Chapter 4581 — How Could This Be
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Advancing a single level in three months was markedly slower than his previous pace, yet it was still an exceedingly welcome gain. For one thing, Wei Zhao had taken no elixirs at all during the process—it was a pure, unaided breakthrough, and that alone was precious and rare. For another, the higher the level, the harder each breakthrough became; the time required naturally grew longer as well. That was an eternal truth.
For an ordinary cultivator, a Golden Core expert might need decades to advance a single level, and once one reached the Nascent Soul stage, that span abruptly stretched to over a hundred years. Going several hundred years
Wei Zhao was not a man given to greed, but the opportunity before him now was rare. The peak of the early Nascent Soul stage alone was not enough to satisfy him—he wanted to keep cultivating, to keep breaking through.
But if he wanted to climb higher, the Five Elements killing aura in this place was no longer sufficient. Wei Zhao said at once to the Five Fiends Dragon, "Take us up a bit more. I need a stronger Five Elements killing aura!"
"I'm afraid that won't do…" said the Five Fiends Dragon.
"Why not? Are the killing auras up there so strong even you can't withstand them?" Wei Zhao was stunned. But on reflection, that was simply impossible—the Five Fiends Dragon had roamed the swamp freely before, and even the densest, strongest concentration of Five Elements killing aura in the middle layer had posed no threat to it whatsoever. On the contrary, it had frightened them into scattering in all directions.
"Of course I can withstand them. But even if we went up, it would be utterly useless to you," the Five Fiends Dragon said, swaying its great head.
"What do you mean by that?" Wei Zhao was thoroughly bewildered. He needed a stronger Five Elements killing aura to aid his cultivation—and he didn't even need to risk the middle layer directly; a short flight upward would be enough. How could it be useless?
"Hah, hah—it's hard to explain in words. Go up and you'll see." With that, the Five Fiends Dragon gave its wings a slight beat, and they shot upward a good distance before coming to a stop. Though they had not yet reached the middle layer, the Five Elements killing auras drifting around them were far greater in both intensity and number than at the previous spot.
Wei Zhao was quite satisfied with this, but just as he was about to begin cultivating, he suddenly sensed something was off, and could not help but exclaim in surprise: "How could this be?"
Until now, every wisp of Five Elements killing aura Wei Zhao had encountered—strong or weak—had been utterly single-minded. Basically, the moment they sensed Wei Zhao's aura, so long as he had not wrapped his whole body in true qi, they would launch an attack at once; unless Wei Zhao fled or the killing aura gradually died away in the process, the fight would not end until one side was dead.
Yet the scene before him now completely overturned Wei Zhao's understanding. These Five Elements killing auras were clearly far, far stronger than the ones before! (To be continued) R655