Chapter 4140 — The Sixth-Grade Spirit-Infant Gathering Golden Core

To break through to the Golden Core was a grave matter, admitting not the slightest distraction; even with two such beauties before him, Wei Zhao at this moment saw them as though they were not there at all.

Both were also assailing the Golden Core realm, both were also achieving a perfect breakthrough; the process Tian Chan and Xue Li had to undergo was exactly the same as Wei Zhao's own before. By their original foundations they should not have been capable of such a thing, but fortunately they had Wei Zhao, their cheat.

Though Wei Zhao could not directly raise the two of them to the early Golden Core stage, in this arduous breakthrough he could shoulder the greater part of the pressure for them.

What Wei Zhao had to do was not merely guide the vast true qi erupting from the golden cores for the two women and shield the meridians within their bodies; he must also use his elixir fire to refine the power of the stars for them, and his spiritual sense to gather the power of the great sea.

In other words, every one of the most difficult stages in the Golden Core breakthrough Wei Zhao took wholly upon himself for Tian Chan and Xue Li, and the only thing left for them to do was to concentrate on condensing their golden cores within their dantians.

Another two days flashed by. When at last he saw Wei Zhao emerge from seclusion again, Di Xingdao, who had been keeping watch at the Tian Dan Pavilion all along, hurried to greet him—only to find that this fellow Wei Zhao, without a word, went first thing to the rooms of Tian Chan and Xue Li and fetched a set of clothes for each of them.

Afterward, watching the two women walk out of the seclusion chamber blushing and somewhat embarrassed, Di Xingdao could not help but twist his mouth into a peculiar grimace. He said to Wei Zhao with a laugh: "Brother Wei Zhao, this blessing of yours—two beauties at once—is enough to make any man die of envy! I thought you'd dragged them off in such a tearing hurry for some urgent business, and even had the Tian Dan Pavilion shut its doors for the day. Little did I expect that you, brother, were a man of such amorous inclinations!"

"Uh... Brother Tian, you're really overthinking this..." Wei Zhao was speechless for a moment. He pointed at the two women and said: "Can't you see the change in them?"

"Change?" Di Xingdao was startled at the words. When he looked again at Tian Chan and Xue Li, all trace of jest was gone from his eyes, and they went wide with utter shock: "G-Golden Core... early stage? How is that possible?"

Just three short days ago, both women had been no more than tender novices of the early Foundation Establishment stage; yet three days on, they were now, like Wei Zhao, genuine experts of the early Golden Core stage.

What was more, Di Xingdao faintly sensed from the two women a certain unusual aura. Faint though it was beside Wei Zhao's, it was unmistakably of the same kind—which meant that both women had likewise achieved the perfect breakthrough and were among the strongest Golden Core experts!

Such a thing was simply unheard of, unseen in all his experience; even with all his wide learning, Di Xingdao was so astonished that he nearly bit his own tongue and for a long while could not utter a word.

"Brother Wei Zhao, is this all your doing? Three top-tier Golden Core experts at one stroke?" Only after a long while did Di Xingdao recover himself somewhat, and he asked, eyes and mouth agape.

Though the miracle had fallen upon Tian Chan and Xue Li, Di Xingdao could have worked it out with his toes that it was absolutely Wei Zhao's handiwork; otherwise, relying on the two women alone, there was no such possibility whatsoever.

"No help for it. If I don't raise their strength, I can never rest easy," Wei Zhao said with a faint smile.

"Brother, you're out to defy heaven itself!" In the end Di Xingdao managed to squeeze out only this one sentence.

He was intensely curious how Wei Zhao had suddenly raised the two women's strength to such a frightening realm, but he knew without asking that this must be the greatest secret Wei Zhao possessed, and the fewer who knew of it the better—after all, however one looked at it, this matter was simply too outrageous.

Before this, he had wondered whether it was unfair to Tian Chan and Xue Li that the two of them should serve Wei Zhao together; for fine as Wei Zhao was, both women were peerless beauties of heavenly beauty, the kind around whom all others gathered like stars around the moon wherever they went.

But now it seemed that following Wei Zhao was no indignity at all for them—rather, it was their tremendous good fortune!

Indeed, at this moment Di Xingdao could not help but feel a certain absurd sensation welling in his heart. He had always thought himself formidable enough, legendary enough; but compared with this Brother Wei Zhao, the deeds he had done in his day were mere child's play, not worth mentioning at all.

"Defy heaven" was no casual sigh of admiration from Di Xingdao; at this moment he truly felt that this fellow Wei Zhao was a monster capable of defying heaven itself!

As they were speaking, Hou Guanqi and Cai Zhongxuan arrived as usual on their daily visit of inquiry. Catching sudden sight of three top-tier Golden Core experts in Wei Zhao and the two women, their reactions were even worse than Di Xingdao's—their jaws dropped on the spot, and for a long while they could not say a word.

"A monster, you really are a monster—even our revered master, I fear, could not match you!" This was the unanimous conclusion everyone finally reached.

Wei Zhao could only smile bitterly at this, thinking to himself: that revered master of yours is my cheap master as well. If I'm a monster, then isn't the old gentleman a monster too?

Since the breakthrough had succeeded and they were out of seclusion, the Tian Dan Pavilion's business naturally had to reopen, and Tian Chan and Xue Li promptly fell back to their busy work—Xue Li, as ever, the chief manager of trade, while Tian Chan devoted herself to elixir refinement.

Now that her strength had surged to the early Golden Core stage, her speed of refinement, the quality of her elixirs, and her success rate had all risen markedly by a great margin compared with before; she even had a chance now of refining fourth-grade elixirs of top-tier quality. For the Tian Dan Pavilion, which relied solely on her and Wei Zhao to refine elixirs and supply its stock, this was naturally excellent news.

As for Wei Zhao, for the time being he could not attend to the Tian Dan Pavilion's business, for the reason was simple: he was busy refining the Spirit-Infant Gathering Golden Core for Di Xingdao!

Di Xingdao had the pill formula, and Hou Guanqi and Cai Zhongxuan supplied the materials; what remained for Wei Zhao to do was to attempt the refinement of this sixth-grade Spirit-Infant Gathering Golden Core.

He entered seclusion once more to refine elixirs. This time, sure enough, it was just as Wei Zhao had expected: once his strength reached the early Golden Core stage, the intensity of his true qi was already sufficient for refining sixth-grade elixirs. As for how to refine them, with the Shennong Cauldron, that automatic elixir-refining divine artifact, Wei Zhao did not need to worry overmuch.

The only thing he had to do was control the intensity of his true qi well, and thereby let the Shennong Cauldron govern the heat properly, then quietly wait for the refinement to finish.

After a full day and night, Wei Zhao did not disappoint the others: his very first attempt succeeded at one stroke, and he refined a Spirit-Infant Gathering Golden Core. When it finally reached Di Xingdao's hands, the way everyone looked at him had already turned to taking it all as a matter of course.