Chapter 3539 — The Cave Encounter, Part Two
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To this, naturally, none of them objected; they agreed with wholehearted conviction. In their eyes Wei Zhao was a being akin to a god—that he had raised each of them to the peak strength of the late Earth Rank, and then produced so many Qi-Gathering Pills for them to take and advance further, was simply too marvelous for words.
Kang Xiaofeng and Fat Lai had come too. Though he knew raising their strength would be of little use, Wei Zhao raised them anyway; Zou Ruoming included—Wei Zhao raised him to the Mystic Rank, and no higher, for at his level there was no call for greater strength in any case.
Having settled all this, Wei Zhao took his leave of Sun Jingyan, Yang Qiqi, Xu Shilan, Cheng Yiyi, and Ying Ziyu one by one. Then he suddenly thought of Chen Xi, and could not help turning to Tianchan. "Tianchan, where's Chen Xi?"
"She's well. Tian Die'er is looking after her—she goes by Tian Xi now. When I leave for Cloud Terrace Island, I mean to bring the two of them along," Tianchan said.
"Er—who is Tian Die'er? And Chen Xi is already a grand-perfection expert?" Wei Zhao was rather shocked. How long had it been since Chen Xi left?
"She ate lesser and middling Qi-Gathering Pills and the like until she reached the mid Earth Rank. But haven't you got piles of Qi-Gathering Pills? I'll take some back with me, and won't that make her grand perfection?" Tianchan said carelessly. "As for Tian Die'er, she's the one who came to your home to rescue you that time—my personal maid."
"I see..." Wei Zhao was somewhat at a loss for words.
With everything settled, it was time for Wei Zhao to set out and return to the Five Luminaries Sect inn. The sect had not yet summoned everyone, but it would be just as well for Wei Zhao to go back and wait in advance.
As for the matter of Tang Zhi, Wei Zhao had now found a way, only he had not yet told Tang Zhi and the others—first, because it touched on his own greatest secret: the jade pendant's space.
Second, because Wei Zhao was not yet fully prepared; to speak of it now would be premature.
The little box Wei Zhao had taken from behind the fourth stone door still held two scrolls. One was the mnemonic of the fourth layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art—except that what was written upon it said that it could be cultivated only at the moment of breaking through to the Heavenly Dao, or at the Heavenly Dao and above; that at the moment of breaking through to the Heavenly Dao, it could serve to aid the assault upon the pass.
Cultivation below the Heavenly Dao was of no effect—at best one would suffer qigong deviation, at worst one's body would burst and one would die. And this Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art bore a rather cool name as well: Seizing Heaven.
Naturally, Wei Zhao was not so foolish as to go testing it. Though it was said one could cultivate it at the moment of breaking through to the Heavenly Dao, when exactly did one count as breaking through to the Heavenly Dao? Was it when one took a Heavenly Dao Golden Pill, or...?
All of this was unknown at present, and Wei Zhao dared not try it rashly. If he happened to suffer qigong deviation at such a time, that would be a fine mess indeed. So Wei Zhao intended to find an occasion to ask Old Jiao. These past days of ceaseless busyness had left him not even a chance to slip into the jade pendant space for a chat.
The second silk scroll concerned the further refinement of the jade pendant's space, and what was written upon it astonished Wei Zhao greatly!