Chapter 2334 — How Shocking
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"Striving for a higher realm is only natural for cultivators. How many Small Qi-Gathering Pills does your family have?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Around ten, I suppose?" Pi Zhifeng was not entirely sure. Although the pills were precious, no one in the Pi family could take them, so he had never paid them much attention. He turned to Old Master Pi.
"Fifteen in all," Old Master Pi said. "Actually, we have had plenty of opportunities to gather more Small Qi-Gathering Pills. I simply never bothered, because they would have been useless to us. We might as well collect something else of practical value."
"Good. You, Pi Zhifeng, Pi Zhitao, and Wu Gonggao will each have one—that makes four. Of the remaining eleven, I'll take five." Wei Zhao considered it for a moment before speaking. He had not expected the Hidden Pi family to have such a stockpile. Who would have thought they possessed so many Small Qi-Gathering Pills?
"What?" Old Master Pi was completely stunned! It was not because Wei Zhao had asked for Small Qi-Gathering Pills, but because Wei Zhao's words clearly meant that he intended to raise the cultivation of the entire Pi family. That was something Old Master Pi simply could not take in.
Had happiness come far too quickly? Even if Wei Zhao had wanted all fifteen Small Qi-Gathering Pills and then told him to go collect more, Old Master Pi would have agreed wholeheartedly. Without Wei Zhao personally taking action, let alone fifteen Small Qi-Gathering Pills, even a hundred would never have been enough to raise the people of his family into early-stage Earth-level experts of the Internal School!
"Mr. Lin, wouldn't that be a bit unfair to you?" Old Master Pi asked cautiously.
"Unfair?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. At first, he had thought Old Master Pi meant that giving up five Small Qi-Gathering Pills would be a loss for him. But judging by the old man's expression, that clearly was not what he meant. Wei Zhao immediately understood and smiled. "I regard you as my own people. In the future, whenever I leave, I'll need you to help protect those around me. If your strength doesn't improve, I won't feel at ease either."
"Then... we would be ungrateful to refuse!" Old Master Pi said, deeply moved. "About how long will this advancement take? Why don't you upgrade Zhihai first, Mr. Lin, while I go back and bring all the Small Qi-Gathering Pills here?"
"Have someone deliver them. The round trip would take too long," Wei Zhao said. "If nothing unexpected happens, all four of you will be experts at the peak of the late Profound level by tomorrow morning."
"By tomorrow morning?" Old Master Pi, Pi Zhifeng, and Pi Zhitao were all dumbstruck! If Wei Zhao had said he could raise one person to the peak of the late Profound level by morning, they would already have found it astonishing. But he had said four people, and that left them utterly petrified!
"As long as nothing goes wrong along the way, there definitely won't be a problem by tomorrow morning!" Wu Chengtian had personally experienced the sensation of his strength soaring, and he explained with some pride.
"This... Mr. Lin, you truly astonish this old man!" Old Master Pi gave a bitter smile, then shook his head. "It seems that what we know of your abilities is merely the tip of the iceberg. I understand now. No wonder Han Xiaohu of the Hidden Han family never advanced before, only to have his strength suddenly surge on the eve of the Hidden Aristocratic Families' Grand Gathering. That must have been your doing as well, Mr. Lin!"
"I can hardly claim the credit, but I was the one who took action." Wei Zhao did not deny it; he merely nodded.