Chapter 2388 — Xiao Shu Is Acting Strangely
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"There we go..." Having finished it all, Shen Yushu let out a breath as though relieved of a great burden.
"Xiao Shu, what's the matter with you? No fever today, is there? You seem rather strange," Gu Mengyao said, sensing something off about Shen Yushu today.
"Nothing's wrong. I'm perfectly fine!" Shen Yushu said.
Although Wei Zhao had broken through the level barrier, today's battle had left many unanswered questions to ponder. So he nodded to Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu and said, "I'm going back to my room. There are some martial matters I need to work through. You two carry on."
"Mm, all right." Gu Mengyao rather hoped Wei Zhao would do something else to take his mind off things, rather than dwell on having been turned down by Wang Xinyan.
Once in his room, Wei Zhao began to investigate why he had been able to trigger the Wood Forest Heaven-Splitting Claw today. True, there had been the earlier failure of "Spring Rain from the Heavens" to learn from, but in Wei Zhao's view, that failure had been because his body lacked a water-attribute constitution. The Wood Forest Heaven-Splitting Claw was different: he could trigger the Wood Forest Thousand Transformations with perfect ease, and since the Heaven-Splitting Claw could be triggered in combination with the Frenzied Fire Fist, that showed there was no obstacle to triggering it in his case.
Then why did the Wood Forest Heaven-Splitting Claw fail to trigger? Wei Zhao frowned, unable to find the answer. So he once more circulated the mental formulas of the Wood Forest Thousand Transformations and, following the method for triggering the Heaven-Splitting Claw, began to trigger the first stance, the Wood Forest Heaven-Splitting Claw!
This time Wei Zhao did not aim too high by directly triggering the fifth stance; he tried the first stance as a test. The result, however, was tragic: the trigger failed all the same, and it did not even feel as close as his earlier attempt at Spring Rain from the Heavens!
With Spring Rain from the Heavens, though the trigger had failed, all the earlier stages had gone smoothly, falling short only at the final step of release. The Wood Forest Heaven-Splitting Claw was different—it simply would not trigger at all, as though the mental formulas and the triggering method did not match.
How strange. Wei Zhao tried once more, and after confirming beyond a doubt that he could not trigger the Wood Forest Heaven-Splitting Claw, he stopped and made no further pointless attempts.
It seemed it truly would not work. Where exactly was the problem? If what he lacked was a water-attribute constitution, then the Wood Forest Thousand Transformations was a wood-attribute martial art, while the Heaven-Splitting Claw should be a fire-attribute martial art—that much could be inferred from the red, searing true qi on Old Sixth Pi's claws when he triggered the technique...