Chapter 2723 — Breakthrough! Late Earth Tier!
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"What are you thanking me for? This was mostly Mother Tang's and Sister-in-law Tang Zhi's doing. I was just the delivery boy," Kang Xiaofeng said with a laugh.
"True..." Gu Mengyao sighed. In the past, she had taken a dislike to Tang Zhi, believing that Tang Zhi had stolen away her personal guard and follower. But now, she found herself missing the days when Tang Zhi was around. She thought that if Tang Zhi could come back, they would surely get along splendidly.
"All right, if there is nothing else, I will be on my way. The company has matters to attend to tomorrow," Kang Xiaofeng said. "Shall I go and say goodbye to the leader?"
"No need. He has gone to take the Heaven Essence Barrier-Breaking Fruit, has he not?" Gu Mengyao said.
"Fine, then I am off." Kang Xiaofeng was already well acquainted with Wei Zhao and saw no need for pleasantries. He had to hurry back to Songshan City tonight; he still had to report to the company in the morning. He had been away from the company for quite some time now, and a great deal of work had piled up. With only Fatty Lai holding the fort alone, the company's affairs would be a heavy strain.
Wei Zhao, meanwhile, carried the heavenly treasures back to his room. He had genuinely not eavesdropped on the conversation between Kang Xiaofeng and the others outside the door. Since Xiaoshu had told him to leave, she must have had something to discuss that she did not want him to hear; eavesdropping would have been rather despicable.
Wei Zhao did not immediately consume the Heaven Essence Barrier-Breaking Fruit. Instead, he opened Zhang Lifeng's notes on the insights of an alchemist. In those notes, Zhang Lifeng had recorded a great many heavenly treasures, and Wei Zhao decided to first check whether there was any description of this particular item.
Of course, Wei Zhao was not afraid that Kang Xiaofeng might have deceived him. He was only worried that there might be special requirements for consuming the thing, and he did not want to waste it.
Sure enough, in the latter half of the alchemist's notes, in the "Register of Heavenly Treasures," Wei Zhao found the Heaven Essence Barrier-Breaking Fruit. This heavenly treasure had existed since ancient times, and was also known as the Minor Heaven-Breaking Fruit.
The Heaven-Breaking Fruit is a heavenly treasure for breaking through to the Heaven Tier. However, it grew in exceedingly scant numbers and could not be cultivated artificially, so it had already been all but extinct for a thousand years. As the name suggests, the Heaven-Breaking Fruit is a fruit for breaking through the barrier from the peak of the late Earth Tier to advance to the Heaven Tier. It does not carry the side effects of the Qi-Gathering Pill; indeed, a person who has taken a Qi-Gathering Pill can take a Heaven-Breaking Fruit afterward and undo the harmful effects brought on by the Qi-Gathering Pill.
Of course, this was only Zhang Lifeng's speculation, for in his entire life he had never seen a Heaven-Breaking Fruit. By his time, the Heaven-Breaking Fruit had already been replaced by the Qi-Gathering Pill, and the side effects of the Qi-Gathering Pill at that time were not especially pronounced, so he had no need to go to great lengths to seek out the Heaven-Breaking Fruit.
As for the Minor Heaven-Breaking Fruit, that was merely a colloquial name. In truth, it had no effect on a cultivator's breakthrough to the Heaven Tier; it was only effective for cultivators below the Heaven Tier in breaking through barriers.
The Heaven-Breaking Fruit, by contrast, was useful for breaking through any barrier below the Heavenly Dao.
As for consuming the Heaven Essence Barrier-Breaking Fruit, there were no special requirements. It was truly as Kang Xiaofeng had said: there were no side effects whatsoever, and after taking it, one could easily break through a barrier.