Chapter 4956 — You Think You Can Escape?
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Chang Minghui need not have closed in so near. With his powers he could have taken a man's head from three hundred meters away with ease, but he felt that would be letting Wei Zhao off too lightly. To vent his fury, he meant to crush Wei Zhao's whole body with his own hands and let him die in endless agony—only thus could he make an example of him, so that the world might see what became of anyone who crossed Chang Minghui!
A wind-attribute titan, as expected! Wei Zhao had foreseen this. Every time Chang Minghui appeared or made his move, he came wrapped in a howling gale. That his speed should be so great was only natural; after all, the rare wind-attribute spirit root was prized for speed above all else—Huang Xiaotao was proof enough of that.
An instant later, Chang Minghui, without deigning to use any martial technique at all, simply raised a hand and reached for Wei Zhao's throat. Were he, a late-stage Kaishan cultivator, to unleash his signature arts against a mere Wei Zhao, he would have made himself a laughingstock.
By now he was only a meter and a half behind Wei Zhao, almost pressed against his back, shadowing his every step. Wei Zhao had no way to shake him off.
Yet Wei Zhao had never imagined he could outrun the man on speed alone. The moment Chang Minghui's hand shot out, Wei Zhao whipped around and flung forth a single strike of Seven-Element Five-Phase Killing Qi!
Setting aside questions of cultivation rank, the Five-Phase Killing Qi was in itself an exquisitely refined and profound martial art; now infused with ice and mist attributes, it was all the harder to guard against. Zang Zili's earlier humiliation was proof enough of that.
Of course, Wei Zhao did not expect this one move to cause Chang Minghui any real trouble—that was simply unrealistic. He had only one aim in doing it: to slow the man's speed as much as possible. Nothing more.
With a low, sonorous dragon's roar, the Seven-Element Five-Phase Killing Qi hurtled at Chang Minghui beyond all doubt, striking him square and full in the face. Even Chang Minghui could not react in time.
Wei Zhao's heart leaped with joy. He had feared the blow might miss—this was, after all, a late-stage Kaishan expert whose speed was outrageous—yet it had landed with surprising ease. The man had clearly been careless; though in truth, whoever faced a mere early-stage Xuansheng cultivator with a late-stage Kaishan cultivation would inevitably underestimate him.
In an instant Chang Minghui was engulfed by the Seven-Element Five-Phase Killing Qi. Wei Zhao sought no kill, only delay. He knew the Killing Qi's power might not do the man much harm, but the ice energy woven everywhere through it should be enough to dull his movement technique somewhat—just as it had against Zang Zili before.
Wei Zhao did not wait to see how Chang Minghui would respond. Without another word he turned and fled, his movement technique pushed once more to its utmost—yet before he had gone two steps, Chang Minghui's mocking sneer rang out beside his ear: "Tricks no better than a parlor magician's, and you think you can beat my wife to that state?"
The jade pendant's warning shrieked madly. With no time to be shocked, Wei Zhao instinctively threw himself into a tumbling roll off to the side. Ungainly as it looked, it carried him clear of a formless, invisible wind blade in the very last instant, and he broke out in a cold sweat.
A titan of the late Kaishan stage indeed—this Chang Minghui was truly terrifying. Before him, the Seven-Element Five-Phase Killing Qi could not manage even a moment's obstruction. Had the jade pendant not warned him, Wei Zhao might well have lost his head on the spot.