Chapter 4799 — The Ugly Woman
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This woman's strength was no trifling matter! Wei Zhao's eyelid gave a faint twitch. The effect of this ice-and-snow domain was not merely to freeze the surroundings; the truly terrifying part was that even the blood flowing in his veins showed faint signs of freezing. It would not freeze him solid, perhaps, but the circulation of his true qi was inevitably hampered—at best he could bring out eight tenths of his full strength.
If even Wei Zhao suffered so, others would fare worse still; some might not even muster half their power. Before this woman, cultivators of the same rank were mere playthings to be toyed with at will. Xiangyun Academy truly did produce geniuses in endless succession!
In an instant Yang Qianshuang had dissolved into a snowy shadow and reappeared beside Ning Xuefei. As before, neither Wei Zhao nor Ning Xuefei was her target; from first to last she wanted only the Beauty Pill, and she paid no heed to anything else.
"Scram!" Wei Zhao shot the woman a cold glance. Formidable as her strength might be, she was, after all, only a cultivator at the consummation of the Nascent Soul stage. To him, who could slay experts of the Profound Ascension stage in the blink of an eye, even the strongest Nascent Soul cultivator posed not the slightest threat.
Before the words had faded, Wei Zhao raised his hand and unleashed a Furious Flame Fist. A roaring blaze erupted from empty air and drove her back once more, melting the ice-and-snow domain away with it. Whenever and wherever it might be, the truth that fire overcomes ice would never change.
Yang Qianshuang's expression shifted, and only now did she truly give Wei Zhao a serious look. Upon first discovering that this fellow was merely at the mid Nascent Soul stage, she had dismissed him from her mind—never imagining his strength to be so great that he could undo her signature ice-and-snow domain with such casual ease!
"I want only the Beauty Pill. I do not wish to hurt anyone—do not force my hand!" Because of her grave injuries, Yang Qianshuang's voice was plainly hoarse, and her breath came shallow and weak.
Only then did Wei Zhao notice the abnormality in her condition. By rights, a consummate Nascent Soul expert bearing such heavy wounds should not still command such fearsome power—unless she were a freak like himself. But judging from appearances, that seemed unlikely.
There was only one possibility: before she was injured, her strength had far surpassed the consummation of the Nascent Soul stage—in other words, she had at least been an expert of the Profound Ascension stage!
This discovery made Wei Zhao click his tongue in secret amazement. Yet even if she had once been a Profound Ascension expert, that was no reason to charge over and snatch the Beauty Pill with such utter unreasonableness, was it? He turned to glance at Ning Xuefei, who clutched the Beauty Pill to her breast like a mother hen guarding her chicks, and was struck speechless. Faced with the temptation of a Beauty Pill, creatures called women truly could not be measured by common sense.
"You come to rob me, and then tell me not to force your hand. Heh, is there something wrong with your head?" Wei Zhao could not help but laugh. Whoever she was, whatever grievance she harbored, there was no room for negotiation today. If he indulged her in this, Ning Xuefei would never be able to establish herself in Xiangyun Academy hereafter.
"Then do not blame me!" A flash of fury passed through Yang Qianshuang's eyes, and the temperature around them plunged once more, far more violently than before. A moment ago the flowers and trees had merely been frosted; now icicles hung from them outright. Without true qi to shield the body, an ordinary person could not endure a single minute in this place.