Chapter 2335 — Back to School
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So the qi sensation he had sought so many times—the feeling of drawing qi into the body through refinement—had actually appeared, just like that, and in very short order it had become early Yellow-rank. It was enough to make him feel he was dreaming! True, in the instant the breakthrough to early Yellow-rank came, a thread of pain shot through him as the obstruction gave way, but it was swiftly drowned in the excitement of the ascension!
Of course, Pi Zhitao was not the only one shocked and thrilled at that moment. Pi Zhifeng, Old Master Pi—even Wu Gonggao, who had long known that Wu Chengtian had been raised to expert by Wei Zhao—all wore looks of sheer astonishment!
What this meant for an outer-school expert went without saying. Even for the experts of the Divine Fist Hall, such an opportunity was something to be stumbled upon, never sought! The men exchanged glances and resolved to keep the secret absolutely.
It was not only to protect Wei Zhao; it would also spare them trouble. Even though Old Master Pi's backing was the Divine Fist Hall itself, he would not go babbling. After all, many a genius in the Hall—if only such a one could be made to develop a qi sensation and draw qi into the body—would be cultivated at any cost into an expert accomplished in both inner and outer schools!
Yet Pi Zhitao's strength was still rocketing upward. In no time he broke through to mid Yellow-rank, and hard on its heels, late Yellow-rank!
Such a pace, even by swallowing pills, was unheard of.
Even pills need time to be refined, do they not? But Wei Zhao seemed to have dispensed with the refining time altogether, upgrading Pi Zhitao at rocket speed.
Old Master Pi's gaze upon Pi Zhifeng grew kinder and kinder. He was delighted that Pi Zhifeng had come to know Wei Zhao and served as his follower—a blessing upon the Pi family indeed!
By three or four in the afternoon, Pi Zhitao had become an expert of peak late Profound-rank strength, with true qi in his body—something Pi Zhitao could scarcely believe! What astonished Wei Zhao, however, was that while he went on upgrading Pi Zhifeng, Pi Zhitao, without taking a Small Qi-Gathering Pill, broke through on his own to the early Earth-rank of the inner school!
That put Wei Zhao in mind of Wu Chengtian's case. Wu Chengtian had gone from inner to outer—first raised in the inner school, then the outer. But Pi Zhitao's outer-school strength had already reached the peak of early Earth-rank, and by the principle that one mastery brings mastery of all, it stood to reason that Pi Zhitao could break through on his own to early Earth-rank in the inner school.
It was only that Pi Zhitao's speed was a shade too fast. Wei Zhao had just finished upgrading him when, shortly after, he broke through on his own! That, of course, was because Wei Zhao's upgrading cost him no physical exertion at all, and being full of vigor after the upgrade, he broke through to early Earth-rank in a single surge.
This left Wei Zhao astonished! In Wu Chengtian's case the inner school had been raised first, and he himself had raised the outer. But Pi Zhitao had raised his own inner school!
Here a problem arose: the aftereffect of Wei Zhao's upgrades for others did not appear in Pi Zhitao! After Wei Zhao upgraded someone, because of the purity of the natural world's heaven-and-earth spiritual qi, that person could no longer cultivate and advance on his own, and could only take pills or train where the spiritual qi was more abundant.
But Pi Zhitao had broken through on his own. Did that mean this situation did not apply to experts accomplished in both schools? Or was it that because Pi Zhitao's outer-school strength had already broken through the rank barrier of the level above, his inner-school strength could go on rising?