Chapter 3939 — Deep Awe
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The Azure Cloud Pavilion newcomers' arena, which had endured countless newcomer contests and been perfected over the years, was now blasted beyond recognition. With a single Furious Fire Fist, Style Twenty-Four, more than half the arena had been smashed to rubble!
The only intact spot left was the patch of ground beneath Wei Zhao's feet. The crowd was truly dumbstruck by the sight—such was the might of a single punch!
One had to remember that the arena was protected by a dedicated defensive formation, its defensive power far greater than anywhere else. An ordinary newcomer could forget about destroying the arena—even leaving a scratch on it was exceedingly difficult.
This was the first time a newcomer had ever destroyed the arena. Today's scene was fit to be recorded in the annals of the Welcome Pavilion.
"Challenge me? You've merely taken a crooked path—where did you get such confidence?" Wei Zhao did not look at Meng Zhou, whose fate hung in the balance, but swept a cold glance over Meng Jueming below the stage.
Under that piercing gaze, Meng Jueming—a senior disciple and steward—was actually cowed by a mere newcomer until his scalp tingled, not daring to meet his eyes.
By now, Meng Jueming was himself a capable hand of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, yet the pressure Wei Zhao brought to bear on him at this moment gave him the urge to turn and flee. The very thought of it was absurd.
"Could this fellow already be a mid-Foundation Establishment expert? If so, it would make sense that Meng Zhou is no match for him. But how could that possibly be?" Watching Wei Zhao descend from the arena with utter composure, Meng Jueming was badly startled by the thought that had just surfaced in his mind.
No matter how he looked at it, a mere newcomer like Wei Zhao advancing to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage was simply too outrageous. After all, even the legendary Alchemy God and Medical Sage, Zhang Lifeng, had never reached such a terrifying level in his day!
Never mind the Azure Cloud Pavilion newcomers—across all the newcomers of the Welcome Pavilion, only two had reached the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage: one was Murong Zhen, who had joined midway, and the other was Meng Zhou, whom Wei Zhao had beaten to the brink of death.
Murong Zhen needed no explanation—she had already been at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage before coming to the Three Stack Pavilion, so there was nothing surprising there.
As for Meng Zhou, were it not for the comparison with a freak like Wei Zhao, he could well have counted as a legendary newcomer of the Welcome Pavilion. After all, to advance from the Great Perfection of the Heaven Rank all the way to the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage in just a few short months—setting aside crooked paths like the Midnight-Noon Heart-Shattering Pill—was a speed frightening enough in itself, one that left ninety-nine out of a hundred newcomers far behind.
Unfortunately for him, his opponent was Wei Zhao. As the saying goes, "Why must Zhou Yu be born if Zhuge Liang is to exist?"—and Meng Zhou, by any measure, hardly came up to Zhou Yu's level.
Even Meng Zhou and Murong Zhen, two experts at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage, were utterly outshone before Wei Zhao. As for the other newcomers, they were naturally no more than passing clouds.
For a time, everyone in the arena looked at Wei Zhao with deep awe.
Watching Wei Zhao grow stronger step by step, ever more unfathomable, they felt this awe planted almost into their very bones. In the days to come, no matter how much Meng Jueming might wish to order them to oppose Wei Zhao, it would be very hard to make them obey. R1152