Chapter 2140 — The Strongest Move
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
After all, Woking Dao had observed Wei Zhao when he used the fourth stance against the spirit wolf before, and it had been nowhere near this powerful; yet now the might of this strike far exceeded the fourth stance used previously!
Could it be… A possibility suddenly occurred to Woking Dao. He had heard before of certain martial geniuses who, by unleashing techniques in continuous sequence from the first stance onward, could raise the power of each successive stance!
But such a method was limited to martial geniuses and superior techniques. If one could not even bring out a technique's normal power, could not use it with fluency, how could one speak of continuous use? Could Wei Zhao be a martial genius?
But even so, surely he himself was not this weak? Woking Dao felt he was dying—his five viscera and six bowels were burning, his meridians snapping inch by inch. He had even foreseen his own end…
That was it! Once more Woking Dao recalled something he regretted beyond remedy: when he and the spirit wolf used Man-and-Beast as One, though the attack power greatly increased, their own strength would drop in rank!
He, Woking Dao, had fallen to the peak of the early Xuan rank, and the spirit wolf had dropped out of the Yellow rank entirely, becoming an ordinary spirit beast… And so their bodily defense had fallen with it… So that was it, so that was it!
Woking Dao was unwilling to accept it. He regretted that he should have used this secret art of Man-and-Beast as One earlier, rather than waiting until Wei Zhao had driven through the first, second, and third stances before employing it! Had he been a step earlier—even one move faster—the outcome would not be what it was now…
Was this match doomed to be a mutual destruction, both sides perishing together? Woking Dao was unwilling, oh so unwilling. He seemed to return to his childhood, when he and the spirit wolf kept each other company, again and again trampling their foes beneath their feet and making them the spirit wolf's feast!
Yet all of it now seemed so near and yet so far beyond reach. With his last strength he opened his eyes, wanting to look upon his old companion—and saw a headless spirit wolf! The spirit wolf's head had been blown apart by Wei Zhao's fourth stance of the Frenzied Fire Fist!
A spirit beast without rank could no longer count as a spirit beast—merely an ordinary animal with the qualification to be upgraded into one!
So, under the savagery of Wei Zhao's fourth stance of the Frenzied Fire Fist, it had become a dead wolf.
The greatest use of Man-and-Beast as One lay in cutting down one's opponent one-sidedly, not in clashing head-on with the foe… Woking Dao remembered what his master had told him before: when using Man-and-Beast as One, one must take care never to fight the enemy head-on, for that was mutual destruction!
But Woking Dao had always been invincible before, and had never used Man-and-Beast as One. When he finally did, hatred and fear had already seized his whole mind, and he had forgotten his master's words.