Chapter 2850 — Lamenting the Past
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But now Wei Zhao realized his mistake. He had overlooked the single most important point: the gap in strength between himself and Tian Chan. His running speed might match that of a Heaven-rank expert, but that did not mean his true qi burst and explosive power were on the same level. The height a Heaven-rank expert could leap to was beyond what Wei Zhao's current true qi power could achieve.
Yang Qiqi was briefly startled when she saw Wei Zhao leap up and then fall back down—she had spotted the problem too. She had also seen those marks left by Tian Chan's strikes, but the height of those marks was something she could never reach.
She knew her own lightness skill well; that height was absolutely beyond her. And Wei Zhao's failure made Yang Qiqi's expression shift slightly. "Those marks are too high. I can't jump up there..."
"Neither can I..." Wei Zhao gave a bitter smile. That leap just now had consumed nearly all his physical strength and true qi, yet he still had not reached Tian Chan's height. And this kind of gap in strength could not be bridged.
Even if Wei Zhao unleashed all his true qi, he still could not compare to Tian Chan. And from the look of things, Tian Chan had not only been able to leap that high but had also retained enough physical strength and true qi to channel martial techniques into the cliff face. Wei Zhao, by contrast, had exhausted all his strength and true qi merely to jump, let alone strike the cliff.
Moreover, given Wei Zhao's current martial power, he estimated that he would not inflict any damage on the cliff face at all. Tian Chan, channeling martial techniques with the strength of a late-stage peak Heaven-rank expert, had only managed to gouge a few shallow marks into the cliff.
"What? Then we..." Yang Qiqi's eyes went wide at Wei Zhao's words. "We can't get up?"
"We can't get up." Wei Zhao nodded. In his earlier urgency to save her, he had overlooked these problems, and now that he thought of them, it was already too late. Unless another expert of Tian Chan's caliber came down to carry them up, Wei Zhao truly had no way.
"Then how did you get up before?" Yang Qiqi asked, puzzled.
"Before, my friend was an expert at the peak of the late Heaven rank..." Wei Zhao told Yang Qiqi how he and Tian Chan had gone up together before, and how he had replenished Tian Chan's strength along the way. In any case, Yang Qiqi already knew plenty about him, so Wei Zhao concealed nothing.
"Ah, I see! Then... is there no other route?" Yang Qiqi asked with a frown after hearing this.
"There isn't..." Wei Zhao then recounted to Yang Qiqi what he and Tian Chan had discussed about the front and back of the Five Fiends Mountains and the lands beyond. He had been trapped once before, so he simply stopped trying to think of other ways out.
"We can't get out? How can that be..." Yang Qiqi truly could not accept this fact. She had finally, with such difficulty, found something from the Five Fiends Dragon's claw section, and she had wanted to hurry back and use it on Xiao Jiu. But now she found herself trapped here with no way out.
"That's just how it is." Wei Zhao was somewhat resigned as well, yet utterly helpless. "If there were another way out, we wouldn't be resorting to such a clumsy method..."
"Then... what about your friend, the late-stage peak Heaven-rank expert? Would she notice you haven't gone back up and come looking for you?" Yang Qiqi asked hopefully.
"That friend of mine? We only met by chance and traveled together for a while. After we got up from here, she left. How could she possibly come back?" Wei Zhao shook his head. In truth, Wei Zhao was anxious too, but seeing Yang Qiqi's state, if he showed any more anxiety, she might well go mad. So Wei Zhao tried his best to appear calm, though in reality he was burning with impatience.