Chapter 3493 — The Utterly Unfathomable Heavens?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Now Wang Xinyan was the same. Soon Wei Zhao found his stamina true qi drained away, and still Wang Xinyan showed no intention of letting him go—she began to passively overdraw his stamina true qi.
And so Wei Zhao began to drop from the great perfection of the peak late Heaven-rank, falling level by level, until after a time he felt his strength reduced to the peak of the late Heaven-rank alone!
Wang Xinyan, meanwhile, advanced from an ordinary person toward cultivator: early Yellow-rank, peak early Yellow-rank, mid Yellow-rank... all the way to the peak of the late Yellow-rank, poised to break through to the Mystic-rank!
"Boom—" The instant Wang Xinyan broke through to the Mystic-rank, the clothes on her body burst apart. Her method of breakthrough differed somewhat from how Wei Zhao helped his underlings level up; in essence, Wang Xinyan was advancing herself, distinct from the passive advancement of others.
It was only that Wei Zhao was furnishing her with ample true qi for the ascent.
Yet though her clothes were blasted to shreds, she was only briefly startled. Earlier, at Han Jingyi's home, she had stripped entirely bare, so she no longer much minded such things, and she continued to circulate the verses.
The excitement within her now surpassed her shame—in but a moment she had become a Mystic-rank expert. Her advancement was truly astonishing.
After the Mystic-rank came the Earth-rank... the peak of the late Earth-rank... To Wei Zhao's amazement, Wang Xinyan showed no sign of stopping at all; she was still absorbing the stamina true qi he transmitted!
What was going on? His other underlings, upon reaching the peak of the late Earth-rank, had all halted of their own accord, and his stamina true qi could no longer be passed to them—yet with Wang Xinyan there was no such problem!
After his puzzlement, Wei Zhao thought it over carefully and found it made sense. The verses Wang Xinyan cultivated were meant precisely to absorb others' stamina true qi and make it her own, so her art could absorb any true qi whatsoever. The limit on Wei Zhao's side applied only to other mental arts—but to Wang Xinyan's verses, there was no limit at all!
"Boom—"
Quickly, Wang Xinyan broke through once more, formally stepping into the Heaven-rank! And what delighted Wei Zhao was that Wang Xinyan's verses were plainly superior to Zhang Naipao's Bee-Devouring Divine Art! Zhang Naipao had absorbed himself to the point of bursting, but Wang Xinyan seemed to have no such problem.
Of course, what Wei Zhao did not know was that both the Bee-Devouring Divine Art and Wang Xinyan's Southern Darkness Divine Art had in ages past derived from another remarkable set of mental verses—verses now lost. Only later did the two factions, working from the fragments that had come down to them, recompile these two arts anew! (To be continued) RL