Chapter 3536 — The Chance for Tang Zhi's Breakthrough
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Martial arts techniques were unleashed in rapid succession, brilliant and multicolored, lighting up the heavens for ten thousand li. The Ironclad Sect's experts fell one after another, each more wretched than the last. It was a completely one-sided slaughter.
Heaven-rank great-perfection experts were supposed to be rare, each one a hegemon in his own right once he went out into the world. Yet before Wei Zhao's team they were utterly outclassed, dying one by one with no chance to turn the tables.
"Awooo!" The last to fall was Ironclad Heavenly Lord, whom Wei Zhao personally sent on his way. With that, the Ironclad Sect was annihilated. The remaining disciples, without these top experts to support and shield them, could pose no threat whatsoever.
The Ironclad Sect, once so illustrious, was reduced at a stroke to an ordinary sect beneath even the ancient tier. These cultivators could stir up no storm at all, and Wei Zhao had no further mind to trouble them.
What Wei Zhao wanted now was to hurry back to West Star Mountain Village, open the next stone gate, and see what fine things lay behind it—not to waste time here at the Ironclad Sect.
Mystic Dust Ancestor had said he would let everyone rest, and then summon them all together, but when that summons would come was anyone's guess. If time was tight, what if Wei Zhao could not get away to open the stone gate?
After all, the Cloud Terrace Island plan would not wait for Wei Zhao alone. If he did not go, Mystic Dust Ancestor would be all the more pleased, so Wei Zhao had best hurry on his own account.
Although Wei Zhao's current team was enough to challenge Mystic Dust, if he drove Mystic Dust into a corner and the man simply refused to open Cloud Terrace Island, Wei Zhao would be helpless. He himself had no idea how to get to Cloud Terrace Island; even with the inheritors at his side, it would do no good.
Without a knowledgeable man like Mystic Dust Ancestor, everything was illusion and empty talk.
So after annihilating the Ironclad Sect, Wei Zhao led the women back. To his regret, Tang Zhi had not broken through in the battle. Of course, fearing trouble, Wei Zhao had not dared let her fight alone—her opponents had all been great-perfection experts, and Tang Zhi was not one. If he had let her fight alone and something went wrong, Wei Zhao would have regretted it beyond measure.
At that thought, Wei Zhao glanced at Xue Li beside him and said, "Xue Li, Tang Zhi hasn't broken through. What should we do next?"
"Bing Tang and I can go in her place, but I'm afraid something might go wrong..." Xue Li no longer held back and spoke plainly.
"Call me Sister Bing Tang!" Bing Tang cut in.
"...With me assisting Sister Bing Tang, I can actually more or less stand in for a mist-element inheritor. After all, our fundamental sources are both water-element," Xue Li said. "It might work, but it's never been tried, so no one can say for certain whether it will succeed."
"Wei Zhao... I've suddenly found that I seem to have caught a hint of the chance for breakthrough..." Tang Zhi spoke up abruptly.
"Hm?" Both Wei Zhao and Xue Li were startled. "Could the battle have had an effect?"
"No, the battle had no effect at all. It's just that... it seems to be because I'm in a good mood..." Tang Zhi said, blushing slightly.
"A good mood?" Wei Zhao looked at Tang Zhi strangely. "The Ironclad Sect was wiped out, and you're happy about it?"