Chapter 4582 — There Are Other Ways
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"The five-element killing qi has a spirit of its own. It may not fear you, but it fears me greatly—so it simply scatters on its own," the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits said with a laugh.
"But those earlier ones clearly still attacked me," Wei Zhao said, puzzled.
"Those were too weak—their spirit was weak too, barely more than mindless things. These five-element killing qi are different. The greater the pressure they radiate, the stronger their spirit, and the better they know what's good for them. Once they sense my presence, they naturally avoid it. And since I'm suspended here, I can't fully hide my aura, so you get avoided along with me," the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits explained.
"So that means those weaker five-element killing qi earlier didn't dare attack you because their spirit was too weak, but they did dare attack me?" Wei Zhao finally began to understand.
"Exactly. That's just what it means," the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits said with a nod.
"Uh… this is really…" Wei Zhao was speechless. These five-element killing qi were plainly not living creatures, yet they possessed a certain degree of spirit. Earlier he had found the notion novel, even an eye-opener—but now he could only smile bitterly. What good was such a strong spirit? It wasn't as if the five-element killing qi needed to reproduce! What in the world did it need all that spirit for?
With the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits' help, Wei Zhao had rather thought he could put all this five-element killing qi to full use—simply seclude himself here for a few years of cultivation, and if he took a few more Golden Core Gathering Pills along the way, he might even surge straight to the perfection of the Nascent Soul realm in one go. And now look: all of it had become flowers in the water, the moon in a mirror.
However great the intensity and pressure of the five-element killing qi here, if it fled so far and simply refused to attack, it was utterly useless to Wei Zhao. If only he could fly on his own, he wouldn't need the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits to carry him. But that was a pure luxury.
"So what now? Still going back to that place to cultivate?" the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits asked.
"Forget it. Let's head down first," Wei Zhao said with a sigh. Cultivating in that place was still somewhat better than normal conditions, but the effect was no longer so pronounced. It felt like someone used to riding a rocket who had suddenly been downgraded to an airship—he couldn't help finding it flavorless, and more than a little disappointed.
"All right then," the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits said, nodding. Its body sank and dropped instantly to the ground below. It had accompanied Wei Zhao in cultivation for three whole months, and even it was starting to find it boring.
Back on the ground once more, Wei Zhao looked thoroughly glum. He gave a helpless sigh. "Can't get out, can't cultivate, and there's nothing worth doing in this place. It's enough to make a man's balls ache…"
He could see those immensely powerful five-element killing qi the moment he looked up, yet because he couldn't fly, he had no way to make use of them for cultivation. That feeling of guarding a mountain of treasure with his hands tied was enough to leave him speechless.
Before he had met the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits, even if he couldn't cultivate, he could at least explore the place. But now that he knew this was the lair of the Five-Venom Flood Dragon and the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits, such "exploring" was naturally pointless.