Chapter 1709 — Wei Zhao Is Injured! "An Earth-Rank Martial Technique — Frenzied Fire Fist!" Wei Zhao was an assassin by trade, his eyes and his speed a cut above the ordinary expert, so when he saw Yushuixing suddenly turn to attack Chen Yuxuan, how could he fail to grasp the man's meaning?
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"Wei Zhao, you bastard — are you playing me?" This time Yushuixing was thoroughly enraged. Once was forgivable; he believed Wei Zhao had only just learned the technique and was unskilled, and that was why it had not come out. But a second failure — what kind of nonsense was that? How was Yushuixing supposed to believe it? Anyone in his place would suspect that Wei Zhao was conjuring ghosts and gods purely to frighten him.
"I'm not playing you — it really didn't come out." Wei Zhao was in fact not lying to Yushuixing. Before this he'd had no target, so he had always simulated the technique's execution inside the space of his jade pendant; real combat was a first, and so he had botched it twice.
"I say you've got a death wish!" Yushuixing snarled.
"Wait a moment — this time it will definitely work!" Wei Zhao said, then bellowed at Yushuixing once more: "Frenzied Fire Fist!"
Though Yushuixing did not quite believe it, he still dodged to one side out of habit. That brat Wei Zhao was utterly treacherous — what if he really had been unable to release it before, and this time he did?
Unfortunately, this time too Wei Zhao released nothing! Once again Yushuixing had been "played" like a monkey!
And this time, Wei Zhao truly was playing him. This time Wei Zhao had no intention whatsoever of using the Frenzied Fire Fist again; having failed twice in a row, he had given up on it and begun compressing an energy bomb.
To be honest, Wei Zhao felt rather helpless about switching to this move. It was his only hidden card, and a somewhat pitiful one — he had used it from the Yellow Rank all the way up to the Earth Rank and was still using it! Wei Zhao was itching to unearth some new hidden cards, but the second stone gate had not opened, and every ability of the first layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art had already been studied and exploited by Wei Zhao to the very dregs; there was no other function left to wring from it.
So Wei Zhao could only begin compressing energy, preparing to attack Yushuixing with the Wave-Motion Fist.
On the surface, of course, he betrayed nothing, still bluffing Yushuixing for all he was worth.
"Only a ghost would believe you!" Yushuixing snorted, raised his fist and swung it at Wei Zhao. "Boy, today I'll kill you to pay my debt!"
Wei Zhao had already begun compressing energy within his body, but the time was too short and it had not yet reached the point where it could hurt anyone; seeing Yushuixing attack, he could only raise his own fist to meet it.
"Bang!" The two fists collided in midair with a tremendous report — the sound of true qi clashing between Earth-Rank experts!
Wei Zhao staggered back two steps, while Yushuixing stood rooted to the spot without shifting an inch!
Color flooded Wei Zhao's face in an instant, then turned to an ashen pallor, and a thread of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth...
"Pff—" Wei Zhao spat out a mouthful of blood, and everyone present who had been favoring him started in alarm! They had never expected that Wei Zhao, a true expert of the early Earth-Rank, would be unable to beat Yushuixing, a counterfeit of the early Earth-Rank propped up by pills!
In truth, Yushuixing was burning away his own life in exchange for that strength. In the early stage of the pill's effect, it could hold him in a state of great perfection at the early Mystic Rank — that is, a single step from the peak of the early Mystic Rank!