Chapter 4001 — Blow Your Brains Out
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"You should know well enough the power of this pill-fire bomb I stole from watching you—it's enough to raze Huayang Residence to the ground. If you don't want this blown out of proportion and the big shots downstairs using soul-searching arts to wipe your mind, Young Master Xu, you'd best think of something fast, or the consequences won't bear describing." Wei Zhao had quickly flashed backward before speaking at his leisure. He had not dared detonate the bomb before letting it leave his hand—after all, the two of them were far too close, and setting it off would have left both sides crippled. But Wei Zhao was plainly weaker than Xu Lingchong; though he might recover afterward, the other man could well finish him off while he was healing!
"Despicable little wretch!" Xu Lingchong cursed through gritted teeth, yet he could only let Wei Zhao go for the moment and grimly set about dealing with the true qi bomb clenched in his hand.
Just as Wei Zhao had said, if he let this true qi bomb explode, not only would his plan to take her by force come to nothing, but even if he tried to splash the dirty water onto Wei Zhao, it would be hard for anyone to fully believe—because by then Shangguan Lan'er would certainly not be on his side.
So he had no choice but to follow Wei Zhao's wishes: deal with the true qi bomb in his hand first before making any further move.
"Weren't you just saying that despicability is the foolish talk of the weak?" Wei Zhao sneered. Their strengths were utterly mismatched; if he had not schemed this way, there would have been no facing a figure like Xu Lingchong head-on at all.
Xu Lingchong gave a cold snort, no time to waste further breath on Wei Zhao. Gripping the true qi bomb in one hand, he suddenly erupted with an incomparably mighty aura, his great-perfection Foundation Establishment strength surging to its absolute peak in an instant, layer upon layer of dense true qi wrapping the bomb tightly in his grasp.
Boom! With a muffled blast, the true qi bomb finally went off—but under Xu Lingchong's full-force control it did not escape; he had used his true qi to block every last shred of its power.
Worthy of the great perfection of Foundation Establishment—such strength truly left one gaping in astonishment!
Wei Zhao sighed inwardly, yet his hands did not pause. Seizing the moment while Xu Lingchong was suppressing the true qi bomb, he immediately struck out at his face with the twenty-third form of the Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm.
"You lowly ant, you dare vie with this young master for the light of sun and moon? You truly know not death—" Xu Lingchong had meant to show off a little, but halfway through his words Wei Zhao's palm struck him square in the face.
Bang! Xu Lingchong had just spent ninety percent of the true qi in his body and was at the very moment when his strength had not yet returned—this blow caught him completely off guard. A master at the great perfection of Foundation Establishment was sent flying backward by a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator like Wei Zhao, his face a bloody mess, utterly bedraggled.
"Damn you..." Xu Lingchong had been smashed by that palm into the sturdy corner of the wall, coughing blood again and again, unable to rise for a long while, his eyes fixed on Wei Zhao like twin jets of flame, wishing he could hack him to pieces and vent the hatred in his heart.
But looking at Wei Zhao, his state was hardly good either. After unleashing the true qi bomb and the twenty-third form of the Frenzied Fire Eight-Trigram Palm in succession, the true qi in his body had been drained completely clean—even the jade pendant's space could not replenish it in an instant. And one must not forget: the effects of the Immortal Drunk still lingered in his body.