Chapter 2405 — The Martial Technique Succeeded
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He had intended to run another test earlier, but before he could even begin, Chen Xi woke up. Then Chief Zhu arrived, and Qiu Lingshan called, so Wei Zhao had never gotten around to testing Heaven-Sent Spring Rain again. Now that Han Jingyi had brought it up once more, Wei Zhao was a little unwilling to let it go, and decided to give it one more try.
"Ah... so it doesn't work..." Han Jingyi was somewhat disappointed, but she still said, "It's all right. Jingjing believes Brother Wei Zhao will think of another good way. If all else fails, Jingjing just won't mass-refine second-grade pills for now."
"Let's try again," Wei Zhao said. "To your room now."
"Mm-hm, all right." Han Jingyi obeyed Wei Zhao's every word.
The two of them went to Han Jingyi's room, where she asked, "Is there anything Jingjing needs to do to help Brother Wei Zhao?"
"No need. Just wait off to the side," Wei Zhao said, shaking his head.
"Oh, okay." Han Jingyi nodded.
Wei Zhao then circulated the heart method and incantation of Heaven-Sent Spring Rain and began trying to activate its first form, Heaven-Sent Spring Rain... But all at once, a miracle happened!
On Wei Zhao's palms, a mass of pale blue true qi like watery mist suddenly welled up. Then, as Wei Zhao's martial technique was activated, the pale blue true qi abruptly left his hands, drifted into the air, and fell like spring rain, pouring into Han Jingyi's body...
Wei Zhao was stunned on the spot. It had failed to activate every time before, and now it had suddenly succeeded, giving him a feeling of unreality. It worked? Wei Zhao was astonished.
"Eh? Brother Wei Zhao, is this the method you created? It's very effective! Jingjing felt her stamina fill up considerably all at once!" Han Jingyi said in great surprise and admiration. "If Brother Wei Zhao used this method while I was refining pills, it really could replenish Jingjing's true qi and stamina!"
"You felt it?" Wei Zhao was suddenly overcome with delight and surprise. He had never imagined that the martial technique which had always failed to activate before would suddenly succeed in front of Han Jingyi. Why did Wei Zhao have this feeling of unreality?
"Yes, I felt it! Why did Brother Wei Zhao say this method had no effect?" Han Jingyi asked, somewhat puzzled. "But Jingjing thinks it does have an effect!"
"It did work this time..." Wei Zhao said, a little shamefaced. "Before, at home, I kept trying to activate this martial technique, and it never succeeded."
"Why didn't it succeed? Was it because Jingjing wasn't beside you?" Han Jingyi blinked and asked in confusion.
"Not beside me?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback, but then a sudden clarity came over him. Yes! The reason his previous attempts to activate this martial technique had failed was that Han Jingyi had not been beside him—in other words, there had been no recipient!
The fundamental purpose of this support martial technique was to replenish the stamina and true qi of one's own side, but there had not been a single person on his side. Wei Zhao had been activating the technique at empty air—how could it activate without a recipient? Having thought this through, Wei Zhao could not help but smile bitterly. One word from her had truly awakened him from a dream!
"Yes, before, when you weren't beside me, Jingjing, this martial technique of mine could only be activated when there was a recipient on our side. There wasn't a single person here, so of course it couldn't activate!" After working this out, Wei Zhao felt a faint excitement and pleasant surprise as well. It seemed that it was not that he was unable to activate water-element martial techniques, but simply that he had not figured things out before.
"Mm, Brother Wei Zhao is so clever—you figured out the key to the problem right away," Han Jingyi said with a nod. "Jingjing would never have thought of it."