Chapter 4931 — Utterly Discomfited
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But Zang Zili was no fool, after all. After an instinctive moment of retreat, she quickly came to her senses: such evasion would only stoke the other's arrogance and make him stronger with every blow. Given enough time, she might truly capsize in a ditch.
"Courting death!" White flames gathered again over Zang Zili's palms, opening and closing into a long stream of fire as she sought to seize the moment and bind Wei Zhao, who had pressed in close, and kill him.
Unfortunately for her, before she could even strike, Wei Zhao had already flickered to the other side like a phantom. Setting aside absolute strength, if it came down to sheer combat instinct alone, a hundred Zang Zilis would not have been Wei Zhao's match. Her every movement was already within his expectations.
With her move falling through, Zang Zili immediately exposed a flaw—neither great nor small—yet Wei Zhao did not follow up with Thunderous Thousand Bursts. The same technique, used too often, would soon have its patterns figured out; besides, it was rare to meet such a pathetic specimen of the early Kaishan stage, so of course he had to take the chance to test his moves properly!
Chang Laiting before had simply been too weak; at the very most, he had barely managed to test four-series attribute martial arts before folding. Since the son was useless, then let the mother take his place—this was a fine opponent delivered right to his door.
Accompanied by a chorus of dragon roars, the Five Elements Killing Aura—Wei Zhao's ace in the hole from some time past—finally made its appearance. The other party was a Kaishan-stage titan, after all; to keep using four-series attribute martial arts would have been far too insulting. Five Elements Killing Aura, gathering the attributes of all five elements, was merely the starting point.
And what was more, this was no ordinary Five Elements Killing Aura at all.
Zang Zili had little combat instinct, but her eye was keen enough. At a glance she could tell that Wei Zhao's Five Elements Killing Aura was no small matter. Even if, at first sight, it did not seem as intimidating as the Thunderous Thousand Bursts before, when it came to profundity and subtlety, it was absolutely its superior.
"Paltry tricks!" So she said, yet her hands dared not slacken for an instant. She hastily sent a white fireball straight at the Five Elements Killing Aura, which moved like a flood dragon.
The two collided head-on, and everyone expected a thunderous explosion like the one before. But to their surprise, Wei Zhao's Five Elements Killing Aura did not so much as raise a fart of a stir—it was simply crushed flat by the other's white fireball.
From first to last, it did not even manage the barest drain on the enemy, let alone fight to a standstill as the Thunderous Thousand Bursts had done.
The onlookers were struck dumb. After the two spectacular exchanges before, they had unconsciously come to regard Wei Zhao as a formidable figure who could match Zang Zili—after all, in those two clashes he had not fallen the slightest bit behind; rather, he had been leading her around by the nose.
But this time, the gap in strength between the two sides was laid bare in an instant. This ruthless character from North Island might just barely trade a blow or two with Zang Zili, but no more than that—when all was said and done, he was merely of the early Xuan Ascension stage.
"Hahahaha! And here I thought you were strong—turns out you're just an embroidered pillow, pretty on the outside and useless within. Out of steam already? I haven't even warmed up yet!" Zang Zili sneered triumphantly at the sight.
What she failed to notice was that the Alliance Chairman and the whole company of Kaishan-stage experts of the Alliance Guard, hearing her words, all wore expressions of derision in unison. Had this woman still not realized the danger she was in?
For a Kaishan-stage titan to be so obtuse—truly pitiful beyond all measure!