Chapter 4886 — Merging Spirit Roots
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Because of the subtle influence of the Lightning-Commanding Banner, everyone's lightning tribulation was stirred up far faster than usual this time, which suited Bao Zuoliang and Su Kesheng perfectly. Had the crowd all been unable to summon their tribulations for a long while, the two of them would have been utterly helpless, still waiting anxiously with their ingredients ready and the pot on the fire—after all, it took considerable effort to keep so many tribulations under control with the banner.
At last, they both felt it was about enough. By now, counting Wei Zhao's own, the Lightning-Commanding Banner was manipulating the tribulations of a full ten people!
Having gathered such an immense charge of lightning energy, even the Lightning-Commanding Banner itself could hardly bear it—this was nearly the limit of what it could control. Had it been otherwise, Bao Zuoliang and Su Kesheng would likely have gone on gathering more with mad abandon, for Wei Zhao had displayed such appalling strength that if this strike failed to kill him, the consequences would be endless.
"This will do it. He's dead for sure—that fellow surnamed Lin!" Su Kesheng urged, his eyes gleaming.
"Heh heh, just you watch—the moment of miracles has come!" Bao Zuoliang was even more impatient than his companion. Gazing at the towering, dense layers of thunderclouds overhead, he felt as though he were looking upon a beauty stripped bare, and he itched to throw himself upon her and plant two fierce kisses—all of this was his handiwork!
At that moment, Wei Zhao in the tribulation node remained wholly unaware of any of it, still puzzling in silence. He could clearly sense that a powerful lightning field had gathered overhead and was constantly stirring, yet for some inexplicable reason it simply would not descend!
"What the devil is this?" Wei Zhao was utterly baffled, but something else troubled him even more than this. The greatest problem he faced at the moment was which spirit root attributes he should condense for the fusion.
Ordinary people never suffered such distress. Those with a single spirit root attribute need not even consider it, for they lacked the qualifications to attempt the Xuan Sheng breakthrough at all. Of course, nearly everyone who could enter East Continent Academy possessed dual-attribute spirit roots, and such people had little to agonize over—they simply fused the two attributes together.
As for those with triple spirit root attributes, even in the genius-gathering East Continent Academy they were uncommon, and their options were limited besides—merely pairing three attributes two at a time, then choosing whichever scheme was optimal.
But Wei Zhao was different. He did not carry three attributes, but a full eight: beyond the five fundamental attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, he also possessed ice, mist, and lightning. Choosing among them truly made one's head ache!
If it were possible, Wei Zhao would naturally have loved nothing more than to fuse all his spirit root attributes into one, but that was simply unrealistic. The ghostly thing had told him long ago that though his constitution was special and the possibility of unifying eight attributes did theoretically exist, that possibility was so infinitesimal as to be negligible.
What limited this was not talent but purely a lack of motive force. Fusing spirit roots of different attributes into one was an exceedingly difficult and complex process—in a sense, it was destruction before creation.
To destroy the original multiple spirit roots and remold a new, fused spirit root—both processes required the aid of an extremely powerful external force, and that force came precisely from the lightning tribulation!