Chapter 3714 — Finally Out
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And what they did not know, even now, was that the pressure bearing down on Wei Zhao was not the doubled force they believed it to be, but a full twelve times over!
Xu Lingchong, the young master Xu, ground his teeth in fury, cursing inwardly at those wretches from the Law Enforcement Hall on the platform for shirking their duty—otherwise, how could so many of them fail to bring down a single Wei Zhao?
Yet the Law Enforcement Hall experts at the center of it all wore faces of iron, driven nearly to madness by Wei Zhao!
They knew better than anyone that sustaining twelve times the pressure was a strain even for them; at this rate, Wei Zhao would still be standing while they themselves collapsed in disaster.
For so many Law Enforcement Hall experts to join forces against a mere newcomer of the Welcome Pavilion, and not only fail to cripple or kill him, but to suffer backlash and injury themselves—if word of that got out, they would be laughed out of existence.
Twelve times the pressure was already the limit of what they could control, yet judging by Wei Zhao's serene demeanor, it was not a matter of holding out one or two more sticks of incense—he looked as though he could sit there a year or half a year without the slightest trouble!
This was truly, absolutely, beyond all belief a case of seeing ghosts today!
At this point the Law Enforcement Hall experts were stuck fast on a tiger's back, able only to grit their teeth and keep hanging on—otherwise there would be no explaining themselves to young master Xu Lingchong.
Wei Zhao calmly weathering twelve times the pressure? If such a thing were spoken aloud, not only would no one believe it, they would think it an insult to their intelligence!
In truth, even they, the parties involved, could scarcely credit it even now; in the depths of their hearts they could not help but wonder whether something had gone wrong with the pressure formation—for how else could this bizarre situation be explained?
"Brat, want to keep going? Nothing better to do anyway—this old man would happily play along with them!" The ghostly thing cackled in Wei Zhao's mind.
Wei Zhao laughed inwardly at that. He had noticed that ever since arriving on Cloud Terrace Island, the ghostly thing's condition was plainly much better than it had been in the mortal world—and he suspected the surroundings had a great deal to do with it!
Now the old thing even had leisure for mischief, and was gleefully bullying these little children of the Law Enforcement Hall!
Before a top elder of the spirit-beast clan like the ghostly thing, these so-called Law Enforcement Hall experts were of course nothing but children; to cross swords indirectly with an expert of elder rank through the pressure formation—was that their honor, or their misfortune?
That was right: the one actually resisting the twelvefold pressure was not Wei Zhao himself, but the ghostly thing!
As a former elder of the spirit-beast clan, a top expert whose name ranked high across all Cloud Terrace Island, even reduced to a remnant primordial spirit, the ghostly thing found this level of pressure a trivial matter; twelve times over was not worth a fart in his eyes!
And Wei Zhao, the "party involved" in everyone's eyes, had not the slightest pressure on him at all—no different from his usual meditation in the cave dwelling—which to outsiders naturally looked like perfect composure and ease.
But no one else knew that Wei Zhao carried a great divinity like the ghostly thing within him; if he sat on so brazenly, the crowd below, though ignorant of the truth, would in their awe begin to harbor doubts, and all manner of wild rumors might sprout—which would be a nuisance sooner or later.