護花近衛 - 第3472章 鬱悶和憋屈 - 翰墨軒

"Uh... doesn't it take a long time for an ordinary person to absorb a Qi Gathering Pill? And then there's consolidating your cultivation and all that—it's a slow process. Who'd have the mood to make a phone call?" Kang Jingming said.

"Oh, I thought you meant that if I ate it and died, I wouldn't be able to call!" Wei Zhao said.

"Haha, Great Sage Lin, you joke! How could a Qi Gathering Pill kill anyone? It's not a Poison Qi Pill!" Kang Jingming gave a forced laugh.

"That's hard to say. What if you were up to no good? Then I'd eat it and drop dead!" Wei Zhao said.

"Uh... how could that be!" Kang Jingming said. "I don't even know how to refine a Poison Qi Pill. Besides, you and I are both Heaven Rank experts—poisoning someone would be pointless!"

"What if it were a special kind of poison?" Wei Zhao countered.

"Uh... Great Sage Lin, what is it you actually want to talk about? I was resting—I've been traveling day and night to deliver you that pill, haven't slept at all. I finally get a moment to rest, figuring I'd wake up and head back to the Five Luminaries Sect, and here you are saying all this to me... what exactly are you getting at?" Kang Jingming was utterly baffled. Why did Wei Zhao's words seem to carry a hidden meaning? Had he discovered something wrong with the Qi Gathering Pill?

That shouldn't be possible—on the surface there should be no visible difference at all! For heaven's sake, don't let him have found out!

"Oh, it's really nothing. It's just that I took the pill, and I think it's quite good. Not only did I level up, I went up two levels in a row. Thanks for the pill! Do you have any more of these? Give me another one and that'll do!" Wei Zhao said.

"Gah!" Kang Jingming's eyes went wide, and he nearly flung the phone from his hand. He took it? And leveled up? Two levels in a row? How was that possible—it defied all reason! Kang Jingming could scarcely believe it: "Ha, Great Sage Lin, you're joking, right? There's no pill in the world that can raise you two levels at once. You definitely haven't taken it yet, have you?"

"I did take it. Why won't you believe me?" Wei Zhao was somewhat speechless himself. Did Kang Jingming genuinely not know, or was he pretending not to know, that there was something wrong with the pill? "I even thought you'd specially refined me a boosted pill. Its effects really are beyond reproach!"

"This... Great Sage Lin, you're saying you actually took it? And went up two levels?" Kang Jingming still found it hard to believe! So he said, "Then wait for me. I'll come over right now and see what's going on!"

"Oh, then come on over." Hearing that Kang Jingming was coming, Wei Zhao grew all the more certain that this was Kang Jingming's doing. He had concocted a pill to take Wei Zhao's life, and when the goal wasn't achieved, it had instead raised Wei Zhao two levels. Anyone in his shoes would be shaken.

Before long, Kang Jingming came rushing anxiously to Wei Zhao's villa. The moment he saw Wei Zhao he asked, "Great Sage Wei Zhao, did you really level up? Let me see?"

"Have you never seen the world? Why so excited over my leveling up?" Wei Zhao curled his lip. "Are you brain-dead? But I suppose I can show you."

With that, Wei Zhao unleashed the full extent of his late Heaven Rank pinnacle strength. There was no faking such power—Kang Jingming's eyes went wide on the spot! This was simply unbelievable. Wei Zhao had taken the Limit Qi Gathering Pill and was completely fine?

Could there have been a problem with his own refining? Or perhaps the Limit Qi Gathering Pill had never had any problem at all?

Watching Kang Jingming stand there dumbly, Wei Zhao coughed twice and said, "I say, Kang Jingming, you've had your look. Is there anything else?"