Chapter 4802 — A Fierce Battle
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Anyone else would have already thrown in the towel. But his opponent was Wei Zhao—and who was Wei Zhao? A man whom even the monstrous evil cultivators of the Mountain-Opening stage could not bring to heel. However formidable Leng Rufeng might be, he was still only an expert of the Profound Ascension stage. Would Wei Zhao retreat over a little pressure like this?
Since his opponent would not strike first, Wei Zhao saw no reason to stand on ceremony. His true qi surged through him, and with a single thought he unleashed the Raging Inferno Thousandfold Blast.
In an instant the whole vast arena was sealed tight beneath a sky of raging flame. The earth-shaking detonations that kept bursting forth left even the Xiangyun Academy disciples watching from below exchanging stunned glances. Worthy of a man who could become the Western Isle's consort—he was truly no simple matter.
With the power of the Raging Inferno Thousandfold Blast, an ordinary early Profound Ascension expert would have crumbled. Yet Wei Zhao did not for a moment believe it could pose any real threat to Leng Rufeng. The man was a monster comparable to the late Profound Ascension stage; to think one Raging Inferno Thousandfold Blast could do the trick would be wishful thinking of the wildest kind.
Under the perfect cover of the Raging Inferno Thousandfold Blast, Wei Zhao unhesitatingly employed the Transcendent Butterfly Microstep. His form drifted through the sea of fire like a ghost, flickering and unfixed, so that even if his opponent used his spiritual sense, he could not easily lock on to Wei Zhao's position—after all, the Raging Inferno Thousandfold Blast was quite effective at obstructing spiritual sense as well.
Sure enough, Leng Rufeng stood motionless at the center of the explosions. The Raging Inferno Thousandfold Blast had not so much as scratched him, but it had served its purpose as cover perfectly, allowing Wei Zhao to steal up behind him without the slightest notice.
Amid the ceaseless, heaven-shaking blasts came a low, deep dragon's roar, and a supremely powerful five-element killing aura—now bearing a trace of the Five-Venom Flood Dragon's shadow—shot straight at Leng Rufeng's unguarded back.
It worked! Wei Zhao's spirits soared. Once his five-element killing aura touched flesh, no Profound Ascension expert could hope to walk away unscathed. This was a top-tier killing move inherited from an existence of the Transcendent Sea-Splitting stage; even if Wei Zhao could only imitate a fraction of it, it was still far beyond the power of an expert of this level to withstand.
Yet in the next instant Wei Zhao's heart gave a violent lurch. The rumbling Raging Inferno Thousandfold Blast cut off abruptly, and with it the towering fire intent dissolved into nothing. The whole arena turned to ice and snow, cold enough to congeal the blood and clog the flow of true qi.
Never in his wildest dreams had Wei Zhao expected this. The woman Yang Qianshuang's technique—this man could use it too, and to far greater effect. This world of ice and snow was all but devastating to the functions of the physical body; an ordinary person might well be frozen to death outright. Even Wei Zhao found movement difficult, his strength reduced to half at best. These two really were a matched pair!
But what shocked Wei Zhao most was not that. It was that in his opponent's hand, at this very moment, was clutched his five-element killing aura. The man had caught the five-element killing aura with his bare hand!
"A clever trick, but useless." Leng Rufeng spoke coldly, and in his other hand there abruptly appeared a blade of ice, all but transparent. It swept down in a soundless slash. The five-element killing aura gripped in his hand was sheared cleanly in two, then dissolved into the empty air.
Silence. The whole arena was utterly silent.