Chapter 2371 — A Formidable Opponent
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It had been a long time since he had met a true opponent. As an expert at the peak of the late Profound Rank stage, cultivated both internally and externally, it was no rarity for him to fight those at the early Heaven Rank stage above his own level, but seeing Wei Zhao, a flicker of excitement crossed his eyes.
Because he knew that Wei Zhao was a man like himself—one who could fight above his level!
And was it not the same for Wei Zhao? Wei Zhao had been stuck at the bottleneck of the mid Earth Rank stage for some time. Although he had only just broken through at the Hidden Clan Summit and it seemed not long ago, he had undergone no small amount of trials in the interim, and was now but a hair's breadth from the peak of the mid Earth Rank stage.
Leveling up in battle was Wei Zhao's tried-and-true ultimate trump card. So this time, though he found his opponent troublesome, he still made his move—only Wei Zhao had kept a card in reserve, having Old Man Pi come to support him.
Palm and claw collided violently. A dull impact boomed at the point where fist and claw met, and from that origin erupted true qi fluctuations like towering waves, surging wildly outward in all directions!
Yet Piao Huotai sat before the gambling table without the slightest change in expression, utterly unaffected by the spread of true qi from the two men's battle, as though none of it had anything to do with him!
In truth, none of this had anything to do with Piao Huotai at all. The demonic art he cultivated was a mutated gu poison of the Diamond Gu variety. Though it was not yet at great completion, fluctuations of true qi at this intensity truly could not affect him in the slightest!
"Boom!"
Wei Zhao's other palm struck Piao Laoliu's chest with a dull thud, yet Piao Laoliu seemed to take no harm at all. His figure merely swayed slightly as he weathered Wei Zhao's Mad Fire Eight Trigrams Palm head-on!
It was Wei Zhao himself who suffered: the true qi burst forth by Piao Huotai's unknown martial technique injured the meridians of his right arm and right chest. After staggering back several steps, Wei Zhao spat out a mouthful of fresh blood...
"A cultivator of both inner and outer arts!" Wei Zhao stared at Piao Laoliu in disbelief. He had never imagined that Piao Laoliu was a cultivator who trained both internally and externally, and by the look of it, his external hard-body skills were defense-oriented, akin to the body-protecting arts of the Golden Bell Sect!
"Clever!" Piao Laoliu had also been struck by Wei Zhao's fifth style of the Mad Fire Eight Trigrams Palm, but as a cultivator of both inner and outer arts, though the powerful clash of true qi had brought him some minor harm, his meridians and five viscera were undamaged—he had merely been shaken!
"Your external skills—are they of a high-defense nature?" Wei Zhao, having fallen to the ground, did not hurry to rise. Instead he swiftly circulated the Xuan Yuan Dragon-Taming Art to recover from his internal injuries; his question was merely a way to stall for time.
"Indeed!" Piao Laoliu nodded and said, "You are also the first low-ranked cultivator to survive under my hand."