Chapter 2405 — The Martial Technique Succeeded

He had intended to run another test earlier, but before he could even begin, Chen Xi woke up. Then Chief Zhu arrived, and Qiu Lingshan called, so Wei Zhao had never gotten around to testing Heaven-Sent Spring Rain again. Now that Han Jingyi had brought it up once more, Wei Zhao was a little unwilling to let it go, and decided to give it one more try.

"Ah... so it doesn't work..." Han Jingyi was somewhat disappointed, but she still said, "It's all right. Jingjing believes Brother Wei Zhao will think of another good way. If all else fails, Jingjing just won't mass-refine second-grade pills for now."

"Let's try again," Wei Zhao said. "To your room now."

"Mm-hm, all right." Han Jingyi obeyed Wei Zhao's every word.

The two of them went to Han Jingyi's room, where she asked, "Is there anything Jingjing needs to do to help Brother Wei Zhao?"

"No need. Just wait off to the side," Wei Zhao said, shaking his head.

"Oh, okay." Han Jingyi nodded.

Wei Zhao then circulated the heart method and incantation of Heaven-Sent Spring Rain and began trying to activate its first form, Heaven-Sent Spring Rain... But all at once, a miracle happened!

On Wei Zhao's palms, a mass of pale blue true qi like watery mist suddenly welled up. Then, as Wei Zhao's martial technique was activated, the pale blue true qi abruptly left his hands, drifted into the air, and fell like spring rain, pouring into Han Jingyi's body...

Wei Zhao was stunned on the spot. It had failed to activate every time before, and now it had suddenly succeeded, giving him a feeling of unreality. It worked? Wei Zhao was astonished.

"Eh? Brother Wei Zhao, is this the method you created? It's very effective! Jingjing felt her stamina fill up considerably all at once!" Han Jingyi said in great surprise and admiration. "If Brother Wei Zhao used this method while I was refining pills, it really could replenish Jingjing's true qi and stamina!"

"You felt it?" Wei Zhao was suddenly overcome with delight and surprise. He had never imagined that the martial technique which had always failed to activate before would suddenly succeed in front of Han Jingyi. Why did Wei Zhao have this feeling of unreality?

"Yes, I felt it! Why did Brother Wei Zhao say this method had no effect?" Han Jingyi asked, somewhat puzzled. "But Jingjing thinks it does have an effect!"

"It did work this time..." Wei Zhao said, a little shamefaced. "Before, at home, I kept trying to activate this martial technique, and it never succeeded."

"Why didn't it succeed? Was it because Jingjing wasn't beside you?" Han Jingyi blinked and asked in confusion.

"Not beside me?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback, but then a sudden clarity came over him. Yes! The reason his previous attempts to activate this martial technique had failed was that Han Jingyi had not been beside him—in other words, there had been no recipient!

The fundamental purpose of this support martial technique was to replenish the stamina and true qi of one's own side, but there had not been a single person on his side. Wei Zhao had been activating the technique at empty air—how could it activate without a recipient? Having thought this through, Wei Zhao could not help but smile bitterly. One word from her had truly awakened him from a dream!

"Yes, before, when you weren't beside me, Jingjing, this martial technique of mine could only be activated when there was a recipient on our side. There wasn't a single person here, so of course it couldn't activate!" After working this out, Wei Zhao felt a faint excitement and pleasant surprise as well. It seemed that it was not that he was unable to activate water-element martial techniques, but simply that he had not figured things out before.

"Mm, Brother Wei Zhao is so clever—you figured out the key to the problem right away," Han Jingyi said with a nod. "Jingjing would never have thought of it."

"..." Looking at the utterly sincere Han Jingyi, Wei Zhao felt somewhat embarrassed and ashamed. If not for that one remark of hers, he really would have overlooked this point. Yet Han Jingyi credited the achievement to him, which made Wei Zhao very uncomfortable.

Still, looking into Han Jingyi's big, watery, innocent eyes, Wei Zhao found it hard to imagine she was deliberately flattering him. He coughed twice and said, "Let's begin researching pill refinement now, and see whether we can mass-refine second-grade pills."

"All right." Han Jingyi nodded. "Shall I simulate pill refinement like before?"

"Yes, let's simulate it first." To be on the safe side, Wei Zhao still had Han Jingyi simulate it first—otherwise, if it failed, the materials would be wasted.

"Okay!" Han Jingyi brought over the pill cauldron and, once everything was prepared, asked, "Can we start, Brother Wei Zhao?"

"Yes, begin." Wei Zhao nodded and began circulating the heart method of the Heaven-Sent Spring Rain martial technique, while Han Jingyi began condensing pill fire, preparing to simulate pill refinement.

Soon Han Jingyi's pill fire was condensed, and she formally began the simulated refinement. It was clear that her stamina and true qi were being consumed rapidly—before long, fine beads of sweat covered her forehead.

Wei Zhao, meanwhile, prepared to activate the Heaven-Sent Spring Rain martial technique to replenish the true qi and stamina in Han Jingyi's body.

This time, Wei Zhao did not activate the first form of Heaven-Sent Spring Rain, nor the second. Having roughly judged the rate at which Han Jingyi's true qi was being consumed, he activated the third form of Heaven-Sent Spring Rain.

And now there was only Han Jingyi beside Wei Zhao. Using the third form was equivalent to transmitting three portions of true qi to Han Jingyi at once.

Even with the fifth form, however, the total amount of true qi in Wei Zhao's body was fixed. So whether it was the first form, the second form, or the fifth form, it merely divided the true qi in his body into a certain number of portions, with a different amount transmitted each time—the final sum was the same.

Although Wei Zhao had never truly activated the third form of Heaven-Sent Spring Rain before, he guessed that the rate at which the third form released true qi should roughly match the rate at which Han Jingyi was currently consuming stamina.

Sure enough, after Wei Zhao activated the third form of Heaven-Sent Spring Rain, Han Jingyi's stamina and true qi were quickly replenished. And at that very moment, Wei Zhao was amazed to discover that he could actually see clearly how much true qi remained in Han Jingyi's body!

After using this Heaven-Sent Spring Rain martial technique, he could actually see the remaining amount of true qi and stamina in the recipient? Was this a benefit brought by the martial technique, or the work of his golden finger? RQ

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