Chapter 2003 — The Fourth Stance of Raging Fire Fist!
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At the instant he unleashed the fourth stance of Raging Fire Fist, Wei Zhao had felt that he was about to break through; but he forced himself to hold back—he neither drew in the spiritual qi of heaven and earth nor entered the jade pendant space, instead carefully governing the rhythm of his body as he brought out the fourth stance of Raging Fire Fist...
Beneath the overwhelming might of the fourth stance of Raging Fire Fist, the fourth stance of the Earth-Rank man in black's Frigid Ice-Snow Spike was broken without the slightest power of resistance. Such a victory was pure luck, and a narrow one at that! Had the Earth-Rank man in black not, at the final moment, lacked the nerve to meet force with force, had he not failed to meet Wei Zhao's third stance of Raging Fire Fist head-on and so left that third stance without a point of contact to fully erupt and discharge, Wei Zhao could never have turned so smoothly into the fourth stance.
Yet if the Earth-Rank man in black had known that it was his own evasion that let Wei Zhao unleash the fourth stance and make a breakthrough in strength, he would surely have died a second time of sheer chagrin.
As for how the fifth stance of Raging Fire Fist could be unleashed—the earlier reasons counted for something, but the most important was that in such a crisis Wei Zhao had roused his latent potential; and beyond that, because he was on the verge of breaking through at the same time, he had succeeded in unleashing the fourth stance.
Not one of these conditions could be lacking.
After striking the Earth-Rank man in black dead, Wei Zhao did not even check whether he was alive or dead; he simply sat down cross-legged on the ground, circulated the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, and entered the jade pendant space...
In that moment the spiritual qi of heaven and earth above Wei Zhao's head grew ever denser. Of course, such a marvel of heaven and earth could be sensed only by **; Xu Shilan and Cheng Yiyi felt merely that some strange current of air had arisen nearby, and would not have thought anything else amiss.
"Could it be that he is about to break through?" Feng Sanmang had not expected that Wei Zhao, with the strength of an early Earth-Rank, would slay a mid Earth-Rank expert—and more than that, by the look of it, he had pushed the limits of his body's potential in battle and was about to advance a level!
At that thought, Feng Sanmang quickly said to Xu Shilan and Cheng Yiyi, "Do not move about. Stand behind me. Brother Lin is about to break through, and I must ** for him!"
"Ah... all right..." Xu Shilan did not understand what this "breakthrough" Feng Sanmang spoke of actually was, but she could see the situation clearly enough now: Wei Zhao's enemy had been defeated, a great bloody hole in his body, dead beyond any doubt.
Wei Zhao was plainly in no danger now, and that let Xu Shilan breathe a sigh of relief while filling her heart with admiration for him—even a kind of worship. It was plain to see, and plain from the Earth-Rank man in black's words as well, that between the two, Wei Zhao had held the disadvantage; yet even at a disadvantage, Wei Zhao could rise again and again from every fall, and at the last turn defeat into victory and work a miracle!
Cheng Yiyi's eyes, however, were full of terror; looking at Wei Zhao not far off and the dead man at the foot of the wall, she could not speak a word...