Chapter 3471 — Breakthrough: Peak of the Late Heaven Rank!
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He had taken Qi Gathering Pills before, and they had never caused him any trouble. So why, this time, were the side effects so severe?
It was a suffocating sensation—not suffocation of breath, exactly, but suffocation of true qi. Wei Zhao could not draw in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and every meridian in his body was twitching in protest.
Kang Jingming!
The name surfaced in Wei Zhao's mind all at once. This Qi Gathering Pill had come from Kang Jingming—could the man have tampered with it somehow, and brought about this condition unlike any he had known before?
He turned it over and over, and it was the only possibility he could find.
No wonder Kang Jingming had handed over the pill so smoothly. There had been a scheme hidden in it all along!
But at this moment Wei Zhao had no time to spare for hating Kang Jingming. He had to find a way out of this—the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him was already no longer enough for him to absorb, and so he had to find a solution, and fast.
Then, all at once, Wei Zhao slapped his own forehead. What a fool he was, sitting on a mountain of treasure without knowing it!
In the mortal world, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had all but run dry—but inside the jade pendant's space there was an inexhaustible supply. He could enter at any time and draw on boundless spiritual energy! At the thought, Wei Zhao slipped swiftly into the jade pendant's space.
In that instant, Wei Zhao was like a flying dragon plunging into the sea; a comfort beyond all description flooded through him. The pure spiritual energy within the jade pendant's space poured through the gates of his meridians into his channels and his dantian, and the physical true qi within his body surged upward at that very moment.
It felt as though he had taken another Qi Gathering Pill.
Yet for all that, a certain unease still lingered in Wei Zhao's heart. After all, he had no idea whether the pill carried any lingering aftereffects, and if it did—well, who could say what further trouble would come of carrying on like this?
But even so, there was nothing he could do. He could only take one step and see what the next brought; for now, he would satisfy his present need for spiritual energy and worry about the rest later.
In the space of a few short breaths, the true qi in Wei Zhao's body had more than doubled, and it was still climbing even now.
Then, all at once, the surge of true qi jerked to a halt—and Wei Zhao had once again touched the barrier at the peak of the late Heaven Rank!
No way. Could this Qi Gathering Pill really raise him two levels at once? Wei Zhao was genuinely shaken. Apart from being a little frightening, this thing was a rare treasure—and if Kang Jingming would gift him something so fine, did Patriarch Xuanchen even know about it?
From somewhere unknown, a vast force abruptly coalesced within Wei Zhao's body. It battered at every meridian with utter ruthlessness, and wherever it passed, the channels—great and small alike—visibly swelled a size. At the same time, that faint barrier he had touched began slowly to dissolve.
The process went so smoothly that Wei Zhao himself could scarcely believe it. Yet the billowing true qi still swelling swiftly within him made it plain that the barrier had indeed been burst open by the immense force of the Foundation-Breaking Barrier Pill.
There was none of the agony he had felt the last time he broke through to the late Heaven Rank. When Wei Zhao broke through to the peak of the late Heaven Rank, the whole thing was natural and smooth as could be.
Could it be that because the breakthroughs came one after another, the second was less painful than the first?