Chapter 4555 — Three Rank-Ups in a Row
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Fortunately, he now had no need to face that old monster of the Western Mountain Old Sect. After all, the man had seen with his own eyes Wei Zhao charging into the Five-Venom Marsh, and should have assumed that not even a corpse remained of him. For the time being, that threat could be set aside. Yet Wei Zhao had no intention of simply leaving.
Only three days had passed. Who knew whether the Western Mountain Old Sect had already gone? Given the old monster's earlier state—relentless, hysterical, refusing to rest until one side was dead—even after watching Wei Zhao bury himself in the Five-Venom Marsh, he might well have chosen to linger and watch a while longer. If Wei Zhao went out now, there was still a risk of being caught red-handed.
And besides, this precious land was so rare; its cultivation effects were peerless, the like of which the world seldom saw. Even Wei Zhao's own jade pendants' space fell far short. How could he lightly let slip such a chance that came only by fortune and could not be sought? Of course he had to stay and cultivate a while longer.
There were still five months before the Northern Island Three-Tier Pavilion's mission deadline, anyway. Wei Zhao had no need to hurry back. Whatever one did, strength alone was the foundation of life and safety.
Moreover, by staying here a few months, no matter how cunning the Western Mountain Old Sect was, he would surely believe Wei Zhao long dead. Waiting ten days or half a month was the utmost limit; it was impossible for him to waste months lingering here. Barring the unexpected, he should long since have put the "corpse-less" Wei Zhao out of his mind—killing two birds with one stone.
His mind made up, Wei Zhao at once struck while the iron was hot and resumed cultivation. As before, he stood on a high platform near the Five-Venom Marsh, enduring the tempering of the five-element killing aura's residual waves. Now that his strength had risen a notch, his tolerance for the five-element killing aura had clearly grown much greater. The residual waves no longer tortured him as they had at the start; he was beginning to handle them with ease.
Yet once Wei Zhao could gradually withstand the five-element killing aura's residual waves completely, he found the enhancement was no longer as astonishingly exaggerated as at first—though it was still considerably better than the jade pendant space. Compared with before, however, the difference was plainly several times greater.
This was only natural. Once one gradually adapted to the residual waves of the five-element killing aura, the tempering effect would steadily weaken. By the time Wei Zhao could adapt completely, it would be like ordinary eating and drinking—no effect at all. So if Wei Zhao wanted to advance further, the only way was to increase the intensity: to get a little closer to the five-element killing aura.
Inching closer and closer to the five-element killing aura—this was what Wei Zhao kept repeating thereafter. Every step nearer meant a notch more strength. If one day he could face the five-element killing aura calmly, or even casually wave out a strand of true qi comparable to it, then he must already stand at the peak of all Cloud-Tier Island. Of course, that day was still far, far away.
In cultivation there are no years. Day after day Wei Zhao used the five-element killing aura to temper himself, and once he had gradually adapted to this mad, sealed-door cultivation rhythm, three months passed in the blink of an eye. Gone in a flash.
On ordinary days Wei Zhao cultivated atop the platforms near the five-element killing aura. Every few days, once his strength rose a notch, he would switch to a platform still closer to the aura. And when he neared the threshold of a breakthrough, he would, as before, risk plunging deep into the Five-Venom Marsh to face the five-element killing aura directly, thereby provoking his own limits!