Chapter 2338 — Having to Give Up
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Wei Zhao saw nothing unusual in Han Jingyi's expression, so he did not bother with pretense either. He simply pressed his hand to the qi-sea acupoint at her lower abdomen and once more set the second level of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art in motion. But this time the result disappointed him just as much: Han Jingyi still could not absorb his true qi.
In other words, Wei Zhao's hypothesis had failed completely.
"What is it, Brother Wei Zhao? Did it not work again?" Seeing his disappointment, Han Jingyi asked at once.
"Mm. Failed again." Wei Zhao nodded. "It looks like this hypothesis won't hold. I'll have to give it up."
"That's all right. You went to such trouble thinking of a way for Jingjing, and Jingjing is already so grateful. If it doesn't work this time, there's always next time. Even Jingjing's pill refining didn't succeed on the first try." Han Jingyi consoled him, showing not the slightest disappointment.
"Heh. So it seems it's impossible for me to use my true qi to assist your pill refining." Wei Zhao shook his head. "The only option is to find a way to raise your strength as quickly as possible. Right now you're an Earth-rank expert, and Earth-rank is likely the limit for a second-grade pill refiner. Even if you could condense third-grade pill fire, you still couldn't refine third-grade pills."
"Brother Wei Zhao, don't wear yourself out over it. You were willing to sacrifice yourself to help Jingjing refine pills, and Jingjing is already so grateful!" Han Jingyi said soothingly.
"Sacrifice myself?" At her words, a sudden flash of insight lit Wei Zhao's mind, as though he had thought of something! Yes—sacrifice himself. That phrase was very familiar to him. He seemed to have heard it somewhere before, and... it seemed very important... That was it!
Wei Zhao abruptly remembered what he was thinking of. While hiding with the Han family, in the Han family's scripture pavilion, he had seen an ancient supplementary support martial skill that had been passed down from antiquity. According to Old Master Han's account back then, that skill could replenish energy and true qi for one's own people nearby—but at the cost of consuming one's own strength and true qi. It was a martial skill of sacrificing oneself to complete another's success!
Even then Wei Zhao had felt the skill might be of some use. Moreover, applied to himself, its side effects would not be so severe, because whether he exhausted his true qi or dropped in rank, he could replenish himself with the energy of the jade pendant's space and recover in the shortest possible time. In this he was utterly unlike anyone else—he possessed an advantage no one else could match!
But at the time Wei Zhao's thoughts had all been fixed on the Hidden-World Great Families Summit. He had copied the skill down, yet had not given it much thought. Later, accompanying Sun Jingyan to the Wulong Haote Mountains, he had even less time to study it.
Now that he thought about it, this skill seemed tailor-made for a pair like himself and Han Jingyi! Once he cultivated it, he could use it to restore the stamina and true qi of his own people. The only question was: in what state could his people receive its effects?
Did they have to be circulating the mental incantation used in cultivation, or could it work in an ordinary state, or even in the midst of battle? Was it active or passive?
At this point Wei Zhao could not bear to delay a single moment. He had to go back and examine that support skill he had copied in hiding with the Han family, to see whether Han Jingyi could use it.