Chapter 2077 — The Family's Circumstances
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"Yes. An expert at the peak of Mystic-rank late stage need only take twenty Spirit-Gathering Elixirs, or one Minor Qi-Gathering Elixir, to enter Earth-rank and become an Earth-rank expert!" Han Xiaohu said. "Grandfather became an Earth-rank expert back then precisely by taking a Minor Qi-Gathering Elixir. Only in these years, his strength has scarcely advanced."
"Does your family still have any of these Minor Qi-Gathering Elixirs?" Hearing Han Xiaohu's explanation, Wei Zhao felt like weeping without tears. Simply eating pills could make one an Earth-rank expert? The scions of the ancient sects and hidden clans held far too great an advantage!
Of course, Minor Qi-Gathering Elixirs were by now a rarity. Unless one belonged to the Mystic Elixir Gate, where one could have them for the asking, or was a power on good terms with the Mystic Elixir Gate and could obtain a few, even the other hidden clans—even ancient sects and ancient clans—had to pay a steep price to get one. That alone showed how precious the Minor Qi-Gathering Elixir was!
"There are two left..." Han Xiaohu hesitated only briefly before speaking the truth without wavering. "Does Boss want them? I can plead with Grandfather on your behalf..."
"I do not want them." Hearing Han Xiaohu's words, Wei Zhao smiled faintly. "They are for you."
In that moment Wei Zhao fully approved of Han Xiaohu as a person. This young man had treated him decently enough and harbored no divided heart; had he been evasive, Wei Zhao would have had to reconsider his attitude toward Han Xiaohu!
But since Han Xiaohu could lay bare his family's secrets without reservation, that showed his loyalty plainly. Otherwise, if he had not truly meant to be Wei Zhao's junior brother, the leaking of such things would have been enough to bring the Hidden Han Family one step sooner to destruction at others' hands.
"Me?" Han Xiaohu was slightly startled. "With my current strength, even if I took a Minor Qi-Gathering Elixir, at most I would leap straight to peak Yellow-rank late stage—that would be an utter waste!"
"Heh, you will know when the time comes." Wei Zhao did not explain for now, but inwardly he sighed. Had he known Han Xiaohu earlier, why would he ever have taken the Qi-Gathering Pill? What a squandering of heaven's bounty—a single Minor Qi-Gathering Elixir would have sufficed, and after rising to Earth-rank, taking the Qi-Gathering Pill then would have raised his strength all the more!
But now the order was reversed: first the Qi-Gathering Pill, then the Minor Qi-Gathering Elixir, and it was of no use at all.
Then again, if Wei Zhao had not been an Earth-rank expert and had remained at Mystic-rank, the Hidden Han Family would never have sought him out—and in his earlier clashes with enemies, he would already have perished. So Wei Zhao merely sighed; he did not regret it overmuch.
Since Wei Zhao did not wish to elaborate, Han Xiaohu naturally did not press. He knew that Wei Zhao would speak when the time was right.
The car slowly entered the most core part of the Hidden Han Family—the Han Family Council Hall! Beside it stood the residence of the Han patriarch, Han Tianba!