Chapter 109 — Cultivate Any Further and You'll Blow Yourself Up [Begging for Guaranteed Monthly Tickets, First Bonus Update]
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"That, of course, is impossible." Elder Jiao's words dashed cold water over him. "At least, having studied the first level of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, I have found it impossible. Whether the later levels might allow it, I cannot say — I have never seen the specific cultivation formulas, so I cannot speak to them."
"Then what happened today..." Wei Zhao's disappointment was instant.
"As for what happened today, I have already said it: the old man could absorb the energy you released into him only because, in that moment, his own body's energy was no longer enough to sustain the normal working of his heart. Only under those special circumstances could the energy within you be used by him." Elder Jiao said. "In ordinary circumstances, a normal person's own energy already suffices to keep every organ of the body at work; they have no need of your energy. My explanation may not be very clear, for these formulas and arts were left behind by the Grand Master-Uncle, and I myself understand only a fraction of them."
Complicated as Elder Jiao's words were, Wei Zhao still grasped his meaning: for ordinary people under normal conditions, his energy was of no use at all. Only in an emergency would it take effect.
"So the energy works on ordinary people only after something has gone wrong in some part of their body?" Wei Zhao asked.
"You could say so. But that effect merely keeps them functioning; to restore those damaged organs is out of the question." Jiao Yazi said. "That is what I meant today: you can save his life, but curing him is impossible..."
"As for curing, I do have other means. With traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and herbal decoctions, he could be nursed back, slowly." This time Wei Zhao was not so disappointed. To manage emergency aid at all was already remarkable; keep the man alive first, and other methods could be found in time.
Besides, he and that old man were strangers to one another, and there was no reason to volunteer follow-up treatment. To be too eager would only make others suspect he had an ulterior motive.
Having gotten the answer he wanted, Wei Zhao calmed himself and prepared to resume his cultivation — yet he had barely entered the state when Elder Jiao cut him off.
"What are you trying to do, Lin boy?" Elder Jiao demanded with a frown.
"Cultivating, of course." Wei Zhao looked at him, baffled. Could he not tell what he was doing?
"You do not have the mind formula for the second level — what is there for you to cultivate? Do you not know that too much energy in the body, with no proper formula to guide it, can make you explode and die?" Elder Jiao glared at Wei Zhao with a look that plainly said, are you an idiot?
"Uh..." Wei Zhao's heart lurched. He had never known such a thing was possible. Thank goodness he had made contact with Elder Jiao this early; otherwise, if by some twist of fate he had broken through the first level out in the world, and then kept cultivating, it was hard to say whether he might not truly have blown himself to death.
"But... today, when I saved that old man, didn't I waste some energy?" Wei Zhao asked awkwardly. "Shouldn't I make it up?"
"One night's sleep and you will replenish it yourself. No need to cultivate." Jiao Yazi rolled his eyes, speechless. The boy truly knew nothing at all — a complete greenhorn.
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