Chapter 1599 — Breakthrough! Peak of the Late Profound Stage! Wei Zhao Felt His Body Seemingly Explode Open with a BANG!
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However, beneath his brief shock, Wei Zhao's heart surged with delight in equal measure — this feeling, he knew it all too well. This was the feeling of a breakthrough! Every time he had broken through before, the sensation had been much the same, and this time was no different.
Wei Zhao hadn't imagined that refining an aphrodisiac in his body could actually trigger a breakthrough — it was truly beyond belief! But when he thought back to Qiu Lingshan's incident, it didn't seem so strange after all. Perhaps that had been the reason for her breakthrough as well?
As it happened, Qiu Lingshan's breakthrough was nothing like Wei Zhao's. She had simply been suppressed at that level for far too long, and then, suddenly stimulated both mentally and psychologically — on top of the unique nature of the Song family's mental arts, the result was a breakthrough!
Wei Zhao's situation was entirely different — he was using raw energy to refine the drug's effects. Because there was simply too much of the aphrodisiac in his system, he had no choice but to refine it over and over, and the true qi that formed from the process began to gather inside his body! Since the aphrodisiac was already contained within him, the true qi produced from refining it also stayed within him — which was quite unlike absorbing energy directly.
With direct absorption, there comes a point where no more can be taken in! But refining through the drug's effects was different — even though his body could no longer absorb any more true qi from outside, the true qi refined within him could not escape either! This was what caused Wei Zhao's breakthrough in one fell swoop, elevating him to a top-tier fighter at the peak of the Late Profound Stage!
Fortunately, unlike Chen Yuxuan and Qiu Lingshan, Wei Zhao had been cultivating inside the jade pendant's space, so he didn't have to worry about his clothes bursting apart and being seen by Gu Mengyao or Shen Yushu!
"Zhong Yongliang, you and your lackeys really are my good fortune — helping me break through two whole levels in a row... Should I thank you, or should I hate you?" Wei Zhao murmured to himself with a bitter smile, shaking his head.
Zhong Yongliang had meant to harm him, yet had ended up indirectly helping him! Wei Zhao had been agonizing over how to break through — and now he had!
"Elder Jiao, did I just break through?" Wei Zhao asked with a bitter smile.
"Yes, you broke through. Haven't you always wanted to? Isn't this wish fulfillment?" Jiao Yazi replied with a faint smile.
"But... what kind of thing was this? Will I be able to use this same method to break through in the future?" That was what Wei Zhao cared about most. He now roughly understood the principle behind the breakthrough, and what he really wanted to know was whether the same method would work again.
"Every single time you break through, it defies all belief." Jiao Yazi didn't quite know what to say. "I've never even heard of half your methods! Who knows if it'll work again next time?"
"So you're saying there's a possibility it could work?" Wei Zhao asked, his eyes brightening with excitement.
"I said no such thing!" Jiao Yazi shook his head. "As far as I know, going from the Profound Stage to the Earth Stage is a great hurdle. Some people spend their entire lives unable to clear it, stuck at the peak of the Late Profound Stage forever. So if this breakthrough method were the same, then I'm afraid every cultivator alive could clear it with ease! The way to break through from the Profound Stage to the Earth Stage is different!"
"Is that so?" Wei Zhao frowned. "Then breaking through from the Profound Stage to the Earth Stage isn't something just any easy method can accomplish?"