Chapter 2332 — Testing the Martial Arts
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It seemed he ought to let the Heavenly Thunder Pig and the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast have a good **flow**—just to see exactly how the creature managed it. If Wei Zhao could learn the trick, that would be truly extraordinary: meet an opponent, casually drive a bit of true qi into him, and you would be invincible.
But Wei Zhao was only daydreaming. Since ancient times, had all those cultivators who possessed contracted spirit beasts been fools? Had none of them ever thought of this? It seemed there was simply no way to put it into practice.
Shaking his head, Wei Zhao began helping Pi Zhitao refine the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast's true qi from within his body—though it was only the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast's true qi that Wei Zhao could refine so effortlessly, drawing that strand of qi straight out of Pi Zhitao's body. Had it been anyone else's true qi, Wei Zhao could never have managed so easily.
This kind of true qi Wei Zhao could absorb directly and turn to his own use, but with others—fire-poison true qi, for instance—he could not. He could only wrap it in his own true qi and force it out of the body, which was rather more troublesome.
"Done." Wei Zhao's treatment of Pi Zhitao took even less time—a matter of seconds—before he lifted his hand from Pi Zhitao's pulse gate.
"What? Done?" Pi Zhifeng and Old Master Pi stared wide-eyed. That was far too fast, wasn't it? They had already accepted the fact that Wei Zhao could heal them swiftly, but he had been fast enough before—and now he seemed even faster?
After all, the Hidden Pi family had sought physicians far and wide for Pi Zhitao's injury without success; even Zhao the Medicine King of the Hidden Zhao family had been helpless. And Wei Zhao had settled it in seconds?
Wei Zhao nodded. "There was never anything seriously wrong. He had merely had some true qi driven into him by the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast."
"…" Pi Zhifeng and Old Master Pi were left somewhat speechless. If that counted as nothing serious, then what did count as serious? This was a condition that had left countless people utterly powerless!
Yet the very next moment, a groan from Pi Zhitao told them he was truly and completely healed. Looking thoroughly dazed, Pi Zhitao clambered up from the stretcher, rubbed his eyes, and said, "Where am I? Is the competition over? Wei Zhao? What are you doing here?"
Pi Zhitao knew nothing of what had happened after the Hidden Aristocratic Families' Summit. Waking to find Wei Zhao, his "rival and foe," present as well, he was naturally somewhat wary and hostile.
"Zhihai, mind your manners!" Old Master Pi was startled by Pi Zhitao's words and hurriedly said to him, "This Mr. Lin is your savior. Without him, you would be dead. From now on, he is a man whom everyone in our Pi family must respect and obey!"
"That's right, Zhihai. I've already accepted Wei Zhao as our leader. You're my younger brother, so you should call him leader just as I do!" Pi Zhifeng added.
"What?" Pi Zhitao was taken aback, uncertain and alarmed. How was it that after a single sleep, his elder brother and grandfather treated Wei Zhao so completely differently? Wait… they said Wei Zhao was his savior? Pi Zhitao vaguely recalled what had happened before: in the spirit beast combat match, the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast had driven a strand of true qi into his body, and then he had blacked out…
Could Wei Zhao have been the one to dissolve it? Pi Zhitao might ordinarily lose himself in martial arts and speak little, but that did not make him a fool. From the look of things, that seemed to be the case! Yet he was still rather puzzled—had his grandfather and elder brother truly put aside their old grievances?
Their expressions did not look feigned, however, and Pi Zhitao was not an unreasonable man. He quickly cupped his hands toward Wei Zhao and said, "Thank you, Mr. Lin, for saving my life…"