Chapter 2762 — A Real Rip-Off
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
Back at the seventh stance, Wei Zhao could already one-shot a skilled practitioner of the early Heaven rank. At the eighth and ninth stances, if his physical strength and true qi could keep up, he should be able to one-shot even those at the peak of the early Heaven rank, or perhaps even the mid Heaven rank!
How much power it would actually carry, though, Wei Zhao could not say without testing it. He did not know which stance marked the limit of his physical strength, but there was no doubt that the higher the stance, the harder it was to unleash—and once unleashed, it would leave him almost completely drained. Though the stances were nominally Earth-rank martial techniques, in truth they were already Heaven-rank.
Feeling that his physical strength was fairly abundant, Wei Zhao began preparing to try unleashing the eighth stance of the Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm—the equivalent of the fourteenth stance of an ordinary Heaven-rank martial technique!
Following his previous method, Wei Zhao first prepared to unleash the Frenzied Fire Fist. Only by mastering the eighth and ninth stances of the Frenzied Fire Fist could he combine them into the far more powerful Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm!
Clearly, unleashing the Frenzied Fire Fist posed no difficulty whatsoever for Wei Zhao. He began with the first stance and flowed smoothly onward—seventh stance... eighth stance, then the ninth—all in one continuous breath!
"Phew..." Wei Zhao was quite satisfied with his execution of the Frenzied Fire Fist. Next, he unleashed the eighth and ninth stances individually, both of which he could perform flawlessly without the slightest hitch. It seemed the unmodified Frenzied Fire Fist was still relatively easy to unleash.
After unleashing the eighth and ninth stances of the Frenzied Fire Fist, Wei Zhao made a final attempt at the tenth stance. So he went from the first stance all the way through the eighth and ninth... and the tenth ended in failure.
It seemed the ninth stance was already the limit of his current late Earth-rank strength. The tenth stance, he feared, would have to wait until he reached the peak of the late Earth rank! Wei Zhao was not particularly surprised—after all, he had only been making an attempt, and he had never truly expected to succeed.
Having unleashed the Frenzied Fire Fist, Wei Zhao began on the Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm, using the mental cultivation mnemonic of the Frenzied Fire Fist and the unleashing method of the Five Elements Eight-Trigram Palm to combine them into the eighth stance of the Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm!
Unless absolutely necessary, Wei Zhao would not lightly attempt to unleash the Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm all the way from the first stance to the eighth, because unleashing it from the first through the seventh already left him feeling hard-pressed for strength—it drained his physical power unlike anything ordinary. So Wei Zhao could only unleash the eighth stance on its own.
To Wei Zhao's relief, he successfully unleashed the eighth stance of the Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm, and its power was far greater than the seventh stance before it. Wei Zhao even felt that the eighth stance would have little trouble ambushing a skilled practitioner of the mid Heaven rank!
The only problem was that after releasing a single strike of the eighth stance of the Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm, Wei Zhao felt his physical strength instantly drained dry—he nearly collapsed to the ground, unable to keep his footing!
"Powerful as this move is, it seems I truly cannot use it lightly!" Wei Zhao smiled bitterly and sat down cross-legged on the ground, swiftly entering the jade pendant space to frantically restore his physical strength and true qi.
After unleashing that one stance, Wei Zhao no longer had the strength to unleash any technique at all.