Chapter 4819 — Vile Tactics
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"Heh heh, my Chest-Ripping Claw is indestructible—it can snap divine weapons and enchanted blades in two. You think a piddling late-Nascent-Soul trick like yours can contend with me? Not a shred of self-awareness. Utterly foolish!" The Western Mountain Sage laughed in smug triumph.
Snap divine weapons in two? Wei Zhao raised an eyebrow at that, thinking privately that the man was bragging without even bothering to draft his claims. If his own weapon hadn't stalled at the final step and failed to take shape, he'd have taken that remark as grounds to show this fellow a thing or two today—he'd sunk a mountain of rare and peerless materials into it, and if it could be snapped bare-handed, then life itself wasn't worth living.
"No need for divine weapons. Try snapping this move of mine first!" Before Wei Zhao's words had even landed, a dragon's roar rang out as the Five Elements Killing Qi struck forth, hurtling straight at the Western Mountain Sage.
"Heh heh, you clueless cur—surely you don't actually believe I was boasting?" The Western Mountain Sage reached out without hesitation and grabbed for the Five Elements Killing Qi. The Chest-Ripping Claw was his signature move, and to this very day, at his present cultivation, it remained his primary martial art. Snapping divine weapons was no idle boast—it was plain fact.
In the blink of an eye, the Western Mountain Sage had seized the Five Elements Killing Qi in his claw. But before he could muster a triumphant expression, a sharp stab of pain shot through his claw-shaped hand. A closer look left him pale with shock—the Five Elements Killing Qi had not been snapped at all. Instead, it had coiled right up along his arm, a serpent winding round a pillar, intent on driving straight for his vital point!
In that instant, the black qi wreathing his claw had been ground away to nothing by the Five Elements Killing Qi. His so-called indestructible Chest-Ripping Claw had collapsed of its own accord, blood streaming from all five fingertips. If he didn't find a way to pull free at once, even if he escaped with his life, he was certain to lose that arm.
"Tell me—were those divine weapons you ran into before made of paper, that a fellow like you could snap them?" Wei Zhao regarded him with unhurried composure.
The Five Elements Killing Qi was a fierce, aggressive force of utmost hardness. In its complexity and profundity, perhaps no force of qi in all the world could compare—to say nothing of the paltry evil qi of a mere devil cultivator, which before the Five Elements Killing Qi was nothing but dross.
"Aaagh!" The Western Mountain Sage was furious and frantic, too preoccupied to bother with Wei Zhao's mockery. He strained with all his might to fling off the Five Elements Killing Qi wrapped around his arm, but his evil qi was suppressed utterly by it—however much he poured out, that much was annihilated. After a long struggle, there was still no sign of it weakening in the slightest.
It seemed the ghost thing had been right on the mark. Though this creature was a late Mystic Ascension expert, his true strength fell far short of Leng Rufeng, who was only at early Mystic Ascension. At least the latter, when facing the Five Elements Killing Qi, had been nowhere near this wretched—quite the opposite, he had been devastatingly formidable. Wherever his blade fell, the Five Elements Killing Qi had little choice but to be cut down.
It only went to show that comparisons were maddening. A freak like Leng Rufeng, who could cultivate a saber force, was a genius among geniuses wherever he went. By contrast, this devil cultivator, the Western Mountain Sage, came up far short. Then again, if this creature's aptitude were as heaven-defying as Leng Rufeng's, what the hell would he be doing as a devil cultivator?