Chapter 4899 — One of the Three Fairies
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"So he can't even take a hit..." Wei Zhao watched the scene and shook his head with some regret. He had already worked out in his mind a brand-new move combining four attributes, just waiting for the fellow to show a bit of backbone and break through the encirclement—and yet the man had gone and passed out cold. What a letdown.
If Chang Laiting could have heard that remark, he would likely have died of sheer fury even while awake. As it was, he had already grasped the gap between their strengths: Wei Zhao could match him evenly with a mere dual-attribute martial technique, and the moment he brought out a three-attribute one, Chang Laiting was no match at all.
That a piece of Northern Island trash should be a Three-Spirit Profound Ascension expert just like himself—had he not experienced it firsthand, Chang Laiting would never have believed it. And if he had known that Wei Zhao was an unprecedented Eight-Spirit Profound Ascension expert, one who was planning to use him as a sparring partner to test moves one after another, there was no telling what expression the fellow would have worn—at the very least, he would surely have wished himself dead.
"Master Lin, you're actually a Three-Spirit Profound Ascension expert too—that's incredible!" Lu Xiaozhong sidled over with a look of awe. He had wanted to fuse three spirit roots at once himself, but the tribulation lightning had lacked sufficient power, and in the end he had fused only two before hastily calling it off; knowing full well how fearsome the difficulty was, he admired Wei Zhao all the more.
The fellow had not witnessed the scene where Wei Zhao's casual bolt of lightning rivaled a tribulation thunderbolt. Otherwise he would surely have taken it as matter-of-factly as Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao did.
Wei Zhao smiled without taking it to heart, his gaze falling on the woman named Ni Caiyue. At that moment she was staring blankly at Chang Laiting, who lay not far from her. This was one of the Four Young Masters of the Nascent Soul stage—someone whose early Profound Ascension strength was at least comparable to the mid Profound Ascension stage. How had he been so easily beaten to the ground?
Ni Caiyue stood stunned for a long while, then suddenly smacked her own head as it came to her: since Chang Laiting had been knocked unconscious, didn't that mean she could escape?
But when she looked up and saw that all four of them were studying her, Ni Caiyue at once became somewhat fidgety. She certainly wanted to flee right now, but she felt that simply leaving without even a word of farewell seemed a bit improper.
Whatever their motives, they had after all helped her by knocking out that bastard Chang Laiting—otherwise how could she have been so easily freed from her predicament? Before leaving, she ought at least to thank them. The problem was, how did one go about thanking someone in the cultivation world?
After pondering for a long while, Ni Caiyue's eyes finally lit up. Having settled on her words, she turned back to Wei Zhao and said, "This young woman thanks the young hero for saving her life!"
With that she even gave Wei Zhao a proper bow. But who would have thought that as she bent at the waist, the veil covering her face slipped right off—after all, she had been chased the whole way by Chang Laiting, and the fastenings on either side of the veil had long since worked loose. It would have been stranger still if it had stayed on when she bowed.
Wei Zhao and the others stared at her blankly, feeling their eyes light up. They had already guessed that this woman must be no ordinary beauty, but now that they saw this stunning face, they realized at once that they had greatly underestimated her.
Such looks and bearing were far more than merely uncommon—she was a peerless beauty of the mortal world, and even set beside Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao she was in no way inferior!