Chapter 4688 — Swift Annihilation
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
The last time, working together with Ren Zhongyuan and the others, it had taken all four of them—Nascent Soul grand completion cultivators—just to barely kill a Pseudo-Human Vine, and every one of them had come away wounded. Now the Pseudo-Human Vine blocking their way had giant tendrils that looked even thicker and more terrifying than the last, and only she and Wei Zhao were left to face it. However you looked at it, the situation did not bode well.
"Nothing for it—we kill it, that's all." As he spoke, Wei Zhao's figure suddenly flickered and he charged forward. The Pseudo-Human Vine's hundred-odd giant tendrils went wild at once, whipping madly toward Wei Zhao like sharks that had caught the scent of blood. The sight was so astonishing that Huo Yudie was badly startled—if it had been her, that single exchange might well have flayed her to shreds.
Yet Wei Zhao neither dodged nor evaded. A surging, sky-high heat erupted from his body, and in an instant he was like a fire god descended to the world, wreathed in roaring flames that no eye could bear to look upon.
Even a plant that had cultivated into a spirit was still, in the end, a plant, and the Pseudo-Human Vine feared flame above all. Sensing its peril, it tried to flee in an instant; the madly dancing giant tendrils withdrew faster than one another, and in that unguarded moment the roles of attacker and defender were utterly reversed.
But the Pseudo-Human Vine had fled too late. Wei Zhao's Frenzied Flame Fist struck of a sudden, hitting its most vital root system dead-on. Amid a chorus of eerie shrieks, neither human nor ghost, the entire Pseudo-Human Vine was wrapped tightly in flame. In mere moments, this colossal thing that had left even Nascent Soul grand completion experts at their wits' end was burned away to nothing, leaving only a heap of ash upon the ground.
Huo Yudie stared at the scene, dumbstruck, her whole being utterly stunned. She had thought that with her and Wei Zhao's strength, passing through here would surely mean a bloody battle, perhaps even at the cost of grave injury—never had she imagined that in the space of a single dazed moment, the Pseudo-Human Vine would be so effortlessly dealt with by Wei Zhao.
"What are you standing there dazed for? Let's go!" Wei Zhao glanced at her.
"Ah? Oh!" Only then did Huo Yudie come back to herself, and she hurried to follow in Wei Zhao's footsteps. This time it was her turn to watch Wei Zhao's back from behind, and once again she found herself unknowingly lost in thought.
Before, it had been vague and uncertain, but this time she truly saw it: a Pseudo-Human Vine so powerful and terrifying, annihilated in a single casual move. Wei Zhao's cultivation might be only the peak of early Nascent Soul, but his true strength far surpassed that of ordinary Nascent Soul grand completion experts.
At the East Continent Academy, where geniuses emerged in wave after wave, challenging above one's level was nothing strange—but to leap levels as monstrously as Wei Zhao did was rare even across the whole academy. He was simply a freak!
What set Huo Yudie's thoughts wandering was not merely Wei Zhao's display of power, but the feeling of hiding behind a man's back and being protected in the midst of battle. It struck her faintly as odd—something that had never happened to her before.
To say nothing of the fact that, given her strength, she seldom met real danger; and even when she did, though there might be people like Ren Zhongyuan beside her who swore up and down that they would protect her, when the critical moment truly came they were often too busy saving themselves to protect anyone. Only Wei Zhao, here and now, was truly protecting her... (To be continued.)