Chapter 4718 — Run!
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"To break the Heaven-Thunder Formation, you have to strike the Five-Thunder Tribulation Arch in a very particular way—with martial techniques of all five basic spiritual-root attributes at once, and with each of those five attacks at or above the Nascent Soul stage in power, roughly matched to one another," Huo Yudie explained.
"So that's it. I knew there had to be a reason you insisted on dragging a total stranger like me into this as your teammate—it was all for this step." Wei Zhao nodded in sudden understanding, then added, "But then why not bring five people? Nascent Soul cultivators with all five basic attributes shouldn't be hard to round up at your academy. Why insist on me?"
"Are you stupid? Five people means splitting the take five ways. How much would be left for me?" Huo Yudie shot him a glare.
At that Wei Zhao gave her an odd look. "Even split five ways, you'd still get twenty percent. Right now with just the two of us you're also only getting twenty percent—what's the difference? Don't tell me you've forgotten. We agreed on an eighty-twenty split..."
"Uh..." Huo Yudie choked on her words, and only after a long pause did she retort indignantly, "Who knew you'd be this greedy! Besides, my master specifically warned me that the search for the Thunder Mystic Vine has to be kept absolutely secret—the fewer people the better. Too many mouths and the word slips out sooner or later. And what's trickier than that: if along the way one of them takes a fancy to the treasure, we'd be in real trouble. We could end up at each other's throats, fighting to the death. I don't want to be the tragedy in that story. Even if it's still just twenty percent, two people beats five."
"Heh, but there's only the two of us now. Aren't you afraid I'll get greedy and not even give you that twenty percent?" Wei Zhao said with a teasing smile.
But Huo Yudie was not the least bit afraid of him. She eyed him sidelong, challengingly. "Go ahead. Come on then—it's just rob first, kill after, isn't it?"
"..." Wei Zhao could only stare speechlessly at the heavens. This girl hadn't been nearly this brazen when they first met—so after ten days together, she had no fear of him at all now. Just look at that smug expression as she said it, and she was even wearing a ripped-up denim tracksuit. She was a regular little street punk from the mortal world now. How had a proper classical beauty turned into this? Wasn't that a bit of a leap?!
At that moment Wei Zhao felt something close to guilt, as though he really was the damned culprit. If she hadn't been following him these past days, Huo Yudie would still be that ice-and-snow lotus of a classical beauty. At the very least, she definitely wouldn't be a street punk of the mortal world...
"Forget it. Let's get back on track and start breaking this formation." Wei Zhao had no choice but to change the subject, turning his gaze to the Five-Thunder Tribulation Arch ahead.
"There's one difficulty, though. You have all five attributes, yes, but to break the formation you'll need to unleash martial techniques of all five attributes within a single breath. Most people can't do that—but I believe in you," Huo Yudie warned. If she hadn't witnessed Wei Zhao's astonishing strength before, she wouldn't have such confidence in him. After all, unleashing five attributes of martial technique at once was absolutely not as simple as it sounded.
Never mind full power—they only needed to reach the Nascent Soul level—but the entire sequence had to be completed within one breath. That was essentially one mind managing five tasks, when one mind managing two was already hard enough for ordinary people. Five was unthinkable.
Wei Zhao gave a wry smile at that. Without the fortuitous encounter back when he'd left the Five-Poison Swamp, hearing Huo Yudie say this would have left him truly without a trick to play.