Chapter 3291 — Setting His Sights on the Enemy
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
At this thought, Wei Zhao turned to Yang Qiqi. "Little Seven, can you get your hands on Gathering Qi Pills?"
"Gathering Qi Pills..." Yang Qiqi was briefly taken aback. "Brother Wei Zhao, you need Gathering Qi Pills? But once you take them, aren't you unable to advance on your own anymore?"
Though Yang Qiqi was no master of the internal school, she still knew a few of the most basic facts.
"Heh, I'm a special case. I can still advance after taking them." Wei Zhao did not bother to hide it—after all, it was no secret anyway, and everyone around him knew. "Little Seven, doesn't the Overseas Cultivators Association supply pills to members of the Cultivators Association for free? Are you qualified to claim one?"
Wei Zhao had set his sights squarely on the Overseas Cultivators Association. If Tang Yuqi could claim a Gathering Qi Pill from them, then surely Yang Qiqi could claim one too, no?
"Anyone who's a member of the Overseas Cultivators Association is qualified. As long as your strength reaches the corresponding grade, you can apply to claim one," Yang Qiqi explained. "But I'm an external-school expert—there's no way I'd go claim a Gathering Qi Pill!"
"That doesn't matter. You can cultivate both the internal and external schools," Wei Zhao said. "If your internal-school strength reached the peak of the late Earth Rank, would you be able to claim a Gathering Qi Pill then?"
"That would definitely be possible," Yang Qiqi said with certainty. "But after claiming it, if I successfully advanced to Heaven Rank, I'd also have to become an elder of the Overseas Cultivators Association. Wanting to leave the Association like Tang Yuqi did would be impossible. There are pros and cons to this. It's free, but it's also an indenture."
"And if the advancement fails?" Wei Zhao asked. After all, a Gathering Qi Pill could raise an expert at the peak of the late Earth Rank to the early Heaven Rank, but it was not a hundred percent success—there was a certain failure rate, just a rather small one.
"If it fails, you can apply again after half a year, but that's the last chance," Yang Qiqi said. "There have been cases in the Overseas Cultivators Association where the first attempt failed, but the second time, they all succeeded."
"I see... Then could you help me apply for a Gathering Qi Pill?" Wei Zhao was immediately excited by Yang Qiqi's words—it was as if he had wished for something and it had come straight to him. Counting on that Gathering Qi Pill of Kang Jingming's was unrealistic, especially now that Wei Zhao's true strength had been exposed. A snob like Kang Jingming would probably turn on him outright and no longer think anything of him. So Wei Zhao would have to figure something out himself.
"But... cultivating both schools is easy to say and a thousand times harder to do. My father did leave me the internal school's mental cultivation formula back then, but I still put all my energy into the external school. I've got no foundation in the internal school at all!" Yang Qiqi smiled bitterly. "Even if I started cultivating now, I don't know when I'd ever reach the peak of the late Earth Rank. Brother Wei Zhao, I'm afraid I can't help you with this..."
"Heh, don't worry. You can start right now," Wei Zhao said with a smile. "That internal school formula—do you remember it? Can you recite it from memory? If you can, we can begin this very moment!"
"Now? What do you mean—cultivate here?" Yang Qiqi's eyes went wide, not quite understanding what Wei Zhao meant.
"Yes, right now. But I'll be helping you!" Wei Zhao said. "I can rapidly raise someone else's strength. It's just that last time we parted in such a hurry, I didn't help you improve yours. But now is the perfect opportunity."
"You'll help me raise my strength?" Yang Qiqi was even more astonished. "Brother Wei Zhao, you mean you can raise my strength—all the way to the peak of the late Earth Rank?"