Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 969 - 969 0580 The Opportunity Bought for 200000

Chapter 969: Chapter 0580: The Opportunity Bought for 200,000 Part 2 Chapter 969: Chapter 0580: The Opportunity Bought for 200,000 Part 2 Qi Tian didn’t say anything, just collected the middle-grade spirit stones. Then he said, “Let’s continue in the secret chamber to stimulate the Princess’s potential. Master Gao, please get ready first. I’ll go outside to invite the Princess in.”

Qi Tian stepped outside the secret chamber, and as soon as Zhao Ninglu saw him, she hastily approached him, asking with some concern, “Master Qi, how did your talk with my father go?”

Qi Tian said with a smile, “Prince and I have discussed everything openly, and there are no barriers between us anymore. The Prince has allowed us to continue to help you activate your potential, and he has also agreed to observe from the side. Princess, time is of the essence on the path of cultivation, and we cannot afford to waste a single moment. Let’s begin now.”

Zhao Ninglu nodded repeatedly and without another word, followed Qi Tian into the secret chamber. The several Gold Core Realm experts brought by Zhao Shibo directly followed Zhao Ninglu, intending to enter the chamber with her.

Qi Tian stopped in his tracks, turned around, and said to them, “I am sorry, gentlemen, please remain outside the chamber and don’t follow us inside.”

These Gold Core Realm experts did not take Qi Tian’s words seriously and continued to march towards the secret chamber. At this moment, Zhao Shibo’s voice came from the chamber. “You all stay outside the secret chamber. Without my permission, do not enter.”

Zhao Shibo’s words were a million times more effective than Qi Tian’s. After receiving orders from Zhao Shibo, the Gold Core Realm experts immediately halted and obediently followed his command, guarding the outside of the chamber.

A moment later, Qi Tian and Zhao Ninglu entered the secret chamber. Qi Tian still had Zhao Ninglu sit cross-legged on the jade bed. Then he nodded at Gao Jinmei, signalling that she could start casting the spell on Zhao Ninglu.

“Wait a moment.” Just as Gao Jinmei was about to begin, Zhao Ninglu suddenly spoke up, “Master Qi, do you still have any more Half-day Drunk? If so, please grant me another one.”

Zhao Shibo asked, “What is Half-day Drunk? Does it have something to do with activating your potential?”

Zhao Ninglu explained, “Father, you don’t know, when activating potential, my body has to endure tremendous pain, unbearable to the point of death. At first, I didn’t believe it and insisted on trying for myself. Now, just thinking about it makes my body tremble. Half-day Drunk is a type of elixir. After ingestion, it puts me into a deep comatose state, allowing Master Gao to stimulate my potential. Even if my body endures great pain, at least I will be unconscious and won’t feel it, and thus won’t feel the pain.”

Zhao Shibo suddenly realized and said, “No wonder you wouldn’t respond when I called you earlier through the messaging array; you had taken Half-day Drunk and were thus unconscious. It seems I have wronged Master Qi and Master Gao.”

Qi Tian said, “There are methods other than Half-day Drunk that allow one to become insensible to pain. I believe that with Your Highness’s esteemed status, you must have similar medicines or means at your disposal. So in front of you, Your Highness, I won’t make a fool of myself. Princess, for this matter, you should ask the Prince for assistance, which would also save me a bit of trouble.”

Zhao Shibo stepped forward without a word. He took out a pill similar to Half-day Drunk and handed it to Zhao Ninglu, saying, “Swallow it.”

Zhao Ninglu glanced at Qi Tian as if waiting for his approval. This small gesture did not escape Zhao Shibo’s eyes, infuriating him. He felt like a treasured cabbage he had painstakingly grown was about to be snatched away by a pig. Could it be that his daughter had taken a fancy to Qi Tian, this unremarkable man?

Qi Tian said, “Princess, whether you use my medicine or the Prince’s to induce a state of unconsciousness while we perform the secret technique to awaken your potential is entirely up to you. The effect is the same. You can take it with peace of mind.”

Only then did Zhao Ninglu swallow the pill that Zhao Shibo had given her. Its effect was indeed not a bit inferior to Half-day Drunk. Almost as soon as the pill entered her mouth, it began to take effect. In an instant, Zhao Ninglu’s eyes grew heavy, her body went limp, and she lay down on the bed, asleep.

Qi Tian’s expression became slightly stern. After comparing Half-day Drunk with Zhao Shibo’s pill, he had to admit that the Half-day Drunk he had purchased at great cost from Wanjie Commerce was slightly less effective. Yet Half-day Drunk was already considered a high-grade medicine at Wanjie Commerce, which even practitioners in the Gold Core Realm would be affected by after taking it. It was quite rare. But it still couldn’t match Zhao Shibo’s medicine. What did that indicate?

This once again reminded Qi Tian that, despite the Imperial Family Secret Territory being just a small world, far less vast than the outside world, some of the means hidden here were not to be underestimated by Qi Tian. If he was not careful in every matter, one wrong step could lead to an irreparable place. Leaving other things aside, just consider such a medicine—if Zhao Shibo secretly gave him one, Qi Tian wouldn’t dare guarantee his own safety.

Qi Tian coughed and said, “Master Gao, you may begin now.”

Just as Gao Jinmei was about to start, Zhao Shibo suddenly interrupted, “Wait a moment. Actually, I have a question. You say you want to help my daughter awaken her potential. There must be a quantitative standard to determine whether the awakening was successful. It can’t just be you claiming success or failure, right? I need to perceive the difference in my daughter before and after the awakening to judge whether you were successful. I trust my request isn’t excessive?”

Qi Tian nodded and replied, “No, it isn’t excessive. I can tell you the criteria. In plain terms, what we call awakening potential is actually using specialized methods to reopen meridians that were not unclogged during the cultivation process, expelling the impurities blocking them, hence restoring flow. As the Princess’s father, you should be well aware of her meridian conditions. After we finish casting the spell, you can personally check to see if more of the Princess’s meridians have been unblocked. Of course, there’s something we must clarify upfront. The earlier in the cultivation process, especially in one’s youth, that the meridians are unblocked, the better the effect. For the Princess now, her meridians have solidified like rusty nails driven into a plank of wood. Trying to remove those nails is extremely difficult, and even if removed, the holes left behind won’t be clear but rather in poor condition. We’ll be achieving something similar by reopening her meridians—we can’t reopen too many, and even if we do, they won’t compare to her condition when she first started cultivating and actively unblocked them herself. I hope Your Highness understands this.”

Zhao Shibo nodded. He was clearer than anyone on the difficulty of reopening meridians under current conditions. As a cultivator, he knew that the Qi Cultivation Period was the optimal time for unblocking meridians—it was like laying the foundation of a house. It’s easiest and simplest at the beginning. But once the foundation is laid and construction of the house begins, to go back and dig up the foundation to reinforce it becomes exceedingly tough. If this was easy, he wouldn’t have spent hundreds of years after advancing to the Gold Core Stage without making progress in his cultivation. A significant reason for this was that during his Qi Cultivation Period, his foundation was not solid enough, he unblocked too few meridians. If he had put in more effort and unclogged more meridians back then, he wouldn’t be stuck in the Gold Core Realm; he might’ve reached the Mid-stage Gold Core Realm or even the later stages by now.