Chapter 4567 — Earth-Breaking Stage
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But what left Wei Zhao dumbstruck was that when the Five-Slaughter Dragon suddenly released the mighty aura hidden within its body, those dense, ceaselessly prowling five-element killing qi—as though they had encountered a fiend incarnate—scattered and fled in every direction. The Five-Poison Swamp was the domain of the five-element killing qi, yet at that moment, within a radius of several li around the Five-Slaughter Dragon, there was not a single wisp of five-element killing qi to be found. They had all fled of their own accord!
The five-element killing qi were not living things; they possessed no thought or consciousness of their own. But even pure killing intent, once condensed to such a degree, was bound to develop a trace of sentience. That was why, when faced with an existence far above them, they took the initiative to flee.
And yet, the strongest stretch of that five-element killing qi had brought Wei Zhao pressure and intimidation not one bit inferior to the spirit beast guardians he had seen before. How could such a terrifying existence be frightened into this state by the Five-Slaughter Dragon?
Sensing that vast aura spilling down from the Five-Poison Swamp layer overhead, that heaven-and-earth-covering sensation as though a god or demon had descended, Wei Zhao was utterly shocked. Though he was far from such a level himself, he could at least tell that the Five-Slaughter Dragon before him was absolutely far above the Mountain-Opening Stage!
The Old Sect of the Western Mountains, hailed as the giant of Mountain-Opening Stage demonic cultivators, seemed utterly insignificant before the Five-Slaughter Dragon of this moment. Even the three giants of the Eastern Continent's Morning Star Academy that Wei Zhao had seen were far inferior—they were simply not existences of the same order.
"What… what cultivation is this?" Wei Zhao swallowed hard, staring up at the Five-Slaughter Dragon overhead, his face full of shock.
"Earth-Breaking Stage," the ghost thing explained, feigning indifference—yet even its tone now carried a rare note of barely concealed shock. The Five-Slaughter Dragon before them was simply not what it had been when they saw it in the mortal world!
Had it not already confirmed the creature's identity a moment ago, the ghost thing would never have equated the two. It would have assumed it was seeing the progenitor of that Five-Slaughter Dragon from the mortal world—after all, the gulf in their strength was more than a hundred thousand li wide!
How much time had passed? At most, not even two years. Wei Zhao's growth from early Foundation Establishment all the way to his current Nascent Soul Stage was already outrageously, astonishingly fast. Yet this Five-Slaughter Dragon had actually become an Earth-Breaking Stage existence outright. Before it, Wei Zhao did not even qualify as the lesser of two sorcerers. Had this world gone stark raving mad?!
"Earth-Breaking Stage?" Wei Zhao was struck with awe, though he did not fully understand. It was the first time he had heard the term, but the name alone told him it was no small matter.
"The stage above Mountain-Opening is the Earth-Breaking Stage. Any existence that reaches this level can be considered a master of great divine powers," the ghost thing explained mildly.
Wei Zhao understood at once. The Five-Slaughter Dragon was indeed an existence above the Mountain-Opening Stage. This trip to the Southern Continent had truly not been in vain. Even setting aside all the fortuitous encounters and the explosive growth in strength, just the broadening of his horizons and experience far exceeded what he had before.
Before coming here, Wei Zhao had thought that a Profound Ascension Stage expert was already the pinnacle of Cloud Terrace Island. He had known nothing of Mountain-Opening Stage giants, much less that above Mountain-Opening there was still the Earth-Breaking Stage! (To be continued…)