Chapter 4877 — Two Choices
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Wei Zhao, however, was studying Wang Dianxing in the crowd, deep in thought. No wonder the man had struck him as familiar—he too was a perfect Nascent Soul. Compared to Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao, though, he was clearly far weaker.
After all, what ordinary people called a perfect Nascent Soul amounted to no more than a sip of Starmist Milk taken while condensing the soul; at best it made a counterfeit perfect Nascent Soul. In all the world, probably only Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao were extravagant enough to bathe in Starmist Milk—and only that produced a true perfect Nascent Soul.
"Well? Anyone else fancy playing the hero?" Wang Dianxing's aura, all on his own, had already overwhelmed every disciple of Chenjiao Academy and Xiangyun Academy.
Seeing what had become of Ren Zhongyuan and hearing the tales of his exploits, the crowd—numerous as it was—had lost all thought of resisting him. A pack of wolves a moment ago, they were now a flock of sheep trembling before a lion.
"Seems there's no one left. Good. Our Lei Dong Academy is, after all, one of the top academies in the Yellow-Rank Alliance—I wouldn't want it to earn a reputation for bullying the weak. With strength like yours, raising a hand against us is just asking to die!" Wang Dianxing swept his gaze over the crowd, cold and contemptuous.
No one dared to argue, because it was the truth. The two sides were roughly equal in number, but with him—the foremost Nascent Soul expert—leading them, Lei Dong Academy was ferocious as wolves and tigers, and Chenjiao and Xiangyun could only suffer being trampled.
"I'll give you two choices now. One: sleep with us. Keep us comfortable, and once we've broken through to the Profound Ascension, we'll naturally hand these tribulation points over to you. If you refuse—well, then there's the second choice. Get out of here right now!" Wang Dianxing said with a cold smile.
As he spoke, his eyes never left Huo Yudie. A veil only lent a tantalizing air of mystery; he was already itching to tear it off with his own hands and feast his eyes on the beauty of one of the Three Fairies.
Setting aside that overbearing tone, Wang Dianxing's words struck Wei Zhao as odd. Even without sleeping with them, couldn't one simply wait patiently nearby until the Lei Dong Academy group had finished their Profound Ascension breakthroughs, then go in? What was the point of such a threat?
Not just Wei Zhao. Everyone around him had the same doubt, and they exchanged bewildered glances.
"Hey, this your first time here? I've been twice already—I know this place inside out. Normally a Profound Ascension breakthrough takes ten days to half a month at most; twenty days is the limit. Once you pass that, you either make it or you don't—waiting longer is pointless," one of the older-looking onlooking disciples said, shaking his head.
"Then what's the problem? If twenty days counts as one round, three months is enough for four rounds. Just wait a bit—why put up with this kind of threat?" the crowd asked, puzzled.
"That's how it normally works, but these spots here are all prime spots—they've drawn tribulation lightning successfully in past years. If they break through, they won't just hand them over. To get one of these spots you'd have to buy it at a sky-high price; otherwise they'll just guard it and let no one in!" the onlooking disciple said with a bitter smile.
"That's going too far!" The crowd was seething with indignation. The Giant's Road trial was meant to produce more Profound Ascension experts, yet these people were doing the exact opposite—profiteering off tribulation points was despicable and shameless.
"But surely not all of them can break through successfully?" someone couldn't help asking.