Chapter 2104 — A Contest of Martial Techniques
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
The Heaven and Earth Divine Fist was an advanced technique of the Divine Fist Hall. At mastery, it possessed the power to split mountains and cleave seas with a single punch. Though Pi Zhitao had learned only the first three stances, he could still unleash formidable might. He relied on the brute force of external-school boxing, so in this contest of martial techniques, he privately reckoned no one was his match!
"Boom—" Pi Zhitao drove out a punch, and the boulder before him instantly shattered, bursting outward in every direction from the center of his fist. A boulder of that size was in an instant reduced to countless fragments!
Pi Zhitao glanced around at how the others were doing, then smiled in satisfaction at his own handiwork!
True, many of the techniques brought out by these scions of the hidden families were genuinely formidable—but formidable only in combat against an opponent. Against a plain boulder, many of them were helpless. The weakest scion of a hidden family managed only to smash his boulder into two halves with a single stance!
Pi Zhitao, however, had shattered his boulder into at least seventy or eighty pieces—over a hundred, counting the smaller shards. He was plainly the victor beyond any doubt!
Having done all this, Pi Zhitao turned his gaze back to Wei Zhao—yet Wei Zhao had not made a move, and was merely watching him with a half-smile. This behavior left Pi Zhitao baffled. The man was not unleashing any technique, so what was he doing standing there watching him?
Pi Zhitao frowned, then suddenly saw Wei Zhao give him a strange smile and turn his head away, looking at him no more.
Wei Zhao's behavior made Pi Zhitao all the more bewildered, and somewhat uneasy as well. Seeing his boulder smashed into so many pieces, Wei Zhao was neither anxious nor alarmed—he was actually smiling? Could this fellow be holding some formidable trump card?
Wei Zhao had no formidable trump card. He was merely wavering between the Frenzied Fire Fist and the Myriad Transformations of the Forest—but now it appeared neither would do. Pi Zhitao's punch had genuine skill behind it!
Wei Zhao's Frenzied Fire Fist and Myriad Transformations of the Forest were formidable enough, but he could not guarantee a hundred-percent victory. After all, Pi Zhitao's technique was also of the highest grade, in no way inferior to his own! Moreover, external-school techniques enjoyed a certain advantage.
So if Wei Zhao wanted a complete victory, he could not use a martial technique. With that thought, Wei Zhao began compressing his true qi... What he had not expected was that of these three matches, two would have to be won with true-qi bombs!
Only, Wei Zhao had grown ever more adept at using these true-qi bombs, and the nervousness and fear of before were gone. So long as he controlled it properly and did not condense that ultimate bomb that gathered all the true qi in his body into one, it posed no danger to him!
Unless he encountered an enemy he could not defeat, there was no point in Wei Zhao using the ultimate bomb either.
This boulder, large as it was, could in Wei Zhao's estimation be blasted to fragments with but a tenth of the true qi in his body!
In the trial grounds, the outcome was all but decided. As things stood, Pi Zhitao was far ahead of his rivals—yet watching Wei Zhao, who had still not made a move, the Pi family elder felt an inexplicable tension!