Chapter 3550 — Cloud Terrace Island Appears
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What puzzled him even more was why Zhong Yongliang had turned against them. He would have to find a chance to ask about it—something was off. Zhong Yongliang ought to be one of his own! It was truly baffling.
"Begging me is useless. Go beg Brother Arrowhead—Xiaoshu only listens to Brother Arrowhead," Shen Yushu said.
"Damn it!" Kang Jingming was at his wit's end. He had just torn all ties with Wei Zhao, and now he had to go begging to him again? He was utterly exasperated, yet there was nothing he could do. Heaving a sigh, he turned and walked over to Wei Zhao, who stood quietly off to one side, doing who knew what. "Leader Wei Zhao, you're the opener—you'd better give the order. Cloud Terrace Island is about to appear!"
"Oh, no rush." Wei Zhao drew a deep breath and emerged from the jade pendant space.
While no one had disturbed him, he had sent his soul and primordial spirit into the jade pendant space to test whether he could raise the Heavenly Thunder Pig's power all the way to the pinnacle of the late Heaven rank—Great Perfection.
After all, when he himself had been at Heaven-rank Great Perfection, he could only raise cultivators and spirit beasts to the pinnacle of the late Earth rank. A cultivator could advance to Heaven-rank Great Perfection by taking Qi Gathering Pills, but spirit beasts could not—pills had next to no effect on them, negligible at best.
Although the Heavenly Thunder Pig had entered the jade pendant space, Wei Zhao still worried something might go wrong with it. He was counting on the Heavenly Thunder Pig to recognize Zhang Naipao as one of its own! Otherwise, who would know who you were? It wasn't as though whatever you said would be taken as truth.
The alchemist's insight notes could have been stolen, but the Heavenly Thunder Pig was another matter. If the Heavenly Thunder Pig did not take to you, it simply did not take to you—and then it might go and lodge a damning complaint against you with Zhang Naipao, who might well slap you to death with one palm!
So Wei Zhao intended to test whether he could raise the Heavenly Thunder Pig's power.
Naturally, he had no intention of doing so in front of everyone. Even though the coach was filled with his own underlings, a spirit beast's upgrade would still draw in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Ancestor Xuanchen and his lot were all Heaven-rank Great Perfection masters—none of them was a fool. They could not possibly fail to sense the pressure of gathered spiritual energy from a breakthrough to Great Perfection happening inside the coach.
If they discovered then that the Heavenly Thunder Pig had leveled up, he would only be inviting trouble for himself. Wei Zhao had no wish for others to know that he was already a master at the early stage of Heaven Dao Foundation Establishment.
When Wei Zhao had been at the Heaven rank, he could at most raise his underlings to the Earth rank; at the Earth rank, at most to the Mystic rank. These were no great secrets—anyone with a mind to could inquire or discover them. But for Wei Zhao now to raise the Heavenly Thunder Pig's power bare-handed—something would have to be very wrong if that didn't raise questions!
Previously, even at Great Perfection, Wei Zhao had needed Qi Gathering Pills to replenish his underlings up to Great Perfection—and now he suddenly didn't? That spirit beasts could not level up by taking pills was something most cultivators knew!
So Wei Zhao meant to run the test secretly inside the jade pendant space. The Heavenly Thunder Pig's true body was also within that space, so even if it broke through and leveled up, no convergence of spiritual energy would manifest outside.