Chapter 4546 — An Unexpected Boon
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"Legend has it that once any force of nature grows powerful enough, it can birth a spirit of its own and become a unique living being. So you're not wrong to call them spirit beasts—only they are merely like spirit beasts, and have not yet transformed into true ones," the Ghost Thing explained. His deliberately calm tone carried the same barely concealed shock, along with an indefinable pang of wistfulness.
For all that he was the former Azure Dragon Elder of the spirit beast clan, this was his first time inside the Five Venoms Swamp—and especially this deep into it. Naturally, it was also his first time witnessing such formidable five-element killing qi.
"Astonishing!" Wei Zhao was struck dumb. He had not thought much of it before, but now, having seen these five-element killing qi that resembled flood dragons, he felt at once that this was truly no place one could visit casually—not even human cultivators and spirit beasts, no matter how powerful.
Any single wisp of the five-element killing qi here was at least a match for a spirit beast guardian, perhaps even stronger. Even a being of heaven-defying strength might withstand one or two wisps, but what of hundreds upon thousands? The materialized five-element killing qi here numbered far beyond thousands upon tens of thousands—what could one possibly use to fight them?
The only reason Wei Zhao went unmolested here was his innate five-element attribute, which fooled these flood dragons formed of five-element killing qi into taking him for one of their own. Only thus did he scrape through catastrophe.
Yet looking across the whole world, how many people were born with the five-element attribute? Apart from Wei Zhao himself, one could probably not find a second.
"No need to be so shocked, lad. At the rate you're growing, I believe it won't be many years before you reach their level. No—rather, any single wisp of your true qi could reach their level. Five elements, seven attributes—your aptitude was destined for boundless prospects from birth," the Ghost Thing said, a thread of irrepressible excitement in his voice.
With the perspective of a former Azure Dragon, there was basically nothing left in this world that could make him lose composure—yet Wei Zhao's talent was truly unprecedented. Especially his consistent, astonishing performance of growing stronger against stronger foes; even recalling it, the Ghost Thing could not help but gape and his heart surge.
Given time, he had no doubt Wei Zhao would grow to an unprecedented height. Turning clouds with one hand and rain with the other—by then, no being whatsoever would be able to bar Wei Zhao's path.
The King of Spirit Beasts had once been, in the Ghost Thing's mind, an unsurpassable summit. But after so long in Wei Zhao's company, that conviction had quietly crumbled. With Wei Zhao's heaven-defying talent and fortune, he believed that one day the lad would stand shoulder to shoulder with the invincible King of Spirit Beasts of this age—and perhaps rise even higher.
"What? Any single wisp of true qi could reach their level?" Wei Zhao had not thought as far as the Ghost Thing, but those words still shook him to the core. Merely picturing it set his blood racing beyond all restraint.
"They are five-element killing qi; yours is five-element true qi. In essence, they are the same. So long as you are strong enough, nothing is impossible," the Ghost Thing paused, then curled his lip with a laugh. "Of course, you're still far too weak now—all your true qi together wouldn't match a single hair of theirs. So don't go dreaming too big."
At that, Wei Zhao glanced at these "flood dragons," half illusory and half solid, and could not help but mutter inwardly in exasperation: do these things even have hair?