Chapter 3789 — Blinding the Dog's Eyes
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Bang! A figure went tumbling backward in utter disarray, and when the newcomers below—Meng Jueming among them—finally made out who it was, every one of them was struck dumb.
That battered figure hurled backward through the air was none other than Meng Zhou!
My god! How could that be Meng Zhou? Did we see wrong?
Meng Jueming and his group rubbed their eyes in unison without meaning to, then looked again at the man sprawled in such sorry state on the stage—and it was still Meng Zhou, beyond doubt. Only then did the truth sink in, to their universal disbelief.
In that single exchange just now, Qiao the Waste—a man who by every reckoning should have been dead—had truly shattered Meng Zhou's Twenty-One Forms of a Thousand Legs with one palm, and then, backhand, had thrashed this early Foundation Establishment expert so thoroughly. It was enough to make jaws drop to the floor!
After that one exchange, which left every jaw in the hall hanging, Meng Jueming and the others stood numb for a long while. Only Wei Zhao and his companions had foreseen it.
Wei Zhao had discovered that his golden finger still remained. Though, without circulating the mental cultivation formula on the spot, he could not yet clearly read cultivators stronger than himself, those weaker than him, or of equal strength, he could see through at a glance!
To be sure, a peak Heaven-Rank Iron Cold Palm user facing an early Foundation Establishment Thousand Legs expert could never have had any hope of victory. But what if that Iron Cold Palm user was likewise at early Foundation Establishment—and held the element of surprise?
Everyone else, Meng Jueming included, had assumed from the outset that Qiao the Waste was still the same contemptible peak Heaven-Rank cultivator, and none of them had ever considered that the man might have rushed his Foundation Establishment breakthrough before this very round of the challenge tournament—and succeeded!
Once that realization dawned, Meng Jueming and his group drew a collective sharp breath.
Knowing full well that in three short days he would face the challenge of Meng Zhou, an early Foundation Establishment expert, he had still dared to attempt his Foundation Establishment breakthrough in that sliver of time barely enough to wedge between one's teeth—this Qiao the Waste was an absolute madman!
The crowd below was merely astonished, but at that moment, up on the stage, Meng Zhou's heart was gripped by genuine terror—one might even say terror beyond bearing!
He had taken the man for worthless trash to be trampled at will, expected to crush him in a single effortless move, and never imagined that in the end his opponent would emerge without a scratch while his own teeth were shattered. This inexplicable turn of events had frightened Meng Zhou silly!
Wasn't this waste supposed to be peak Heaven-Rank? How had he suddenly become an early Foundation Establishment expert? This—this made no sense at all!
And never forget: Meng Zhou's own successful breakthrough had cost him not merely a Foundation Establishment Pill, but—more crucially—a dose of Foundation Establishment Liquid secured through the channels of Xu Lingchong, young master Xu, a treasure one could encounter but never seek out. Taken together with the pill, it had vastly raised his odds, and only then had he scraped through by sheer luck!
But what did a mere Qiao the Waste have to rely on? Never mind the liquid—he could not even get his hands on a Foundation Establishment Pill. How could trash like that possibly break through? Such a thing was simply incomprehensible!
In the space of three short days, a mere peak Heaven-Rank cultivator had been turned, by this waste's remarkable reversal, into an early Foundation Establishment expert—this was enough to make one think he had seen a ghost with his own eyes!