Chapter 4137 — Something Has Gone Wrong
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
Dividing one's attention three ways is enormously difficult for anyone. A single misstep in the process and all would be ruined—at best he would fail to condense the Myriad Beauty Golden Core, at worst the core condensation itself would fail, or even his strength would regress, leaving him forever incapable of another breakthrough.
Yet at this moment Wei Zhao showed no sign of strain whatsoever; on the contrary, he was methodical and quite steady.
In this, beyond his own innate talent, there was credit due to the Ghost Thing as well. Foundation Establishment experts generally have little skill in using divine sense, and the hardest link in the three-way division lay precisely in using divine sense to gather the power of the sea. Without this grandmaster-level spirit-essence expert to point the way, Wei Zhao could never have managed so easily.
Having come this far, condensing the golden core was the final crucial stage. Wei Zhao had thought this cross-realm breakthrough would proceed smoothly from here on, all the way to condensing the Myriad Beauty Golden Core and achieving a perfect breakthrough. But the very next moment, he knew he had been far too naive.
Condensing the golden core within his dantian was no problem. Using divine sense to gather the power of the sea—the step with the greatest technical difficulty—was likewise no problem. What startled Wei Zhao beyond measure was that the seemingly simplest link of all, seizing the power of the stars, was where a fatal accident occurred!
The instant he drew the power of the stars into his meridians, a great gash abruptly tore open in them—they had split apart outright!
The incomparable agony, together with the shock he had no time to guard against, nearly threw everything within Wei Zhao's body into utter chaos. The true qi that had been gathered in his dantian flowed backward into his meridians, and he stood on the verge of qi deviation and disaster.
Fortunately, at the last moment Wei Zhao came to his senses, forcibly driving the true qi back, and at the same time circulating his mental method to repair the split meridians in time. Even so, for the moment he dared not continue seizing the power of the stars from the Star Ink Stone.
The power of the stars is by nature supremely fierce and sharp. The meridians had split just now precisely because they could not withstand its edge. This was not something that could be endured by simply gritting one's teeth. If he went on this way, Wei Zhao was certain that before he ever condensed the Myriad Beauty Golden Core, every meridian in his body would be ruined by the power of the stars!
Amid the lingering dread, Wei Zhao could not help but feel a sliver of gratitude: thankfully he had been channeling the power of the stars in through his meridians, so there was at least a chance to mend and heal. Had he without a word poured it straight into his dantian, then it would not have been his meridians that split, but his dantian.
Once the dantian is ruined, there would be no chance of remedy at all; one would simply fall to being a cripple through and through.
Yet even without such a disaster, Wei Zhao for the moment did not know what to do. The Ghost Thing had taught him how to use the Star Ink Stone, but after all it had never used one itself, so it could not possibly know such fine details.
At present only two choices remained to Wei Zhao. The first was to abandon the Star Ink Stone and condense the golden core by the book—the safest course, but the price was that a perfect breakthrough would be impossible.
As for the remaining choice, it was to grit his teeth and keep seizing the power of the stars—but the likeliest outcome was that the core condensation would fail and he would become a cripple himself!