Chapter 2137 — Something Strange!
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"Both sides ready—take your positions, prepare to begin!" Old Master Zhao announced once Wei Zhao and Han Xiaohu had climbed onto the platform. "Three, two, one—begin!"
And so, on the heels of Old Master Zhao's words, the final championship battle began...
Woking Blade gave Wei Zhao no chance to condense a true-qi bomb; the instant the match started, he and the spirit wolf charged at Wei Zhao and Han Xiaohu together!
Woking Blade's target was Han Xiaohu, and the spirit wolf's opponent was Wei Zhao—the most sensible arrangement, and the one hardest for Wei Zhao to deal with!
During the Ice Palace trial, Woking Blade had been an early Earth Rank inner-family expert; now he stood at the peak of early Earth Rank. His rate of advancement was hardly swift—it seemed the Qianshan Sect truly did devote its main efforts to communicating with spirit beasts, and its members' individual strength did not climb at the monstrous pace of those hidden clans.
Wei Zhao frowned. He could not let Woking Blade land a blow on Han Xiaohu—even an early Earth Rank at its peak against an early Earth Rank like Han Xiaohu would be a one-sided rout. In his urgency, Wei Zhao circulated his inner-energy cultivation method and unleashed the second stance of the Wood Forest Illusion Thousand Transformations with a single strike!
None of Wei Zhao's other martial techniques could strike two opponents in one move—unless it was a true-qi bomb—but the Wood Forest Illusion Thousand Transformations was different: one punch of its second stance was worth two punches!
"Boom—boom—" Wei Zhao's figure hurtled straight at Woking Blade and the spirit wolf, mighty true qi bursting forth, condensing upon his fist, then splitting into two phantom fists that smashed toward Woking Blade and the wolf!
Originally, Woking Blade had assumed that if Wei Zhao wanted to attack, he could only choose one target—either him or the spirit wolf. The wolf's hide was thick and tough; ordinary men could not even wound it. And if Wei Zhao slipped past the wolf to strike at him, Woking Blade could simply communicate with the wolf and send it wheeling around to attack Han Xiaohu instead!
Such was the advantage of the rapport one built with a spirit beast—constant communication. But what Woking Blade had not foreseen was that Wei Zhao's single punch, once launched, became two! Had his eyes deceived him, or what?
He did not believe Wei Zhao's one punch could truly become two. One real, one illusory—that was common enough in martial techniques—but one turning into two was unheard of! This was not because Woking Blade was ignorant; it was simply that he had truly never heard of such a thing!
And not just him—even Old Master Han, possessor of the Wood Forest Illusion Thousand Transformations, had believed before Wei Zhao first unleashed it that the technique was all feints and tricks, that in each stance only one punch was real and the rest were illusions meant to confuse. Only after Wei Zhao brought it forth did he learn that a single punch truly became two, even three!
So Woking Blade, thinking along these lines, made up his mind. Swiftly, in the spirit wolf's tongue, he communicated: "Pay it no mind. Of those two punches, one is real and one is false. We charge together, take whichever is real head-on, and when we find the false one, push straight through it and knock that Han Xiaohu off the platform!"
"Awoo..." the spirit wolf howled once to show it understood, and so man and beast charged forward without slowing, straight into Wei Zhao's technique!
Woking Blade had once been wary of that vacuum-wave fist technique of Wei Zhao's, but what Wei Zhao was using now was plainly not that technique. Judging by its energy fluctuations, it was fairly strong—but certainly not overwhelmingly so!