Chapter 1484 — Utterly Shocked
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"We?" Yu Bing started slightly. "You're still going to take part in the trial? You're not joking, are you? Wei Zhao, you may have lost all your strength, but there's no need to force yourself, and certainly no need to give up on yourself. I've already told Xiao Ning about your situation... Don't worry. The two of us will help you."
"You told her?" At that, Wei Zhao could not help but laugh a helpless, rueful laugh.
"I turned it over and over, and in the end I couldn't keep it from her. She'll worry once she knows, true, but I need her help — to procure some cultivation medicines for you from the family." Yu Bing said. "Rest assured: with Xiao Ning and me here, we'll have you back on the path of cultivation before long..."
"That tongue of yours... is quick..." Wei Zhao shrugged, caught between tears and laughter. "I told you yesterday... it's fine. I don't need any cultivation medicines..."
"Wei Zhao, there's no need for courtesy between the two of us. You don't have to stand on ceremony with me." Yu Bing insisted.
"What is there to stand on ceremony about, between you and me? We're old friends..." Wei Zhao said. "But I truly don't need it... and I don't need to set foot on the path of cultivation again either."
"What are you saying?" Yu Bing stared, nonplussed at Wei Zhao's words. "Don't tell me yesterday, when Zhang Naipao broke through using your true qi, it went to your head?"
Wei Zhao had no way out of it. He could only circulate the inner method of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, releasing in an instant the full power of his late-stage Xuan Rank. Facts speak louder than argument: one glance at Yu Bing's face told Wei Zhao that whatever he said, the man would take it for mere comfort — so he had better let him see it with his own eyes.
"An enemy?" Sensing Wei Zhao suddenly circulating an inner method, Yu Bing's instinct was that an enemy had arrived. But the next instant he came sharply awake, and stared at Wei Zhao with eyes blown wide, as though he had seen a ghost. "You... you... how did you..."
"Late stage of the Xuan Rank... I broke through." Wei Zhao drew his true qi back into his body, halted the circulation of the method, and returned to normal, then said to Yu Bing.
"You... you weren't crippled after all? You can still break through?" As if he had heard some tale out of the Arabian Nights, Yu Bing could not believe it. "Didn't you turn into a cripple yesterday?"
"Yesterday I merely lost my strength; after a night's sleep it came back today," Wei Zhao said. "I'm fairly sure I told you yesterday that I was fine. Perfectly fine!"
"Damn!" Yu Bing suddenly felt that whatever ancient sects and ancient families there might be, compared with the man before him they were laughably weak — this one was the real thing! All his strength gone yesterday, and a breakthrough today!
Say what you will, no wonder Grandfather called Xiao Ning the hope of the Yu family's glory. If Xiao Ning really pulled Wei Zhao into the Yu family's camp, that would be something else entirely. Is this fellow some kind of cockroach? Gravely wounded yesterday, healed today?