Chapter 2004 — The Peak of the Early Earth Rank!
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Cautiously, Wei Zhao absorbed and controlled the true qi within his body, letting it merge into every meridian. Wherever the true qi flowed, it not only fused swiftly with the true qi already there, but the injuries in that vicinity were swiftly healed as well.
Because some places were more severely wounded and others less, Wei Zhao walked as though on a tightrope, wary of the slightest carelessness, using the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to guide the true qi forward now fast, now slow...
By now Wei Zhao's body was soaked through with foul blood and sweat, a thoroughly wretched sight. He was like a man of blood; if not for the steady rhythm of his breathing and heartbeat, which told that his bodily functions were sound, anyone looking from afar would surely have thought Wei Zhao could not possibly survive...
Slowly, slowly, Wei Zhao circulated the true qi, and at last it completed one full cycle through his body—and all his injuries were restored in that very moment!
But the influx of energy from the jade pendant space had not yet ceased, so Wei Zhao dared not slacken in the slightest, and continued to circulate the second-layer Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art.
Under Wei Zhao's guidance, the true qi began its second cycle... slowly, from beginning to end, and all at once Wei Zhao discovered that the true qi within his body had grown full to an inconceivable degree. At the same time, he felt as though his whole being had exploded in that instant; after a thunderous "boom" rang out by his ears, what followed was an ease he had never known before!
At last—a breakthrough!
In this moment, Wei Zhao stood at the peak of the early Earth Rank!
As Wei Zhao exhaled that breath, he slowly opened his eyes, and in that moment he was restored to his former vibrant spirits.
At the moment of Wei Zhao's breakthrough, Feng Sanmang also let out a long breath of relief. He too was a **, and though not of such a high rank as Wei Zhao, he knew well the circumstances of a breakthrough. So when he saw Wei Zhao open his eyes, he at once cupped his fists excitedly and said, "Congratulations, Brother Lin! On the path of **, you have taken another step forward and reached the peak of the early Earth Rank!"
"Ha, I've put you to trouble!" Wei Zhao nodded to Feng Sanmang. Though Wei Zhao had been within the jade pendant space, he knew that Feng Sanmang had been standing guard outside for him all along, and so he was deeply grateful to him.
"What do you mean by that, Brother Lin? You fought tooth and nail for our sakes, while I did no more than lend my humble efforts—how is that trouble?" Feng Sanmang shook his head at once and said, "If not for your righteous intervention, Miss Xu and Miss Cheng and I would likely not have escaped that man in black's clutches today..."
In Feng Sanmang's eyes, Wei Zhao could simply have walked away, yet he had not done so; he had even risked his life to hold the Earth-Rank man in black there, winning by a hair. Such a debt of gratitude moved him profoundly.
"Xiaohan is someone I invited here. If anything were to happen to her, my heart would never forgive it. Unless I am dead, I could not stand by and do nothing." There was a certain tenacity in Wei Zhao's heart—a tenacity toward the friends and kin around him.