Chapter 4028 — Breakthrough, Peak of the Mid Foundation Establishment Stage!
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She was, after all, a young woman—and a young miss who had never waited on anyone in her life. To expect her to dry off this strange man so he would not catch cold was simply asking far too much. That she had agreed not to hand Wei Zhao over to the Northern Guard was already an act of great mercy.
Meanwhile, outside, the Gathering Hall had fallen into utter chaos. Once it was discovered that the victim was Zheng Tianjie, the young master of the Pill Hall, the whole of the Gathering Hall was surrounded in layer upon layer by countless Northern Guards and placed under emergency lockdown.
Steward Song and the great personages of the pleasure rank from every island had all arrived on the scene, while everyone else was barred outside by the Northern Guard. With a critical figure like Zheng Tianjie involved, everything had to be strictly sealed off until Steward Song and the others reached a clear and unified conclusion—otherwise, if word leaked out and spread beyond the island, the situation would spiral utterly beyond control.
Never mind how matters stood outside; at this moment Wei Zhao, in Ning Xuefei's boudoir, had been unconscious for a full two hours. Only as the sky outside was about to brighten did he finally stir faintly back to wakefulness.
"What's your name?" Ning Xuefei, who had crouched at his side until both her legs had gone numb, brightened at the sight and hastily asked.
But Wei Zhao gave her no answer. Eyes tightly shut, deaf to all around him, he rolled over and sat up straight, crossing his legs, and began circulating his mental cultivation method.
Earlier, in the jade pendant's space, his injuries had already recovered by seven or eight parts, but his physical strength and true qi had not yet been restored!
"What's this? Not even a word for me!" Ning Xuefei pursed her lips, but said nothing more, and simply went on crouching there watching him.
A thick-skinned girl was often far more understanding than most people. Especially in an abnormal situation like this—anyone else would long since have thrown Wei Zhao to the Northern Guard. Who else would keep such a suspicious stranger in her own boudoir?
As it happened, Wei Zhao was not deliberately ignoring Ning Xuefei. He had just reached a critical juncture—not merely recovering his physical strength, but his true qi within was beginning to swell and brim over. This was the sign of an impending breakthrough!
Counting the days, it had not been long since Wei Zhao broke through to the Foundation Establishment Stage. This time he had taken no pills to aid his advancement, and he was moreover gravely wounded—never had Wei Zhao imagined he would be about to break through again so soon!
Still, though this was unexpected, on reflection it was entirely reasonable. For a cultivator, every time one exhausted one's strength and suffered grave injury, one could actually tap further into the potential within one's body; each was a rare transformation, and it was nothing strange to seize such an opportunity to break through. Wei Zhao himself had been through it many times already.
From the peak of the early Foundation Establishment Stage to the Foundation Establishment Stage was an exceedingly difficult threshold to cross, but by comparison, the step from the Foundation Establishment Stage to the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage was far less difficult. With the profound foundation Wei Zhao had built through unremitting daily cultivation, a swift breakthrough at this stage was in truth a matter of course, as natural as water flowing into a channel.
Under Ning Xuefei's gaze, Wei Zhao drove the true qi within his body to circulate through his meridians again and again, seeking the opportune moment for a single decisive breakthrough.