Chapter 1436 — Leveling You Up

"If I beat you to death, what would you have left to level up for..." Wei Zhao was rather speechless. This kid's way of thinking really did have a problem or two. Still, Wei Zhao said nothing more; he only nodded, then laid his hand upon Wu Chengtian's meridians.

Wu Chengtian thought Wei Zhao was taking his pulse. But the next moment, he felt the injured places within his body begin to be repaired by a mighty current of energy. In an instant his wounds eased a little—something Wu Chengtian could never have imagined.

"Ah!" Wu Chengtian's eyes flew wide. He came from a great clan, and he had taken no small number of injuries in training. After each one, the family's private physicians had treated him, and clever as those doctors were compared with the ones at any ordinary clinic, Wu Chengtian had never in his life seen a healing method like Wei Zhao's.

What was this called? Pulse-reading healing? Wu Chengtian truly had never seen such a thing.

But after that single cry, Wu Chengtian hurriedly shut his mouth. He saw that Wei Zhao's eyes were closed, clearly concentrating on healing him, and he must not disturb him.

Time slipped away, second by second, and the shock in Wu Chengtian's heart only deepened. The injuries in his body were healing so well, so fast! How long had it been, and already his internal injuries were seven parts healed out of ten...

Suddenly a horrifying possibility occurred to Wu Chengtian. The Sun family—were they not a clan of healers? And the reason he had wanted to marry Sun Jingyan was precisely so that she might heal his wounds in the future. But how could Wei Zhao possibly know the Sun family's heart method?

Yet no, that could not be right. The Sun family's heart method seemed able to heal only one person, whereas Wei Zhao appeared able to heal many. Wu Chengtian had heard of Wei Zhao's superb medical skill; back then he had even mistaken Wei Zhao for a swindler when the man offered to treat his aunt's father-in-law. And now? Wei Zhao was no swindler at all—it was Wu Chengtian who had been ignorant.

The thought made Wu Chengtian blush. Fortunately, Wei Zhao was magnanimous and never brought the matter up again. In truth, it was Wu Chengtian's own diligence and devotion that had made Wei Zhao accept him; had he not done all this for Tang Yun's sake, Wei Zhao would never have taken him in so readily.

What Wu Chengtian had not expected was that nearly every one of the damaged meridians in his body had healed, and even the hidden internal injuries left from his earlier training had been cured by Wei Zhao. Wu Chengtian could scarcely keep from cheering. His two bosses—each one more formidable than the last!

No wonder Ergoudan, fearsome as he was, still called Wei Zhao boss. There was no denying it.

"Begin circulating your own internal-energy method," Wei Zhao suddenly said to Wu Chengtian.

"Oh, right!" Wu Chengtian started, then answered hastily. He dared not dawdle after that; he began to circulate his internal-energy method.

The moment he did, Wu Chengtian felt a vast surge of true qi come rushing over from Wei Zhao and pour straight into his body—and the incantation of the heart method that had run so sluggishly now flowed smoothly in an instant.

It had run poorly before because there was no spiritual energy of heaven and earth, nor any elixirs for cultivation. But now Wei Zhao's true qi poured over without cease, and Wu Chengtian's old bottleneck was gone; his internal-arts strength climbed swiftly...

Astonished and overjoyed, Wu Chengtian did not dare slacken in the least, nor rest, for fear of wasting even a trace of true qi. Though his heart was shaken by the question of what Wei Zhao would do with himself after giving away his true qi, since Wei Zhao had chosen to do this, to refuse would be to betray his kindness all the more. So he had no choice but to cultivate all the harder.

Only, the more Wu Chengtian considered it, the more Wei Zhao's method resembled the Sun family's heart method. Could Wei Zhao and Sun Jingyan truly share some connection? But whether they did or not, he had already given up on Sun Jingyan, and so he should think of her no more.

Besides, with a boss like Wei Zhao, who needed Sun Jingyan? Wu Chengtian was suddenly at ease. Once his strength rose, would he ever lack for a wife?

At this thought, Wu Chengtian redoubled his efforts...

Yellow Rank!

Wu Chengtian had never expected to break through just like that! How much time had passed? He had broken through? His external-arts skill he had trained since childhood before breaking through to Yellow Rank, and yet this internal-arts body of his, only hours old, had broken through as well and become Yellow Rank too. That was a little too fast, was it not?

Wu Chengtian could scarcely believe it. Was he the fastest-breaking Yellow Rank expert in history?

But just as Wu Chengtian was wondering why he had broken through to Yellow Rank so quickly, he discovered to his astonishment that he was about to break through to the peak of early Yellow Rank...

Peak of early Yellow Rank!

Wu Chengtian broke through again. This time he was a little prepared, yet still badly shaken. Surely not—in the blink of an eye he had surpassed his original external-arts strength? Was this real? He could not be dreaming, could he?

Mid Yellow Rank!

Wu Chengtian finally confirmed that he was not dreaming—but he had already broken through to mid Yellow Rank...

Peak of mid Yellow Rank!

Wu Chengtian was growing a little numb. This was too fast, almost too much to take in. Before he could even savor the joy of advancing to mid Yellow Rank, the very next moment he was already at the peak of mid Yellow Rank.

Late Yellow Rank!

Wu Chengtian felt his heart was about to burst. This manner of breaking through was simply unheard of!

Peak of late Yellow Rank!

Wu Chengtian felt as though he were riding a helicopter, but he had stopped wondering whether it was real or not, because not even in a dream could a man dream such a dream. The crushing pressure that came with breaking through each rank's bottleneck was real enough; painful, yes, but as Wu Chengtian himself had said, compared with the hardship he had poured into training his external-arts skill, it truly was nothing.

This, too, revealed something: arrogant as Wu Chengtian might be, he was a man who could endure hardship, and his strength had been won by bitter effort.

"Next, I am going to bring you up to early Profound Rank. You may suffer tremendous pain, but bear with it and you will be fine," Wei Zhao suddenly said to Wu Chengtian.

This time, had Wei Zhao not been about to set out on a long journey, he would absolutely never have helped Wu Chengtian raise his strength to early Profound Rank. After all, the two of them had not gotten along before. Though Wu Chengtian had sworn himself to Wei Zhao as his boss, Wei Zhao still needed time to observe him.

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