Chapter 2143 — About to Break Through?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
A breakthrough was, to be sure, a joyous and congratulatory affair. He had only recently broken through to the peak of the early Earth Rank, and now, before long, he was about to break through to the middle stage. Such speed left Wei Zhao well satisfied!
Part of the credit undoubtedly belonged to Wang Xinyan, who had brought Wei Zhao essentially to the barrier at the peak of the early Earth Rank. But this injury and the restoration of his meridians had played a crucial role as well!
So this omen of breakthrough, if one thought it over carefully, was not really so inexplicable after all.
The key problem was this: if he broke through here, Wei Zhao's hidden cards would all at once be laid bare before everyone! Then everyone would know that Wei Zhao possessed only the strength of the middle Earth Rank, and was by no means some Heaven Rank expert suppressing his power!
In that case, the mysterious aura of intimidation Wei Zhao had built up before those family elders and sect masters would vanish entirely! In their eyes, Wei Zhao would be seen as merely a man with a few hidden cards and some lucky breaks—not true strength at all!
To be honest, if the present Wei Zhao were to clash head-on with an early Heaven Rank expert, he would have absolutely no chance of victory. Even if such an expert attacked Wei Zhao, he might survive one blow, but a second would surely kill him! That was why Wei Zhao now found himself in such a dilemma, unable to advance or retreat!
Should he press on and break through in one sustained effort, or stop and seek another opportunity for breakthrough later?
This question circled back and forth in Wei Zhao's mind, and for a time he could not make up his mind. After all, a breakthrough was a golden opportunity that came but once in a thousand years. For a cultivator—save for those rare few geniuses or inheritors—not everyone could break through the barrier as naturally as water flowing into a channel!
To remain stuck at a barrier and seek a breakthrough, one needed opportunity and insight. This was precisely why the hidden Yu family so desperately wanted the Qi Condensation Pill—Yu Xiaochen had been stuck at the peak of the late Earth Rank for a very long time!
So if Wei Zhao were to stop now, merely filling himself with stamina and true qi without breaking through, then who could say when the next chance to break through the barrier would come?
After all, such opportunities could not be created by human design, nor could one break through simply because one wished to!
When Wei Zhao had once been stuck at the peak of the late Profound Rank, he had known this feeling all too well—he had been forced to take that Qi Condensation Pill to break through by force!
To hell with it—all in! Wei Zhao gritted his teeth. So what if they learned his true depths? He still had one hidden card he had not played. If those Heaven Rank elders joined forces with others to hunt him down, Wei Zhao would not simply sit idle and do nothing.
With that thought, Wei Zhao once again quickened the circulation of the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. While he had been pondering the matter, he had deliberately slowed the circulation of the heart-method formula, but he had never stopped it—for fear that once halted, he would never break through again.
In an instant, a vast surge of pure energy poured from the jade pendant's space into Wei Zhao's body, and the heaven-and-earth spiritual qi around him was drawn in as well, forming a gigantic vortex of true qi above his head!
Although this external heaven-and-earth spiritual qi served only as an auxiliary and was of no use to Wei Zhao himself, it was nonetheless an inevitable phenomenon for every cultivator at the moment of breakthrough! Of course, this only occurred when one forcibly smashed through a barrier by one's own power; when Wei Zhao boosted another's strength, no such vortex of drawn-in spiritual qi appeared.