Chapter 4859 — Endless Benefits
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"These royal clans are the backbone of every branch of the spirit beast race. If anything happens to them, the spirit beast race is bound to suffer a grave blow, so this is top secret." Ghost Thing paused, then his tone suddenly shifted. "That said, the Ghost-Eyed Eagle Kings are at best a pseudo-royal clan. All flying spirit beasts now follow the Vermilion Bird's lead. Whether they are wiped out or not hardly matters—the Vermilion Bird might even be pleased about it."
Wei Zhao was speechless. After that whole speech, he had thought Ghost Thing would guard the secret on principle. Apparently, in the end, he was still ready to sell the Ghost-Eyed Eagle King clan out. His integrity lay in shambles on the floor.
"We advance and retreat together; you, kid, hardly count as an outsider. There is no harm in telling you this, as long as you don't go around spreading it. Otherwise it would look as though I sold out the Ghost-Eyed Eagle Kings, and I might feel guilty," Ghost Thing went on.
If you really felt guilty, you wouldn't have rambled on this long! Wei Zhao was caught between laughter and tears, and could only say, "I have always been tight-lipped, Senior, you know that. Just tell me already."
"Heh heh. Do you want to be a birdman?" Ghost Thing asked instead of answering.
"A birdman? What does that mean?" Wei Zhao was stunned again. He glanced at the Ghost-Eyed Eagle King wings in his hand and then it hit him. "Senior, you can't mean for me to strap these things on my back? That would look way too flashy. But—can it fly?"
At the thought, Wei Zhao's heart burned. Flight was a dream shared by all humanity, and a fantasy almost impossible to attain. Even with his current formidable strength at the late Nascent Soul stage, Wei Zhao could only dream of it—at best he could use true qi propulsion to glide a short distance, and that did not count as flying at all. It was simply throwing himself forward, nothing more.
"Of course not." Ghost Thing's answer chilled Wei Zhao's heart, but the very next moment his eyes lit up again. "But it can raise your speed by a huge margin."
"Really?" Wei Zhao's spirits soared. Ever since he had developed the Super Butterfly Microstep and the Super Limit Butterfly Microstep, he had been quite satisfied with his speed, but last time he had been chased the whole way by a Western Mountain expert, and that had given him a fresh sense of crisis.
That Western Mountain expert was only at the late Mystic Ascension stage, and Wei Zhao still could not shake him off. If he ran into a Land-Opening stage titan like those of the old Western Mountain sect, would he not be crushed to death in an instant, just as before? What difference would that make?
Wei Zhao was fast to begin with. If he could become even faster, then perhaps he really could preserve his life with ease even against a Land-Opening stage titan. That would truly be heaven-defying speed!
Wei Zhao immediately could not wait to put on the Ghost-Eyed Eagle King wings, but after he strapped them on, they had not the slightest effect. Instead, the added drag slowed him down considerably. What kind of rip-off was this?
Ghost Thing watched the spectacle with great interest for quite a while. Only when Wei Zhao realized something was wrong did he finally speak up in a drawn-out voice: "Who ever told you these things work just by strapping them on? If it were that simple, everyone would know, and what kind of secret would it be then?"
"Uh…" Wei Zhao flushed red on the spot.