Chapter 3472 — Gloom and Frustration
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"N-no... nothing..." Though Kang Jingming refused to believe it, the facts lay right before his eyes and left him no choice. He shook his head and walked out of Wei Zhao's villa in a daze. He had toiled through countless days and nights to successfully refine the Limit Qi Gathering Pill, and in the end he had made a bridal gown for Wei Zhao to wear. It was utterly, thoroughly galling.
Once out of the villa, Kang Jingming had not gone far before he could not contain himself, and he hurriedly pulled out his phone and dialed the line of Ancestor Xuanchen!
"Zhaoming, how are things going? Did you give Wei Zhao the Limit Qi Gathering Pill? Has the boy taken it?" Ancestor Xuanchen was even more anxious than Kang Jingming; he too wanted Wei Zhao dead as soon as possible.
"I gave it to him... and Wei Zhao took it, but he didn't die..." Kang Jingming gave a bitter smile and spoke as though his soul had left him.
"Didn't die? Was the Limit Qi Gathering Pill you refined ineffective? That can't be—Xuanchen and I both inspected it?" Ancestor Xuanchen said, puzzled.
"He didn't die! Not only that, he went up two levels in a row and became a late Heaven Rank pinnacle expert. From his aura, he's not far from Great Perfection..." Kang Jingming sighed.
"What did you say? Kang Jingming, are you sure you saw right? Wei Zhao leveled up? And he's a late Heaven Rank pinnacle expert, approaching Great Perfection? How is that possible?!" Ancestor Xuanchen's breathing grew rapid. "Are you certain he took the Limit Qi Gathering Pill, and that it was because of the Limit Qi Gathering Pill that he leveled up?"
"That... I should think so!" Kang Jingming said.
"Did you see it with your own eyes?" Ancestor Xuanchen pressed.
"Well, no, not that. There's no way he'd let me watch while he took the pill!" Kang Jingming said.
"This Wei Zhao is sly and full of tricks—he's a master at putting on airs and deceiving people!" Ancestor Xuanchen said. "I think it's quite possible that Wei Zhao was already a late Heaven Rank pinnacle expert all along. He deliberately deceived us into thinking he was mid Heaven Rank pinnacle, all so as to lull us into refining pills for him! Because at late Heaven Rank pinnacle, one more Qi Gathering Pill would very likely push him to Great Perfection—and that being so, we absolutely would never have allowed such a thing to happen! And this time, when Wei Zhao took our Limit Qi Gathering Pill, I suspect he may have recognized that something was off about it, so he didn't take it. Then, seeing that we could no longer refine pills for him, he no longer needed to conceal his strength, and so he revealed his true power to deceive you! He wanted us to think it was the Limit Qi Gathering Pill at work, so we'd stew in frustration for a while!"
"That's right!" Hearing Ancestor Xuanchen's analysis, Kang Jingming was instantly enlightened. Thinking back on Wei Zhao's usual temperament and manner, it really was quite likely! Putting on airs—a grassroots rogue cultivator, just as they said of Wei Zhao! At the thought that it wasn't because of his Limit Qi Gathering Pill that Wei Zhao had leveled up, Kang Jingming's mood lifted again. "Forget it, so he saw through it—so be it. It was probably that fellow Bai Lingtou who taught him!"
"Mm, come back then. Let him level up if he wants to—we won't bother with him anymore. So long as he can't join the Cloud Rank Island plan, let him run wild and fend for himself!" At this point Ancestor Xuanchen too had given up opposing Wei Zhao. What was the point of opposing him? Wei Zhao's strength spoke for itself—he already had few rivals left! RP