Chapter 4992 — Only Half a Day
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
Since he had developed the Five Elements Eight Trigrams killing intent not long ago, frankly even Wei Zhao himself did not know just how powerful the Eight Trigrams flood dragon was. The only time he had used it before was against Chang Minghui—but the gap in strength and cultivation between them had been far too great, and the flood dragon had been easily destroyed the moment it appeared. It had been hard to judge its true effect.
But now Wei Zhao had caught a glimpse of the truth. Judging from how the Eight Trigrams flood dragon had effortlessly crushed Wu Che, it would surely make short work of a Xuan Ascension great-circle expert as well, and should be enough to put up a fight against a weaker early Opening Mountain expert like Zang Zili.
In terms of sheer destructive power and explosive force alone, it probably could not match the ultimate move Thunder Burial, but this move had the advantage of requiring no buildup—it could defeat an enemy in an instant, and its combinations were extremely flexible. So long as Wei Zhao split his attention slightly, he could coordinate perfectly between his true body and the Eight Trigrams flood dragon, achieving a form of two-against-one.
This conclusion delighted Wei Zhao inwardly. It was practically a top-tier, advanced version of the left-hand-versus-right-hand technique! Had he mastered this move back when he faced Zang Zili, he would not have had to fight so laboriously at all. He could have established absolute, one-sided suppression—Zang Zili might not even have been able to fight back.
"You... don't you dare do anything rash!" The pressure of being bound by a ferocious beast was simply more than any normal person could bear. Wu Che's voice even trembled now, yet he still refused to show weakness before Wei Zhao, forcing himself to stay calm as he said, "I am Wu Che, the Standing Vice Island Lord. If you dare touch a single hair on my head, you will be making an enemy of the entire Central Island. Weigh the consequences for yourself!"
"Is that so? I'm so scared." Wei Zhao did not take the other's threats to heart at all, and said with a curl of his lip, "Is the Central Island a business your family runs, that whatever you say goes? Hmph—since you chose to be a running dog of the Famous Pill Sect, you should have been prepared for this. Since you dared come after me, you should naturally be ready to be dealt with by me. Isn't that the way of it?"
"I..." Wu Che was instantly choked speechless. He truly regretted agreeing to help the Famous Pill Sect now. He had assumed this was just some insignificant small fry—who would have known he would turn out to be such a slab of solid iron!
The other was only at the early Xuan Ascension stage, yet he had casually dealt with Wu Che, a peak late Xuan Ascension expert—and with a legendary method like true qi transforming into spirit, no less. Wu Che was no fool. He knew what this represented, and he knew even better that this was absolutely not something he, a mere Standing Vice Island Lord, could settle.
This time, the Zheng family had really set him up!
"I'll spare your miserable life this once. I'll give you half a day to return those five seventh-grade Great Rejuvenation Pills of mine. If you can't manage it, that's fine too—I'll come to your door myself. But when that happens, I won't be nearly so pleasant to talk to." Wei Zhao looked Wu Che in the eye and said calmly, "Remember, I'm really not a man of good temper. I only let someone go once."
Wu Che was already drenched in cold sweat from fright, and at these words he was overjoyed. He thought to himself that though this man was terrifying, in the end he still did not dare truly provoke the Island Lord's Pavilion—otherwise, once he truly made an enemy of the entire Central Island, what good would his strength do him?