Chapter 4090 — Fleeing and Returning
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"Has some powerful spirit beast been drawn here?" He had barely furrowed his brow, before he could even make sense of what was happening, when a figure above him plunged from the sky without the slightest warning—none other than [Wei Zhao], who had just fled.
Never in his wildest dreams could he have imagined that [Wei Zhao], who had fled right before his eyes, would dare turn back with such reckless abandon—and, crucially, at the very moment he was wholly absorbed in searching for the fruits. Of [Wei Zhao]'s sudden appearance he was almost entirely unaware, with not a shred of mental preparation.
When masters cross hands, a single instant of distraction is often a flaw fatal enough to decide everything. Seeing the middle-aged man's reaction, [Wei Zhao] was elated—that strange, wide looping circuit he had just run on Butterfly Microstep had not been in vain after all.
If he could but catch his foe off guard, he could overturn the passive plight of being beaten down and seize the initiative for a surprise strike!
"Hmph! You dare come back to ambush me? With your piddling strength, what does it matter if I grant you a free move? Truly, you know nothing of the heights of heaven and the depths of earth!" Even caught off guard and thrown onto the back foot, the middle-aged man's arrogance remained utterly unshaken.
Their earlier exchange had already laid [Wei Zhao]'s strength bare to him: at best, the boy's power rivaled that of the early Golden Core stage. To think of using it against a genuine mid-stage Golden Core expert like himself—he was still far, far from enough!
And yet, when [Wei Zhao] came hurtling down from the sky, his two hands merging a true qi bomb and a core-fire bomb into one, and bore down upon his face with the force of heaven collapsing and earth annihilating, the middle-aged man's expression finally changed drastically, turning ashen in an instant.
What manner of monster was this brat? This strike was far beyond the early Golden Core stage—even a mid-stage Golden Core expert would be hard-pressed to match it!
Boom! The vast Hucai Tianwu Mountain shuddered violently, countless spirit beasts scattering in panic, and even the boundless seas to either side suddenly heaved up monstrous waves, as though a tsunami had descended, and for a long while would not subside.
"Hm? He isn't dead even after that?" Fighting back the searing pain that surged ceaselessly through his body, [Wei Zhao] stared at the enormous crater before him, yet could not find a trace of the middle-aged man anywhere. His heart sank.
He had already played his strongest trump card, his ultimate killing move. If even that could not finish the man off, then [Wei Zhao] truly had no recourse left. A mid-stage Golden Core expert indeed—to clash head-on with an enemy of such caliber was, for him, still far too much to ask.
Fortunately, judging by the glaring pool of blood on the ground, the middle-aged man had taken that earth-shaking, top-tier killing blow, and even if he was not dead, he had at least lost half his life. Gravely wounded and no longer daring to fight, he must have fled—otherwise he would have struck back to kill [Wei Zhao] by now, instead of vanishing without a trace.
Under such circumstances, [Wei Zhao] did not dare linger either. Snatching up the Myriad Crossing Golden Core Fruits, he immediately picked a direction and fled. Should the middle-aged man come back around, in his present condition [Wei Zhao] would surely die.
Already gravely wounded before, and now having forced out his top-tier killing move at the risk of mutual destruction, [Wei Zhao] felt wave after wave of dizziness battering at his nerves. Even without suffering another attack, the very next moment he might lose consciousness and collapse on the spot.