Chapter 4515 — Who Did I Offend?
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Tough as Wei Zhao's nerves were, even he nearly threw up in disgust at this. While the Xishan Old Sect was busy devouring the bloody water, he hurriedly gathered his true qi with all his might, trying to escape this terrifying monster.
"Escape? Where can you escape to before this sect?" The Xishan Old Sect laughed coldly, continuing to gulp down the bloody water while using his divine sense to lock onto Wei Zhao's position. So long as he could sense it, Wei Zhao would never escape his palm.
His speed in the water was not as great as on land, but with Wei Zhao channeling his true qi to the utmost, he had already fled more than a hundred zhang in the blink of an eye. Yet though he fled with all his might, his heart was at a loss, for he truly did not know how he could ever escape the Xishan Old Sect's palm.
This sense of powerlessness filled Wei Zhao with profound frustration, something he had never experienced before. In the past, no matter what peril he faced, even when death was but a hair's breadth away, Wei Zhao at least always knew what to do, how to fight—there was never any room for hesitation.
But this time was different. Facing the pursuit of a Mountain-Opening stage heretic cultivation titan, Wei Zhao was truly at his wits' end. With his current strength and means, he could see not a single possibility of shaking off his pursuer. Even a sliver of a chance at life, however faint, and Wei Zhao would stake everything on one throw. But there was not even that sliver.
Just as Wei Zhao was floundering, a rhythmic, thunderous rumbling came from not far ahead. The previously calm seawater suddenly turned into a churning surge of hidden currents, coalescing into countless visible torrents that rushed swiftly toward the front and gathered there.
Wei Zhao was startled. Having learned his lesson from the ghost electric ray, he thought he had run into some other powerful sea beast and was about to change direction to avoid it, when Old Ghost's voice suddenly rang out in his mind: "This is the place—charge in!"
"Huh? Charge in?" Wei Zhao was momentarily stunned. Since Old Ghost had spoken thus, even if the way ahead looked exceedingly dangerous, he could only grit his teeth and comply. After all, there was no other way out now; following Old Ghost's instructions might just let him snatch life from the jaws of death and fight for one last sliver of a chance!
Without the slightest hesitation, Wei Zhao promptly caught a torrent beside him and shot forward like a swordfish toward the unknown ahead, so fast that his speed could almost rival the Super Butterfly Microstep.
"That brat runs fast enough!" Sensing Wei Zhao's position rapidly receding, the Xishan Old Sect, still in place devouring the bloody water, changed expression. He was confident Wei Zhao could never escape his palm, but in this vast sea, if Wei Zhao got more than five li away, even his divine sense would struggle to lock onto the position—and then there would be trouble.
This was a torrent vortex! By now Wei Zhao could finally make out what lay ahead—no vicious sea beast at all, but a torrent vortex like a giant tornado, its incomparable pulling force dragging everything around it into its maw and grinding it all to dust.
Staring at this utterly horrifying spectacle, Wei Zhao was struck dumb! First the Xishan Old Sect, then the ghost electric ray, and now a torrent vortex—just which deity had he offended today? Had he somehow offended the king of sea beasts, the second-generation fish-man...
But then Wei Zhao thought again: whether it was encountering the ghost electric ray after jumping into the sea, or running into the torrent vortex now, both had one thing in common—he had been following Old Ghost's instructions...
"What are you dawdling for? Get in there already—you want to stay and wait for death?" Old Ghost's voice rang out in his mind once more. R1152