Chapter 2152 — Striking a Pact
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What no one had expected was that Wei Zhao walked into the cage, neither dodging nor flinching, but striding straight toward the Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast! Everyone, the beast included, was struck dumb for a moment. Was this Wei Zhao out of his mind? Had he come simply to throw his life away?
And while the crowd puzzled and the Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast wondered, Wei Zhao spoke in a voice only the beast could hear—true qi condensed into sound: "I know you can understand my words, and I know the one named Wo means to do away with me. But I have a proposal for you—follow me, and you will fare far better than you do following him!"
"Hou?" The Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast started. It had not expected Wei Zhao to wield the art of condensing true qi into sound—a divine skill only Heaven-rank masters could command, and not even all of them! Having lived for over ten thousand years, the beast had of course seen and heard a great deal.
And what was more, Wei Zhao actually knew that it could understand human speech? That was a thing not even the folk of the Qianshan Sect knew, was it? And what puzzled the beast most was this talk of following him being better than following the Qianshan Sect—what did that mean?
"Heh... you will know soon enough. Do not resist!" Wei Zhao stepped closer, reached out and laid his hand upon the beast, and gently circulated the first tier of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. A thread of fine energy passed over and entered the Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast's body!
"!" The Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast shuddered from head to tail, its eyes brimming with shock and disbelief as it stared at Wei Zhao, unable to speak a word! Was this real? This man before it could actually channel energy into it?
What the Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast needed most was energy with which to advance—otherwise it could never have endured all these years at the Qianshan Sect. Yet what Wei Zhao had just passed to it, though only a thread, was of a purity beyond compare, worth as much as ten years or more of its own cultivation!
As for that miraculous medicinal fruit Master Wo had brought out earlier for it to consume—the true qi it could have gained from that was not even one hundredth of the thread Wei Zhao had just given it!
So the Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast was truly half mad with it. It stared at Wei Zhao, turning matters over in its mind, yet it could not bring itself to believe entirely—after all, its spiritual intelligence was high, and a single moment like this was not enough to win its full trust.
Wei Zhao said nothing more. He only smiled faintly and once again circulated the first tier of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, passing over a thread of energy slightly greater than the last!
This time the Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast harbored no further doubt. It believed at last—believed that someone could truly help it grow stronger!
"I wonder if you have ever heard of the Heaven-Thunder Pig? I have one; it is now my spirit-beast underling, and I have raised it from Yellow rank all the way to Mystic rank. That it will one day reach Earth rank is only a matter of time!" Seeing the Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast convinced, Wei Zhao dangled another great prize before it!
The Heaven-Thunder Pig? The Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast was itself a divine beast handed down from the ancient age, and naturally it knew something of the Heaven-Thunder Pig, that treasure-seeking spirit beast with its heaven-defying gifts! In that ancient era the Heaven-Thunder Pig had borne another name—the Fortune-Summoning Pig—for it could sniff out anything of value.
The Wind-Thunder Violet-Lightning Beast had always rather envied the Heaven-Thunder Pig its talents. How could it not have heard of it?