Chapter 1966 — Utterly Dejected. How Is This Only a Little Gain? This Is Quite a Bountiful Harvest!

Of course, there were some secrets Wei Zhao could never disclose, even to Uncle Qing. The matter of the jade pendant space, he could not reveal to anyone for the time being. It was not that he distrusted them; it was simply that his strength had not yet reached that level. If Wei Zhao were already an expert at the late-stage pinnacle of the Celestial Rank, he would not have concealed it from Uncle Qing.

"Then hurry up and check!" Uncle Qing immediately stretched out his hand.

"All right." Seeing how anxious Uncle Qing was, Wei Zhao said no more and went straight to examining the condition of Uncle Qing's true qi. After a moment, a satisfied expression appeared on Wei Zhao's face. "No mistake — it's the true qi in Granny Sun's head."

"There are two ways. The first is for me to force Granny Sun's true qi out of her body. It's feasible, but my control over it is not yet very polished," Wei Zhao said honestly. At the second layer of the Xuan Yuan Dragon-Taming Art, all he could manage for now was a fairly smooth circulation; mastery was still far away. Forcing out his own fire-poison true qi was already difficult enough — applying that method to Granny Sun, he really did not have much confidence.

"And the second way?" Uncle Qing hastily asked.

"The second way is relatively conservative. Nothing dangerous will happen, but the effect may be slow — it won't be accomplished in a day or two," Wei Zhao said. "Granny Sun would restart practicing the Sun family's inner-energy technique. Once she masters it, she'll be able to dissolve the true qi on her own."

"Mm... Let's go with the second, then!" After a brief moment of hesitation, Uncle Qing chose the second way without further hesitation. It was conservative, after all, and free of danger. Though slower, Uncle Qing had already waited so many years; a little more time was not worth fussing over. If something went wrong with the first way, regret would be too late.

"Heh, I'd actually suggest the second way too," Wei Zhao said. "I've obtained the Sun family's cultivation method already — it's in my phone, and I'll forward it to you in a while. But although this is the method Granny Sun practiced in the past, it's best not to let it spread around. After all, I got it from Sun Jingyan..."

"I understand!" Uncle Qing nodded. "Even if you hadn't said that, I wouldn't go around telling people. After all, this involves the enemies we had back then. If they found out that Luo Yue and I were both still alive, they'd certainly come looking for us again — and none of us is a match for those people..."

Wei Zhao said no more. He sent Uncle Qing the document Sun Jingyan had sent to his phone, then went back to his room to rest.

Back in his room, Wei Zhao could not wait to open the refining method for the jade pendant. This was a version he had transcribed himself; the original had been left at Xixing Mountain Village and not brought over.

For now, the pure yellow jade was already in hand, but there was still no news of the colored steel and blue crystal powder.

Wei Zhao had not studied the refining method closely before. But now that the pure yellow jade was secured, he felt his heart stir with eagerness, and he began to scrutinize the method in earnest.

What puzzled Wei Zhao, however, was that the refining method did not list specific amounts of pure yellow jade, blue crystal powder, or colored steel. Without quantities, how was he supposed to gather the materials?

At the thought, Wei Zhao could not help asking, "Elder Jiao, exactly how much material is needed to refine the jade pendant?"

"As much as you have is as much as it takes," Elder Jiao said airily.

"As much as I have is as much as it takes? What does that mean?" Wei Zhao did not quite understand Jiao Yazi's meaning.

"The more material you have, the larger the storage space you refine will be. What's so hard to understand about that?" Jiao Yazi explained in a relaxed tone.

"Uh... I see. Then can it be refined only once?" Wei Zhao asked.

"No, you can refine it as many times as you like. Whenever you've gathered these materials, you can refine it again," Jiao Yazi said.

"So that's how it is!" A light dawned on Wei Zhao. "Doesn't that mean the jade pendant's storage space can be refined to be infinitely large?"

"In theory, yes. Haven't you noticed that the space inside the jade pendant is actually an infinitely vast four-dimensional space?" Jiao Yazi said matter-of-factly. "It's just that for now this space can store only universal energy and nothing else."

"In other words, refining the jade pendant space is actually transforming the part that used to store only universal energy into space that can store things?" Wei Zhao asked.

"That's one way of putting it, but the four-dimensional space in the jade pendant is theoretically infinite," Jiao Yazi said.

Wei Zhao was momentarily speechless at that explanation. He had always thought the jade pendant was an artifact of ancient times, but the more he learned of its functions, the more it looked like a product of high technology. Four-dimensional space, indeed...

Of course, Wei Zhao could not be bothered to ask Jiao Yazi about such things, since Jiao Yazi did not know either. He was merely a phantom — in essence, a being not much different from a computer. The things he knew were limited, and asking would be in vain.

Putting away the pure yellow jade, Wei Zhao continued cultivating the Xuan Yuan Dragon-Taming Art. Until the other two materials had been gathered, he could not refine the jade pendant space, so it had to be set aside for now.

"What's the matter with you three? Did someone break into your dorm last night?" Wei Zhao said in surprise, looking at the three people before him.

"Brother Lin, you're back?" Bai Weituo's eyes lit up at the sight of Wei Zhao, then dimmed again. In his view, though Wei Zhao was formidable in other ways, he could not help much with the show at the freshman welcome party.

Otherwise, Wei Zhao would not have missed even the class rehearsals for the performance. Clearly, such things were not his forte.

"I'm back. What on earth is going on with you all?" Wei Zhao felt a little bemused.

"Ai, Brother Lin, this time I'm completely done for!" Bai Weituo said with a mournful face. "That Zhang Duopan — just as you said he would — actually played dirty against me!"

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