Chapter 4896 — The Difference Between Xuan Sheng and Yuan Ying
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The woman's dreaming was all very well, but alas, she had barely slipped a few steps away before Chang Laiting caught on. He bellowed at once, "Stop right there! Ni Caiyue, you're welcome to leave, but hand the thing over first—otherwise don't blame me for getting unpleasant!"
"Ah!" Ni Caiyue was frightened stiff on the spot. In her panic she hurriedly froze in her tracks, her feet desperately straining to inch farther away, yet wanting to run and not daring to—she could only stand there, at a complete loss.
Wei Zhao looked at her and was struck speechless. This Ni Caiyue truly had no mind of her own; she acted like someone who had never seen the world at all, with not a shred of jianghu experience.
One casual sentence from the other side and she was too scared to move—how the hell had she ever expected to make her way out here? He genuinely wondered how she had survived in the Eastern Continent, where competition was so vicious.
"That's enough, isn't it? She's already this pitiful and you're still robbing her—she's your dao companion, after all, isn't she?" Wei Zhao spoke up.
"Boy, don't you know that meddling in other people's business gets people killed? I was originally going to spare your little life, but now—well, I've changed my mind. Ni Caiyue won't cooperate precisely because she hasn't seen blood yet. You'll do nicely to make an example of." Chang Laiting's voice was thick with killing intent.
The words had barely landed when his figure flickered and he struck at Wei Zhao without the slightest hesitation. A long pitch-black sword had appeared in his hand at some unknown moment, and without a word he raised it and loosed a sword aura.
Wang Xinyan and the others felt their eyelids twitch. This sword aura was not merely powerful—more importantly, three hues of green, yellow, and red swirled across it. In other words, this single sword aura contained three kinds of attribute true qi at once. This was a most rare expert of the three-spirit Xuan Sheng stage!
No wonder this fellow could be ranked alongside Wang Dianxing; no wonder he could be numbered among the Four Young Masters of the Yuan Ying. To be able to fuse three attribute spiritual roots into one at the moment of breaking through to Xuan Sheng—that was no feat for an ordinary man. He really did have some skill.
Wang Xinyan, Huang Xiaotao, and Lu Xiaozhong exchanged a glance and, without prior agreement, all edged back a little. A three-spirit Xuan Sheng expert was indeed far stronger than others of the same rank—but his target was Wei Zhao. There was truly nothing to worry about.
Even Wei Zhao before his breakthrough would never have fallen into a disadvantage against an opponent like this, much less the Wei Zhao of now, already an expert of the early Xuan Sheng stage. They did not know, of course, that Wei Zhao possessed an unprecedented composite of eight spiritual roots. But that earlier scene, when a casual strike of his rivaled a lightning tribulation, was still fresh in their memories.
Once he got serious, Wei Zhao could effortlessly kill this Yuan Ying Fourth Young Master, now advanced to Xuan Sheng, in a single move—of that, everyone was utterly certain!
What surprised Wang Xinyan and the others somewhat, however, was that Wei Zhao seemed to have no intention of finishing Chang Laiting off in one move. Instead, he turned a step to the side and calmly let the sword aura pass him by.
"Yo! Quick on your feet, aren't you!" Chang Laiting was slightly taken aback. Ever since he learned Wei Zhao was from the Northern Isle, he had ceased to regard the man as existing at all. Even if the other was likewise a newly promoted expert of the early Xuan Sheng stage, before him he was no more than an ant that could not withstand a single blow—not worth mentioning in the least.