Chapter 4893 — Spirit Medicine Turned to Cabbages
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
Just then the jade pendant at his chest sent out a sharp, urgent warning. Wei Zhao's eyelid twitched; in one motion he swept Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao up, one under each arm, and did not forget to kick Lu Xiaozhong sprawling behind him.
Before Wang Xinyan and the others could even react, a thick bolt of lightning came crashing down out of thin air, striking exactly where they had been standing a moment before.
The bolt was as thick as a water bucket, and its power was plainly no less than the strike Wei Zhao had taken earlier, the one that rivaled a minor lightning tribulation. Had the jade pendant not warned them and let Wei Zhao dodge in advance, there would have been no evading it at all—lightning is simply too fast. Anyone caught in it would have been crippled at best, dead at worst.
"Too close!" Lu Xiaozhong cast a lingering, shaken glance at the sky. Before he could even brush the footprint of Wei Zhao's boot off his backside, his eyes went perfectly round. Another bolt!
This time, however, the lightning was not aimed at the group. It was aimed straight at Wei Zhao.
The gap between the two strikes had been far too short. Though the jade pendant had given warning, Wei Zhao had no time to dodge again and could only shove the two women clear. Fast as he was, he could never be faster than lightning.
Boom! The bolt struck Wei Zhao square on the crown of his head, giving Wang Xinyan and the others a violent fright. Lightning of that caliber, a match for a minor tribulation, was horrifying merely to look at—take a hit like that to the body and a man was dead, plain and simple!
Yet before any of them could even put on worried faces, Wei Zhao stretched lazily as though nothing had happened. From the look of him, there was not a single wound on his whole body!
"Are... are you all right?" Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao rubbed their eyes in disbelief, while Lu Xiaozhong, who had only just scrambled up, was so startled at the sight that he dropped straight back onto the ground.
"I'm fine," Wei Zhao said with an indifferent shake of his head. He too had broken out in a cold sweat just now, but fortunately he himself was something of a hand with lightning these days; so long as a bolt did not vastly outstrip his own level, it was very hard for it to do him any real harm.
Only when Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao saw that he truly was unhurt did they exchange a glance and breathe easy. Off to one side, Lu Xiaozhong secretly put out his tongue. His old man had been right after all—this Master Lin was nothing but an unreasonable monster!
Paying no mind to the looks on their faces, Wei Zhao kept his eyes fixed on that hazy shadow in the sky, on guard against another bolt at any moment. He himself was not afraid, but Wang Xinyan and the others could not take another hit like that.
That dark shape, however, seemed rather surprised as well. It circled a few times above their heads, gave two harsh, chattering cries, and then swiftly vanished into the cloud layer.
"The strange bird's gone? Scared off by Master Lin?" Lu Xiaozhong was once again awestruck by Wei Zhao. He did not know what manner of bird it was, but of one thing he was certain: it had to be a ferocious fowl of a rarity the world had never seen. He had never heard of any bird that could conjure lightning to match a minor tribulation!
What shocked him even more, by comparison, was this: the bird had struck Wei Zhao once, seen that he was completely unharmed, and then given a couple of strange cries and flown away. Was that not to say it had been frightened off by Wei Zhao himself, scared clean away?
"Scared off by me? How could that be?" Wei Zhao shook his head in exasperation, then used his primordial spirit to ask Gui Dongxi, "Senior, what kind of spirit beast was that just now?"