Chapter 3298 — Breakthrough! Mid Heaven Rank!
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Wei Zhao had taken a Minor Qi Gathering Pill once before, so he was not particularly nervous now. After making his preparations, he drew a deep breath, slowly placed the pill into his mouth, and swallowed it down!
At once, a warm current welled up from his abdomen and surged through his whole body, followed by a scorching sensation as though every meridian in his body were being set aflame!
Wei Zhao had felt this before. Painful as it was, he knew it was a road he had to walk, so he did not deliberately resist it. Instead, he let it run its course, gritting his teeth and holding on as he awaited what would follow!
Thereafter, the burning in his meridians grew ever more intense. Wei Zhao felt as though not only his meridians but his entire being were about to catch fire!
Even so, Wei Zhao gritted his teeth and persevered. He was thoroughly familiar with this sensation—it was the same feeling he had experienced before his last breakthrough, when he had taken a Minor Qi Gathering Pill. The more painful it became, the more it was a sign that the breakthrough was near.
The energy released by the Minor Qi Gathering Pill poured endlessly from Wei Zhao's lower abdomen into the meridians throughout his body! As time passed, Wei Zhao could feel more and more energy gathering within his meridians—a vast tide of energy battering at them, as though seeking to stretch them open and expand them!
Beads of sweat the size of peas rolled ceaselessly down Wei Zhao's forehead, and the pain grew ever more intense. Yet in his heart, he was utterly exhilarated!
After all, if he had not felt this, he would have wept. To have finally obtained a Minor Qi Gathering Pill only for it to have no effect—that would have been enough to make him want to die!
As Wei Zhao's suffering deepened, the spiritual qi of heaven and earth in the air all gathered around him, swirling above his head and forming an extremely faint vortex! It resonated with the true qi within Wei Zhao's body, circulating rapidly around him—faster and faster it spun, and his body temperature rose along with it!
At last, a thunderous boom rang out by Wei Zhao's ear, and his whole body shuddered in response. It felt as though his meridians had exploded open in an instant—and in that moment, Wei Zhao knew he had broken through!
Mid Heaven Rank! Wei Zhao now possessed the strength of the mid Heaven Rank. He was, one might say, one step closer to that summit! The mid Heaven Rank was only four tiers away from the peak of the late Heaven Rank—the realm of great perfection.
Thinking back on the road he had traveled, from the Yellow Rank to this moment, Wei Zhao was overcome with emotion... In a mere year's time, it felt as though a lifetime had passed. So much had happened in that year, and he had borne so many responsibilities—responsibilities that ceaselessly drove Wei Zhao to strive onward!
Fortunately, this one Minor Qi Gathering Pill had allowed Wei Zhao to advance smoothly and break through. And now Wei Zhao, with the Essence Necklace, could likely even slay a top expert of the late Heaven Rank peak in a single blow, could he not?
At that thought, Wei Zhao felt somewhat reassured. At least, once he returned now, he could bide his time for a fitting moment to display his strength and reassert his dominance over those petty schemers at the ancient level who were stirring restlessly. Even if he could not overawe them for good, so long as he overawed them for a time—until Kang Jingming delivered the Minor Qi Gathering Pill—Wei Zhao would have won! (I stayed up late writing a chapter yesterday, so I'm not in good shape today. Only one chapter. I'm truly too sleepy. Going to sleep now. Good night!) (To be continued...)