Chapter 4567 — Earth-Breaking Stage
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"Roar, roar—if you human cultivators can come here, then naturally so can I. But I never imagined you'd actually show up in a place like this, and a Nascent Soul cultivator at that! Not bad at all!" the Five-Slaughter Dragon said, unable to hide its astonishment. Wei Zhao had just been radiating killing intent without the slightest attempt to conceal his cultivation, so it was plain at a glance.
"Yeah, I never expected to run into you here either. The things that happen in this world really are beyond all prediction," Wei Zhao said with an answering laugh.
"Roar, roar—isn't there a saying among you humans, 'enemies are fated to meet'? Honestly, if I'd run into you under ordinary circumstances, even if I didn't beat you to death on the spot, I'd never be this friendly. I still remember how you ruined my plans back then!" The Five-Slaughter Dragon made a very humanlike expression of pursed lips, which on the face of a dinosaur looked bizarre no matter how you sliced it.
"Oh? And now?" Wei Zhao asked with keen interest.
"Now? Ahh…" The Five-Slaughter Dragon heaved a long sigh that nearly bowled Wei Zhao over, and said with a wistful exhalation, "It's far too lonely for me in this place. Forget a living creature—I haven't seen so much as a blade of grass or a tree. It's all barren desert, the same thing over and over, and no sunlight ever breaks through. Any of you restless humans would have been driven mad long ago, wouldn't you? But I don't dare go out. Now I've finally run into a person—and an old acquaintance from the mortal world, no less—so of course I'm overjoyed. Rest easy, I won't do you any harm."
"Haha, good to hear. To be honest, I stumbled in here by sheer chance and now I'm trapped with no way out. But tell me—why can't you get out? Don't tell me you can't withstand the pressure of this swamp. Those five-element killing qi shouldn't have any effect on you, should they?" Wei Zhao asked, puzzled. He knew that the Five-Slaughter Dragon, like himself, possessed all five elemental attributes, so in theory it shouldn't be unable to endure even the five-element killing qi.
"Roar, roar—you think this swamp could trap me?" The Five-Slaughter Dragon burst into laughter at this. It did not answer Wei Zhao's question directly; instead it abruptly spread the pair of enormous wings on its back and gave them a single light beat, and its whole massive bulk shot skyward in an instant.
Wei Zhao, standing close enough to touch it, felt his eyelid twitch. At such close range he had actually felt no powerful air current at all, yet the Five-Slaughter Dragon's speed had reached a limit beyond what the naked eye could catch in the blink of an eye. That alone proved the Five-Slaughter Dragon's mastery over such things had reached perfection; if it truly went all out, its speed could far exceed what it had just shown, so fast that even a spirit bird could not hope to match it.
Terrifying! Wei Zhao could not help but lose himself for a moment. In his memory, this Five-Slaughter Dragon was not a spirit beast known for its speed; for it to suddenly reveal such an astonishing display was truly beyond comprehension.
Yet that was still nothing. The speed the Five-Slaughter Dragon displayed had only left Wei Zhao dazed. But what it did next in the Five-Poison Swamp made even the imperturbable Wei Zhao gape, speechless for a long while.
After it leaped into the Five-Poison Swamp overhead, strictly speaking, the Five-Slaughter Dragon did nothing particularly special. It merely swam a carefree circle through the Five-Poison Swamp. That in itself was no wonder—after all, like Wei Zhao, it possessed all five elements, and the five-element killing qi would not attack Wei Zhao with his true qi shielding his body. Naturally it would not attack the Five-Slaughter Dragon either.