Chapter 1653 — Using the Qi-Gathering Pill: This Is Pure Primordial Energy — Whatever True Qi You Wish to Convert It Into, It Will Become!
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In an instant Wei Zhao withdrew from the jade pendant space, while inside his body the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art still ran, governing the energy ball as it slowly released its remaining energy — which ensured both that Wei Zhao would not immediately drop a level, and that the leftover energy would not blast his meridians apart.
Wei Zhao snatched up the Qi-Gathering Pill and swallowed it straight down. In an instant a warm current surged from his belly through his whole body, followed by a searing heat, as though every meridian in him had been set alight.
Wei Zhao made no particular effort to resist; he let it run its natural course, gritting his teeth and waiting for what would follow. After all, he had no idea what taking a Qi-Gathering Pill would be like; this time he had taken it in a spirit of experiment.
The burning grew stronger and stronger, until Wei Zhao felt he himself would catch fire. Even so he clenched his teeth and held on. The sensation was somehow familiar — a little like the natural feeling at his first breakthrough, yet different too, carrying something of that scorching heat from when he had forced a breakthrough by compressing his true qi.
It was not quite so overbearing, but Wei Zhao could feel that the clothes on his body were on the verge of being scorched. Still, by any measure this was a good thing; miserable as he was, his heart was glad.
The more painful it was now, the more it resembled those earlier breakthroughs, the more reassured Wei Zhao felt. If he felt nothing at all, he would instead be dismayed, for the Qi-Gathering Pill was his last chance.
At last the energy in the ball within his body was spent. But to Wei Zhao's relief his strength did not begin to dissipate; instead, in an instant, the heaven-and-earth spiritual qi in the air gathered around him, circling above his head and forming an extremely faint vortex.
Bing Tang had been right: the spiritual qi of the natural world was pitifully sparse, all the more so in a city. Still, this spiritual qi had merely been drawn together automatically at the moment of breakthrough, and Wei Zhao's breakthrough this time relied on the Qi-Gathering Pill, not on that spiritual qi — so how much or how little of it there was did not matter to him.
To put it plainly, this spiritual qi resonated with the true qi in Wei Zhao's body, whirling around him faster and faster, and Wei Zhao felt his own body temperature rising higher and higher.
He could even smell something scorched now — his clothes. His garments had crumbled into one burnt fragment after another and dropped to the floor.
But Wei Zhao no longer cared about any of that. So long as he could break through, it would not matter if the whole room burned down! At worst he would have Fatty Lai find someone to redecorate it.
On his previous breakthroughs Wei Zhao had always been inside the jade pendant space, and the clothes that burned there were only illusory garments within that space, so the outside world was unaffected. This time, however, he was breaking through outside the jade pendant space, and the commotion was somewhat greater.
Ordinary people could not sense a thing like heaven-and-earth spiritual qi, but Bing Tang could.