Chapter 895 — Unwilling to Accept It! The energy, though swiftly drawn into Wei Zhao's body, could not remain within him! It entered through the pores on one side and left through the pores on the other, merely making a circuit through his body before returning to the jade pendant space!

"What's going on!" Wei Zhao was startled and immediately halted the circulation of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, examining his own body. That was not right—true, his injuries this time were grave, but the last time, after Uncle Zhu wounded him, the damage had been no lighter than this.

"What is it?" Jiao Yazi had noticed that something was off about Wei Zhao too, and asked at once.

"Elder Jiao, the energy... it seems my body cannot absorb it. I cannot convert the energy in the jade pendant space into my own energy!" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide. "My body is like a sieve—the energy enters on one side and leaves on the other..."

"Oh?" Jiao Yazi was taken aback, and his brows knitted. "Circulate the mental method and oral formulas of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art now. Let me have a look."

Anxious as he was, Wei Zhao still nodded hurriedly and once again set the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art in motion. The energy within the jade pendant space was stirred in an instant and came surging madly into Wei Zhao's body...

But the strange thing happened again: after the energy entered Wei Zhao's body, it made a circuit and slipped right back out of him! It was exactly as Wei Zhao had described—his body was like a sieve, and the energy merely passed through him!

"Strange! Most strange!" Jiao Yazi's eyes were wide too, and he stared at Wei Zhao in utter disbelief. "Energy that cannot remain in the body... this is truly strange!"

Ten minutes later, Wei Zhao stopped cultivating the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art in dejection, his face looking terrible. "Elder Jiao, the energy still cannot be converted to my own use... I can clearly feel it draining out of my body..."

"Mmm..." Jiao Yazi sank into thought as well. "Let me think... let me think carefully..."

As he spoke, Jiao Yazi walked over and began examining Wei Zhao's condition.

"Well?" Wei Zhao waited a while, and when Jiao Yazi did not speak, he asked anxiously.

After a moment, Jiao Yazi shook his head with some regret. "Xiaoyi, I have discovered a few problems, and by my guess, this is most likely the reason you cannot absorb and convert energy..."

"What reason?" Wei Zhao asked urgently.

"The reason... when I tell you, don't be heartbroken. I hope you can hold on..." Elder Jiao sighed.

"What do you mean?" Wei Zhao was stunned at first, but in the next instant he understood Jiao Yazi's meaning! Jiao Yazi meant that although he had found the reason he could not absorb and convert energy, he had not found a way to solve it!

Wei Zhao's heart sank, but then he gave a bitter smile. It was good to have a reason; so long as there was a reason, there was no fear that a solution could not be found in time! So he said, "Elder Jiao, speak. I am not so fragile that I cannot take a blow! Earlier I had even thought of perishing together with my enemy—now it is only that I cannot absorb and convert energy..."

"Then I will say it!" Jiao Yazi's expression turned grave. "Your meridians have all been shattered by the backlash of your own energy bomb. You could say that you are a cripple now—when a master of the inner arts has all his meridians severed, he is no different from an ordinary person, and can no longer use true qi..."

Wei Zhao was startled and hastily checked the injuries within his body. Earlier, in his urgency to enter the jade pendant space and cultivate, he had not examined his wounds too carefully, because at the time Wei Zhao was certain that no matter how gravely he was hurt, he could be healed inside the jade pendant space!

Take General Weiwu, for instance: his entire five viscera and six bowels and all his meridians had been shattered by Yukun, and Wei Zhao had still been able to save him with the energy within his body. So Wei Zhao had thought that as long as he stayed alive, it was enough, and had never found the time to look closely at the abnormalities in his body.

Now, hearing Elder Jiao's words, Wei Zhao discovered that the meridians of his body had indeed been blasted to pieces by his own energy bomb.

"That can't be right!" Suddenly Wei Zhao raised his head in puzzlement and looked at Elder Jiao. "When I fought Uncle Zhu before, my injuries were severe too, and many of my meridians were severed. Not all of them were broken, but I could still use my energy to repair them, couldn't I?"

"Exactly—as you said yourself, not all of them were broken. But your situation now is that they are all broken!" Jiao Yazi shook his head. "Can partial severing and total severing be the same? So long as some remain unbroken, you can still circulate the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art and rely on those intact meridians to convert energy and repair the damaged ones. But now that your meridians are all severed, how are you going to repair them?"

"This..." Wei Zhao was rendered speechless. Jiao Yazi's words were indeed correct. His situation was like a row of dominoes: knock one down, and the whole chain falls; but if not a single one is knocked down, then none of the tiles will fall! That is to say, if one of his meridians were repaired, he could slowly circulate the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to repair the others; but now that he could not repair even one, the others could not possibly be restored either!

"Your mistake lay in using that energy bomb. You used up every last drop of energy in your body. If some had remained, even a third of it left inside you, you could have repaired one damaged meridian..." Jiao Yazi shook his head. "But you did not save even a trace of energy. There is nothing I can do either..."

"Ah?" Wei Zhao did not know what to say. If even Jiao Yazi had no way, if he said there was nothing he could do, then there truly was nothing to be done! He had preserved his life, yet lost his strength—was that a blessing or a curse?

Wei Zhao was unwilling to accept it. To fall in one stroke from the peak of the early Xuan rank to having no strength at all—such a drop left Wei Zhao utterly desolate!

Gritting his teeth, Wei Zhao once more silently circulated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, and this time, once he began, he did not stop for hours! Wei Zhao let the energy shuttle through his body, yet paid it no heed and cultivated on and on...

Jiao Yazi watched Wei Zhao's resolute expression and shook his head, but he did not try to dissuade him either. He knew very well that anyone in his place would not give up so easily, so he let Wei Zhao experiment! Under such circumstances, unless Wei Zhao himself gave up, he would never let the matter rest.

One hour, two hours, three hours! Time slipped away second by second, and Wei Zhao was still cultivating without end. He was unwilling, he refused to believe that his strength was simply gone!

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