Chapter 2980 — Speaking Against One's Heart
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Gradually, Wei Zhao could feel his clothes beginning to scorch from the heat radiating off his skin. Yet this, in any case, was a good thing. Wretched as he felt, he was deeply relieved at heart, for this sensation was identical to last time—the sign of an imminent breakthrough!
Late Earth rank, peak late Earth rank... Wei Zhao sensed the power within him rising bit by bit—slow, but steady, neither hurried nor sluggish.
It seemed the Intermediate Qi Gathering Pill's effects were truly formidable. Wei Zhao thought that if only his cultivation speed could always be this fast... Huh? In that case, wasn't the Intermediate Qi Gathering Pill the equivalent of a Qi Gathering Pill plus Wang Xinyan?
Wei Zhao could clearly feel that the Intermediate Qi Gathering Pill's energy was absorbed far faster than a Qi Gathering Pill's—just as if he were taking a Qi Gathering Pill while holding Wang Xinyan. It seemed there must be something in the Intermediate Qi Gathering Pill connected to Wang Xinyan!
But since Wei Zhao urgently needed the Intermediate Qi Gathering Pill to restore his strength, he had no way to break one down and study it slowly. He lacked the skill to reverse-engineer the formula for refining pills anyway—that was a different matter from a medicinal prescription, and at least for now, Wei Zhao had no such ability.
Great completion of the late Earth rank—he was about to break through to the early Heaven rank. beads of sweat already covered Wei Zhao's forehead in a dense layer, and his clothes, like cloth left long under a blazing sun, had turned brittle and weathered, splitting apart and dropping onto the bed. Yet he had no mind to spare for any of it; the energy within him was growing at a furious pace.
Around Wei Zhao, the heaven-and-earth spiritual energy in the air gathered toward him—more and more of it, swirling above his head into an exceedingly faint vortex!
The heaven-and-earth spiritual energy in the natural world was, after all, pitifully sparse, especially in the city. But this spiritual energy had been drawn together automatically during the breakthrough. Wei Zhao's breakthrough this time, like the last, relied on the pill rather than on this spiritual energy, so how much of it there was made no difference to him!
In plain terms, this spiritual energy resonated with the true qi inside Wei Zhao, racing around him faster and faster, and Wei Zhao felt his body temperature climbing ever higher!
Wei Zhao could even smell something burning—it was the trousers on his body. His clothes had already crumbled into brittle scraps that fell onto the bed, but the trousers were still on his legs, pressed beneath him, and had begun to smolder on their own. (To be continued