Chapter 4551 — The Five-Kill Cultivation
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"Well, then I really must be overwhelmed by the honor." Wei Zhao shook his head with a rueful smile. However it was, the stone in his heart had fallen; the path ahead was clear—raise his strength as much as possible, then find a way to locate Zhang Lifeng. Everything else was secondary.
"Naturally." Ghost Thing chuckled without the least modesty, then returned to the point. "All right, enough idle talk. Hurry up and begin your cultivation—don't waste this grand opportunity."
"Fine. Should we scout the surroundings a bit first?" Though Wei Zhao had no intention of adventuring alone through this place, he at least wanted a thorough grasp of his surroundings; otherwise, if some dreadful being fixed its eye on him halfway through his cultivation, the joke would be far too grim.
"No need for that. I'll keep my divine sense locked on the surroundings at all times and warn you at the first sign of anything unusual," Ghost Thing said. In his present state he dared not boast of much else, but in divine sense he had absolute confidence—not only had he not regressed, he had advanced considerably beyond his former peak. After all, it was now his sole reliance.
"Very well, then I'll leave it to you, Senior." Wei Zhao nodded. In truth, even without Ghost Thing standing watch, he had the jade pendant's space to warn him; whatever crisis arose, he would still have time to react. So there was little cause for worry.
With that, Wei Zhao turned and instructed the spirit bird playing nearby not to stray too far, then leaped up onto a high platform close by.
This underground space was not only vast but oddly shaped: every dozen or twenty zhang rose a narrow, towering platform, some connecting directly to the swamp mud above, others stopping somewhat short. The platform Wei Zhao chose just barely reached the mud.
Standing atop the platform, Wei Zhao's body was mere inches from the silt. Though he did not sink into it, the five-element killing qi swirling and prowling within would surface from time to time, and now and then spill over onto him.
Wei Zhao did not wrap his whole body in true qi as he had when descending earlier—that would cause the five-element killing qi to ignore him outright, and cultivation would be out of the question. Yet he dared not rashly touch that utterly perilous five-element killing qi either. So he had not gone deep into the swamp mud, but chosen this platform just high enough to graze it.
Here it comes! The jade pendant's warning sounded abruptly. Wei Zhao's gaze sharpened, and in the blink of an eye a half-substantial, half-phantom wisp of five-element killing qi burst from the silt nearby! (To be continued…) R527