Chapter 2569 — Stacked Strength
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Easy as these things were to cultivate, in Wei Zhao's eyes they were worthless trash. He flipped open another volume and found more of the same. Old Master Zhuang had been right: these were display pieces, fine to look at and good for nothing.
"You see?" Old Master Zhuang smiled bitterly. "Perhaps Mr. Lin would care to look at these basic martial techniques and cultivation methods."
"Very well." Wei Zhao nodded and turned his attention to the few martial techniques and cultivation methods that had been set apart by themselves.
"These are the two cultivation methods of our Hidden Zhuang family. We of the Hidden Zhuang family all cultivate metal-attribute methods, built on hardness, ferocity, and wide, sweeping force," Old Master Zhuang said. "I myself cultivate a pure metal-attribute method, while Zhuang Niaoqiang and Zhuang Niaopao cultivate a paired metal-attribute method. Only when the two act together can they unleash their fullest power; alone, each is far weaker."
"Oh? A cultivation method for two people fighting as one?" Wei Zhao was rather surprised. Who would have guessed it—the Hidden Zhuang family really did have some good wares.
"Indeed. This joint-strike method is a most ingenious one, and it could only have been handed down from the ancient levels. My ancestors happened to acquire some treasures from the Mingri Fu Mingri sect, and one of them was the oral formula for this very method," Old Master Zhuang said.
"So this method lets two people's strength stack together and become a single, more powerful combination?" Wei Zhao asked, taking the method at its literal meaning.
"You could put it that way. Right now Niaoqiang and Niaopao are both experts at the peak of the early Earth rank, but when the two circulate this inner method at the same time, they are a match for the peak of the late Earth rank—and paired with their joint-strike martial techniques, they are deadlier still!" Old Master Zhuang said.
"Truly formidable!" Wei Zhao said in astonishment. "But this inner method—can it only be cultivated by two people at once? Does it have no effect if one person cultivates it alone?"
The first thing that came to Wei Zhao's mind upon seeing this method was whether he could join forces with Han Jingyi to refine pills together. If so, their combined strength should come close to the Heaven rank even if it fell short—after all, Zhuang Niaoqiang and Zhuang Niaopao together could reach the peak of the late Earth rank. Wei Zhao was at the peak of the mid Earth rank and Han Jingyi at the early Earth rank; reckoned by the quantity of true qi in their bodies, the two of them ought to be about equal to that pair.
So Wei Zhao forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked. If it worked, he could refine third-grade pills ahead of schedule—not only would the Ice Heart Jade Bone Pill he had promised the little Ice Sugar girl be within reach, but the Qi Gathering Pill would have hope as well!
With that many Qi Gathering Pills, Wei Zhao could mass-produce several Heaven-rank experts! This, too, was why Wei Zhao was desperately cultivating. When he himself reached the Heaven rank, he could mass-produce experts at the peak of the late Earth rank, and then a single Qi Gathering Pill would let each of them break through to the Heaven rank. Only then would Wei Zhao truly stand on equal footing, face to face, with the ancient levels!
The very thought set his blood racing. True, they would only be early Heaven-rank experts, but that was still no small force—at least on par with the weakest of the ancient families or ancient sects. And by then, even the little Ice Sugar girl would have no way to look down on Wei Zhao!
Heh heh heh heh. Was the little Ice Sugar girl, that tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny wife of his, as good as secured? Wei Zhao thought, black-hearted glee rising in him.