Chapter 1662 — What He Had Overlooked
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"Ha... I'll certainly go all out, you can be sure of that." Wei Zhao smiled, though inside he was wound tight as a drum. This was his first time fighting an Earth-rank expert. That Rain Leader from before hardly counted at all — the creature was a coward, and after Wei Zhao blew him up once, he had been left with a psychological scar and never dared face Wei Zhao head-on again. It was simply ridiculous.
But this Blue Hair before him was plainly not that sort of man. He gave Wei Zhao the impression of being steady and deep — utterly at odds with his thuggish looks — and it stirred in Wei Zhao a strange sense of oppression.
"Bring out your weapon!" Blue Hair said, looking at Wei Zhao. Young Master You had told him to finish Wei Zhao quickly, but whatever else he was, the man before him was an expert of his own level, and he could not afford to take him lightly.
"Weapon? I don't have a weapon," Wei Zhao said mildly.
"Oh?" Blue Hair was taken aback; he had not expected Wei Zhao to say that. Studying Wei Zhao's expression, he could not for the moment tell whether the man truly had no weapon or was simply putting on airs. "Your martial techniques — they don't require a weapon?"
Some martial techniques, after all, truly did not require a weapon. Among the martial techniques Blue Hair had cultivated, there were those that needed none, so he did not find it too strange — he merely asked.
"Martial techniques? What martial techniques?" Wei Zhao was slightly startled in turn.
"You don't know?" Blue Hair was briefly dumbfounded, then regarded Wei Zhao with an odd look.
"Tell me..." Wei Zhao thought to himself that this was bad. It seemed he had overlooked something. He had only just broken through to Earth rank and knew nothing of many things — and he had not asked Ice Sugar about them either. When Blue Hair spoke of a weapon, Wei Zhao could still follow, but as for martial techniques, he did not quite understand.
"Haha, watch this!" Blue Hair offered no explanation. With a sudden laugh he leaped into the air, his hands taking the shape of eagle talons, a bizarre "coo coo" cry rising from his throat as he bellowed, "Frenzied Eagle Thunderclap Claw!"
At Blue Hair's cry, the true qi around his body gathered into a faint, shadowy blue, and his pair of claws seemed truly to become an eagle's talons, wrapped in a qi that flickered in and out of sight, rendered especially eerie by the refraction of the light.
Wei Zhao's brow knitted slightly. In an instant he understood what he had overlooked, and what martial techniques were. So this Blue Hair, besides cultivating an inner-energy mental method, had also cultivated martial techniques! Yet back when Wei Zhao was at Profound rank, he had never heard of anyone cultivating martial techniques — even among external-school experts, special martial techniques were rare.
Earlier, when Blue Hair asked what martial techniques he knew and Wei Zhao said he did not, Blue Hair had clearly been astonished. That meant martial techniques must be something very common — and the only possible reason Wei Zhao did not know of them was that martial techniques could only be cultivated by experts of Earth rank and above, and that Profound-rank experts could not cultivate them at all.
But in that single thought, Blue Hair's pair of claws was already hurtling toward Wei Zhao!