Chapter 1354 — Is It All Right to Drop It? Although Wei Zhao Has a Sure-Kill Move, the Energy Bomb—a Great Finishing Technique That Costs a Thousand Enemies and Eight Hundred of His Own, Letting Him Strike Above His Rank—Compressing That Energy Still Takes Time, and He Fears That When the Time Comes, Old Yu Will Not Give Him the Time to Compress It!
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"Cannot advance as fast as you..." Wei Zhao was briefly startled by her words—and then his eyes lit up! He remembered the last time he had advanced a rank, how he had used compressed true qi to force the breakthrough. If that method was usable for him, might it be usable for Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan?
The two of them were both peak late-stage Yellow Rank, only one step from entry-stage Mystic Rank. One could say that so long as they had enough energy to take in, advancing on the spot would be no difficult matter!
Qiu Lingshan was made uneasy by Wei Zhao's fixed stare. At first she thought he was admiring her looks, and grew bashful; but after a while it began to give her the creeps. "What... what are you staring at me like that for? You are not going to eat me, are you?"
"You are at peak late-stage Yellow Rank now. If you took in a bit more true qi, could you advance to entry-stage Mystic Rank?" Wei Zhao asked.
"That is right. But for one thing, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is thin these days, and true qi is far too scarce; and for another, breaking through a bottleneck is not so easy. Sometimes when you cultivate, you want to absorb more of the spiritual energy and turn it into true qi, but you simply cannot take in that much—only a tiny bit, never enough to break through..." Qiu Lingshan nodded.
Though Qiu Lingshan's description was not quite apt, Wei Zhao understood her: it was much the same as his own case. Every cultivator's breakthrough, one could say, looked alike—and precisely for that reason, the notion of giving it a try took root in Wei Zhao's mind!
He could do it; could others do it as well? But the method was too dangerous, and for the moment Wei Zhao could not make up his mind. So he simply handed the choice to Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan.
"I know a method that can make you absorb, in a single instant, far more true qi than you normally could in the same span of time. There is a certain danger to it, though..." Wei Zhao explained gravely. "It is similar to the true qi bomb: I compress the true qi and let you breathe it in, and it releases inside your bodies. That way you can break through to Mystic Rank in one stroke... The method works on me, but whether it will work on the two of you, I do not know—and if it does not work, what the consequences will be, I do not know either..."
Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan both understood. They exchanged a glance, and in each other's eyes they saw longing!
This was the lure of the Mystic Rank! A Mystic Rank expert was, to an ordinary family, a top-tier fighter. Once a junior of the Song family or the Chen family produced a Mystic Rank expert, the significance would be pivotal—and at the Assembly of Great Families soon to convene, they would have enough voice to speak!
And even the Yu family would have to give the Chen and Song families a few measures of deference!
But where there are gains there is cost. They understood what Wei Zhao meant: succeed, and everyone rejoices; fail, and no one could say what ill consequences might follow.
"I want to try..." After a moment's consideration, Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan spoke almost in unison. Neither was the hesitating sort; once they had weighed the gains and losses in earnest, they could make their decision.