Chapter 1015 — Only to Be Expected
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
But when he saw Wei Zhao finally open his eyes, Uncle Qing hastened to say, "Xiaoyi, you have poured so much of your own energy into me, what about your own strength..."
"I am fine." Wei Zhao shook his head. "I do not know what happened. It got stuck at the peak of the late Yellow stage, and I could not channel any more power into you."
"Ha, the peak of the late Yellow stage! That is the same as my external strength before I was hurt. I am content with this already. Even if I never advance again, it does not matter. At least I can cultivate on my own now. This is far beyond anything I had hoped for!" Uncle Qing said with grateful sincerity. "Xiaoyi, thank you, truly!"
"But... you were plainly an Earth-stage master once. I wanted to raise your strength back to the Earth stage. The peak of the late Yellow stage is no stopping place!" Wei Zhao waved his hand, answering Uncle Qing's thanks with only a faint smile, his voice still full of doubt.
"Ah!" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Uncle Qing was all but stunned!
Was Wei Zhao daring to dream too big? An Earth-stage master? He meant to restore him into an Earth-stage master? It was something Uncle Qing had never even dared to imagine, yet Wei Zhao spoke of it with such madness!
"What is wrong?" Uncle Qing's cry pulled Wei Zhao back to reality.
"Nothing..." Uncle Qing shook his head. "Xiaoyi, you truly dare to dream. An Earth-stage master... that is not something you can simply make. If you gave me all your true qi, what would become of you? Even if you gave me everything, you are yourself only at the mid-Mystic stage. How could you possibly create an Earth-stage master?"
"My strength..." Wei Zhao gave a wry smile. His own case was peculiar, and truly hard to explain to Uncle Qing! The energy inside his body was not his own at all, but came from the jade pendant space! The energy there was inexhaustible, enough for one Earth-stage master, let alone ten!
Only Wei Zhao could not understand why, just as he was transmitting energy to Uncle Qing, it had suddenly jammed at the peak of the late Yellow stage and stopped dead!
"Xiaoyi, for me to become a master at the peak of the late Yellow stage is already no easy thing. I am content!" Seeing Wei Zhao trouble himself over this, Uncle Qing felt only more grateful. "After all, I always majored in the internal arts, and I can keep cultivating on my own! I broke through to the Earth stage once before, and there is no reason I cannot do it again!"
Wei Zhao sighed. What Uncle Qing said was true enough, yet Wei Zhao was now desperate to have an Earth-stage master beside him as a close guard! The stalling of Uncle Qing's strength left him unwilling to accept it! After all, power that had seemed within his grasp had halted for no reason at all, so how could Wei Zhao not be disappointed?
Especially when every condition was in place, when Wei Zhao had energy to spare, almighty energy at that, which he could pour into Uncle Qing in an endless stream, why had it stuck?
It was a question Wei Zhao could turn over a hundred times and still not solve!
"Uncle Qing, in that instant when the true qi stalled, what did you feel?" Wei Zhao asked after a moment's hesitation.
"Hmm..." Uncle Qing pondered for a moment, then looked up and said to Wei Zhao, "I felt nothing special, only that the true qi coming from you suddenly stopped..."
"This..." Wei Zhao smiled bitterly. What Uncle Qing said amounted to saying nothing at all, and Wei Zhao still could not tell where the trouble lay...
"Xiaoyi, never mind about me, what about your own strength..." Uncle Qing looked at Wei Zhao with some worry. "You now... seem to have dropped a level?"
"Hmm... I am fine... unless..." Wei Zhao started suddenly. Could it be because there was no energy left in his own body? That the energy of the pendant alone was not enough to push Uncle Qing further, and it had to be aided by the energy within his own body?