Chapter 3000 — The Ninth Form of the Mad Fire Eight-Trigram Palm!
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Now that he had reached the Heaven rank, if he used the martial technique Spring Rain From Heaven, could it provide more stamina and true qi? He wondered whether, by working together with Han Jingyi, he might be able to refine Heaven-rank pills.
Yet there was one more crucial point: Wei Zhao was desperately short of money right now. The pharmaceutical company was barely scraping by, which did not mean it had weathered the storm. Once this batch of medicine was delivered to the distributors, there would inevitably be a gap period!
Previously, the distributors had paid first and taken delivery later. But after everything that had happened, which distributor would be foolish enough to pay upfront now? None of them would release the hawk until they saw the rabbit—they would wait for the goods to arrive before paying. That meant Kang's Pharmaceuticals would have no money to produce the next batch of medicine.
Fatty Lai had already told Wei Zhao all of this, but at present Wei Zhao truly had no way out! Among his underlings, the richest had been the secular Liu family, and now the secular Liu family was finished. Wei Zhao really had nowhere left to find money!
The richest in the Hidden Layer were the Hidden You family and the Golden Bell Sect, but those two families were only paying him lip service out of fear of Wei Zhao. If he truly demanded money from them, it would probably be impossible. Surely Wei Zhao could not just show up at their doors and extort them?
With no justifiable cause, the Ancient Layer would likely step in to interfere, and that was not something Wei Zhao wanted to see. Wei Zhao had already had more than enough troubles lately. They had just settled down, and he did not want to stir up any more.
He could only take things one step at a time. After settling his underlings for the time being, Wei Zhao came to the backyard of the villa, preparing to try unleashing the Mad Fire Eight-Trigram Palm.
Back when he was in the late Earth rank, Wei Zhao had already been able to skillfully unleash the eighth form of the Mad Fire Eight-Trigram Palm, though he could not unleash the ninth form. As for the ninth form, the Mad Fire Fist, Wei Zhao had long since been able to unleash it with ease. So now Wei Zhao circulated the mental cultivation formula and incantation of the ninth form of the Mad Fire Fist, then gathered his true qi into his palms, and, using the unleashing method of the Five Elements Eight-Trigram Palm, rapidly released it!
"Boom!" A thunderous blast rang out in the courtyard. Although Wei Zhao had only unleashed it into the air, its power was still not to be underestimated. The tremendous explosive force gave all of Wei Zhao's underlings inside the villa a fright, but they were mostly delighted—Wei Zhao seemed even more formidable than before!
This was the equivalent of unleashing the fifteenth form of an ordinary martial technique. Wei Zhao had previously been able to kill a mid Heaven-rank expert in a single strike, and now he felt he should be able to kill an expert at the peak of mid Heaven rank in a single strike. But whether he truly could, only a test would tell.
To Wei Zhao's regret, after unleashing the ninth form, it actually drained every last drop of stamina and true qi from his body, leaving him collapsed limply on the ground. The fifteenth form was generally something only mid Heaven-rank experts could unleash; for Wei Zhao to unleash it now naturally consumed far more stamina and true qi.
Wei Zhao also discovered that the higher the level of the Mad Fire Eight-Trigram Palm, the harder it was to unleash. It was no longer as easy as it had been back in the Earth rank, when he could leap levels and unleash it in one go. Now every time Wei Zhao unleashed it, he had to give his all, and he could not unleash it consecutively.