Chapter 3430 — Two Down

While Wei Zhao finished off Number Seven over here, over there, Fire Wolf War Gods Number Five, Six, and Eight had lost all their earlier arrogance and confidence. Before, Number Five had even wanted Number Eight to go launch a sneak attack; now they were praying that Wei Zhao would not sneak up on them from behind—that alone would be cause for gratitude.

However, after waiting a while, they saw Wei Zhao still standing guard over there, making no move to come attack. They found this rather strange—why was Wei Zhao not launching a sneak attack? Could it be that this business of man-and-beast as one meant his thinking differed from other cultivators, that he believed in something like chivalry and would not stoop to sneak attacks?

Looking at it, it really did seem possible! After all, Wei Zhao was also riding a spirit beast, which made him quite similar to a knight. Perhaps that really was the case—after killing one man, Wei Zhao simply stopped making his move!

What a top-tier fool! Fire Wolf War God Number Five was greatly reassured and threw himself wholeheartedly into the fight with Song Lingwei! So long as that man-and-beast-as-one fellow did not stir up trouble, he had no worries left behind him.

At this thought, Fire Wolf War God Number Five notified Numbers Six and Eight through their own secret code, telling them to go ahead and strike boldly, to fight with abandon, and not to worry that Wei Zhao would come sneak-attacking! After all, if he were going to sneak-attack, he would have done so long ago.

"Hahaha!" Fire Wolf War God Number Five glanced at Song Lingwei before him. "Don't delude yourself that anyone is coming to help you! Song Lingwei, though our strength is about equal, do you know what it is? External-school experts have one obvious weakness—they have no true qi, only physical stamina. So you cannot last as long as those who possess both external skill and physical stamina and true qi. Yes, you are stronger than other peak late Heaven-rank great-perfection experts, but I am no weakling either. Among peak late Heaven-rank great-perfection experts, I rank among the very best! That fool with his man-and-beast-as-one is all chivalry—he won't sneak-attack. Having beaten Number Seven, he will just stand there like an idiot!"

"Hmph! How do you know so much? What do you even know?" Song Lingwei said this aloud, but in truth she was likewise utterly baffled. What did this brother-in-law mean by this? Why stand there watching the fight instead of lending a hand? Song Lingwei did not believe for a moment that Ling Yi had any chivalric spirit, yet she could not figure out the reason either!

Qiu Lingshan, by contrast, understood Wei Zhao extremely well. In her view, Wei Zhao had surely run out of physical stamina and true qi, and was therefore resting and recovering over there. Once Wei Zhao had recovered his physical stamina and true qi, it would again be time for him to display his mighty power!

So when Qiu Lingshan saw Wei Zhao finish off Number Seven, she was greatly reassured. This day's bitter battle was eighty percent certain to end in victory! It was only a question of how long it would take.

But at this moment she did not dare to speak carelessly. The fewer people who knew of such a thing, the more Wei Zhao could catch them off guard. So Qiu Lingshan kept her mouth shut and still watched the few fighting in the field with a face full of tension.

Wei Zhao was rapidly recovering his physical stamina and true qi, circulating the third layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art to its utmost!

Time passed second by second, and Wei Zhao's physical stamina and true qi recovered rapidly as well. At last, his physical stamina and true qi returned to a state of abundant peak. But Wei Zhao did not strike directly; instead he placed his hand on Little Feng and began channeling physical stamina and true qi into the Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast. The beast had previously used the Thunderbolt Lightning martial skill once, consuming no small amount of physical stamina and true qi. Although it had said that depending on whether it went all out, it could unleash it two or three times, this time it had certainly gone all out, so it could only unleash it twice.

But even though the Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast could still unleash Thunderbolt Lightning once more, Wei Zhao could not let it retain not a shred of physical stamina and true qi—what if they still had to flee? So Wei Zhao had to keep it perpetually abundant in physical stamina and true qi!

Thus Wei Zhao began restoring the Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast's physical stamina and true qi. Fortunately, Fire Wolf War Gods Number Five, Six, and Eight were all tied down by Song Lingwei and the others, and for the time being would not come to attack Wei Zhao.

At last, Little Feng's physical stamina and true qi also recovered to peak condition. A cold smile flickered across the corner of Wei Zhao's mouth. He patted Little Feng's neck and cast a cold glance at Little Six, who was battling on Song Xianghua's side. This man was Wei Zhao's second target!

Surveying the whole field, the one slightly at a disadvantage was Song Xianghua! Fire Wolf War God Number Six was a fighter second only to Number Five, and though Song Xianghua was also a peak late Heaven-rank great-perfection expert, there was still some gap between him and Number Six. Though not especially pronounced, as time wore on he was now somewhat the weaker.

Even if he could hold on, in the end the loser would probably still be him. As for Song Lingwei's side, she was still fighting with great ease, and on Little One's side, though he had only fought Number Seven to a draw, he had not fallen behind either, so none of them needed Wei Zhao to step in.

"Little Feng, this time we take out that Number Six fighting Second Grandfather Song Xianghua! Understand?" Wei Zhao instructed Little Feng.

"Roar—roar—roar!" Little Feng answered again and again.

"All right, start blasting him!" Wei Zhao said.

"Boom!" A bolt of lightning gathered at the Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast's single horn, then became a thunderclap out of a clear sky, falling straight onto Number Six's head! Because Number Six was in the middle of fighting Song Xianghua, he had not expected in the least that the Wind-Thunder Purple-Lightning Beast would blast him!

He had been feeling fine just now, because after a round of exchanges he had finally gained the upper hand. Given a little more time, he was confident he could defeat Song Xianghua. But that fine notion had already become a fantasy. With a miserable shriek, just like Number Seven before him, he began to breakdance on the spot!

"Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm, Eleventh Form!!" Wei Zhao seized the moment and swiftly unleashed the eleventh form of the Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm, smashing it toward Number Six's back!

Song Xianghua, that old fox, was no kind soul either. When he saw Wei Zhao begin to exert force on this side, and his mount send a bolt of lightning crashing over, he made ready to attack. Previously he had been conserving his physical stamina and true qi—among the three of them, Song Lingwei, Little One, and himself, he was the weakest, so he had not dared to use his full strength from the start, and thus had fallen to a disadvantage. But now he had finally found his chance, and exerting all the strength in his body, he unleashed his mightiest martial skill, the twentieth form of "Startling Seas That Shake the Heavens"! A white watery mist descended straight over Number Six's head, and Wei Zhao's eleventh form of the Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm struck home at precisely the same moment!

"Boom!" This palm strike, though lacking the attack bonus of the essence necklace, still made Fire Wolf War God Number Six profoundly miserable—and that was not all, for Song Xiangwen's martial skill followed close on its heels!