Chapter 2131 — Champion Once More
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Originally, those disciples eliminated before the final four had all cherished hopes of picking up scraps—watching to see whether any of the top three had exhausted themselves on the platform, so they might step up and seize an easy advantage. But to their surprise, neither Yu Ba nor Tang Yuyi had been so foolish; they had finished their bout lightly, conserving their strength, with no sign of exhaustion at all. To step up and challenge now would leave essentially no chance of winning!
And as for Wei Zhao—no one wished to die. That formidable Golden Bell Sect disciple Ma Dashen was a warning for all to see! Your Golden Bell Shield is formidable, is it? However formidable, it will still be smashed to flesh and powder and shattered bone!
"Since there are none, I invite the top three families to come claim their stakes!" Elder Zhao cast Wei Zhao a rather complicated glance. This fellow had won again? This Hidden Family Summit had practically become a tournament held expressly for Wei Zhao, a grand assembly for Wei Zhao to show off his brilliance!
Wei Zhao glanced at the stakes of the hidden You family and the hidden Yu family, and could not help but start slightly—for the hidden Tang family's wager this time was an Ultimate Vigor Golden Pill! This kind of vigor golden pill could grant a person a burst of increased strength in the midst of battle; Wei Zhao had seen Yu Dake take one during the anti-strike competition.
Compared with the method the Black Panther had once used to boost his strength, this pill's side effects and harm were far milder. After all, the only aftereffect was a few days without vigor, requiring slow recovery, because the pill instantly drew out the latent potential of the human body.
But after those few days there were no other side effects, so Wei Zhao was rather interested in this pill! He had seen its formula and its medicinal properties and principles in Zhang Lifeng's notes on the alchemist's craft; the several ingredients were not expensive, but they were very rare!
As for the price, at least for the present Wei Zhao, it posed no problem—the crux was that he had no channel to obtain them! Most of these ingredients were held in the deep storehouses of ancient sects, and Wei Zhao had no means to purchase them yet.
For Wei Zhao, though, the pill's side effects would not be so severe: the excessive drain on his ultimate vigor could be replenished through the jade pendant's space, so for him the pill's flaw amounted to no flaw at all!
What moved Wei Zhao most was that it could instantly raise the latent potential of the body—that is, quicken the circulation of his heart method and drive a person's strength to its limit. Wei Zhao wondered: could this pill shorten the time he needed to compress his true-qi bombs?
The true-qi bomb was formidable indeed, but the compression time was far, far too long! Take today: had he not first faced off against Ma Dashen for so long with neither side moving, and then traded a long war of words with Adamantine Diamond, Wei Zhao would never have had time enough to compress a true-qi bomb!
But apart from fighting someone like Ma Dashen, where would such an opportunity ever arise? Whether it was Right Thirteen, who had abducted Guan Xin, or Feng Erbing, the Earth Rank man in black who had ambushed Xu Shilan, they had all struck the moment they appeared, leaving Wei Zhao no time at all to compress a true-qi bomb.
Even a small true-qi bomb could scarcely be compressed in a spare moment, let alone a top-grade true-qi bomb like this! So it was that being able to shorten the compression time of the true-qi bomb became a matter of the utmost importance!