Chapter 3482 — Great Perfection at the Peak of the Late Heaven Rank! Wei Zhao hesitated a moment, then took out four of them: three for Han Jingyi, one for himself.

Wei Zhao meant to press his advantage and break through to Great Perfection at the peak of the late Heaven Rank in one go. Otherwise, something would always feel incomplete to him.

And three pills would be enough for Han Jingyi to break through smoothly to Great Perfection of the Heaven Rank as well.

Wei Zhao intended to take Han Jingyi with him to Cloud Rank Island; she could become his most powerful ally.

Because he had taken only a single pill, Wei Zhao broke through faster than Han Jingyi. This time he finally succeeded in ascending to the realm of Great Perfection at the peak of the late Heaven Rank. True, to his own senses it felt much the same as before, yet the satisfaction in his heart was immense.

Once upon a time, this had been Wei Zhao's ultimate goal—Great Perfection at the peak of the late Heaven Rank, the realm he had dreamed of day and night. And now he had achieved it with ease.

Nor had Wei Zhao expected the final stages of advancement to go so smoothly. These last few levels were, you might say, the easiest breakthroughs of his entire journey. Of course, for anyone else they might well have been the hardest.

Yet Wei Zhao had broken through lightly, and for that he had Kang Jingming and You Panhu to thank; without them, there would be no Wei Zhao as he was now.

Han Jingyi, too, broke through one after another until she reached Great Perfection at the peak of the late Heaven Rank. By this point Wei Zhao still had ten Qi-Gathering Pills in hand. If those were given to Wang Xinyan, she ought to break through smoothly as well, for before the peak of the late Earth Rank, Wei Zhao could always help her advance.

Wang Xinyan had been delighted to see Wei Zhao return. But after he came back he went straight into Han Jingyi's bedroom and stayed there for days on end without a sound, until at last Wang Xinyan grew anxious.

At school she asked Han Xiaochao, but he said he did not know either; it seemed the two of them had never once come out. So that day after class, Wang Xinyan could hold back no longer and went to Han Jingyi's house, wanting to see whether something had gone wrong with Wei Zhao and Han Jingyi.

Han Xiaochao, top student though he was, knew nothing at all, so Wang Xinyan decided to go and see for herself.

Just then, Wei Zhao and Han Jingyi had only just finished their breakthroughs, and Han Jingyi, now a master of Great Perfection at the peak of the late Heaven Rank, was thrilled beyond measure. Unable to contain herself, she threw herself into Wei Zhao's arms: "Brother Wei Zhao, you're amazing..."

And Wang Xinyan chose that very moment to push the door open... Taking in the scene before her, together with the fact that neither Wei Zhao nor Han Jingyi had a stitch on, and hearing what Han Jingyi had just said, Wang Xinyan's face flushed crimson in an instant.

"I... I didn't see anything... I'll be going..." Wang Xinyan thought to herself that Wei Zhao was ordinarily not that sort of person, so how had he and Han Jingyi spent all these days lost in such things? And Han Jingyi was no better—did she not know Wei Zhao had other matters to attend to? Yet she kept pestering him, time after time. And she even said he was amazing...

But then, Wei Zhao had lived with her for so long and had never touched her. Was it because of that business with Kang Jingming? That could not be it either—even if he had scruples before, there was no problem now. So why had Wei Zhao gone to Han Jingyi first? And why, at night, did he only hold her without anything happening?

Was she not forward enough... or was it that she simply held no attraction for him? Wang Xinyan was tangled in doubt...

"Wait a moment, Sister Xinyan, come and join us too!" Han Jingyi said, perfectly straight-faced. "You're the only one left now!"

"Huh?" Wang Xinyan, caught up in her worries, was struck dumb by Han Jingyi's words, and instead found herself drawing back. Han Jingyi wanted her to join? Did that mean the three of them together?

Wang Xinyan could scarcely understand how Jingjing, so innocent, could suddenly have become like this. Had she learned bad ways?

"I... I'd better not. You two carry on..." Wang Xinyan stammered out, and looked ready to flee the place.

"Wait a moment, Sister Xinyan, we've both finished—you're the only one left!" Han Jingyi said. "It may hurt a little along the way, but that's the price of being with Brother Wei Zhao forever. Don't you want that?"

"I..." Wang Xinyan's face flushed so red it seemed about to drip, and her breathing grew uneven. Han Jingyi's words she took as a kind of hint.

"Come on, Sister Xinyan! Just grit your teeth and it'll be over!" Han Jingyi called.

"Then... all right..." Wang Xinyan, successfully bewitched by Han Jingyi, shut the door and gritted her teeth. "Should I take my clothes off too?"

"Mm-hm!" Han Jingyi nodded. "Of course you should!"

"Then off they come!" Wang Xinyan set her jaw and stripped herself bare in a few swift motions, thinking that Wei Zhao had already seen everything during military training anyway, so what did it matter now?

And she had already decided to give herself to Wei Zhao—what was there left to hesitate over?

Wei Zhao, standing to one side, was dumbstruck. He had not expected Wang Xinyan to move so fast either, but from the look on her face she had clearly misunderstood something. Wei Zhao did not believe that Han Jingyi, clever as she was, had failed to notice—the little minx had absolutely done it on purpose.

"Xinyan, put your clothes back on first. Your situation is different from Jingjing's..." Wei Zhao said, somewhat helplessly, trying to dissuade her.

"I... I..." Wang Xinyan froze, and then her face turned rather pale. So Wei Zhao really did not like her... Otherwise, why would Han Jingyi be allowed and not her? At that moment Wang Xinyan forgot all about modesty; she thrust out her chest and faced Wei Zhao squarely. "She can, so can I. Why not?"

"She has a heart-method mantra, and that is how she raised herself to Great Perfection at the peak of the late Heaven Rank. You don't, so I have no way to raise your strength. Only when you have a heart-method mantra too can I help you advance!" Wei Zhao explained.

"Raise my strength?" Wang Xinyan was stunned, staring in bewilderment at Wei Zhao and Han Jingyi. "You... you were raising your strength?"

"That's right. What did you think we were doing, Sister Xinyan?" Han Jingyi said innocently.

"Then... if you were raising your strength, why did you have to take your clothes off?" Wang Xinyan was baffled.

"After taking a Qi-Gathering Pill, the breakthrough is agonizing, and your whole body grows so hot that your clothes burn to ash!" Han Jingyi said. "To save clothes, we just took them off!"

"..." Wang Xinyan's face went red at once, and she instinctively raised a hand to cover her chest. "I... I... then why didn't you say so earlier!"

"I did say so. That's what Jingjing was saying all along," Han Jingyi said with a smile. "Oh? Did Sister Xinyan misunderstand something else? Sister Xinyan's mind is so very complicated!"