Chapter 2003 — The Fourth Stance of Raging Fire Fist!
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Thinking of all this, Wei Zhao was so furious that flames all but started from his eyes; and in a strange, fey moment, he actually went on to summon the fourth stance of Raging Fire Fist... This was a stance he had tried to unleash many times without success, yet for some reason, in these straits, he gritted his teeth and tried once more...
In the past, **, when the third stance had ended and he wished to unleash the fourth, Wei Zhao had always felt a helpless insufficiency, his strength failing him at the crucial moment, so that ** forcibly scattered the true qi and momentum he had gathered into one, and it ended in failure...
But this time, Wei Zhao's face was incomparably grave. Once more he summoned the fourth stance, and before the Earth-Rank man in black, he took a single step forward!
Then the true qi within his body surged toward his right fist in an utterly frenzied manner, and in that instant the spiritual qi of heaven and earth around him seemed to be stirred as well, wheeling above his head and about his body...
His hands flew through hand seals, forming a most peculiar posture, and beneath the Earth-Rank man in black's utterly astounded gaze, he threw out a single punch—Raging Fire Fist, fourth stance!
After the incomparably mighty spiritual qi of heaven and earth around him had been drawn in by the first three stances of Raging Fire Fist and gathered into an eruption, Wei Zhao at last crossed that final step—the fourth stance! And all of it seemed to flow as one breath, without the slightest obstruction.
When in the past he had practiced the first three stances of Raging Fire Fist and sought to unleash the fourth, he had always fallen short at the very last moment.
Nor was this for want of effort on Wei Zhao's part, or any such thing; it was simply that his cultivation was insufficient.
True, the momentum that piled up from beginning with the first stance could bring him infinitely close to the minimum requirement for performing the fourth stance, but infinitely close was not the same as fully meeting it, and so it still would not do.
But this time was different. When he had performed the third stance of Raging Fire Fist, that sense of extremity became his greatest aid.
His body seemed to become a ball of flame in that moment, converting all his momentum into extremity, and he succeeded in unleashing the fourth stance of Raging Fire Fist!
In that very instant, a thick dread welled up in the eyes of the Earth-Rank man in black; as Wei Zhao's fist was about to imprint itself upon him, he once more unleashed the fourth stance of Frigid Ice-Snow Spike and met Wei Zhao head-on!
He wanted to dodge again, but his back was already against the foot of the wall; there was nowhere to dodge, nowhere to hide. In utter helplessness he could only meet it head-on... But the next moment, a look of profound shock swept across his eyes: "The fifth stance... how is that possible..."
But before the Earth-Rank man in black could finish his words (
That broken, halting sentence had been the Earth-Rank man in black's last words in this world...
He died with his eyes wide open! Even in death, he could not understand how he had died, why Wei Zhao had suddenly unleashed the "fifth stance," what principle lay behind it—when Wei Zhao was plainly no more than an early Earth-Rank fighter...
But all of that no longer mattered, for he was already dead...
The death of the Earth-Rank man in black brought Wei Zhao little joy; on the contrary, his expression was now incomparably grave, while the spiritual qi of heaven and earth around him grew ever denser, for Wei Zhao could sense that he was about to break through!