Chapter 3715 — Riding the Tiger
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Stung into a rage by his humiliation, young master Xu could only redirect his fury onto the Law Enforcement Hall experts on the platform—had they not bungled the job, how could he have fallen into such an awkward position?
What he did not know was that those few on the platform were not afraid to come down and face him; at this moment they simply could not come down!
Twenty times the pressure—this had utterly exceeded the limit of what they could control. The whole of the Law Enforcement Hall's pressure formation had begun to run at full power of its own accord, and their role had ceased to be that of masters of the formation; like the newcomers before them, they had become victims crushed beneath it!
Twenty times the pressure from the very start, and still it was surging upward beyond all control!
Pfft! The Law Enforcement Hall experts all spat blood at once, and this horrifying sight gave everyone below a start—even the fury-filled young master Xu froze, at a loss to understand.
What was going on? They had only been tasked with regulating the pressure, for heaven's sake—did they have to make themselves vomit blood over it? This was absurd!
Yet at this moment no one could answer their questions. The Law Enforcement Hall experts still on the platform were now utterly riding the tiger, unable to dismount; with pressure beyond twenty times bearing down on their heads, this was simply not something experts of their caliber could withstand.
Resistance was out of the question; even had they wished to rise and flee the field, they had the will but not the strength. Even a single further word, even the slightest slackening of their spirits, might leave them gravely wounded.
Every heart was seized by despair—at this rate they would truly die beneath this pressure formation running at full power!
The one man in the whole arena who knew what was really happening was Wei Zhao, and at this moment he felt not the slightest sympathy for them. After all, these people had just been trying to finish him; had the ghostly thing not lent its aid, he would at the very least have paid the price of grave injury today.
And now it was these men's turn to eat the fruit of their own deeds!
Though they had no notion of what exactly was happening up there, Xu Lingchong and Hu Yunfeng and the others below did finally sense that something was wrong—but sensing it was useless, for apart from the Law Enforcement Hall's own experts, outsiders like them could not possibly know how to regulate the pressure formation.
To rush up blindly would end in only one way: dying alongside those Law Enforcement Hall experts!
Watching the several men above grow more gravely wounded by the moment, perhaps a breath away from dying on the spot, everyone in the arena suddenly felt a shudder at the heart—an incomparably mighty aura had swept from afar, racing toward them all.
Wei Zhao was startled. An aura of such power was not far removed from those three elders he had seen last time in the rear mountain hall!
In the blink of an eye, a young man piercing as a sword's blade appeared abruptly atop the high platform. The pressure of over twenty times bore upon him, and it seemed utterly useless; not the slightest sign of strain could be seen upon him.
The young man swept his keen gaze once over the crowd below, and every person his eyes fell upon—Xu Lingchong and Hu Yunfeng included—could not help but tremble, treading as though upon thin ice, as if one careless moment would see them slain by that gaze.