Chapter 2814 — The Five Systems' True Attributes
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"The fact that you did not do it does not mean no one else did," Jiao Yazi said flatly. "Perhaps that dinosaur did it. Perhaps that little girl did."
"They..." Jiao Yazi's reminder made Wei Zhao think of something immensely important—the girl's final strike, that ultimate killing martial skill! At the time, Wei Zhao had found it somewhat familiar, but because he was injured, he had no time to ponder it. Now, looking back, it suddenly struck him that this martial skill was actually rather similar to his own!
That was it—the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm! And connecting it with the strange radiance on the girl's palm, Wei Zhao at once recalled the scene when Tagan Long had unleashed his martial skill. This girl could actually use the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Palm!
The discovery made Wei Zhao's heart skip a beat. Could the girl be a member of the Tagan family? Perhaps Tagan Long's younger sister? Then again, she might belong to the Five Luminaries Sect, with no connection to the Tagan family at all.
But no matter which faction the girl belonged to—the Tagan family or the Five Luminaries Sect—she was Wei Zhao's enemy. At that thought, Wei Zhao hesitated. Should he save her or not? He had no wish to save an enemy for nothing, only to have her turn against him.
The girl was beautiful, true—but so is a poisonous mushroom, and one bite will kill you.
When the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art advanced to the second layer's grand completion, Wei Zhao found that all the injuries on his body had healed completely as well. He quickly returned from the jade pendant's space to reality, and there he saw the Heavenly Thunder Pig keeping anxious watch at his side.
"Eh? Heavenly Thunder Pig, you are unharmed?" Wei Zhao looked at the Heavenly Thunder Pig beside him in some surprise. The creature seemed not to have suffered any injury whatsoever.
"Oink oink!" The Heavenly Thunder Pig nodded, then wrote with its claw in a patch of soft earth: "When the fur on my body puffs up, it works as a cushion."
Having written this, the Heavenly Thunder Pig deliberately puffed up its fur to show Wei Zhao, then bounced on the ground. Wei Zhao was left somewhat speechless—this Heavenly Thunder Pig could turn into a bouncy ball, no wonder nothing had happened to it.
"How is that girl doing?" The thing weighing most heavily on Wei Zhao's mind was that beautiful girl in yellow. Should he save her or not? If he saved her, he feared she might turn on him; if he did not, he remembered how he had forcibly kissed her, and how, when he was lying on top of her and the Five Baleful Dragons attacked him, she had still called out a warning.
Had she not warned him, he would not have had time to circulate his heart method's mnemonic and true qi to protect his body, and his injuries would surely have been even worse. Whether he could have lasted until the fall from the valley was uncertain. So in a sense, the girl was his savior, and if he did not save her, he truly would find it hard to bear.
"Oink oink..." The Heavenly Thunder Pig stretched out a claw and pointed toward a spot not far away.
"Oh? You mean she is over there? Then let us go take a look!" Wei Zhao rose to his feet and set off with the Heavenly Thunder Pig in the direction it indicated, observing his surroundings as he walked.
This was the bottom of the valley behind the Five Baleful Mountains. Wei Zhao lifted his head to look at the Five Baleful Mountains from which he had fallen, and his expression changed at once! This place was a valley from which there was no way up; the cliff face before him was utterly smooth, without even a foothold for climbing!
If the peak were somewhat low, that would be one thing—Wei Zhao was, after all, a late-stage Earth-rank expert now, and with a leap and several attempts he might have vaulted his way up. But this peak was unbelievably high; there was simply no possibility of leaping up it!