Chapter 3918 — Shangguan Lan'er in Peril
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At such a moment, what looked like an opportunity was in fact a deadly trap. If one truly acted rashly and fell into it, what would follow was simply unthinkable.
Sure enough, the figure had barely crossed halfway when the giant shadow at the lake bottom had already turned back and surged upward!
"Look out!" A girl's voice rang out from the shore of Half-Moon Lake—it was Shangguan Lan'er's voice.
This person was not Shangguan Lan'er? Wei Zhao was taken aback, and then noticed that the figure in the air looked somewhat familiar. Moreover, it was a woman.
At the same moment Shangguan Lan'er called out her warning, the woman finally sensed the danger below—and Wei Zhao, for the first time, finally laid eyes on the true face of this spirit beast at the bottom of the lake.
A giant octopus covered in thorny fangs—ugly was hardly the word; it was ugly to the point of horror. This was the first time Wei Zhao had encountered an existence whose mere appearance could make even a cultivator like him tremble with fright.
"A monstrously ugly octopus? This thing has kept itself a fine watchdog!" the Ghost Thing clicked its tongue in admiration within Wei Zhao's mind.
Even as it marveled, the familiar-looking woman who had acted so rashly before Wei Zhao had already fallen into a vast and deadly trap. The monstrous octopus that lunged out across the air—leaving aside its utterly enormous bulk, its speed alone was at least ten times hers; the two could not even be mentioned in the same breath.
Yet because of Shangguan Lan'er's warning in advance, the figure had been prepared beforehand. That sliver of time was infinitesimal, but it was enough to become the last straw of salvation.
Midair, the figure's form flickered sharply, then split into several afterimages and veered straight toward Shangguan Lan'er on the shore of Half-Moon Lake!
"Phantom Finger? That damned woman!" Only now did Wei Zhao finally confirm the woman's identity—it was none other than Murong Zhen, who had been inseparable from Meng Jueming these past days.
Phantom Finger was not merely a martial art for attack and killing; it was also a disguised movement technique. Its afterimage properties could deceive an enemy's divine consciousness while at the same time ensuring that one appeared beside the target in an instant. Though its effective range was very short, the speed of that instant was without equal.
And it was precisely by exploiting this that Murong Zhen, at the very last moment before falling into the monstrous octopus's gaping maw, succeeded in escaping death by a hair's breadth.
Without Shangguan Lan'er's warning, without instantly locking onto Shangguan Lan'er as her target, Murong Zhen would have had no chance of survival at all.
But now, not only had she successfully snatched back her little life, she had also successfully dragged the other into danger—and this, once she recognized Shangguan Lan'er's face, filled her with delight beyond all expectation.
From a highly regarded second-generation cultivator of the Soaring Heavens Pavilion to a hopeless newcomer of the Azure Cloud Pavilion, Shangguan Lan'er was not the chief culprit who had cast Murong Zhen down into the dust, but of one thing there was no doubt: it had all begun with her.
Both were women, and apart from family background, in figure, in looks, in aptitude—by every measure Murong Zhen considered herself far above Shangguan Lan'er. Yet simply because of a single remark she had made to the other, she had fallen to this wretched state today. If there was anyone Murong Zhen resented most deeply, it could only be Shangguan Lan'er! R1152