Chapter 4589 — Comprehending the Killing Qi!
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
But as things stood now, setting all else aside, the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits alone had unleashed its five-element killing qi no fewer than a hundred times, and Wei Zhao, watching and stealing what he could, saw the entire process clearly and distinctly from beginning to end. Add to that his already profound understanding of the five-element killing qi, and his secret study naturally yielded twice the result with half the effort.
In particular, Wei Zhao was at this moment immersed in a rare state of sudden enlightenment, his powers of insight and of rehearsal far beyond the ordinary. Things he would not dare imagine at ordinary times—now he did not even need to think about them; by instinct he had already begun to act.
Bit by bit he groped and learned. Each time the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits unleashed its five-element killing qi, Wei Zhao tried to imitate it once. At first he was utterly lost in the fog, but after repeating it a hundred times over, his movements gradually began to take proper shape.
Though both were five-element killing qi, what the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits unleashed and the naturally formed kind from before, while belonging to the same category in essence, were two entirely different things once truly deconstructed. The former was a mighty martial technique that a cultivator could command; the latter was a formidable power belonging solely to heaven and earth—not to be blasphemed, and all the more impossible to imitate.
How long passed, he did not know, but at last a faint, barely perceptible thread of true qi suddenly seeped from the palm of Wei Zhao's hand. In terms of sheer power it was utterly beneath notice—any decent Foundation Establishment expert could have effortlessly crushed it—yet when the damnable thing sensed this thread of true qi, even he could not help but be startled. This was, remarkably, a thread of five-element killing qi!
Faint as it was, this was indeed a five-colored true qi, complete with metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—the five elements all present. There was no doubt about it: this was genuine five-element killing qi.
"He actually managed to cultivate it? This kid really is a freak!" Only after a long dazed pause did the damnable thing finally exclaim in hushed shock. He had said that five-element killing qi could be unleashed once one's strength was sufficient—but that referred at minimum to the Mountain-Opening stage, and Wei Zhao was currently only at the peak of the early Nascent Soul realm!
In the damnable thing's view, a technique like five-element killing qi was a fearsome martial art capable of slaughtering all in every direction even at the Mountain-Opening stage or higher. And now it had been grasped by a brat merely at the peak of the early Nascent Soul realm—what kind of sight was that?
Once Wei Zhao truly unleashed five-element killing qi from his own hands, the spectacle would be far more than simply fighting above his level. It would feel like a three-year-old child suddenly pulling out a handgun—not a toy gun, but a real one that could truly take a life!
With all his vast experience, the damnable thing felt a chill run through him at the very thought of such a scene. Having ridden along with Wei Zhao for so long, he had always considered Wei Zhao a monster lurking among humans—but now, on reflection, it was not just among humans. Looking across every living thing under heaven, this kid was without question a dyed-in-the-wool madman, outdoing even him, the former Azure Dragon.
The intensity of the five-element killing qi grew bit by bit in his hand, growing stronger with each further rehearsal. At first it was only at the Foundation Establishment level, then gradually at the Golden Core level, and then at the Nascent Soul level—until at last he could unleash it at full force as naturally as moving his own arm, and it became a brand-new martial art belonging to Wei Zhao alone! (To be continued...)