"Mr. Yu, when you do things, please leave a way out for others — don't push everything to the extreme. There is a saying, that when things reach their extreme they reverse; I wonder whether you have heard it?" Gu Pengzhan had truly run out of options, and could only speak with a veiled threat.

"Oh?" Yu Bide studied Gu Pengzhan with interest, then burst out laughing. "So you mean to threaten me?"

"I wouldn't dare!" Gu Pengzhan was furious inside, yet there was nothing he could do; he could only swallow his pride. "I merely speak of a truth that has never changed through the ages."

"Ha? Reason with me? Haitian, did you hear that? He's reasoning with me? Hahaha!" Yu Bide laughed without the slightest restraint. "He says I should leave a way out, not push things to the extreme — did you hear him?"

"Third Uncle, I heard him!" Yu Haitian nodded and echoed with a smile.

"So do you find it funny?" Yu Bide asked mockingly.

"Funny, hilarious!" Yu Haitian laughed out loud as well.

"Hmph!" Yu Bide's tone turned on a dime, and he looked coldly at Gu Pengzhan. "When I do things, I leave no way out! I mean to push things to the extreme — so what can you do about it? What? What is it you want to do? Stare at me helplessly? Explode with rage? Hahahaha!"

Looking at Gu Pengzhan's pathetic, helpless state, Yu Bide felt a surge of satisfaction, a sense of having vented a bellyful of foul air! If Yu Shuixing had not forbidden him to kill Wei Zhao, he would have killed Gu Pengzhan this very moment and then gone looking for Wei Zhao.

The pleasure of humiliating another man filled Yu Bide with delight.

Gu Pengzhan's face had turned a purplish maroon. The Yu family was utterly unreasonable — there was no reasoning to be had with them at all! Gu Pengzhan's chest heaved violently; he was too angry to speak.

Inside Wei Zhao's room, within the jade pendant, a rather anxious expression came unbidden to Wei Zhao's face.

Though Wei Zhao's body was inside the jade pendant, his whole being remained awake; whatever happened outside, Wei Zhao heard perfectly clearly.

He had heard the conversation between Gu Pengzhan and Gu Mengyao in the living room as well. Gu Pengzhan's words had moved him deeply, and the resolve of the young lady and Xiaoshu to follow him touched Wei Zhao greatly.

Wei Zhao had never imagined that Gu Pengzhan's situation had sunk to such a desperate pass — that people from the Xiao family and from Zhao Qibing had actually come knocking, and that even the Yu family had come looking for him! And the Yu family actually wanted to carry the young lady off as a concubine. They truly did dare to dream such things!

Although the young lady was not Wei Zhao's woman, Gu Pengzhan's attitude had already made Wei Zhao take the care of the young lady as his own duty! And to put it in the most extreme terms, he was still the young lady's bodyguard — how could he let the Gu family's people seize her and carry her away?

Very well, since you are so brazen, then every one of you will pay the price for your brazenness!

And yet Wei Zhao was frantic with worry. His strength had not yet recovered, and right now he truly could not go out and stand up for the young lady.

Faster. A little faster.

Inside the space of the jade pendant, Wei Zhao madly absorbed the energy of that space.

Listening to the Yu family pressing in step by step outside, Wei Zhao wished he could rise this very instant and charge out — but he knew it was not yet time! The moment he stepped out the door would be the day of death for these people. And so, restoring his strength was of the utmost importance.

Wei Zhao clenched his teeth. The energy of the jade pendant's space poured into his body in a mighty torrent, and as Wei Zhao drove the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art faster and faster, that energy grew stronger and stronger.

"Whoosh—"

Wei Zhao's eyes flew open. The energy within his body had already filled to the saturated state he had known before his strength fell.

It had finally recovered... his strength had finally come back!

But Wei Zhao did not stop the circulation of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. From past experience, he knew that after losing every shred of strength, once it was restored he could draw in another portion of energy, and it was very likely to bring about a breakthrough!

But once he stopped, if he tried to cultivate again, that effect would probably no longer come. So Wei Zhao kept absorbing the energy of the jade pendant's space, because he could clearly feel that although the energy in his body was saturated, it could still be forced in.

More and more energy gathered around Wei Zhao, and as the energy he drew into his body climbed ever higher, the energy gathered about him began to fluctuate violently, forming a vortex that spun swiftly around him.

A look of unbearable agony appeared on Wei Zhao's face. He felt as though his body was about to explode; the energy inside him was about to reach its limit, and if it was not released, his whole body would burst apart like an overfilled balloon.

Yet Wei Zhao did not halt the circulation of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. Gritting his teeth, he sped up his cultivation once more.

The energy around Wei Zhao was stirred up again and rushed swiftly into his body, and the energy inside him climbed to a new height.

As more and more energy gathered within, an unnatural flush appeared on Wei Zhao's face, looking faintly eerie through that vortex of energy.

Soon, very soon now! Wei Zhao gave a low hum — let the storm come fiercer still!

"Boom!"

With a tremendous roar, Wei Zhao felt as though his whole body were about to fly up into the heavens! Under the immense impact of the energy within him, the barrier between ranks shattered with a thunderous crash! At once, still more energy surged into Wei Zhao's body, yet this time there was none of that bursting-at-the-limit sensation; instead there came a wonderfully nourishing feeling...

A breakthrough! After the breakthrough, the meridians in Wei Zhao's body could take in even more energy!

The energy vortex around Wei Zhao grew weaker and weaker, most of it absorbed into his body, and Wei Zhao's complexion changed from that earlier flush to a healthy hue. Then Wei Zhao sprang up from his bed!

So this is the strength of the mid-stage Profound Rank? Truly as far removed from the peak of the early Profound Rank as heaven from earth! No wonder it had been so difficult for him to fight that outer-school expert at the peak of the mid-stage Profound Rank! A difference of one rank is sometimes the difference between victory and defeat!

"Whoosh!" Wei Zhao let out a breath of turbid air and patted the Mighty General beside him. "The time has come, Mighty General. This time, we are the ones who will be the protagonists!"

"Woof, woof..." The unconscious Mighty General seemed to sense the powerful, surging aura of energy about Wei Zhao, which roused it awake, and it barked joyfully twice at Wei Zhao.

There was joy in those barks; it too seemed to have sensed that Wei Zhao's strength had recovered.

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