Chapter 3550 — Cloud Terrace Island Appears

What puzzled him even more was why Zhong Yongliang had turned against them. He would have to find a chance to ask about it—something was off. Zhong Yongliang ought to be one of his own! It was truly baffling.

"Begging me is useless. Go beg Brother Arrowhead—Xiaoshu only listens to Brother Arrowhead," Shen Yushu said.

"Damn it!" Kang Zhaoming was at his wit's end. He had just torn all ties with Wei Zhao, and now he had to go begging to him again? He was utterly exasperated, yet there was nothing he could do. Heaving a sigh, he turned and walked over to Wei Zhao, who stood quietly off to one side, doing who knew what. "Leader Wei Zhao, you're the opener—you'd better give the order. Cloud Terrace Island is about to appear!"

"Oh, no rush." Wei Zhao drew a deep breath and emerged from the jade pendant space.

While no one had disturbed him, he had sent his soul and primordial spirit into the jade pendant space to test whether he could raise the Heavenly Thunder Pig's power all the way to the pinnacle of the late Heaven rank—Great Perfection.

After all, when he himself had been at Heaven-rank Great Perfection, he could only raise cultivators and spirit beasts to the pinnacle of the late Earth rank. A cultivator could advance to Heaven-rank Great Perfection by taking Qi Gathering Pills, but spirit beasts could not—pills had next to no effect on them, negligible at best.

Although the Heavenly Thunder Pig had entered the jade pendant space, Wei Zhao still worried something might go wrong with it. He was counting on the Heavenly Thunder Pig to recognize Zhang Naipao as one of its own! Otherwise, who would know who you were? It wasn't as though whatever you said would be taken as truth.

The alchemist's insight notes could have been stolen, but the Heavenly Thunder Pig was another matter. If the Heavenly Thunder Pig did not take to you, it simply did not take to you—and then it might go and lodge a damning complaint against you with Zhang Naipao, who might well slap you to death with one palm!

So Wei Zhao intended to test whether he could raise the Heavenly Thunder Pig's power.

Naturally, he had no intention of doing so in front of everyone. Even though the coach was filled with his own underlings, a spirit beast's upgrade would still draw in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Ancestor Xuanchen and his lot were all Heaven-rank Great Perfection masters—none of them was a fool. They could not possibly fail to sense the pressure of gathered spiritual energy from a breakthrough to Great Perfection happening inside the coach.

If they discovered then that the Heavenly Thunder Pig had leveled up, he would only be inviting trouble for himself. Wei Zhao had no wish for others to know that he was already a master at the early stage of Heaven Dao Foundation Establishment.

When Wei Zhao had been at the Heaven rank, he could at most raise his underlings to the Earth rank; at the Earth rank, at most to the Mystic rank. These were no great secrets—anyone with a mind to could inquire or discover them. But for Wei Zhao now to raise the Heavenly Thunder Pig's power bare-handed—something would have to be very wrong if that didn't raise questions!

Previously, even at Great Perfection, Wei Zhao had needed Qi Gathering Pills to replenish his underlings up to Great Perfection—and now he suddenly didn't? That spirit beasts could not level up by taking pills was something most cultivators knew!

So Wei Zhao meant to run the test secretly inside the jade pendant space. The Heavenly Thunder Pig's true body was also within that space, so even if it broke through and leveled up, no convergence of spiritual energy would manifest outside.

Wei Zhao's soul and primordial spirit entered the jade pendant space and threaded their way into the part of it where the Heavenly Thunder Pig resided, and then he began upgrading the beast. After the jade pendant space had been remodeled, only Wei Zhao's soul could travel back and forth through it; Tang Yun could no longer sense the existence of the other space and could only enter the main space.

To Wei Zhao's delight, his upgrade cheat was still in working order—he raised the Heavenly Thunder Pig to the pinnacle of the late Heaven rank, Great Perfection! Especially with the new Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, formed from the new Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art and the Fortune Battle Art combined, the pace of improvement was even more ferocious. In only about half an hour, the Heavenly Thunder Pig had already advanced to become a Heaven-rank Great Perfection spirit beast!

"Leader Wei Zhao, let's get started, or it really will be too late..." Kang Zhaoming said with a bitter face.

"All right, everyone get ready." Wei Zhao had no choice but to walk over now. Cloud Terrace Island truly could not be delayed; he had to go, or he would have just stayed and let them keep kicking up a fuss.

Only after Wei Zhao walked over did the inheritors begin to rise and make ready, which left Ancestor Xuanchen somewhat helpless—in the blink of an eye, Wei Zhao had become the one in charge!

In truth, given Wei Zhao's current situation, if he had wanted those Heaven-rank Great Perfection underlings of his to go to Cloud Terrace Island as well, Ancestor Xuanchen would certainly not have dared to stop him. It was just that most of Wei Zhao's underlings came from ordinary or hidden families. They had never set foot on the ancient level and had no such urgent pursuit of the Heavenly Dao. In their eyes, Heaven-rank Great Perfection was already thoroughly satisfying!

Their thinking remained confined to the mundane world; they were unwilling to leave, and reviving their families was their goal.

"Yuning, Yushu, take the rear principal positions of the Eight Trigrams Diagram!" Ancestor Xuanchen spoke again.

This time, Yuning and Yushu obediently took their places on the pre-drawn positions of the Eight Trigrams Diagram!

"Young... Young Hero Lin, stand at the center of the Eight Trigrams Diagram!" Ancestor Xuanchen continued.

Wei Zhao nodded and took the center of the diagram as instructed. Then, in turn, Gu Mengyao, Feng Xiaoxiao, Tang Yun, Guan Xin, and Xiao Jiu also took their respective positions, while Zhang Naipao stood at the foremost point of the Eight Trigrams Diagram, facing the Endless Western Sea!

For he was the one charged with holding back the most ferocious Five Malignances Demonic Qi! Of course, that Five Malignances Demonic Qi might have terrible side effects on a weakling like Tagan Long, but for Wei Zhao, its influence was in fact not especially great!

Still, with the Five Malignances Demonic Qi and the power of the Five Elements and Seven Attributes bearing down together, the pressure on Wei Zhao would be considerable. Most importantly, it seemed Wei Zhao could not run his mental cultivation formulas on his own to resist the pressure—he had to do something else.

"All inheritors, make ready!" the Southern Heaven Libationer spoke up. "Cloud Terrace Island is about to appear!"

The Southern Heaven Libationer's words made everyone present tense up slightly, and their expressions grew grave! Over the once perfectly calm sea surface, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth began to gather, and the waves began to turn wild and violent!

In but an instant, the spiritual energy above the sea grew ever more frenzied, and the seawater turned into towering, crashing waves!

"Yuning, Yushu, quickly determine the exact direction of Cloud Terrace Island's appearance!" the Southern Heaven Libationer suddenly cried out. "The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is gathering—Cloud Terrace Island is about to appear..."

Yuning and Yushu did not dare delay. At that moment, it was as though Cloud Terrace Island had already surfaced in their minds, and the two blurted out without thinking: "Due east, thirty degrees north of due east."

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