Chapter 2239 — Setting the Terms
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Good—then I am about to strike!" Wei Zhao's heart eased. He began urgently compressing the energy bomb, while on the surface he dawdled as though merely going through the motions of a technique.
"Are you going to strike or not?" Seeing Wei Zhao make no move for so long, the Grand Guardian knitted his brows and asked with some impatience.
"I am striking—must I not build it up first? That fierce blow of mine just now did nothing to you; this time I must build up properly and produce a truly vicious move," Wei Zhao said.
"Hurry up!" The Grand Guardian gave a cold snort. A vicious move, was it? He did not know what Wei Zhao was dawdling over, but he supposed Wei Zhao meant to catch him off guard and land a blow.
Yet the Grand Guardian sneered inwardly. A Heaven-rank expert—do you think you can ambush one just because you wish to?
"Almost ready!" Wei Zhao said.
"..." The Grand Guardian was somewhat speechless. He thought: if I were not afraid of trouble, afraid that you would flee with those two spirit beasts' essence cores, I would not waste my time playing this game with you.
But Wei Zhao was still there, neither hurried nor slow, seeming about to strike and yet not, and none could tell what he was actually doing.
Sun Jingyan was worried. She wanted to send the Heavenly Thunder Pig to summon the Great Fire Lion up to help, but then she recalled what the Great Fire Lion had said before and abandoned the idea.
If the Great Fire Lion could have accompanied them up the mountain, it would have done so long ago. That it had not come up meant it surely had some hardship it could not speak of, so Sun Jingyan could not force the matter. She could only watch Wei Zhao with deep anxiety, not knowing what on earth he intended.
Wei Zhao was now stalling for every minute he could. Since even the eleventh-form Frenzied Fire Fist could not harm the Grand Guardian, the only thing he could rely on was the true qi bomb. The true qi bomb was Wei Zhao's never-failing trump—whatever rank of expert you were, it would blast you to shreds all the same!
But the flaw of this move was that it took a very long time to use. If the enemy did not give Wei Zhao that time, then there was nothing Wei Zhao could do.
"Are you finished or not? If you do not strike soon, this old man will change his mind!" Though the Grand Guardian did not know what Wei Zhao was stalling for, in the end his patience ran out, and he roared at Wei Zhao.
"Oh, almost done." Wei Zhao said, "You are a senior expert—surely you must give a junior like me a little time to prepare?"
"Prepare if you must, but what is this endless business about? Are you not just stalling for time to think of a way out?" The Grand Guardian was no fool. Wei Zhao's strength was plainly mid-stage Earth-rank; however capable, in his eyes Wei Zhao could raise no great waves, so his behavior now was somewhat suspicious.
"It is not endless. I am preparing to unleash a great move—it must be done in one breath, so I need to recover my strength a little." Having said this, Wei Zhao deliberately paused.