Chapter 95 — Broke Through Just Like That? Please Vote and Add to Favorites...

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"Wait, one last question..." Seeing the impatient look on Jiao Yazi's face, Wei Zhao screwed up his courage and asked.

"Speak." Jiao Yazi said flatly.

"Who exactly are you? And who is that grand-uncle master of yours?" Wei Zhao could not hold back his curiosity.

"I am Jiao Yazi, of course. I have already told you." Jiao Yazi said coolly. "My grand-uncle master was naturally an extremely formidable man, but you have no need to know, for it has nothing to do with you. And do not think that just because you got lucky and picked up the cultivation manual and the jade pendant he left behind in an idle moment back then, you have become his disciple. That is impossible."

"Uh..." Wei Zhao stared at the don't-even-dream-of-it look on Jiao Yazi's face and froze for a moment. Just now Jiao Yazi had only looked indifferent, but not like this. Had he offended him somehow?

After a moment's thought, however, Wei Zhao understood why Jiao Yazi was so displeased. Since the man who left the manual was his grand-uncle master, if he himself were to take that man as his master, he would naturally become Jiao Yazi's elder, and he was bound to be unhappy. Thinking of this, Wei Zhao smiled. "Of course not. Even if I take a master, it will be you, Elder Jiao."

"Hmm... at least you know what is good for you, boy." Only when he heard this did a trace of a smile squeeze onto Jiao Yazi's face. "Seeing how sincere you are, I will reluctantly observe you for a time."

"Heh." Wei Zhao smiled. He had no wish to expose Jiao Yazi's little vanity, so he said no more, sat cross-legged on the ground of the space, and entered a state of cultivation.

Since Jiao Yazi refused to breathe a word about his grand-uncle master, there was no need to press him further. What should be told, he would tell in time. What should not be told, it was useless to ask.

A vast energy suddenly surged into Wei Zhao's body from all directions, and the abrupt phenomenon gave him a violent start. Although in the mountain forests where true qi was densest, energy absorption was a little faster than in the city, it was never this fast. It was as if there were no resistance at all, endless and inexhaustible. In an instant Wei Zhao almost felt as if his body would burst, and he at once slowed his pace of cultivation.

"Whew..." Wei Zhao looked at Jiao Yazi not far off, wearing a teasing face, and felt helpless. The old fellow was definitely messing with him on purpose. Not a word of warning before cultivating. Did he want him dead?

Even though Wei Zhao slowed his cultivation, the energy around him still poured endlessly into his body, only a little more slowly. Before long, Wei Zhao felt the energy inside him swell to a saturated limit, yet the elemental energy around him kept pouring into him at the same pace.

Cold sweat broke out on Wei Zhao's forehead. What was happening? This had never happened before. Though fear gripped his heart, he still could not stop the energy from flooding into his body.

At this moment Wei Zhao felt his body was like a magnet, ceaselessly drawing in the energy surging in from all around...

"Jiao Yazi..." Feeling he was about to explode, Wei Zhao had no choice but to cry out to Jiao Yazi for help.

But Jiao Yazi only kept watching Wei Zhao with that teasing expression, showing not the slightest intention of lending a hand.

"Boom!"

Wei Zhao felt his body could no longer bear such vast energy, as if his whole being had burst apart, and the clothes on him instantly turned into charred fragments and flew off in all directions.

"Hoo..."

Just when Wei Zhao thought he was done for, he was stunned to find himself still alive, standing stark naked before Jiao Yazi, with an indescribable feeling of ease coursing through his body.

Had he broken through? Wei Zhao was dumbfounded. He had never broken through before, nor ever felt that brimming, about-to-burst feeling at the critical point of a breakthrough. He was at a loss for words. He had thought he was going to explode, only to find he had broken through instead.

No wonder Jiao Yazi had worn that teasing look. It seemed he had foreseen this outcome all along.

Sure enough, Jiao Yazi spoke. "Broke through? How is it? Feels good, does it not?"

"It feels good enough, but I never expected the energy here to be so powerful that I would break through directly. It gave me quite a fright." Wei Zhao said with a bitter smile.

"You were already at the critical point of breaking through. It was only that the environment outside was too poor, without enough energy for you to break through in one go." Jiao Yazi said with a chuckle. "Here energy is abundant. The moment you entered cultivation, you naturally broke through in an instant."

With Jiao Yazi's explanation, Wei Zhao understood. He had already cultivated to the late stage of the first layer, only lacking sufficient conditions to break through, and because energy was so abundant here, he had been able to break through in an instant. As for that sudden flood of energy into his body, it would likely only occur at the very moment of breakthrough and would not happen during ordinary cultivation.

"Thank you... Mr. Jiao." Wei Zhao bowed sincerely to Jiao Yazi. Whatever else, he was deeply grateful for Jiao Yazi's help.

Seeing Wei Zhao so solemn, Jiao Yazi was rather taken aback, and after a moment said. "All right, boy, do not be so formal. From now on call me Elder Jiao or Old Jiao, either is fine. Forget this Mr. Jiao..."

"Then I will call you Elder Jiao." Wei Zhao nodded. "Elder Jiao, I wonder if I can now go on to cultivate the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Slaying Art?"

"The second layer? Do you even have it?" Jiao Yazi asked back, startled.

"Ah? Do you not have it?" Wei Zhao was also startled and looked at Jiao Yazi in surprise.

"You never entered the stone door to take out the second layer. Where would I get it?" Jiao Yazi said speechlessly.

"Is this not the cultivation manual left by your grand-uncle master? Have you never cultivated it?" Wei Zhao was even more speechless.

"Just because my grand-uncle master left it, must I have cultivated it?" Jiao Yazi rolled his eyes. "The path I cultivate is different from this. Only you can practice this. I cannot."

"Ah? Is that so..." Wei Zhao scratched his head awkwardly. He had been limited by ordinary thinking. What Jiao Yazi said was quite right. Just because his grand-uncle master had left something behind did not mean he had to cultivate it.

"If I knew it, why would I tell you to hurry and enter the stone door?" Jiao Yazi said helplessly. "Do not count on me to help you with anything. I am only an illusion. My function is much like a guide. I only explain the uses of this cultivation space to you, and keep you company to relieve your boredom when free... As for everything else, you will have to rely on yourself."

Hearing Jiao Yazi's blunt words, Wei Zhao was left speechless. It seemed there was no chance to slack off... But now that he had broken through the first layer, and there were still some days left before the five-year deadline, what should he do in the meantime?

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