Chapter 2206 — Wasted Pills
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Never before had anyone heard of a person channeling true qi into a spirit beast nonstop over so brief a span—it was simply beyond belief.
And yet the fact unfolded right before their eyes: peak late Yellow Rank… and swiftly drawing near to Great Perfection!
With a joyful roar the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast announced its ascension! The rank barrier that had held it fast for a thousand years had shattered in that very moment!
Early Profound Rank—it was now a Profound Rank spirit beast.
And this was only the beginning! Wei Zhao did not stop, but went on madly pouring true qi into it—peak early Profound Rank, mid Profound Rank, peak mid Profound Rank, all the way up to late Profound Rank!
The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast could scarcely believe what was happening before its eyes; it even wondered whether it was dreaming. Was there such a way of leveling up in this world? It had never heard that one's rank could rocket from peak late Yellow Rank all the way to late Profound Rank in so short a time… no, it was already at peak late Profound Rank now!
At peak late Profound Rank Great Perfection, Wei Zhao's transfer of energy came to an abrupt halt. He released his hand, yet showed not the slightest weariness—still spirited and glowing, as though the true qi he had poured out had not affected him at all.
The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast stared wide-eyed at Wei Zhao, who looked as if nothing had happened, and was utterly astonished.
This… was this real? It too was now a spirit beast of peak late Profound Rank strength?
"From now on, you are the fourth," Wei Zhao told the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast. "The third is that lion, who has run off for the time being. Your leader is Mighty General, the Heavenly Thunder Pig is your second senior brother, and you need not mind the lion for now—you are the youngest."
"Roar, roar." The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast nodded readily. Though it was an attack-type spirit beast and the strongest of them all compared to Mighty General and the Heavenly Thunder Pig, it also understood that first come, first served—it knew it had arrived last, and so raised no objection at all to being called the fourth.
"Here is a Small Qi-Gathering Pill. Swallow it, and once you do you can rise to Earth Rank and deal with higher-ranked foes then," Wei Zhao said, taking a Small Qi-Gathering Pill from his pocket and giving it to the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast.
The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast had never taken a human pill before, but since it was something Wei Zhao gave it, it naturally swallowed it down in one gulp.
Yet after swallowing the Small Qi-Gathering Pill, the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast showed none of the signs of imminent breakthrough that Han Jingyi had—it was just as it had always been, with no difference whatsoever.
Wei Zhao waited a long while and saw no unusual change in the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast, so he could not help asking, "Do you feel anything special?"
The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast was rather puzzled too. By rights Wei Zhao could not be deceiving it—he had already helped it rise several ranks, all the way to peak late Profound Rank strength—so it trusted Wei Zhao well enough to believe he could keep raising its level. But the reality was that after taking the Small Qi-Gathering Pill, apart from a faint replenishment of energy, it felt nothing else at all.
"Roar, roar…" The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast described its condition to the Heavenly Thunder Pig.
And the Heavenly Thunder Pig wrote the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast's condition out for Wei Zhao.
"Strange—no breakthrough?" Wei Zhao frowned, but then a very important possibility occurred to him: could it be that spirit beasts were different from humans? A cultivator could break through with a Small Qi-Gathering Pill, but a spirit beast could not?