Chapter 3700 — Meng Zhou's Worry
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Off to the side, Meng Zhou was muttering endlessly to himself, though he dared not voice any of it aloud. After all, the matter was simply too humiliating—what sort of fool would go out of his way to tear open his own old wounds?
"But if that's the case, why didn't he strike you all down ruthlessly during the trial? And the aura he usually gives off is clearly nothing more than Heaven-rank great perfection, isn't it?" Meng Jueming was still somewhat perplexed. By instinct, he simply did not want to believe it was true.
Li Zhengming was slightly startled. Making these people believe that Wei Zhao was now a skilled early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator—this was the very first instruction Wei Zhao had given him. As an insider who had just switched sides, he absolutely could not botch this first assignment.
"Perhaps, as Senior Brother Meng guessed at the time, he wasn't yet a skilled early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator?" Li Zhengming said after a moment's thought.
"What do you mean?" Meng Jueming and the others could not help but be taken aback.
"Because when I probed him just now, I felt that although he is indeed a skilled early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, his qi is not yet stable—it looks as though he broke through only recently. So I suspect he may have taken the Foundation Establishment Pill awarded for the trial, and that is why he has only just broken through!" Li Zhengming deliberately misled them.
Wei Zhao had said he had already given the Foundation Establishment Pill to someone else, but Meng Jueming and the others knew nothing of that. This explanation, at least, sounded perfectly reasonable.
"Right! That speculation of yours is the only logical one!" Meng Jueming clapped his hands and said, "For a cultivator at Heaven-rank great perfection, the Foundation Establishment Pill can't guarantee a hundred-percent success, but it can greatly raise the odds. So you see, this Wei Zhao truly had the luck of a dog's turd—he took the Foundation Establishment Pill and, before he knew it, stumbled right into a successful breakthrough!"
Hearing him say this, Xu Lingchong and the others finally came to a dawning realization.
To any cultivator at Heaven-rank great perfection, a treasure like the Foundation Establishment Pill was exceedingly precious. The vast majority, seeking to be safe, would hoard it even after obtaining one, pushing their own strength to the absolute limit of what they could achieve before finally taking it—only in that way could they maximize the odds of a successful breakthrough.
But there were also the bold ones who, the moment the Foundation Establishment Pill was in hand, could not wait to swallow it straight away. Their success rate was far below that of the first sort, but they too had a certain chance of breaking through.
And in Meng Jueming's eyes, Wei Zhao was obviously one of those second-sort people with the luck of a dog's turd.
To everyone present, compared with the notion that this fellow Wei Zhao had broken through by his own strength, that latter speculation was plainly far more convincing.
Break through to Foundation Establishment purely on one's own strength? Even a great young master like Xu Lingchong had failed to pull that off—and Wei Zhao, a country bumpkin from the secular world, could? What nonsense!
"But no matter how you look at it, it's already certain that this Wei Zhao is now a skilled early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. Ninth Cousin, what am I supposed to do? The ranking tournament is the day after tomorrow!" Meng Zhou could not help saying, his face full of anxiety.
Wei Zhao's successful breakthrough was hardly good news for Xu Lingchong, Meng Jueming, and the others, yet it posed no direct threat to them either. But Meng Zhou was different!