護花近衛 - 第2406章 模擬煉丹 - 翰墨軒

So Wei Zhao could not tell whether the martial technique had always possessed this capacity, or whether the technique had linked the two of them together and his golden finger had taken effect once more. Either way, it was good news for Wei Zhao, because now he could keep track of Han Jingyi's physical stamina in real time.

Han Jingyi's body kept absorbing the true qi Wei Zhao channeled into her. The heart method of Heaven-Sent Spring Rain circulated ceaselessly within Wei Zhao, and so long as he did not stop, true qi would pour into Han Jingyi's body in an endless stream.

Yet Wei Zhao soon discovered that the third form of Heaven-Sent Spring Rain still could not keep up with Han Jingyi's consumption. Though it looked as if his true qi were continually replenishing her, the replenishment actually fell short of the drain; the depletion merely seemed much slower.

And Han Jingyi truly felt much more at ease. The true qi within her body seemed inexhaustible, and she could calm her mind while condensing pill fire, no longer worrying that her stamina and true qi might give out at any moment. This simulated refining, one could say, was a great success.

At this point in an ordinary refining session, signs of failing stamina and exhausted true qi would long since have appeared. There was no way she could still be this vigorous.

But in the midst of her joy, Han Jingyi quickly noticed a problem: although Wei Zhao's true qi kept flowing to her, the supply could not cover the drain, and it came in slower than she spent it.

"Brother Wei Zhao, could you speed up the transfer of true qi a little?" Han Jingyi asked urgently once she sensed this.

"Sure," Wei Zhao said. He stopped driving the third form and began to drive the fourth form of Heaven-Sent Spring Rain.

Wei Zhao had not expected that refining so many pills would consume such an enormous amount of stamina and true qi. If one were refining higher-grade pills, how much true qi and stamina would that take? No wonder pill refiners were all so arrogant and so reluctant to refine pills for others.

A single refining session consumed so much true qi and stamina. Although a pill refiner's heart method and incantation were rather special and could naturally restore true qi and stamina in a relatively short time, that still varied from person to person.

Han Jingyi was a special case, able to recover her true qi and stamina in a very short time, though that too was because her level was rather low. If a Heaven-rank pill refiner were refining a third-grade pill, restoring himself would probably take a very long while.

And the longer time went on, the more Wei Zhao felt this. For very quickly, every last bit of true qi in his body had been channeled to Han Jingyi, and he became a cultivator utterly drained of true qi.

Han Jingyi's refining continued, but the true qi in her own body was also being consumed rapidly.

Sensing that Wei Zhao's true qi was no longer flowing to her in an endless stream, Han Jingyi was slightly taken aback. But she roughly calculated the time remaining on the tablet, and judged that her stamina and true qi should last until the simulated refining was complete...

At last, Han Jingyi's simulated refining came to an end. Even though it was only a simulation, it consumed the same amount of true qi as a normal refining session. By the end, Han Jingyi had less than a third of her true qi and stamina left in her body.

"Phew... it's finally over!" Han Jingyi wiped the sweat from her forehead, then asked with some delight, "Brother Wei Zhao, why did you stop transferring true qi midway?"

"Every bit of true qi in me went to you. There's not a drop left..." Wei Zhao said with a wry smile.

"Ah... so that's how it is..." Han Jingyi nodded. "But luckily there was still enough true qi. I have some left in me. If the two of us work together, we can refine several second-grade pills at once."