Chapter 4194 — I Will Help You Reach the Golden Core!
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Huang Xiaotao shyly stripped herself completely, then lay flat on the bed, her eyes squeezed tightly shut. Her long lashes trembled without pause, betraying just how nervous she was.
Wei Zhao turned his head. At the sight of her skin, white as jade, he could not help swallowing discreetly. Then he froze and asked in puzzlement, "Why are you lying down? Sit up."
"Huh?" Huang Xiaotao opened her eyes and happened to meet Wei Zhao's gaze. Her face immediately flushed even deeper. She said bashfully, "Well... for the first time... wouldn't it be uncomfortable to do it sitting up...? I heard... girls are supposed to lie down..."
"Er..." Wei Zhao was rendered speechless. Only then did he realize that Huang Xiaotao had misunderstood him. His mind had been occupied entirely with raising her strength; all he had been thinking about was cultivation and advancement. He had not spared a thought for anything of that sort, much less noticed her expression. Who would have guessed she would take it for something else entirely?
Yet now that she had put the idea into his head, and with Huang Xiaotao's delicate, beautiful young body before him, she seemed like a ripe forbidden fruit, waiting for him to pluck her at will. The sight was genuinely difficult to resist.
"Er... I asked you to take off your clothes, but not for that..." It took Wei Zhao a tremendous effort to force his eyes away from Huang Xiaotao. Secretly swallowing, he explained, "I'm going to raise your strength. Based on what happened before, your true qi is going to surge all at once, and your clothes might burst apart. That's why I told you to take them off first..."
"Oh? So that's what it was..." Huang Xiaotao was utterly astonished. Wei Zhao could actually raise someone else's strength for no reason at all? Such a thing was completely unheard of. She had never even heard a rumor of anything like it.
But beneath her astonishment, Huang Xiaotao could not help feeling a little disappointed. Even if this was not about doing that, she had already taken off all her clothes, and the opportunity was right in front of him. So why had Wei Zhao not... not taken advantage of the situation and claimed her? Was she really so lacking in allure that even after seeing her like this, he felt nothing?
They said a woman's heart was as unfathomable as the depths of the sea. The things women focused on when viewing a situation were simply beyond any man's imagination.
Little did she know that Wei Zhao's mind was entirely occupied by the inner-sect tournament. From being summoned inexplicably to take part in it, to discovering that Xu Yuanzheng would be presiding over it personally, and then to being forced to find teammates, the sinister implications were already glaringly obvious. One careless move, and Xu Lingchong might well set a trap for him!
Thinking about it now, no wonder Xu Lingchong and Meng Zhou were always together, taking Meng Zhou with them wherever they went. And Meng Zhou's strength had suddenly soared to the early Golden Core stage. Clearly, Xu Lingchong intended to form a team with him. Wei Zhao, on the other hand, was alone. Where was he supposed to find someone to team up with on such short notice?
If he had not possessed the ability to raise another person's strength, and if Huang Xiaotao had not had the Ten-Thousand-Crossing Golden Core Fruit, Xu Lingchong would truly have made a complete fool of him this time. If he were forced to face two opponents alone and suffered the helpless defeat that followed, he would become the laughingstock of the Sandie Pavilion.
While Huang Xiaotao was still lost in her tangled thoughts, Wei Zhao was already prepared. Without another word, he clasped the pulse point at her wrist and began circulating the Xuanyuan Dragon-Controlling Art, raising her strength. "Just circulate the mental cultivation formula."