Chapter 3681 — Shocked and Stunned
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"My God! When did this bastard become an early Foundation Establishment expert?" Meng Zhou's heart convulsed. Spending every day around Meng Jueming, he knew exactly what level such an aura signified. If one's strength hadn't reached that level, it couldn't be faked—not even for show!
It wasn't just him. Li Zhengming and the other newcomers, in their fright, had unconsciously retreated several steps, exchanging stunned looks of incredulity.
Twelve of them besieging a peak Heaven Rank expert was a sure thing. But against an early Foundation Establishment expert—especially one as formidable as Wei Zhao—the situation was entirely different.
Early Foundation Establishment and peak Heaven Rank might seem separated by only a hair's breadth, yet they were two completely different realms—one in the heavens, the other beneath the earth.
In the eyes of the cultivation world, an early Foundation Establishment expert had already begun to glimpse the way in, while a peak Heaven Rank expert, however impressive it sounded, was still at bottom only a prospective cultivator. The minimum admission standard for the vast majority of genuine sects on Cloud Rank Island was early Foundation Establishment or above. As for so-called peak Heaven Rank experts, they could not even be bothered to spare them a glance.
If, below the Heaven Rank, there was still such a thing as challenging above one's level, then between peak Heaven Rank and early Foundation Establishment such a possibility simply did not exist. Put simply, even the weakest early Foundation Establishment expert could utterly crush the strongest peak Heaven Rank expert in history.
Between the two lay a difference in kind.
Even with their overwhelming numbers—twelve peak Heaven Rank experts—facing a single early Foundation Establishment expert, they could not claim any chance of victory. Even if everyone present fought Wei Zhao to the death like madmen, their odds would be less than ten percent.
And even if they won in the end, it would at best be a pyrrhic victory. Of the twelve, at least ten would likely have to be left dead on the field for that to happen!
In truth, these people were bound to Meng Jueming and Meng Zhou purely by self-interest. When there was profit to be had, they might work together; but in a situation as obviously suicidal as this, there was no way they would sell their lives for Meng Zhou for nothing.
So even that theoretical less-than-ten-percent chance of victory was beyond this lot.
Not only the other newcomers—even Meng Zhou himself, their leader, was now thoroughly frightened out of his wits by Wei Zhao. Only one thought remained in his head: how had this idiot, who couldn't even tell good jade from bad, suddenly transformed into an early Foundation Establishment expert?
Meng Zhou and his gang were all struck dumb with shock. And behind Wei Zhao, Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai stood gaping, exchanging looks of utter bewilderment, completely at a loss for words.
The other newcomers had had little contact with Wei Zhao, so it was understandable they hadn't known his current strength—but these two were truly part of Wei Zhao's crew. They had spent no small amount of time with him these past days, and from beginning to end they had never noticed anything out of the ordinary!