Chapter 4887 — Giving Up Halfway?
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But this question truly had no answer; anyone else would likely have scratched their scalp raw by now. For a Xuan Sheng expert, the other individual spirit-root attributes would indeed persist, but what would truly prove decisive in the future was the multi-attributed spirit root formed by fusion—in other words, whichever attributes one fused would directly determine one's strength after the Xuan Sheng breakthrough!
Ice, mist, and lightning—these three attributes were exceedingly rare, and all of them were highly useful. Wei Zhao was unwilling to rule out any one of them. As for the remaining five conventional attributes, they could not simply be discarded either—at the very least, he had always wielded fire-attribute martial techniques smoothly, not to mention that his ultimate trump card, the Five Elements Killing Qi, was a move built upon the foundation of all five conventional attributes.
He thought and thought until his head had swollen several sizes. There was no attribute he was willing to give up . . .
To be so utterly vexed at the very moment of charging toward the Xuan Sheng breakthrough—surely there had never been anyone like him in history, nor would there ever be again. Just as Wei Zhao was tangled in his dilemma, a deafening boom suddenly exploded overhead, and a pillar of lightning so thick it was visible to the naked eye came crashing down without the slightest warning!
For other people's lightning tribulations, the lightning pillar at most was as thick as a water bucket, and even that was an imposing sight. Wei Zhao's, though—well, this was no water bucket; this was a top-grade water vat!
"Hahahahaha!" Bao Zuoliang and Su Kesheng, hiding in their corner, nearly doubled over laughing at this shocking spectacle. Even they, the two masterminds behind it all, had never imagined the scene would be so magnificent and terrifying.
With a lightning tribulation so savage and horrifying, to say nothing of a mere Wei Zhao—even a Kaishan-stage titan struck head-on by such a bolt would surely have croaked on the spot!
The other onlookers all wore expressions of horror, and a good number of them recoiled on the spot. They had no idea there was more to this than met the eye; they assumed the tribulation nodes here were simply this savage. If they themselves went in and received the same treatment, wouldn't they be charred to cinders in a matter of moments?
At this moment, Wei Zhao himself—the man at the center of the tribulation node—was equally stunned. This top-grade lightning pillar had come too abruptly, catching him somewhat off guard. Yet once he reacted, he was not alarmed but delighted!
He had been worrying that the power of lightning was insufficient, and now a top-grade lightning pillar had descended from the heavens. Judging by its might, it was likely more than ten times that of anyone else's. Now not only did he have hope for the triple fusion, he could even begin to entertain thoughts of an eightfold one.
But in the next instant, when the lightning pillar struck his body, that little thrill was blasted to smithereens, and all that remained in his mind was one final sensation.
Agony—agony beyond compare!
From childhood onward, Wei Zhao had endured all manner of suffering. Before he made his name in the secular world, he had even undergone specialized resistance training against electric shocks; withstanding all forms of attack, electric shocks included, was the bare minimum for an assassin, to say nothing of the fact that he had received the lightning inheritance of a giant electric eel and possessed a lightning-attribute spirit root within his body.
But Wei Zhao had clearly overthought it. Even if this lightning strike was somewhat inferior to the one from the giant electric eel, there was nevertheless a fundamental difference between the two.