Chapter 3292 — The Essence Condensation Necklace
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Xiao Jiu was stunned as well. Although she and Wei Zhao had been apart for so many years, they had kept in constant phone contact. She had always assumed she knew Wei Zhao's situation well, but now it seemed she did not understand him at all!
There were so many wondrous things about Wei Zhao that she knew nothing about. When had he come to possess such marvelous abilities?
Of course, the most thunderstruck of all was Yang Qiqi herself. As she circulated the mental cultivation formula, she felt her strength swelling as if force-fed into her—from a close-combat expert with no internal cultivation foundation whatsoever, she shot straight up to the early Yellow Rank, and was still rising without pause!
Early Yellow Rank—peak early Yellow Rank... all the way to early Earth Rank. Yang Qiqi felt as though she were dreaming. In the span of a single moment, she had gone from nothing to possessing such an immense surge in power. It utterly overturned everything Yang Qiqi understood about cultivators!
In her old understanding, which cultivation expert had not climbed step by step, one footprint at a time? Never had anyone gone from having no internal cultivation at all to becoming an early Earth Rank expert in the space of a single afternoon.
This was surely unprecedented, was it not? And everyone present except Xu Shilan sensed the change in Yang Qiqi's strength—because she was circulating the mental cultivation formula, her power lay bare for all to see.
Though Xiao Jiu had no strength of her own, she had brushed against cultivation matters as a child, so she could still identify a cultivator's aura. Cheng Yiyi was likewise shaken—how was it that in the blink of an eye, Yang Qiqi's strength had become equal to her own?
Cheng Yiyi felt an urge to cry. After all, the strength she possessed had come at such a cost! Since childhood she had endured Feng Tianhu's strict, brutal training, doing nothing but cultivating every single day, and only thus had she achieved what she had today. Yet look at Yang Qiqi—so long as she was on good terms with Wei Zhao, she had become an early Earth Rank expert in an instant.
"Am I dreaming?" What Yang Qiqi said was in fact what the others wanted to ask as well.
"Heh, you can go to the Overseas Cultivators' Association now and announce this news. As for the reason—you can come up with that yourself. I'm not terribly familiar with how things work at this level of cultivation overseas," Wei Zhao said to Yang Qiqi.
"Mm, I know. When the time comes, I'll say my family had always made me keep it hidden, but now that I've reached Earth Rank and hit a bottleneck, I wanted to come looking for some cultivation resources." Yang Qiqi found an explanation quickly enough.
After all, her clan was different from other lone cultivators; having this rule or that was only reasonable, and she trusted the Overseas Cultivators' Association would not make much of it.
"Good. Then set out as soon as you can. Once you're back, I'll continue raising your strength," Wei Zhao said to Yang Qiqi.
"Mm, I'll set out first thing tomorrow morning," Yang Qiqi said with a nod.
Wei Zhao was about to rise, but as he looked up he caught sight of Cheng Yiyi beside Yang Qiqi, her face full of envy, and could not help but smile wryly. It seemed this girl wanted him to help raise her strength too—and probably was too embarrassed to ask. So he said with a laugh, "Yiyi, let me raise your strength to peak late Earth Rank as well!"
As for Cheng Yiyi, Wei Zhao had gone from initial wariness to trust. He could feel that Cheng Yiyi liked him—otherwise she could never have betrayed Feng Tianhu, not when Feng Tianhu still held her younger brother as a trump card.
Now that Wei Zhao had revealed his true strength, Cheng Yiyi could no longer pin all her hopes on him—and yet she supported him just as she always had, which moved Wei Zhao deeply.