Chapter 11649 — The Gaunt Elder on the Other Side Said
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Better still, Wei Zhao could use the occasion to recklessly test every hypothesis he had, and from there develop even more and deadlier killing moves!
The Three Ancestors could never have guessed that in Wei Zhao's eyes the three of them had become three human testing grounds—every last one of them a windfall not to be found by seeking.
In the end, at their level, how far one could ultimately go depended on gathering every condition and stroke of fortune, yes—but the crux of the crux remained the depth of one's understanding of the essence of power.
The more thoroughly one understood that essence, the higher the ceiling one could touch in the future.
Every technique is merely the application of an underlying understanding.
With understanding deep enough, even the simplest single move could unleash heaven-spanning might.
This was the road Wei Zhao now walked.
It was no exaggeration to say that at this very moment, with every passing minute and second, Wei Zhao was reaping enormous benefit.
The Three Ancestors might not grasp the whys and wherefores, but they were no fools either, and the rapid transformation in Wei Zhao was something they perceived with perfect clarity.
"He is still improving?"
The short elder's voice carried a tremor.
Wei Zhao's present level already left them staring. If he kept improving, they might truly fail even to ruin him in kind—and could only watch as they were swallowed alive, flesh and bone, by Wei Zhao.
The gaunt elder murmured, bereft of words, "A monster! How did my Prince of Qi's Estate ever provoke such a monster?"
The tall elder's face darkened. "The present Prince of Qi has ruined us!"
Their decision to move against Wei Zhao had come of listening to the Prince of Qi, of believing that Wei Zhao's very existence was a fatal threat to the estate and must be uprooted early, lest endless trouble breed.
Now it seemed Wei Zhao was indeed a fatal threat—but they had grossly underestimated his ceiling.
By the long-standing style of the Prince of Qi's Estate, meeting such a monster would normally mean choosing first to win him over, not to lock horns in a fight to the death.
After all, should the attempt fail, the consequences were unthinkable.
Yet it was precisely the Prince of Qi's earlier slander that had led them into a misjudgment through and through!
Following the original course, Wei Zhao ought to have been a powerful ally of the Prince of Qi's Estate.
As things stood, the Prince of Qi had talked them into using Wei Zhao as a stepping stone—and half a step in, they discovered it was a mine, a top-tier thunder mine enough to reduce the entire Prince of Qi's Estate to ashes!
Just then, the Prince of Qi's voice suddenly rang out in the ancestral shrine.
"That remark of the Ancestor's, this Prince finds somewhat hard to follow."
Everyone started.
That the Prince of Qi should appear in the Prince of Qi's Estate's ancestral shrine was nothing strange in itself. What mattered was the sensitivity of this particular juncture—which made it very much worth pondering.
The tall elder's face fell. "What are you doing in here?"
The Prince of Qi smiled with a trace of amusement. "This Prince has naturally come to help the three Ancestors. Holding the home ground, three against one—if even so you cannot take down a single Wei Zhao, would not the Prince of Qi's Estate become a laughingstock once word spread?"
The short elder frowned. "You come to help? How?"
They had seen the Prince of Qi's performance just now with perfect clarity.
True, there had been a design beforehand, meant to lure Wei Zhao into the ancestral shrine, to invite the gentleman into the jar—but the Prince of Qi's collapse at the first touch had been no act either.
The Prince of Qi's strength was far weaker than they had expected.
With the little strength he had, to try to thrust himself into this contest between the Three Ancestors of the Prince of Qi's Estate and Wei Zhao was a clean case of overreaching.