Chapter 4595 — Annihilating the Mystic Ascendant
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"To think that conjuring up a dragon shape would stop my Ten Thousand Staffs Shatter—how absurd beyond wor—" The curly-bearded giant was just seizing his last chance to heap on the mockery. But before the words were out of his mouth, the scene unfolding before him froze his face in an instant.
Utterly unlike what he had pictured, the flood dragon wrought of Five Elements Killing Qi was not smashed to pieces by the cudgel. Instead, before the heaven-piercing cudgel's might could peak, it followed the staff upward—the flood dragon coiling about the pillar!
And more outrageous still was yet to come. After the Five Elements Killing Qi wrapped itself around the heaven-piercing cudgel and caught it, the five hues of divine light upon its body whirled at furious speed, and that insolent, invincible cudgel came apart at the seams in the blink of an eye, ground to pieces alive by the thing's writhing coils!
The curly-bearded giant's tongue nearly fell out of his head with fright. Ten Thousand Staffs Shatter was the strongest martial skill in his bottom drawer. He had struck just now in anger, holding nothing back, not a shred of carelessness or contempt for his foe—so how could a Mystic Ascendant novice, striking with full force against a mere peak early-Nascent Soul, produce this outcome?
He could be beaten to death and still never puzzle out why it had happened—and in truth, he was about to be beaten to death indeed. After the Five Elements Killing Qi had ground the heaven-piercing cudgel to pieces head-on, it did not disperse into the void. Full of lingering force, it sought out the man himself. The curly-bearded giant and the Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagle beneath him had no defense at all against it, and beyond all doubt both were pierced through by the Five Elements Killing Qi, each left with a gaping bloody hole in its chest.
"The Five Elements Killing Qi really is one of the most terrifying martial skills in all the world—this time I've truly struck it rich." Watching the curly-bearded giant and the Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagle drop stiff as planks into the sea, Wei Zhao could not help but be shaken.
He had indeed expected the Five Elements Killing Qi to stand against a Mystic Ascendant cultivator—but he had never imagined it could be this easy. A single exchange, and the man was annihilated on the spot!
Wei Zhao and the spirit bird lingered a while in the air. The man was, after all, a Mystic Ascendant cultivator; though a bloody hole drilled through his chest was a frightful sight, with his formidable vitality there was still some chance he might live, given prompt treatment.
"All right, let's go. A fine Mystic Ascendant cultivator, out to waylay travelers—why bother?" Wei Zhao shook his head. Once he saw the splash thrown up by the curly-bearded giant and the Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagle as they plunged together into the sea, there was no need to watch further: the man's death was certain beyond doubt.
Sure enough, the very moment Wei Zhao and the spirit bird flew off, the curly-bearded giant and the Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagle were surrounded in a tight ring by several sea beasts drawn by the scent of blood, and in the blink of an eye they were torn apart and devoured clean. This time, the man was dead beyond any possible doubt.
Continuing on toward North Island, the route would pass by Middle Island; barring the unexpected, they would arrive before long. Wei Zhao very much wanted to see Middle Island—after all, he had friends there, Di Xingdao, Cai Zhongxuan, Hou Guanqi and the rest, and above all Tian Chan and Shirley, those two confidantes of his heart. After so long apart, he missed them deeply.