Chapter 2109 — In for a Penny, in for a Pound
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"Increase the force of the true qi again!" The Right patriarch ground his teeth and said.
And so the patriarchs began once more to increase the force of their true qi, hoping to force Wei Zhao out. If Wei Zhao won this round as well, then this summit meant to target and suppress the hidden Han family would truly be a colossal joke!
Wei Zhao felt the true qi upon him strengthen once more, yet he merely smiled faintly.
"...Again!" The Zhao patriarch, seeing that Wei Zhao was unaffected, continued.
And so the patriarchs increased the force of their true qi a third time. The pressure of true qi within the formation had reached an extraordinary level—more than double what it had been before! Of course, though it was the combined pressure of several Heaven-rank experts at once, channeled through the formation, it still could not do Wei Zhao any harm!
After all, the true qi of those Heaven-rank experts was evenly distributed throughout the formation, and Wei Zhao was merely a single point within it. However powerful, it was power spread thin—worlds apart from a direct attack by a Heaven-rank expert. These Heaven-rank patriarchs had, in effect, only a small fraction of their true qi reaching Wei Zhao to contend with him; the greater part ran off to other parts of the formation and was wasted!
Wei Zhao felt once more the pressure of true qi around him increase greatly, but pressure of this degree he truly did not regard at all!
Though Wei Zhao had to expend more true qi to resist, that true qi came from the jade-pendant space—an endless, inexhaustible supply. He could simply sit there with his eyes shut, continuously drawing energy from the jade-pendant space to contend with the pressure...
"That's not right—just what level of expert is this Wei Zhao? Still nothing?" The Right family patriarch finally sensed that something was off. Was this not simply absurd?
The other Earth-rank disciples—even those at the peak of late Earth-rank—had already failed to endure under the initial pressure. Yet Wei Zhao, even after these Heaven-rank patriarchs had raised the true qi intensity again and again, still wore an utterly indifferent look!
"Patriarch Yu, what do you make of this?" The Zhao patriarch turned to the Yu family's ancestral elder and asked. The Yu ancestral elder was a veteran Heaven-rank expert of broad experience; for such a bizarre situation, there was no one else to ask.
"This defies all logic!" The Yu family patriarch shook his head, equally unable to understand what was going on with Wei Zhao. Could it be that Wei Zhao truly was already a Heaven-rank expert, playing the pig to eat the tiger all along?
"How about we exert our full pressure?" A savage glint flashed through the Tang patriarch's eyes. Wei Zhao had gravely humiliated the Tang family at his birthday banquet—few knew of it, only the Right family, the Xuandan Sect, and the Ice Palace, but the Tang patriarch's hatred for Wei Zhao had not diminished in the least!
Above all, he regretted not having properly courted Tang Zhi, letting her sever ties with the Tang family! Otherwise, if Wei Zhao truly was a Heaven-rank expert, he would have been the son-in-law of the hidden Tang family—and what power would the hidden Tang family then command?
But he and Tang Lingtou had already taken things to the extreme back then; there was naturally no room to turn back. The Tang patriarch feared that Wei Zhao would bear a grudge and take revenge later, so he might as well be in for a penny, in for a pound!