Chapter 4864 — Cultivating Together
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
For ordinary underlings, even if their strength was temporarily low, Wei Zhao would not simply raise it for them—such a thing bred dependence far too easily. Two cultivators of the same realm, and the one who had broken through on his own would surely prove stronger in a real fight. At most Wei Zhao would supply them with pills.
Huang Xiaotao and Shangguan Lan'er were the exceptions. Back on North Island, he had raised Huang Xiaotao's strength because the inner-sect tournament was imminent; not only did they face Xu Lingchong and his lot returning in force, but above all they had to contend with the two-person challenge rule. Wei Zhao needed Huang Xiaotao to break through to a perfect Golden Core as quickly as possible so she could fight at his side—there had been no choice. As for Shangguan Lan'er, she was purely along to soak up the experience; making her cultivate on her own was basically out of the question.
It was the same now. The Road of Giants was close at hand, and Wei Zhao was uneasy about letting Huang Xiaotao brave it alone later on. Better to stake everything now than leave her to that—at least this way they could look out for one another and avoid any threat to their lives.
Since the leap this time was not large, Wei Zhao soon raised Huang Xiaotao's strength to the very limit of Golden Core great-perfection, and only stopped once she had touched the final barrier. Naturally, the whole process was full of every kind of amorousness and temptation; had Wei Zhao's willpower not been strong, he truly might have failed at the last step—and that would have been no laughing matter.
What Huang Xiaotao had to do next was take a Nurturing Essence Golden Pill. Of course, Wei Zhao had also prepared a great basin of Star Ink Milk for her. Hers was a perfect Golden Core, and with this chance before her, she naturally had to keep pace with Wei Zhao and forge the strongest Nascent Soul!
Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan exchanged a glance and withdrew from the room. This crucial step of condensing the Nascent Soul could only be undertaken by Huang Xiaotao herself; Wei Zhao could not help much. However heaven-defying his abilities, he could not do such a thing on her behalf.
"Now it's our turn," Wei Zhao said to a blushing Wang Xinyan. He had left seven Nurturing Essence Pills with Huang Xiaotao; once she successfully condensed her Nascent Soul, taking the pills would let her ride the current onward all the way to Nascent Soul great-perfection.
"Then... should we tell my master first..." Wang Xinyan said, red-faced.
"Of course. Didn't you say she'd prepared some special training for you?" Wei Zhao nodded. In all fairness, there was no going around the East Sea Divine Nun on this matter; it was just that making a girl like Wang Xinyan do the asking was a little awkward.
To cultivate with Wei Zhao, Wang Xinyan was willing to risk it all. She ran to the East Sea Divine Nun and, crimson-faced, stammered out a whole jumble of words—and in the end failed utterly to make herself clear...
Seeing the East Sea Divine Nun still looking utterly baffled, Wei Zhao had no choice but to step forward and put it bluntly: "Senior East Sea, what Xinyan means is that the two of us intend to engage in dual cultivation."
"Dual cultivation?" The East Sea Divine Nun's eyelids twitched. She looked at Wang Xinyan in disbelief and for a long while could not speak.
She had long known that both of her treasured disciples were tangled up with Wei Zhao in no small way, and as their master she had never stood in the way—in fact, she had rather gone along with it. Otherwise she would hardly have let Wei Zhao stay at East Sea Pavilion; that was treatment reserved for one of their own.