Chapter 1687 — Wei Zhao's Disappointment
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"Little Yi, you'd best not reveal this ability of yours so casually in front of people you don't know well. This power of yours is a treasure beyond price in itself!" Uncle Qing said gravely. "An innocent man is guilty by virtue of his jade. Back then, I was the perfect example of that!"
"All right!" Uncle Qing nodded solemnly and sat cross-legged before Wei Zhao. Having been through this before, he was no stranger to Wei Zhao helping him raise his strength.
Wei Zhao gripped Uncle Qing's meridians, entered the jade pendant's space, and set the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art in motion, while Uncle Qing circulated his own internal-energy method. In an instant, vast true qi surged over from Wei Zhao's side, and Uncle Qing's spirits lifted at once.
Neither of them was new to raising strength, so by now they moved with practiced ease. Uncle Qing swiftly circulated his internal-energy method, converting the true qi Wei Zhao channeled into him for his own use...
Early Profound rank peak, mid Profound rank, mid Profound rank peak... Beads of sweat rolled down Uncle Qing's forehead. Though this was a way of reaping what others sowed, the pace was a little too fast, and Uncle Qing found he could hardly digest it all. It was like force-feeding a duck, and it left him in considerable distress.
Yet for all the hardship, Uncle Qing's heart was filled with excitement and joy. He had cultivated for so long and remained stuck at early Profound rank without the slightest progress, and now, the moment Wei Zhao returned, his strength was driven upward without pause, leaping straight over several thresholds that were nigh insurmountable for other cultivators.
For an ordinary cultivator, advancing a single grade was already a terribly difficult thing. Even with the several breakthrough methods Wei Zhao had devised, breaking through remained arduous and exhausting, let alone for anyone else.
The way had been smooth so far. From mid Profound rank peak, he soon reached late Profound rank, then late Profound rank peak... But once he arrived there, Uncle Qing's rise in strength came to an abrupt halt.
This, however, was a phenomenon Wei Zhao had anticipated. Each time, he could only raise the recipient's strength to the late peak of the grade one tier below his own. Without special methods, matters would always stop there.
But Wei Zhao was not worried. He had devised the compressed-true-qi breakthrough method, which had already succeeded in pushing Qiu Lingshan, Chen Yuxuan, Wu Chengtian, and Uncle Qing straight from late Yellow rank peak to early Profound rank. So when Uncle Qing reached late Profound rank peak, just a hair short of the grand completion of late Profound rank peak, Wei Zhao cut off the flow of energy. His purpose was to let him rest a little, then send over a compressed true-qi packet and drive Uncle Qing through to Earth rank in a single stroke.
"Rest a moment, then I'll use compressed true qi to help you break through to Earth rank. The process should be quite painful, just like when you broke through from late Yellow rank peak to early Profound rank," Wei Zhao said.
"That's no matter. I can endure it!" Uncle Qing nodded. "What is a little pain like this compared to a rise in strength? Even if it were ten thousand times worse, it would still be worth it!"
Uncle Qing was not being modest; he was stating a fact. If others could raise their strength so much in one go, then never mind enduring this little bit of pain, they would gladly lie in a hospital with every bone in their body broken for a year or so.