Chapter 2842 — The Thunder Pig's Intervention
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Zhang Naipao found it even more unbelievable. Why hadn't that giant ape attacked Wei Zhao? If it simply hadn't seen him, that would have been understandable—but it had clearly seen Wei Zhao, and it wasn't as though it couldn't beat him. Yet for some reason it had held back. Now that was truly strange!
"Could it be that the giant ape had just killed someone and had no stamina or true qi left?" Li Ciba simply couldn't make sense of it. He shook his head, utterly baffled. "No, that's not right either. The giant ape looks quite full of energy."
"Maybe this giant ape just has a gentler temperament, and that let Brother Lin escape calamity!" Ge Xian reasoned.
"Most likely that's it," Feng Shihua agreed with a nod, silently counting their luck.
Still, as the saying goes, you may dodge the first day but not the fifteenth. Just as everyone had breathed a sigh of relief, a black ferocious-tiger spirit beast came charging toward them—and though its path wasn't aimed directly at Wei Zhao, he was still well within its line of sight...
This breed of black ferocious-tiger spirit beast was savage by nature. When it spotted human cultivators, there was generally no hope of survival; it even preyed on lower-ranked spirit beasts, unlike most spirit beasts, which sustained themselves through cultivation rather than eating.
The lower-ranked spirit beasts here would all flee far away at the sight of a black ferocious tiger, lest they become its next meal.
So although this black ferocious tiger possessed only the strength of the early Mystic Rank, in everyone's eyes it was even more terrifying than the giant ape had been! Wei Zhao was within its line of sight—there was simply no way he could escape this calamity!
"How can we be this unlucky?!" Zhao Qilei lamented. He had thought Wei Zhao might dodge this disaster, never expecting misfortune to descend so quickly.
Feng Shihua, Li Ciba, and Ge Xian all drew a sharp breath as well! It truly was dreadful luck—barely escaped from the wolves only to walk into the tiger's jaws, and this time it was far more dangerous than before.
The Thunder Pig glanced indifferently at the black ferocious tiger but did not move. By rights, with its strength at the peak of the late Mystic Rank, it could easily have suppressed the black ferocious-tiger spirit beast, yet it did no such thing. It simply sat where it was, composed and unhurried, pondering how to free Wei Zhao from his current state.
But at that moment, Feng Shihua, Li Ciba, Ge Xian, and Zhao Qilei had all overlooked the Thunder Pig, and the matter of spirit-beast rank suppression never crossed their minds. In their eyes, Wei Zhao was surely finished this time...
Yet what no one expected was that a miracle occurred once again. Although the black ferocious-tiger spirit beast saw Wei Zhao, it did not attack him. After a few glances, it quickly departed, showing no intention of drawing near Wei Zhao at all!
"Huh?" This time, even Zhang Naipao gaped in astonishment. Once might be luck, but how could twice also be luck? Especially against this savage black ferocious-tiger spirit beast, there should have been no chance of survival—yet who could have imagined the beast would not attack Wei Zhao at all? This defied all reason!
In truth, what the others did not know was that, because Wei Zhao carried the perfume sachet Tian Chan had given him, in the eyes of the earlier giant ape he was a spirit beast! The giant ape was fairly intelligent, on par with the Thunder Pig, so it had looked at Wei Zhao several more times and sensed that he was a spirit beast and yet not one—and his appearance was unlike anything it had seen, though somewhat similar to a cultivator's!