Chapter 3316 — Sailing with the Wind
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At this point, Xiao Si and Xiao Wu could only yield. Trembling, the two of them walked to the center of the reception hall, shut their eyes, and began circulating their mental cultivation formulas, using their true qi to shield their bodies.
"Raging Fire Eight Trigrams Palm—Eleventh Form!" Wei Zhao struck again with the Raging Fire Eight Trigrams Palm, slamming it toward Xiao Si's chest.
"BOOM—" Under Wei Zhao's blow, Xiao Si was sent flying backward at tremendous speed, crashing heavily into the wall behind the reception hall with a thunderous roar that split the wall in several places.
Yet after coughing up several mouthfuls of blood, he found that he was still alive, and breathed a sigh of relief. That relief did not last long, however. Xiao Si tried to circulate his mental cultivation formula to heal his wounds, only to discover to his horror that the meridians throughout his body had been shattered beyond repair. In other words, he was now a cripple—unless a top-grade fourth-rank Great Restoration Pill was at hand, there was no saving him. Otherwise he would end up just like Tagan Long, a useless wreck of a man.
And at that very moment, Wei Zhao struck again: "Raging Fire Eight Trigrams Palm—Tenth Form!"
The remaining physical strength and true qi in Wei Zhao's body were no longer enough to unleash the Eleventh Form of the Raging Fire Eight Trigrams Palm a second time, but he had strength to spare for the Tenth Form—and this Tenth Form happened to trigger the attack bonus of the Essence Necklace.
"BOOM—" Under this blow from Wei Zhao, Xiao Wu followed in Xiao Si's footsteps. His whole body was sent flying backward as well, crashing heavily into the very wall Xiao Si had struck earlier with another thunderous roar—and this time it smashed a great hole clean through the already cracked wall of the reception hall.
The Tenth Form of the Raging Fire Eight Trigrams Palm, bolstered by the Essence Necklace's attack bonus, was in fact roughly equal in power to the unbuffed Eleventh Form. So in the eyes of these two men, Wei Zhao was unleashing one and the same technique—there was no difference at all.
Xiao Wu, too, coughed up several mouthfuls of blood, his meridians all severed, yet he was not dead, nor had he lost consciousness. This was the benefit of their true-qi body shielding. Otherwise, while they might not have died, they would certainly have ended up like Tagan Long—comatose, reduced to living vegetables.
One had to understand that even without the attack bonus, the Eleventh Form of the Raging Fire Eight Trigrams Palm was a frighteningly powerful technique.
"All right, take them and go," Wei Zhao ordered the underlings outside the door whom Xiao San, Xiao Si, and Xiao Wu had brought along. These men held no interest for Wei Zhao, and besides, they were needed to carry the three back.
"Yes... Senior..." The Five Luminaries Sect disciples at the door had long since been scared witless. Xiao San, Xiao Si, and Xiao Wu were second only to Xiao Yi and Xiao Er—the two senior brothers of the Five Luminaries Sect at the peak of the late Heaven Rank, great-perfection masters. Yet here they had been beaten to death, or beaten half to death, with no difficulty at all. What terrifying prowess was this?
They dared not linger or ask questions. They rushed in one after another, hastily hoisted Xiao San's corpse onto their backs along with the two cripples Xiao Si and Xiao Wu, and slunk out of the Dark Night Palace reception hall, running as fast as their legs could carry them, without a single pause.
"Phew..." Wei Zhao let out a long breath. These two strikes of the Raging Fire Eight Trigrams Palm had drained every last drop of physical strength and true qi in his body. If these disciples had all rushed him at once, he really would have been in trouble.