Chapter 4278 — You Dare Disobey?
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"What's the rush? Do you even have a brain?" Chang Daoping shot him a cold glare and cursed with a disdainful snort.
"Ah? Brother Chang, I..." Luo Tuoxiang was once again scolded into a look of utter bewilderment.
Watching this scene, Wei Zhao couldn't help but smile to himself. Chang Daoping struck one as deep and unfathomable, and the underling he had taken on seemed at first glance to be of fairly high cultivation—yet no matter how one looked at him, he came across as a complete buffoon.
"I already told you, the Moon Shadow Formation has to do with the moon. To break it, we naturally have to make use of moonlight. Take a look—is there any moonlight now?" Chang Daoping said flatly, curling his lip.
Only then did everyone come to a sudden understanding. Though the sky had grown steadily darker, night had not yet fully fallen, so there could naturally be no moon. They could only wait quietly—though they could not help feeling some worry. Could the moon really be seen here?
Even setting the weather aside, there was still a thick layer of miasmic fog overhead. By day, even sunlight could not fully pierce it, which was why the light was so faint—let alone the moon at night.
Doubts churned in their hearts, but none dared rashly question Chang Daoping. Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao did not yet understand, but the others knew Chang Daoping's temperament well: this Brother Chang was by no means the patient sort who answered every question put to him.
Whatever the task, all they had to do was follow his orders. Ask too much, and they would only invite annoyance and scolding. That explained why they had reacted with such bizarre astonishment earlier, when Chang Daoping had tried to win over Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao.
After roughly an hour, the sky finally went completely dark. Beneath everyone's expectant gazes, several soft beams of moonlight suddenly spilled down from overhead. Weak as they looked at first glance, when they fell upon the wasteland before them, they were startlingly bright.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at once, only then recalling that this place was no dense forest. In a dense forest, such scant moonlight would of course be utterly useless—but out on this open wasteland, it was already more than enough.
At first, Wei Zhao instinctively assumed that the wonder of the Moon Shadow Formation lay in those few beams of moonlight filtering down through the miasma layer, and that the positions they indicated were where the formation stood.
But Wei Zhao soon realized he was wrong. Though there were only a scant few beams of moonlight, and at first glance they were indeed highly misleading, a closer look revealed that they were constantly shifting—not the moonlight itself, but the miasma layer overhead.
Yet if it was not the positions marked by the moonlight, where did the key to breaking the formation lie? For a time, Wei Zhao could not see through it. As for the others—men like Luo Tuoxiang, whose cultivation rank was far above Wei Zhao's, but whose comprehension and innate talent were simply not on the same level as his—if Wei Zhao could not fathom the mystery, they were all the more at a loss.
Uncomprehending, the group could only stare eagerly at Chang Daoping, waiting for him to enlighten them. Yet this Brother Chang remained unmoved—far from setting about breaking the formation, he looked as though he could not even be bothered to stir. He simply gazed faintly at the wasteland before them.
Since Chang Daoping said nothing, no one dared press him further. They could only wait patiently at his side. So it went until midnight, as the moonlight grew brighter and brighter. The group exchanged uneasy glances, yet none dared act rashly.
"All right, that should do it." Chang Daoping finally rose to his full height, and everyone's spirits surged at once, each of them eager for action.