Chapter 2374 — Gravely Wounded
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Since it's been said that this ends only with death, let us continue!" Wei Zhao rose to his feet and looked at Piao Laoliu with a smile. "What if the one who dies at the end is you, and not me?"
"Impossible!" Piao Laoliu rejected it flatly. "I'll grant you this—your thieving ability is formidable, stealing my martial art as you did. But you cannot deny that your strength is plain for all to see: only the middle Earth Rank. Even if you activate my martial art, there is no way you can bring out the power of the eleventh form as it was. If my sense is right, it is only about the sixth form. And I am a fighter at the peak of the late Earth Rank. My strength, my endurance, and the power of the martial arts I unleash far exceed yours. If we wear each other down like this, the one who dies first will surely be you! Though I too may be gravely wounded."
"Oh? Anything else you'd like to say?" Wei Zhao asked mildly. "When you're done, we continue."
"…" Matters had come to such a pass that Piao Laoliu knew it was utterly impossible to talk Wei Zhao around. There was nothing for it but to keep fighting with all his strength!
"Raging Fire Heaven-Splitting Earth-Rending Claw, fifth form!" Wei Zhao's wounds and stamina had mostly recovered. Another Raging Fire Heaven-Splitting Earth-Rending Claw shot out, straight at Piao Laoliu, catching him completely off guard!
He had not expected Wei Zhao to strike the moment he spoke. But Piao Laoliu was, after all, a fighter at the peak of the late Earth Rank, and his reflexes were no feeble thing. He hastily revolved his mental formulas and oral secrets, forgoing true-qi protection altogether, pouring every ounce of his true qi into his martial art, and unleashed his strongest technique—the tenth form of the Heaven-Splitting Earth-Rending Claw!
"Bang!" "Bang!"
Two great reports; the two bodies crashed together and then broke apart, flying off in opposite directions!
Piao Laoliu was gravely wounded. After spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood, he gasped for breath in great heaves. Though his boasts had sounded fine before, only he knew in his heart just how much the Heaven-Splitting Earth-Rending Claw had hurt him!
This martial art was the bane of the external body techniques he cultivated. Never mind that Wei Zhao had only unleashed the sixth form—so long as he had not risen to the Heaven Rank, even the first form could grind him to death! Only upon advancing to the Heaven Rank could the harm wrought by the ten Earth Rank forms truly be disregarded. But unfortunately, he was no Heaven Rank fighter.
Wei Zhao was hardly faring well either. After spitting out a mouthful of black blood, he merely clenched his teeth and silently endured. Once he landed, he desperately revolved the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to heal himself! He wasted no words on threats; pale-faced, he seized every moment to recover.
This feeling left Wei Zhao somewhat frightened. If Piao Laoliu kept unleashing his martial arts without giving Wei Zhao a moment to breathe, then Wei Zhao's fate would likely be to take a one-sided beating—just as when he had faced the Five Protectors of the Courtyard. Unable to heal himself, he could only be savaged.
But Piao Laoliu seemed to harbor some misgivings and did not press the attack. In truth, it had never occurred to Piao Laoliu that Wei Zhao could heal himself! RQ