Chapter 4725 — Pierced Straight Through

Still, it was only a bit of a pity. Wei Zhao was not so foolish as to pin all his hopes on his opponent's carelessness. According to the plan he had worked out with Han Jingyi, even if the man gave no opening, he could still contrive to make one!

Kang Jingming's first reaction upon seeing Wei Zhao was to blast him with a cannon. Unfortunately, before he could even swing the laser cannon's muzzle around, Wei Zhao had already struck first.

In an instant the temperature in that narrow little canyon passage spiked, and a pillar of fire shot skyward, sweeping across in every direction, followed at once by wave upon wave of unending, thunderous detonations. It was none other than the Furious Fire Thousand Explosions Fist!

This killing move, derived from the Frenzied Sand Thousand Explosions Fist, was powerful enough to deal with a peak Nascent Soul expert. Xu Lingchong, hiding at a distance, was already hard-pressed just from the shockwave grazing him. Unfortunately, Kang Jingming stood at the very heart of the explosion without stirring so much as a hair; even the Five Elements Killing Aura from before had been useless against him, so the Furious Fire Thousand Explosions Fist could hardly fare better.

"Haha! What kind of crap move is that? Looks scary enough, I'll grant you, but it's not even good enough to scratch an itch for me. About the only use for it, I'd guess, is saving you the money on fireworks for the New Year!" Kang Jingming laughed smugly. In his eyes, Wei Zhao was now nothing but a buffoon capering on a stage, sneaking back to launch a surprise attack. What the hell was the point?!

What Kang Jingming wanted most right now was to hold the laser cannon to Wei Zhao's head and make this poseur get down on his knees and sing "Conquer" for him. The two of them were practically within arm's reach of each other, yet he could not locate Wei Zhao at all.

The chaos and glare thrown up by the Furious Fire Thousand Explosions Fist had left him unable to adjust in the slightest. Right now he was effectively deaf and blind; even if Wei Zhao stood directly in front of him, he would not have the faintest idea.

This was precisely the effect Wei Zhao had been after. With a cold laugh, the Five Elements Killing Aura he had been gathering in his palm struck once more. Amid a dragon's roar drowned out by the thunderous din, this time the Five Elements Killing Aura condensed into a single point, aimed straight at the dead center of the man's helmet!

As expected, though Wei Zhao had struck with full force this time and had gone to great lengths to concentrate the destructive power into a single point, he still failed in the end to break through the man's defenses!

It had to be said, the protective capability of Kang Jingming's suit of smart armor really was unparalleled. One would be hard-pressed to find another piece of defensive equipment anywhere in the world that could compare.

Even so, Wei Zhao did not give up. Using the Five Elements Killing Aura to bore through the man's armor, like the Furious Fire Thousand Explosions Fist meant to blind and confuse, was only one small step in his plan with Han Jingyi. The real show was yet to come.

The Five Elements Killing Aura hammered away relentlessly at the same point. One strike was not enough, so he sent two; two were not enough, so he sent three. His true qi was inexhaustible, after all, and he had no fear of that level of expenditure. And Kang Jingming, for all his formidable gear, had reflexes so sluggishly infuriating that as long as the Furious Fire Thousand Explosions Fist kept up, he simply could not sense that someone was cracking open his skull.

This went on for the better part of half an incense stick's burning time. Under Wei Zhao's deliberate control, the Furious Fire Thousand Explosions Fist never let up, and Kang Jingming, sure enough, acted like a fool, letting Wei Zhao drill away at his skull without ever noticing a thing.

At last, after a faint, all but inaudible crack arose amid the chaos, the thunderous roar of the Furious Fire Thousand Explosions Fist gradually died away, and the blinding firelight scattered with it. The narrow canyon passage returned to its former state.

Only then did Kang Jingming once again locate Wei Zhao standing right before him, and he burst into wild laughter. "Poseur, did your brain take a swim? You really think I don't dare kill you? You know your sneak attack failed, yet you don't run, and you've got the damn nerve to still be standing here. Have you posed your way into idiocy?"

"I'm not an idiot, but you're about to become one." Wei Zhao smiled faintly. Almost before the words left his mouth, a thread of blue electric arc leaped from his fingertip, tracing a clean curve, and landed in an instant on the crown of Kang Jingming's helmet.

Kang Jingming was stunned. He had not expected Wei Zhao to be able to generate lightning! Could this be some divine artifact Han Jingyi had given him?

But he was not afraid, either. He was just about to sneer—after all, his smart armor was proof against electricity; in his eyes Wei Zhao's little trick was sheer buffoonery. Yet before he could even curve his lips into a grin, he heard a crack-crack-crack-crack of sharp reports above his head, and his whole body suddenly began to convulse wildly, breaking into a bizarre breakdance on the spot.

Beneath the flashing electric light, even the outline of his bones inside became faintly visible. Black smoke came streaming from his head—by God, the man was being live-roasted on the spot!

Xu Lingchong, who had fled to one side, was utterly dumbstruck at the sight. What on earth was going on? He had assumed Kang Jingming could eat Wei Zhao alive with that formidable gear of his. But from the way things looked now, how had it turned out to be the other way around—Kang Jingming being eaten alive?!

To be honest, Wei Zhao had only just mastered this power of thunder and lightning, and its might was hardly anything to write home about. But once Kang Jingming's smart armor had its insulating protective layer breached, it turned into a veritable metal cage, and unwittingly multiplied by several times the power of the lightning poured into it. So long as he still wore that smart armor, Kang Jingming had no way to escape.

Even so, the man still thrashed about desperately like some unkillable cockroach. In the end, it was simply that Wei Zhao's electric arc was too weak!

With no other choice, Wei Zhao could only keep pouring on the power of lightning with all his might. Blue-glowing arcs streamed ceaselessly into the metal armor, and Kang Jingming had no chance to break free at all. He could only stand pinned there, his whole body twitching wildly.

Thus Kang Jingming was now completely at Wei Zhao's mercy, without the slightest ability to fight back. Even if his vitality really was like that of a cockroach, at this rate being electrocuted to death was only a matter of time—it would merely cost a bit more effort.

But just then, from far behind them, Huo Yudie's startled cry suddenly rang out: "Watch out!!!"

Wei Zhao's heart lurched. In truth, even without Huo Yudie's warning, the jade pendant had already alerted him. But because his entire mind had been fixed on Kang Jingming, for a moment he simply failed to react. And the opponent's attack was far too fast—without prior anticipation, there was no dodging it at all, because this was a laser!

In the end, Wei Zhao's reaction was still a beat too slow. A blindingly brilliant laser beam came silently at the speed of light, without any shocking sound, and yet it pierced straight through Wei Zhao's abdomen, blasting a harrowing hole clean through him!