Chapter 1925 — Power Up
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Watching Wang Xinyan, fast asleep, somehow having ended up in his arms for no discernible reason, Wei Zhao truly did not know whether to laugh or to cry.
Wei Zhao had not slept at all. Closing his eyes earlier had been nothing more than entering the jade pendant's space to cultivate. Ever since he had learned the secret of that space, Wei Zhao had scarcely slept at all, yet his perception of the outside world remained keen, so the instant Wang Xinyan crawled into his embrace, he had felt it.
Shaking his head, Wei Zhao emerged from the jade pendant's space, intending to push Wang Xinyan away, but all at once a reluctance he could not name welled up in his heart. Holding her like this felt oddly reassuring; breathing in the faint, delicate fragrance drifting from her, he found himself entranced...
That scent put Wei Zhao utterly at ease, and he could not resist drawing a few more breaths of it. Suddenly a warmth stirred in his lower abdomen, and he gave a start. Surely he did not harbor certain thoughts about Wang Xinyan? If that were truly so, and she discovered it, how mortifying that would be!
At the thought, Wei Zhao hastily circulated the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon Taming Art once more, hoping to dissolve that ball of fire within him... But the moment his true qi touched the fire in the meridians of his abdomen, Wei Zhao was baffled!
This was absolutely not the flame of desire—Wei Zhao could still tell whether the fire within him had sprung from lust—but if it was not desire, then could this feverish sensation be caused by the fragrance upon Wang Xinyan?
Be that as it may, Wei Zhao dared not be negligent and had already begun using his true qi to dissolve that ball of flame... Yet in the very next moment, he discovered to his astonishment that once the flame was dissolved, it seemed to transform into abundant true qi suffusing his body, and his strength was rising without pause. By the time the flame had been fully dissolved, Wei Zhao's power had actually increased markedly!
He had still not broken through the barrier that stood before the peak of the early Earth Rank, but he was drawing ever closer to it.
Wei Zhao was utterly perplexed. Why had his strength increased? And the rate of this increase was plainly faster than simply circulating the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon Taming Art—not by much, perhaps, but faster it undeniably was. Wei Zhao could feel it!
Could it really be the fragrance upon Wang Xinyan?
Wei Zhao frowned, secretly astonished. But having stumbled upon such a fine opportunity, he naturally had no intention of wasting it. It was no easy thing to have the chance to share a bed with Wang Xinyan; of course he meant to absorb more of that fragrance for his cultivation. Once they returned to school, if he ever sought her out for such a thing again, she would likely never agree.
The whole night through, Wei Zhao did not sleep, ceaselessly circulating the Xuanyuan Dragon Taming Art within his body until dawn.
In the middle of the night Wang Xinyan had grown a little cold and, quite naturally, gone seeking warmth. Opening her eyes at daybreak, she found herself lying in Wei Zhao's arms and gave a small start—but then she saw that Wei Zhao was not holding her; rather, she was holding Wei Zhao. Relief washed over her, yet at the same time her heart burned with shame.
Wei Zhao had done nothing to her; it was she who had thrown herself into his arms. How shameless! If Wei Zhao had seen it, what would he think of her?
At that thought, Wang Xinyan hurriedly tried to slip out of Wei Zhao's embrace. She stole a glance at him and saw that his eyes were closed, so she hastily shifted her body inward—but that small movement was enough to alert Wei Zhao.
Wei Zhao had not been sleeping at all; he had been cultivating the whole time, and so he said without thinking, "Xinyan, you're awake?"