Chapter 4720 — Someone's Coming
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"That's not all. Even if you dug up the root and took it with you, it'd be useless—it couldn't possibly grow," Huo Yudie went on.
"Why not?" Wei Zhao couldn't help asking.
"Because the Thunder Mystic Vine is incredibly picky and demanding about where it grows. It can only keep growing under constant tempering by lightning. Apart from a place like this, with its one-of-a-kind conditions and frequent lightning strikes, where else would you find the right environment?" Huo Yudie said with a smile.
"Mm, that is a problem." Wei Zhao nodded. He could already have guessed as much from the name Thunder Mystic Vine and the arcs of electricity crawling across its tendrils—there was a thick layer of thunderclouds overhead here, and nowhere else.
He had originally planned to move the Thunder Mystic Vine into his jade pendant's space, but after some thought he decided to give up on the idea. It wasn't purely because the vine needed lightning—that condition alone he could just barely satisfy, since he now possessed the lightning attribute and could easily conjure a bit of lightning now and then inside the jade pendant's space.
The real issue was that this was West Island—in plain terms, Ning Xuefei's family territory. Wei Zhao could screw over anyone, but not Ning Xuefei. Besides, he'd already gotten a decent haul of Thunder Mystic Vine this time; whether he took the root or not hardly mattered.
The two of them immediately set to work with great enthusiasm, hacking at the Thunder Mystic Vine. Because of the crackling electric arcs along it, this was a delicate job—one careless move and you'd get hurt. But Huo Yudie had come prepared; she'd brought specialized tools in her backpack, and now at last they could be put to use.
And just as Wei Zhao and Huo Yudie were setting to work on the Thunder Mystic Vine, two familiar old faces suddenly appeared in the boulder formation outside—none other than Xu Lingchong and Kang Jingming.
Their mission for this West Island trial was not merely to sabotage Wei Zhao's plans; there was another task of paramount importance—the Thunder Mystic Vine.
They had the same intelligence data that Huo Yudie possessed. So it was no surprise they'd shown up here—except the two of them had no jade pendant warning like Wei Zhao's. Getting through the outer boulder formation would not be easy.
Although the Heaven-Thunder Formation had nominally been broken by Wei Zhao, in truth he had only opened a passage through the interior. The outer Heaven-Thunder Formation was still running; one wrong step and—crack—a bolt of lightning would strike.
But the two of them had come prepared, and at this stage they weren't about to be at their wit's end. At this moment Kang Jingming was wearing a magnificent suit of smart armor, holding in his hand a gadget that looked like a detector, apparently linked to the armor. And it was thanks to this thing that Kang Jingming was somehow miraculously dodging the heaven-thunder!
One had to admit, the Central Region's level of technology was truly extraordinary. The practical utility of this kind of ultra-high-tech gadget was almost on par with Wei Zhao's jade pendant warning.
Before lightning strikes, there are always corresponding omens—even this place's Heaven-Thunder Formation was no exception. So with the detector in hand, Kang Jingming could sense the heaven-thunder in advance. But that alone wasn't enough to let him dodge it.
Because although the detector was extremely sensitive, it could at best give him half a second of warning—nowhere near the reaction time Wei Zhao's jade pendant warning provided. But the smart armor Kang Jingming wore made up for that shortfall. This crystallization of ultra-high technology was integrated with the detector, and could even dodge on its own.