Chapter 3431 — The Third Target

Before long, Fire Wolf War God Number Six had been reduced to a lump of charred flesh, lying stiff and rigid on the ground, utterly silent—clearly dead beneath the combined assault of Wei Zhao and Song Xianghua!

"Hahaha!" Song Xianghua burst into laughter. He had spent every last ounce of his physical strength and true qi, yet he was exhilarated—he had finally slain his opponent. Now only two capable fighters remained on the enemy's side!

And both of those two were being held in check by his own allies, so Song Xianghua had no fear that they might suddenly turn and attack him! Wasn't Wei Zhao still standing watch over there? So Song Xianghua strode back swaggeringly, sat down cross-legged at his own doorstep, and began to cultivate, recovering his physical strength and true qi!

But unlike Wei Zhao, he had neither the jade pendant space nor the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art—those two great trump cards—so his recovery of physical strength and true qi would be extremely slow.

Had he known that Wei Zhao was just like him—not quite so drained, perhaps, but still having expended a great deal of physical strength and true qi—he would never have dared to be so brazen! But in his eyes, the fact that Wei Zhao could unleash powerful martial techniques in rapid succession meant he must be a frightfully powerful existence, one who could never possibly run out of physical strength and true qi.

In truth, Wei Zhao could still unleash a single strike of the tenth form of the Mad Fire Eight Trigrams Palm—and that was the tenth form without the attack bonus of the Essence Necklace, so its destructive power was not as great as the amplified version.

Wei Zhao pondered here for a moment. He ought to be able to coordinate with the Wind-Thunder Violet Lightning Beast once more and finish off Fire Wolf War God Number Eight in the same fashion! But it was a bit risky—if he failed, and Little One's side could not coordinate to kill Number Eight, then Wei Zhao would be in danger!

By then the Wind-Thunder Violet Lightning Beast would have no physical strength or true qi left and could not help Wei Zhao escape, while he himself would also be out of physical strength and true qi and unable to kill Fire Wolf War God Number Eight with full force—would that not put him in danger?

Too risky! Wei Zhao could not guarantee that Fire Wolf War God Number Eight would not counterattack him with everything after being struck, so Wei Zhao decided he had better recover his physical strength and true qi first.

Once again he rapidly circulated the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. Within the jade pendant space, Wei Zhao greedily drew in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, while over there, Song Lingwei and Fire Wolf War God Number Five, and Little One and Fire Wolf War God Number Eight, were locked in inextricable combat.

Wei Zhao had stopped again and made no move against the enemy, which left Fire Wolf War God Number Five bewildered once more. What on earth was Wei Zhao's battle strategy? Why had he stopped again after finishing off Fire Wolf War God Number Six?

Could it be that his physical strength and true qi were exhausted? But that did not add up either—the first time, after defeating Fire Wolf War God Number Seven, Wei Zhao had also stood in place for quite a while, doing heaven knew what! And yet afterward he had struck again and killed Fire Wolf War God Number Six!

To say Wei Zhao had run out of physical strength and true qi was impossible, for Fire Wolf War God Number Five had never heard of any cultivator who could recover physical strength and true qi so quickly—and he had not seen Wei Zhao take any pills either!

It was just that Wei Zhao stood there motionless off to the side, which made Fire Wolf War God Number Five somewhat uneasy, and he wanted to settle the fight quickly! But his opponent was Song Lingwei, also a peak late Heaven-rank great-perfection expert of formidable skill—though she was an external-school expert, and they were evenly matched, so Fire Wolf War God Number Five had not the slightest hope of victory!

If only he had a handy divine weapon in his grasp! Fire Wolf War God Number Five sighed. The Center was, after all, far inferior to those ancient sects with thousand-year lineages. Among the several Fire Wolf War Gods of the Center, his strength ranked fifth, and yet he did not even have a single handy divine weapon! Still, only Number One and Number Two had divine weapons—even Number Three and Number Four did not—so Number Five felt a little more balanced in his heart.

Fortunately, Song Lingwei and Song Xianghua had none either; otherwise his side really would be at a disadvantage! Of course, this was also thanks to the fact that the Overseas Cultivators' Association had too shallow a foundation! The entire Overseas Cultivators' Association had been founded single-handedly by He Dantou, and although he had spent these years doing his utmost to scrape together and purchase divine weapons, such weapons were exceedingly rare in the world today—not every Heaven-rank expert possessed one.

The few divine weapons the Overseas Cultivators' Association did possess all had to go to He Dantou himself and his son, the vice-chairman; they would never fall to an elder—let alone to a guest elder like Song Lingwei!

Just like Elder Wang and Elder Chen, who had come here earlier on a mission to kill Tang Yuqi—they had had no divine weapons on them at all.

But the two sides being evenly matched left Fire Wolf War God Number Five deeply frustrated. If Song Lingwei was not taken down soon, today would be the prelude to total annihilation! Wei Zhao had not made a move; if he did, another capable fighter on their side would surely fall—either himself or Number Eight!

In truth, Fire Wolf War God Number Eight was also puzzling over it—why had Wei Zhao stopped attacking? Could it be that Wei Zhao was, at bottom, still bound by knightly honor? That he had struck just now only because he saw Song Xianghua falling into disadvantage and wanted to help, and that since he and Number Five were both locked in inextricable, evenly matched combat with their opponents, Wei Zhao therefore did not intervene?

Thinking it over, that was the only possibility; he truly could not imagine any other!

On Wei Zhao's side, his physical strength and true qi were finally restored, and then he began restoring the Wind-Thunder Violet Lightning Beast's. Once both had abundant physical strength and true qi, Wei Zhao's third target settled upon Little One's opponent—Fire Wolf War God Number Eight!

Little One's way of fighting left Wei Zhao deeply frustrated. It was one thing that the puppet clone could not use Little One's Heaven-rank weapon—after all, every person's divine weapon had to be used in concert with their own mental cultivation formula and oral incantation, and it was only natural that the ghost thing did not know Little One's formula.

But what frustrated Wei Zhao most was this: even without Little One's mental cultivation formula, surely the ghost thing had its own formula? Could it not unleash martial techniques? Instead it was trading blow for blow with Fire Wolf War God Number Eight in sheer hard combat—if this were the old Little One, Number Eight should have been dead long ago, no?

"Little Wind, let's get ready and finish off that Number Eight fighting Little One!" Wei Zhao ordered the Wind-Thunder Violet Lightning Beast.

"Roar—roar—roar!" The Wind-Thunder Violet Lightning Beast roared three times to show it understood, and suddenly, lightning began to flicker and dance upon its single horn...

This sight startled both Fire Wolf War God Number Five and Number Eight! Was it time to start electrocuting people again? But their own opponents were evenly matched with them, and those opponents showed no sign of weakness—so why was Wei Zhao about to lend a hand? Had he... changed his strategy?

"Boom!"