Chapter 1343 — Busy Right Now
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That was also why only the hidden houses and sects could claim Earth-rank experts of their own, and why those Earth-rank experts were bound by covenant never to enter the secular world -- they were simply too dangerous! It was a dividing line. To step into Earth-rank was to step into the reserve camp for Sky-rank, to gain the chance of one day becoming a Sky-rank expert!
Once a man became a Sky-rank expert, his lifespan would be lengthened. It was the realm every Earth-rank expert dreamed of in his sleep. As for any realm still higher, they did not even dare to dream of it, for men had once pursued it, and those men had never been heard from again...
"Are you certain you can kill me in a single move?" Wei Zhao was anxious at heart. His compression of energy was only half complete, and he had not expected this Old Mr. Yu to lose patience so soon and prepare to finish him off in one blow. Outwardly, though, he showed nothing as he stalled for time.
"A joke! If I needed even half a move, you would die all the same!" At Wei Zhao's doubt, Old Mr. Yu looked as though he had suffered some great insult, and flew into a rage on the spot.
"Is that so? Then you have already thrown so many moves at me, so how am I still not dead?" Wei Zhao said slowly and unhurriedly, while urging himself inwardly: faster, faster, faster, it is almost ready...
If Shen Yushu and Feng Xiaoxiao had heard Wei Zhao's inner voice, they would surely have taken it entirely the wrong way... The eldest miss and Tang Zhi were rather innocent. Well, they probably would not read too much into it...
"That was just this old man toying with you. Could you not tell?" Old Mr. Yu was about to burst with anger. What sort of eyesight did this brat have, that he could not even tell he had been played with before? Did he really think this was the full extent of his skill?
"I truly could not tell." Wei Zhao nodded solemnly, speaking as if he meant every word.
"Wah-yah-yah-yah, you will be the death of me, old man! Take your death!" Old Mr. Yu swung out a fist and smashed it toward Wei Zhao. One could see the punch gathered his full ten parts of power, clearly meant to settle Wei Zhao in a single move.
Wei Zhao sighed inwardly. In the end he was still just short, unable to complete the compression of energy. He had already dragged things out as long as he could, but this old man would give him no more chance!
"Go to hell!" In the instant Old Mr. Yu rushed in, Wei Zhao hurled out his energy bomb, then fell back swiftly. With this strike he did not hope to blast Old Mr. Yu to death, for even a one-hundred-percent compressed energy bomb might not kill an Earth-rank expert, let alone his own incomplete version.
Once this blow was loosed, the thunderous blast it made would be enough to wake everyone present. When they all came out, Wei Zhao did not believe this Old Mr. Yu would dare keep fighting! If he truly meant to expose himself, he would never have needed to skulk about in the first place. He would likely have slaughtered everyone in the ancient tomb in broad daylight.
For an Earth-rank expert, that would have been no difficult task! Wei Zhao guessed that the reason he had not done so was that he meant to use these people as cannon fodder inside the tomb.
"Boom--" The energy bomb exploded right before Old Mr. Yu, blasting the right arm he had thrust out into a mangled mess of flesh and blood. In Wei Zhao's eyes, however, it was likely only a wound. After rest and care, the arm could still be used. He had failed to inflict any greater harm!
Even so, Wei Zhao was well content. After the great blast, he fell swiftly back into his own tent, certain that Old Mr. Yu would likewise hide himself in haste! After all, that earth-shaking crash, though not so mighty in effect as the complete energy bomb Wei Zhao had once used against Ma Zhu, was still world-shaking enough. In this silent valley, only a deaf man could have failed to hear it.