Chapter 2467 — A Very High Level of Strength
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"Pff—" Zi Mao spat a mouthful of blood, plainly badly hurt. He struggled to rise, but the will was there and the strength was not; after two wobbles he lapsed into unconsciousness!
Huang Mao and You Panhu's faces were a picture of horror. When Zi Mao had spoken of "playing tricks," the two of them had even suspected that someone was out here putting on a ghostly act to frighten them—but now it was plain as day that this was nothing of the sort!
Zi Mao was an expert of the Profound Rank, and whoever could wound an expert of the Profound Rank so gravely must be an expert of what level? And the eeriest part was that neither of them had seen how the other side had struck—as far as they could tell, no one had struck at all, and yet Zi Mao had been flung through the air for no reason and smashed hard against the stone stele, his life or death unknown.
Wei Zhao, too, frowned at this "vengeful ghost" before them, his guard raised to its peak! Of course, Wei Zhao had not gone so far as to think of it as a ghost—back when they had gone tomb-raiding in the ancient tomb, hadn't Yu, the ringleader, also played the ghost to kill people?
By now Kang Jinglong was long since frozen in terror. Even Zi Mao being flung through the air scarcely surprised him anymore; he simply sat on the ground like an idiot, his face blank.
What struck Wei Zhao as strange was Wang Xinyan. From first to last she had not said a single word; she merely stood there. Though she had not turned back and Wei Zhao could not see her expression, he could tell from her posture that she was not afraid!
For Wang Xinyan stood perfectly steady—no trembling, no stumbling. That left Wei Zhao puzzled: since when had Wang Xinyan's courage grown so great? Earlier, in the expedition car, she had been quite resistant to getting out—how had she become a different person in such a short time?
"Wang Xinyan!" Wei Zhao thought, This bodes ill—when something is amiss, there is sure to be a demon behind it. Right now Wang Xinyan had likely fallen into some kind of trance!
After Wei Zhao's shout, Wang Xinyan showed no reaction at all—she did not even turn her head to glance at him. This only confirmed for Wei Zhao that Wang Xinyan must have been bewitched by something before her eyes...
Wei Zhao drew a deep breath and began compressing a true-qi bomb in his hand. This insubstantial, elusive thing was also the hardest thing to deal with. Wei Zhao did not know whether ordinary moves would work on it, but from the way Zi Mao had been flung through the air without warning, this thing before them was certainly no simple matter!
And most crucially, Wei Zhao could not use his golden finger to see through this thing's strength! That is to say, either the one before them was an outer-path expert of very high level—but that did not fit either, for at the instant he struck at Zi Mao, Wei Zhao still had not sensed his strength. In other words, he was no outer-path expert! RQ