Chapter 3576 — I Must Raise My Strength Quickly!
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Still, he supposed that even the last cave dwelling over there had to be better than the best one here. But there was nothing to be done—even if Ku was the weakest, he still bore the title of steward senior brother, and Meng Jueming could not restrict him in this regard either; that would be an open defiance of the Welcome Pavilion's rules.
After seeing Senior Brother Suffering off, Wei Zhao began to study the spirit jade.
The spirit jade was crystalline and translucent, warm and smooth to the touch. Never mind the vast heaven-and-earth spiritual energy stored within it—just the quality of the jade itself, taken to the secular world, would have been enough to drive the world's wealthy and powerful mad.
Without thousands upon thousands of years of natural tempering by heaven-and-earth spiritual energy, it would have been absolutely impossible for a jade of such supreme quality to form—and in the spiritual-energy-thin secular world, such a thing was simply out of the question.
Even ordinary energy stones—that is, spirit stones—were already a rare existence in the secular world.
Of course, to a cultivator like Wei Zhao, appearance and quality were merely external; what mattered most was the concentration of spiritual energy. After carefully sensing and comparing, Wei Zhao found that although the spirit jade was exactly the same as the energy stones of the secular world, at equal volume the spiritual energy it contained could reach a hundred times as much or more. In other words, one spirit jade here was worth a hundred energy stones of the same volume.
No wonder so many people coveted the spirit jades—when some of the newcomers had seen them laid out earlier, they had even gulped despite themselves, mouths watering. With the aid of spirit jades, one's cultivation speed would increase a hundredfold or a thousandfold, yet for Wei Zhao there was no such effect. He had only tried it briefly and already knew that the spirit jade's effect ultimately could not compare to his own jade pendant space.
Tossing the spirit jade casually aside, Wei Zhao thought to himself that the spirit jades he obtained from now on could all be saved up. Though he had no use for them, to the other cultivators on the island they were precious things, the more the better—and when the time came, he could use spirit jades to trade for things he needed.
Two days passed in a flash. Just as Senior Brother Suffering had guessed, Meng Jueming did not come looking for trouble during these two days. Wei Zhao was content to enjoy the peace, consolidating his cultivation realm and preparing to begin his assault on the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage.
Yet even with a cultivation divine artifact like the jade pendant space to assist him, breaking through to the peak of early Foundation Establishment was not so easy. No matter how hard Wei Zhao tried, the true qi within his body always grew extremely slowly—not that it did not grow at all, but the margin was negligible.
At this rate, if Wei Zhao wanted to break through to the peak of early Foundation Establishment, he would need at least another year or half a year of hard work before there was any hope. Though this speed was already quite good by others' standards, Wei Zhao was not satisfied.
Strength was the foundation of one's existence. On his very first day on Cloud Terrace Island, Wei Zhao had made enemies on all sides. Leaving aside Kang Jingming and his like, there were already no few foes at the Foundation Establishment realm—near at hand, Meng Jueming watched him like a tiger; far away, Xu Lingchong stirred restlessly.
Though Wei Zhao now had the strength of the early Foundation Establishment stage and was not truly afraid of these people, if he went a long time without a breakthrough, trouble would sooner or later arise.