Chapter 2770 — I Don't Know You
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
Before seeking revenge, the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect had conducted a meticulous investigation. It was a sect that put profit above all else, so if revenge proved difficult, they would rather not take it at all than do something foolish like trading a thousand of their own for eight hundred of the enemy's. Not to mention that Wei Zhao could so easily annihilate Heaven rank experts!
But according to their investigation, Wei Zhao was merely an Earth rank expert. True, his strength was far above what it had been back when Zhao Qibing hired assassins, but in the end he was still an Earth rank expert. Two early Heaven rank experts encircling him—surely that was a sure thing, a prize already in hand?
Who could have imagined that the moment he struck, he would annihilate one early Heaven rank expert outright? The other broke out in a cold sweat, instinctively reaching a hand toward his chest.
But the next instant, Wei Zhao's eighth stance of the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm came crashing over! The eighth stance consumed more physical strength and true qi than the seventh, but Wei Zhao could not withstand unleashing the seventh stance twice in a row.
Unleashing a martial technique with a target in combat was worlds apart from practicing it on empty air. Releasing it into the air did consume physical strength and true qi, but never so severely as this.
The reason Wei Zhao unleashed the eighth stance was continuity. Though it drained more physical strength and true qi, he could still bring it off. If he paused to rest a moment, he knew he would never manage to unleash the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm again.
Not even the seventh stance—he could not unleash it twice in succession without interval. Better to press on in one breath like this. It would overdraft his strength, but it would not put him in any real danger. Once the other early Heaven rank expert was dead, he could rest however long he liked.
So Wei Zhao, in one unbroken breath, unleashed the eighth stance of the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm and stamped it directly onto the chest of the other early Heaven rank expert!
The expert's eyes were filled with shock and terror. He even forgot to dodge. In the instant before death, he could only shout one sentence at the top of his voice: "Wei Zhao is killing me!"
Then his voice cut off abruptly, and his whole body was sent flying by Wei Zhao's palm. His wretched state was even worse than the short-haired cultivator's before him—a huge hole blasted through his entire chest, punched clean through, and his clothes had caught fire, still trailing thick smoke after he hit the ground...
In truth, this early Heaven rank expert could have fled, or attacked Wei Zhao while Wei Zhao was finishing off the short-haired expert. But preconceptions had made him believe Wei Zhao was formidable, beyond anything he could defeat. His spirit was broken before the fight even began, his momentum weakened, and that was what brought about the tragedy of his being cut down by Wei Zhao next.
Having struck down two early Heaven rank experts, Wei Zhao was not the least bit pleased. Instead, he collapsed limp onto the ground, his clothes soaked through with sweat. The seventh and eighth stances of the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm just now had drained every last drop of physical strength and true qi from his body—so much that he had run a deficit, nearly dropping a rank.
So once he was certain the two Heaven rank experts were dead, Wei Zhao blacked out on the spot, forcibly entering the jade pendant's space to recover his strength.