Chapter 1218 — Finally Breaking Through: Can This Actually Work? No Matter What, Just Try and See! Wei Zhao Had Thought of an Utterly Mad Experiment!

This method was somewhat risky, but if it succeeded, Wei Zhao would have found a way to level up unlike any traditional method. The benefits it could bring would be incalculable. In other words, once this method worked, then even if he fell a little short of the great perfection of each rank, he could use it to forcibly break through.

At that thought, Wei Zhao's face grew excited—and nervous at the same time. This was no ordinary method, but a very dangerous attempt; whether it would bring benefits was far from certain, and whether it might bring negative consequences was even harder to say.

So Wei Zhao had to be extremely, extremely cautious. If he got hurt because of this, it would hardly be worth the loss.

The method Wei Zhao had thought of was energy compression. Having mastered energy compression, he could compress not only the energy inside his body, but also energy outside his body.

Under the same conditions, the total amount of energy he could absorb was fixed. But once the energy was compressed, he could absorb far more of it. This was like files on a computer: a hard disk could hold a fixed amount of data, but if the files were compressed, it could hold much more.

So what Wei Zhao had in mind was exactly that possibility. Since he was still a little short of energy to break through, why not directly absorb some compressed energy and let it release inside his body? Wouldn't that be the same as taking in more energy?

Even so, this idea was truly mad and dangerous. This was none other than his trump card—the energy bomb. Used against enemies, it could blast them into bloody pieces. Used on himself, who could say there wouldn't be some mishap?

But Wei Zhao reasoned that since this energy was of the same attribute as the energy in his own body, even if it were suddenly released, he could still absorb it—unlike others, who would simply be blown to death. That was the most important reason he wanted to try.

He mused for a moment. Even if he were injured by the blast, he had the power to repair himself, and on top of that, he had the Yellow-rank Hound as his supreme life-preserving trump card. There was no need to worry about an accident he could not resolve. And if this idea of his could be realized, the benefits would be endless.

Wei Zhao took a deep breath and activated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Commanding Art, gathering all the energy elements within the jade pendant space around him. But this time he was not in a hurry to absorb them. Instead, he compressed the energy surrounding his body.

Naturally, this compression was small in scale and low in compression ratio. For his first try, Wei Zhao did not dare compress it to the high ratio of an energy bomb. He was afraid he would blow himself to pieces, without even a chance to recover.

"Huh?" Jiao Yazi had been idling nearby, watching Wei Zhao cultivate with a mocking expression. But the moment he saw what Wei Zhao was doing now, his face changed. An instant later, Jiao Yazi realized what Wei Zhao intended and instinctively moved to stop him.

"Kid Lin, wait!" Jiao Yazi was startled. If Wei Zhao really did what he was thinking of doing, then it truly was mad enough.

But even as Jiao Yazi spoke, Wei Zhao had already drawn the compressed energy into his body. In that instant, Wei Zhao's face flushed bright red, taking on an unhealthy glow. The compressed energy was suddenly released inside him, and Wei Zhao felt like a balloon about to be blown apart. His whole body was like an air bladder, swollen and extremely uncomfortable.

His internal organs seemed to be squeezed together, compressed with not a trace of space left.

"Pfft—" Wei Zhao immediately spat out a mouthful of blood. This high-intensity expansion of energy gave him the feeling of being on the verge of exploding, an indescribable misery.

Seeing this, Jiao Yazi drew in a cold breath. He could actually do something like this? He might as well be seeking death! But since Wei Zhao had already done it, Jiao Yazi could only watch helplessly from the side. He was not a physical being, only a phantom shadow, and could not interfere with what Wei Zhao did.

"Sigh. Kid Lin, I hope you succeed. A breakthrough like this—I'm afraid you're the only one in the whole world who would dare to do it!" Jiao Yazi shook his head and muttered to himself. But then he recalled Wei Zhao's usual antics—had he ever done few mad things?

Before, he used this energy bomb to blast others. Now he was using it to blast himself. This man... for the sake of cultivation, he would resort to anything!

As uncomfortable as Wei Zhao was, he could still hear Jiao Yazi's words and found them somewhat hilarious and exasperating.

But no matter what, Wei Zhao could only grit his teeth and endure. This was not the time to give up—he had to hold on. If he gave up now, all his previous efforts would come to nothing. So he clenched his jaw. Since resistance was impossible, let him enjoy it!

And thus Wei Zhao began to enjoy this euphoric sensation of his body about to burst apart from the swelling energy. It was simply too exhilarating—exhilarating enough to kill him!

With a thunderous boom, Wei Zhao felt his eardrums trembling. At last, his body could no longer withstand the accumulation of energy, and it exploded.

But Wei Zhao knew that this explosion was not an explosion in the true sense, but an illusion at the instant of breakthrough.

He had broken through—he really had broken through! As he breathed a sigh of relief, the energy around him slowly dispersed, and his face gradually returned to normal from its flush.

All over his body, the earlier sensation of being stretched to bursting was gone, replaced by a comfort like just waking from sleep. He felt as though his whole body were filled with strength—an indescribable ease.

"Haha! Peak of the mid-Xuan rank! Old Man Jiao, I'm truly amazing—I can even break through like this!" Wei Zhao sprang to his feet, gesturing wildly with joy.

The sense of accomplishment from leveling up would not have been enough to make Wei Zhao this excited. The reason he was so excited was that he had found a shortcut to quickly break through barriers. Breaking through by way of energy compression was far faster than slowly cultivating!

Now that this method had been proven, Wei Zhao could simply keep cultivating all the way. Whenever he reached the barrier of a rank, he could do this once. If so, even the Heaven rank might no longer be just a dream.

"Mm, you broke through..." Jiao Yazi was speechless. There was nothing but speechlessness.

"Peak of the mid-Xuan rank—this feeling is pretty good! I feel like I can fight an expert at the peak of the late Xuan rank!" Wei Zhao moved his fists and feet inside the jade pendant space, saying happily.

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