Chapter 2626 — After-Dinner Conversation, Part Two — Asking Old Master Zhuang to Memorize the Combined-Strike Heart Method and Martial Techniques Would Be Making Things Hard for Him, Wouldn't It?
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If the White Leader could regain the level he had in those years, then refining third-grade pills should pose no problem at all, surely? But by no means could Wei Zhao restore the White Leader to his former strength!
Healing injuries — that Wei Zhao could manage. He could fully restore the White Leader's damaged meridians. But raising his strength was out of the question. The situation of internal-school and external-school cultivators was different. Even if Wei Zhao repaired the White Leader's meridians, the true energy within those meridians could not come back; only Wei Zhao himself could slowly raise it for him.
It was just like when he had treated Uncle Qing. Though Uncle Qing had once been an Earth-rank expert, Wei Zhao at the time, constrained by the limits of his own strength, could only raise Uncle Qing's strength to the peak of late Yellow-rank.
And now, Wei Zhao could repair the White Leader's injuries, but the White Leader's strength would at most be early Earth-rank. If he wished to become a Heaven-rank expert, he would still have to cultivate his way up bit by bit!
Of course, if the meridians had not been completely severed, or had only just been severed with the true energy not yet dissipated, then Wei Zhao was confident that after repair he could restore the previous strength. But the White Leader's meridians had not been severed just now — they had been completely severed — and Wei Zhao truly had no way.
Even so, Wei Zhao still intended, at a suitable moment, to help the White Leader repair his meridians. As for the cultivation afterward, that would be the White Leader's own affair. Only if Wei Zhao set foot in Heaven-rank could he continue to help him level up.
So in this way Wei Zhao was not especially anxious to heal the White Leader and raise his level, because even if the White Leader recovered, he could not possibly refine third-grade pills — at best, like Han Jingyi, he could refine second-grade pills.
"Teacher Bai, tell me — if your meridians were restored, would Xuanchen grow suspicious and then kill you to silence you?" Wei Zhao hesitated a moment, then decided to give the White Leader a precautionary warning.
"Oh? My meridians restored? How could that be?" The White Leader was slightly taken aback. "I know my own injuries. This is no external wound but an internal one. Even a third-grade Great Return Pill has no effect. How could they possibly be restored?"
"I only said if," Wei Zhao said.
"If..." At this point the White Leader could not help falling into deep thought. Although he had always felt that Xuanchen would not do things so ruthlessly, today's events had also shown him that some things truly were that ruthless! Though he did not wish to admit it, he had to admit that if his meridians were restored, Xuanchen might once again harbor murderous intent!
"He would act, wouldn't he?" Seeing the White Leader's hesitation, Wei Zhao understood at once.
"Possibly... I'm not certain either..." The White Leader gave a bitter smile and shook his head. "But even if I restored my meridians, I would have to cultivate all over again. There is no true energy left in my body at all, so I would still have no strength."
"Oh. Then if it's possible — once you've recovered your strength, hide it for now. Endure it a while..." Wei Zhao suggested.
"Heh heh, naturally. I'm not what I was in those years either; naturally I must be careful in all things. But the key problem is that I have to be able to recover first!" The White Leader laughed and said.