Chapter 3016 — Solving One, But What They Feared Was That While Dealing with the Heaven-Rank Monstrous Fellow, Wei Zhao Would Launch a Sneak Attack
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Once Old Twelve was dead and only Old Six remained, with the Heaven-Rank monstrous fellow attacking and Wei Zhao assisting at his side, they ought to be able to manage.
"Impossible! How can you be? You're an early Heaven-Rank expert?" Old Six stared at Wei Zhao in shock and fury. Wei Zhao had actually become an early Heaven-Rank expert? How had he not known? Though small wonder—word of Wei Zhao's breakthrough had only just gone out, while he and Old Twelve had been hunting the Heaven-Rank monstrous fellow for nearly half a month, running all the way from the Five Luminaries Sect's territory to West Star Mountain!
Throughout that time the Heaven-Rank monstrous fellow had been sometimes well and sometimes ill, sometimes mad and sometimes clear-headed, so their pursuit had dragged on, neither side able to overcome the other—they chased a while, fought a while. Fortunately, by the time they had chased him here, they had already fathomed the monstrous fellow's combat patterns, so that when he fell into madness they could take him down in one stroke.
But who could have foreseen that Wei Zhao would come crashing in out of nowhere like a Cheng Yaojin? And that Wei Zhao would actually be an early Heaven-Rank expert! Of course, what baffled Old Six most was this: even granting Wei Zhao was early Heaven-Rank, Old Twelve had been at the peak of the early Heaven Rank, and disciples of the Five Luminaries Sect were generally a cut above cultivators of the same rank—yet before his eyes it seemed otherwise. Wei Zhao was actually stronger than Old Twelve?
And what utterly confounded him was: what manner of lightness skill had Wei Zhao just used? Even the footwork of a Heaven-Rank expert could not be that fast, could it? One instant he stood before the Heaven-Rank monstrous fellow, the next he had blinked directly before Old Twelve and sent him flying with a single palm strike?
Could this footwork be some new martial technique devised expressly for sneak attacks?
But the Heaven-Rank monstrous fellow gave Old Six no time to ask. Though mad, the twin battle-axes in his hands never ceased—whirling through the air with terrible vigor, they came smashing down at Old Six's head and face!
"Old creature, you court death!" Having gotten no answer, Old Six instead drew a ferocious assault from the Heaven-Rank monstrous fellow. Seething, he raised the ruler in his hand and hurled it at the monstrous fellow's skull!
This was his Heaven-Rank weapon; Old Twelve's Heaven-Rank weapon had been a pitch-black token-like object. Though Wei Zhao did not know what it was, he had already set his heart on it, planning to quietly pick it up later!
The Heaven-Rank monstrous fellow neither dodged nor flinched, swinging both battle-axes straight at Old Six. The axes far outstripped the ruler in length, so Old Six was startled and hurriedly twisted his body backward to evade, and the ruler was withdrawn with him!
He had no choice but to dodge—if he did not, the monstrous fellow's axe would come crashing down and split his skull wide open, would it not? One had to understand: though the Heaven-Rank monstrous fellow was now in a mad, foolish state, his strength was undiminished—he merely fought without method, flailing wildly.
Still, had the divine weapons in his hands been ordinary stuff, it would have been one thing—but these twin battle-axes were long and keen, and above all there were two of them, able to strike from left and right at once, which vexed Old Six to death!