Chapter 2206 — Wasted Pills

Never before had anyone heard of a person channeling true qi into a spirit beast nonstop over so brief a span—it was simply beyond belief.

And yet the fact unfolded right before their eyes: peak late Yellow Rank… and swiftly drawing near to Great Perfection!

With a joyful roar the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast announced its ascension! The rank barrier that had held it fast for a thousand years had shattered in that very moment!

Early Profound Rank—it was now a Profound Rank spirit beast.

And this was only the beginning! Wei Zhao did not stop, but went on madly pouring true qi into it—peak early Profound Rank, mid Profound Rank, peak mid Profound Rank, all the way up to late Profound Rank!

The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast could scarcely believe what was happening before its eyes; it even wondered whether it was dreaming. Was there such a way of leveling up in this world? It had never heard that one's rank could rocket from peak late Yellow Rank all the way to late Profound Rank in so short a time… no, it was already at peak late Profound Rank now!

At peak late Profound Rank Great Perfection, Wei Zhao's transfer of energy came to an abrupt halt. He released his hand, yet showed not the slightest weariness—still spirited and glowing, as though the true qi he had poured out had not affected him at all.

The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast stared wide-eyed at Wei Zhao, who looked as if nothing had happened, and was utterly astonished.

This… was this real? It too was now a spirit beast of peak late Profound Rank strength?

"From now on, you are the fourth," Wei Zhao told the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast. "The third is that lion, who has run off for the time being. Your leader is Mighty General, the Heavenly Thunder Pig is your second senior brother, and you need not mind the lion for now—you are the youngest."

"Roar, roar." The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast nodded readily. Though it was an attack-type spirit beast and the strongest of them all compared to Mighty General and the Heavenly Thunder Pig, it also understood that first come, first served—it knew it had arrived last, and so raised no objection at all to being called the fourth.

"Here is a Small Qi-Gathering Pill. Swallow it, and once you do you can rise to Earth Rank and deal with higher-ranked foes then," Wei Zhao said, taking a Small Qi-Gathering Pill from his pocket and giving it to the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast.

The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast had never taken a human pill before, but since it was something Wei Zhao gave it, it naturally swallowed it down in one gulp.

Yet after swallowing the Small Qi-Gathering Pill, the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast showed none of the signs of imminent breakthrough that Han Jingyi had—it was just as it had always been, with no difference whatsoever.

Wei Zhao waited a long while and saw no unusual change in the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast, so he could not help asking, "Do you feel anything special?"

The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast was rather puzzled too. By rights Wei Zhao could not be deceiving it—he had already helped it rise several ranks, all the way to peak late Profound Rank strength—so it trusted Wei Zhao well enough to believe he could keep raising its level. But the reality was that after taking the Small Qi-Gathering Pill, apart from a faint replenishment of energy, it felt nothing else at all.

"Roar, roar…" The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast described its condition to the Heavenly Thunder Pig.

And the Heavenly Thunder Pig wrote the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast's condition out for Wei Zhao.

"Strange—no breakthrough?" Wei Zhao frowned, but then a very important possibility occurred to him: could it be that spirit beasts were different from humans? A cultivator could break through with a Small Qi-Gathering Pill, but a spirit beast could not?

The Small Qi-Gathering Pill, which clearly held abundant energy, had little effect on the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast—was it because its need for energy was greater than a cultivator's, or because its constitution was different? The energy Wei Zhao had channeled into it earlier had come entirely from the jade pendant's space, and he had not calculated precisely how much.

But now it seemed the latter was more likely: spirit beasts probably could not raise their strength by taking pills!

That made sense, after all. If spirit beasts could take pills, the spirit beasts of the Qianshan Sect would surely have made a qualitative leap—they need only feed some pills to their beasts, and even that spirit wolf of Wokin Dao's could have risen to Earth Rank. Why then would it have been stuck at Yellow Rank strength before?

And the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast, as the sect-guarding spirit beast, would not have remained forever stuck at peak late Yellow Rank strength, unable to advance.

Wei Zhao shook his head. It seemed he had thought too simply of it: spirit beasts could not take the pills of human cultivators, and he had wasted a Small Qi-Gathering Pill for nothing.

Though the thing had come to Wei Zhao for free, he still felt the sting of it keenly. The remaining pill could only go to Wu Chengtian; had there been one more, it could have gone to Qiu Lingshan or Qing Bo.

"It seems taking pills does you little good," Wei Zhao said. "If you want to rise further, wait until I break through to Heaven Rank."

"Roar, roar." The Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast was not much disappointed; it was already well satisfied with its present strength, and Wei Zhao becoming a Heaven Rank expert was no unattainable dream.

With the matter of the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast settled, Wei Zhao turned and went back to the villa, only then noticing that the eastern sky had already turned the pale white of a fish's belly. Unwittingly he had spent a whole night here—it seemed the Wind-Thunder Purple Lightning Beast had absorbed no small amount of energy and true qi.

Back in the living room, Wei Zhao found Wu Chengtian sitting on the sofa with his eyes closed, resting his spirit. Hearing footsteps, Wu Chengtian opened his eyes and said in delighted surprise, "Leader, you're back!"

Wu Chengtian had arrived long before, but Gu Mengyao had told him that Wei Zhao was in the back courtyard researching how to raise a spirit beast's strength, so he had not disturbed him, but sat here waiting all the while.

"Mm, you came quickly enough." Wei Zhao tossed the last Small Qi-Gathering Pill to Wu Chengtian and said, "Take this Small Qi-Gathering Pill. It can raise your internal strength to early Earth Rank. I have to accompany Jingyi on a long trip, and I'll need you to serve as my close guard for a while."

"No problem serving as guard—I know the ropes well enough." Wu Chengtian did not mind; his attention was all on the Small Qi-Gathering Pill. "Leader, is this the legendary Small Qi-Gathering Pill? Back then the Yu family of the secular world treated this as a treasure!"

"Mm, among the secular families it does count as a treasure. At the level of the hidden families, though rare, it is nothing much," Wei Zhao said. "Take it, and I will stand guard for you."

"Good!" Without a second thought Wu Chengtian swallowed the pill, closed his eyes, and began circulating his internal-energy method to dissolve the pill's medicinal power.

A few minutes later, a dense layer of fine sweat began to bead on Wu Chengtian's forehead!

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