Chapter 4821 — Blood Sacrifice Domain
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Just as Wei Zhao's mind raced to work out a countermeasure, a frightful suction force suddenly came from behind him. The first pull felt much like the earlier Chest-Rending Claw, but an instant later he sensed something was badly wrong.
This time the force was ten times stronger than before, and worse, because the surrounding air had turned into bloody black qi, his whole body felt sunk in a mire. Even shifting slightly was desperately difficult, let alone fighting the sudden pull from behind.
In the darkness, a ghastly blood finger wreathed in a faint ghostly glow pressed close against Wei Zhao's back. The next instant it looked certain to punch through his heart from behind—and Wei Zhao was utterly unaware of it.
Fortunately, the jade pendant gave warning. In that split second, on the very brink of disaster, Wei Zhao did not hesitate: he used the Extreme Butterfly Microstep and, at the same time, blasted true qi wildly from his back regardless of the cost. Only then did he finally break free of the double shackles of the bloody mire and the suction force, shooting forward like a cannonball.
Yet before Wei Zhao could breathe easy, the jade pendant's warning rang out again, sharp and urgent—and this time the pull from behind abruptly reversed direction, sucking him forward instead. Because of the speed he had just unleashed at full power, Wei Zhao could not even stop now; his body hurtled forward, utterly beyond his control.
At last Wei Zhao spotted the ghastly blood finger waiting ahead, and his scalp went numb. He simply could not control himself; at this rate he would be delivered straight onto it and impaled. One look told him this blood finger was a hundred times more dangerous than the Chest-Rending Claw from before!
Damn it—fine, I'll gamble my life! In that desperate moment Wei Zhao's fighting spirit was finally roused. He could no longer worry about such things. If he could not stop, then he would charge straight ahead without a backward glance and see who was fiercer!
In that instant, Wei Zhao fired off two blasts of Five Elements Killing Qi toward the front and added a surge of lightning power as well. He would surely be wounded by the blood finger this way, but the Xishan great one would not come off well either—it was a posture of pure life-and-death recklessness.
"You think you can trade lives with this old man? You underestimate me!" The Xishan great one gave a cold laugh, and before his words even fell, the blood finger ahead vanished silently into the bloody mire.
Wei Zhao's heart lurched with dread. By doing that, the other man had cleared the path ahead, but every move Wei Zhao had just made had been rendered entirely pointless. That outcome was far more galling than a mutual wounding, because it meant he was being played with at will.
Only someone like Wei Zhao could replenish true qi endlessly, anywhere and at any time. Anyone else would have lost a great deal of strength from that single exchange. This Xishan great one was truly cunning and slippery: a few casual, perilous feints on his side could effortlessly drain an opponent's true qi dry—a victory without even bloodying his blade.
"This Blood Sacrifice really is damn eerie!" Wei Zhao cursed inwardly. With the clinging black qi and bloody mire all around, this place had become the other man's home ground entirely. Wei Zhao could not even catch a shadow of him; the enemy could strike or withdraw as he pleased, and the slightest lapse on Wei Zhao's part would invite unimaginable consequences. At this rate, even an immortal would be ground down alive.
"Looks like this isn't some trash evil cultivator—he's got real skill, even knows a flashy move like Blood Sacrifice! Low-grade as it is, at the Xuan Sheng level it's practically invincible. You really are out of luck, kid. Hurry up and find a way to run—you can't beat him." The ghost thing spoke with maddening composure.