Chapter 2980 — Speaking Against One's Heart
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"Enough. Here's how it is..." Zhao Qilei had harbored the same misgivings before, but once Zhao Qiwu explained it to him, he understood, so he laid the whole reasoning out for Wei Zhao.
Although Wei Zhao was an alchemist, he was not all that clear on the principles behind such uncommon pills as the Qi Gathering Pill and the Intermediate Qi Gathering Pill either. But after hearing Zhao Qilei's explanation, he was thrilled. "You mean it can break through to the Heaven rank... that's wonderful..."
"Boss, you're going into seclusion right now?" Zhao Qilei was even more anxious than Wei Zhao himself. After all, Wei Zhao's injuries were his doing, so he felt deeply guilty and desperately hoped Wei Zhao would recover as quickly as possible.
"Yes, I'll take them now." Wei Zhao nodded. "Still, all our scheming was for nothing—we don't need to go back to West Star Mountain Village. At least it turned out to be a near miss."
"We don't have to go back..." The eldest young lady sounded a little disappointed, but then she smiled. "Wei Zhao, congratulations. Xiaoshu and I can finally breathe easy! It's good that we aren't going—now we can take our final exams and won't have to retake them next semester."
"Yao Yao, you sound a little like you don't mean what you say?" Shen Yushu blinked.
The eldest young lady's face flushed slightly, but she pretended not to have heard. "Wei Zhao, so you're going into seclusion now?"
Wei Zhao nodded, stood up, picked up the pills, and walked toward the room. In truth, he was rather worried himself. These past few days, having abruptly lost his strength, he had felt powerless against one sudden crisis after another. If he had his power, he still could not have contended with the Dark Night Palace, but at the very least he would not have been as wretched as this.
While Wei Zhao went into seclusion, the others kept watch over him in the living room, for if anything went wrong while he took the pills, it would be too late for regret.
After shutting the door, Wei Zhao sat cross-legged on the bed and set the three Intermediate Qi Gathering Pills before him. Having taken a Qi Gathering Pill before, he was not nervous this time.
After all, the last time he took a Qi Gathering Pill had been a harrowing affair—the timing had to be perfect, neither too early nor too late. Back then he had also been stricken with a strange poison and had been losing levels continuously, so the pill had to be taken at the exact instant of an upgrade breakthrough for it to work as a miracle cure that shattered the level barrier.
This time, all Wei Zhao had to do was calmly swallow and refine the three Intermediate Qi Gathering Pills, and everything would be fine.
Drawing a deep breath, Wei Zhao solemnly picked up the three Intermediate Qi Gathering Pills before him, put them into his mouth, and with a forceful gulp sent them straight down into his belly!
"Hiss—" Wei Zhao could not help crying out. The instant the Intermediate Qi Gathering Pills entered his belly, a warm current surged from his dantian through his whole body, and then every meridian in him felt as if it were on fire—searing hot!
Having taken a Qi Gathering Pill before, Wei Zhao again chose to let nature take its course this time rather than deliberately resisting. To be honest, even if he had wanted to circulate his mental cultivation method to fend off the heat, he could not have—poisoned as he was, he simply could not operate the method at all.
As time passed, the searing sensation grew ever more intense. Wei Zhao felt as if his whole body were about to ignite. Even so, he gritted his teeth and endured. The feeling was one he knew intimately—exactly the same as when he had first taken a Qi Gathering Pill.