Chapter 4515 — Who Did I Offend?
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If this had been a spirit beast instead of a sea beast, there would have been nothing to fear, for with Old Ghost around to hold the fort, practically every spirit beast would give this top elder of the spirit beast clan some respect. The problem was that this ghost electric ray was a sea beast of pure bloodline!
Do not be fooled by the fact that sea beasts and spirit beasts are both fierce creatures—the two are in truth entirely different, belonging neither to the same system nor to the same organization. Sea beasts could not care less about any so-called spirit beast elder.
At his wits' end, just as Wei Zhao reckoned he was about to die right there, a cackling laugh suddenly sounded beside him, and the Xishan Old Sect's figure appeared within the rapidly tightening purple lightning cage. A true-qi barrier had formed around him, keeping the seawater out while also blocking the purple lightning cage.
"Heh heh, let's see where you can run now, this sect has you—" Halfway through the sentence, the Xishan Old Sect realized something was off. After a glance at the purple lightning cage, his pair of triangular eyes suddenly settled on the ghost electric ray below, and he frowned. "What the hell is this thing?"
Wei Zhao's expression promptly turned exceedingly strange. This was no "hell thing"—the hell thing was still inside the jade pendant's space...
At the same time, the ghostly face on the ghost electric ray's back suddenly shifted and let out a burst of indescribably raucous, grating noise. Whether it was expressing delight or shock was impossible to tell; most likely it had not expected an extra prey to appear out of nowhere either.
The purple lightning cage instantly grew more dazzling, its current intensity surging by more than a full fold. It was actually eating away at the Xishan Old Sect's true-qi barrier step by step, and at this rate, the Xishan Old Sect was bound to become the ghost electric ray's meal alongside Wei Zhao.
Wei Zhao watched the Xishan Old Sect with leisurely composure. He had already been in a hopeless, certain-death situation, so he could accept this turn of events with equanimity. It was this thing's sudden intrusion at his side that had given him a sliver of a chance at life. Before, he had fought tooth and nail to escape the Xishan Old Sect's grasp; now, unexpectedly, they had become grasshoppers tied to the same rope. One really had to sigh at the fickleness of fate!
"Hmph, you dare act insolent before this sect, you wretched beast—you're asking for death!" The Xishan Old Sect showed not the slightest fear in the face of such dire straits. With a cackling laugh, he made a grasping motion in the air with one hand, and at once a mass of black mist enveloped the ghost electric ray. The raucous noise filling the surrounding waters instantly turned sharp and staccato, faintly mingled with the sound of flesh and bone being crushed.
Moments later, the purple lightning cage trapping the two of them collapsed of its own accord, countless streaks of deep purple lightning dissipating into the vast sea. At the same time, the black mist over the ghost electric ray dispersed, and the ghost electric ray, so vicious and terrifying moments before, was now melted down on the spot into a foul, thick pool of bloody water.
Wei Zhao drew a sharp breath, the look he cast at the Xishan Old Sect growing ever more aghast and wary. Such a fierce, horrifying sea beast, slain just like that—turning clouds with a flip of the hand and rain with a turn of the palm. The strength of this Mountain-Opening stage heretic cultivation titan was truly so appallingly powerful it made one's hair stand on end!
"Heh heh, this is good stuff—wasting it would be a shame." The Xishan Old Sect was not the least bit worried about Wei Zhao seizing the chance to flee; he simply drew that mass of reeking bloody water over on the spot and swallowed it in one gulp.