, Wei Zhao was already itching to hurry up and bring the second layer of the Xuanyuan Yulong Art to full perfection!
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Wei Zhao did not stay with Tang Zhi and the others at night, so they naturally had no idea what he had gone off to do. It was not that he meant to conceal it from them. Tang Zhi, Yaoyao, and Xiao Shu were the people closest to him, but there were simply too many mouths involved. No one, not even Ergoudan, knew the secret of the mountain cave. Wei Zhao naturally could not tell anyone else.
If someone else happened to discover the cave ahead of time, it would be too late for Wei Zhao to regret it.
When he left the room and stepped into the courtyard, the dazzling sunlight outside reminded Wei Zhao that Old Lin had not rested at all the previous night and was probably asleep now. Tang Zhi and the others, however, were already up. When they saw Wei Zhao return, they looked somewhat surprised.
"Wei Zhao, Grandpa Lin said yesterday that you had gone up the mountain hunting and still hadn't come back by nightfall. Did you only return in the middle of the night?" Tang Zhi was not worried that anything might have happened to him. With Wei Zhao's strength, what wild beast on the mountain could possibly threaten him?
"Yes, I came back around midnight." Wei Zhao nodded. "I had planned to catch a few pheasants and make beggar's chicken for you, but I didn't happen to see a single one. Never mind. I'll go buy a few later."
Tang Zhi and the others did not think anything of it. Hunting was unlike other things. Sometimes, when you went looking for a particular animal, you might genuinely fail to find it. So there was nothing strange about Wei Zhao searching until midnight and coming back empty-handed.
"Huh? Where's Grandpa Lin? Why haven't I seen him?" Gu Mengyao looked around the courtyard in puzzlement.
Every morning, Old Lin was the first person awake. At this hour, he would certainly be stretched out in the courtyard's reclining chair, basking in the sun and chatting with Tang Zhi and the others. Today, however, the chair was empty, while Lin Dongfang's bedroom door was tightly shut. This left Gu Mengyao and the others rather perplexed.