Chapter 2021 — Relief
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
There had been too much going on these past few days. Wei Zhao planned to find a chance to practice the fourth form of the Raging Fire Fist again. And now that he had already reached the peak of early Earth Rank, could he, besides the fourth form, also unleash the fifth and sixth forms?
Wei Zhao was full of anticipation! It was only that he had no solid block of time to work it out and practice.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Wei Zhao circulated the second level of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. His strength at the peak of early Earth Rank was now basically stable. This breakthrough had held few surprises for him, a narrow escape at most. After all, he had been on the verge of breaking through for a long time; he had merely lacked the trigger to smash through his limit, and that trigger had happened to appear during battle!
What Wei Zhao felt thankful for was that this trigger had come at the very end of the fight, at the moment that decided victory and defeat. Had it come earlier, he would have been in real danger!
With an Earth Rank man in black watching him like a tiger, could he have broken through in peace? The whole group would probably have been finished. Just thinking about it made Wei Zhao's blood run cold.
But through this battle, Wei Zhao had actually discovered an advantage of his own: his lack of raw strength could be made up for through martial techniques! He was only an early Earth Rank fighter, yet by relying on the special qualities of his techniques, he had not been at a disadvantage even against a mid Earth Rank man in black.
His first form of the Raging Fire Fist was roughly equal to the second form of the man in black's so-called Frigid Snow Thorn! In other words, as long as Wei Zhao had plenty of stamina, he could fight above his level. This discovery both startled and delighted him!
He had thought that the advantage of fighting above his level, which he had enjoyed at the Mystic Rank, was gone for good. But unexpectedly, through Uncle Qing's martial techniques, he had regained that old edge. The fourth form of the Raging Fire Fist could already crush a mid Earth Rank fighter, which meant that against an opponent only one rank above him, Wei Zhao could crush them with ease.
As long as he unleashed the fourth form of the Raging Fire Fist from the very start, his opponent would have no way to respond! Only, what about facing a fighter at the peak of mid Earth Rank now? He hoped he could unleash the fifth and sixth forms of the Raging Fire Fist; then he would have the strength to put up a fight against the peak of mid Earth Rank.
But others were different. However formidable a martial technique might be, everyone's comprehension of it would deviate somewhat; no one could wield the Raging Fire Fist as though they had created it themselves, the way Wei Zhao did.
The Earth Rank man in black's Frigid Snow Thorn was in fact not weak either; it was just that he himself was too weak. His mental cultivation method had never been up to much to begin with, so the technique's power could never be fully brought out, and his comprehension of it was not thorough. That was why every form of his came out one grade weaker than Wei Zhao's.