Chapter 1619 — Utterly Bizarre
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But Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had by now become the people closest to Wei Zhao, apart from Tang Zhi and Feng Xiaoxiao, so it was only natural that Wei Zhao no longer kept these matters from them.
"Ah! Her brother was actually your former comrade-in-arms... and he might even have died. That girl is so pitiful too!" Gu Mengyao felt that Ying Ziyu was even more pitiable than Chen Xi, with not a single relative left. "Say, why don't we arrange for them to attend the First High School? Then I'll have a word with Uncle Qing and ask the teachers to look after them a bit..."
The young lady had at least this much say in things. Wei Zhao could just as easily have done it, but it was good to let her do some good deeds too.
Because she knew Wei Zhao's strength was fading, Shen Yushu no longer brought up going anywhere else. She sat quietly in the car, and they went straight back to the Gu family villa.
"Leader, you're back so early? How did it go? Did you have fun?" Wu Chengtian had been keeping watch at home. These days he served as underling, bodyguard, and butler all in one, and, following Wei Zhao around, he was quietly becoming a second Uncle Qing.
"I'm going into seclusion! You're in charge of the house's safety!" Wei Zhao waved a hand, not answering Wu Chengtian, and said quickly, "Don't disturb me during this time!"
"Ah... yes!" Though Wu Chengtian had no idea what was going on, seeing how serious Wei Zhao was, he asked no further questions. He nodded solemnly and said, "Leader, don't worry. I'll take care of the house for you."
Wei Zhao trusted Wu Chengtian completely. After giving these instructions, he went straight into his room and shut the door.
"Ladies, what's happened to Leader Wei Zhao? Is he about to break through?" Wu Chengtian asked only after Wei Zhao had gone into the room.
"Wei Zhao has run into some trouble. It seems he was poisoned, and his strength has all disappeared. He needs to recover..." Gu Mengyao did not conceal it from Wu Chengtian, but she only half understood the situation herself, so she simply told him what Wei Zhao had said on the way back.
"What? The Leader's strength is gone again?" But Wu Chengtian did not take it too seriously. "Then it should be fine. Even I was crippled, and the Leader still managed to restore me. He must have a way to handle this himself!"
"Let's hope so!" Gu Mengyao nodded, praying for Wei Zhao in her heart, hoping that nothing bad would happen to him.
By the time Wei Zhao returned to his room, all the strength in his body had vanished without a trace, leaving him no different from an ordinary person! He would never have imagined that snake venom could be so domineering—it could actually disperse a cultivator's true qi!
Although Wei Zhao had heard before that such poisons existed, they belonged to the realm of deviant arts, and he had never studied them in any detail. Now that he had run into one himself, he really had no idea how to solve it! Fortunately, he had the jade pendant as a golden finger, and that was what kept him bold and unafraid.
Otherwise, once the strength was lost, it would simply be lost. Any other cultivator, even if only crippled, would find recovery exceedingly difficult.
Wei Zhao did not think much about it. He sat down cross-legged and entered the jade pendant space, ready to cultivate from the very beginning. Losing all his strength was not something that had happened only once or twice, so he was not nervous. With practiced ease, he activated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Steering Art. Very soon, the energy in the jade pendant space was stirred up, turned into true qi, and surged into Wei Zhao's body...
As the energy became true qi and gradually accumulated within him, Wei Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed this golden finger of his really was remarkable. As long as his meridians were intact, even with his strength completely gone, he could slowly recover!