Chapter 4805 — A Fall Short of Success
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A blue arc of lightning flashed out of thin air, running along the giant ice blade to strike directly at Leng Rufeng. After a whole night of recovery and reflection, this was the best opening move Wei Zhao could devise—he did not seek to wound, only to numb.
If this arc of lightning could induce even a moment's paralysis, it would create the chance for the follow-up assault to come. Only in this way could he wrest out a sliver of hope for victory.
Sure enough, Leng Rufeng fell into paralysis just as he had yesterday, his movements visibly slowing and stiffening. At the same moment, Wei Zhao flickered to his side and unleashed his strongest five-element killing aura, a dragon's roar accompanying the strike!
Leng Rufeng's heart lurched, and he was driven staggering back two full steps. The crowd below erupted in gasps at the sight—it seemed this Western Isle consort might actually turn the tables after all!
But they soon realized they had gotten ahead of themselves. After being forced back two steps, Leng Rufeng forcibly shook off the paralysis and struck out, cleaving the five-element killing aura—so close at hand—cleanly in two. Wei Zhao was blasted away by the aftershock of the blade.
So close, and yet it all came to nothing! Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, Wei Zhao cursed his luck inwardly—then looked up and saw that Leng Rufeng, too, had blood at the corner of his mouth, and in an instant he understood what had happened.
The man's injury had not come from his five-element killing aura. To break free of the paralysis, he had bitten through his own tongue; the searing pain had jarred him out of the numbed state. To devise such a counter in the space of an instant—this Leng Rufeng was truly a formidable foe.
Once more the arena fell into a brief standoff. Leng Rufeng was reassessing his opponent, while Wei Zhao pondered his next move.
Lightning to open, then the strongest five-element killing aura—that was the simplest and most effective power combination he could think of. Unfortunately, such a tactic could catch an opponent off guard once, but a second time in a row it would lose its effect. He would have to think of something else.
Before Leng Rufeng could strike, Wei Zhao abruptly activated the Super-Limit Butterfly Microstep once more, again opening with the power of lightning. It was a move that never failed: even one as strong as Leng Rufeng could not mount an effective response in time, and could only endure it by sheer force of cultivation, while suppressing its paralyzing effect to the barest minimum.
Unavoidable speed and tyrannical, unmatched lethality—those two advantages were precisely why lightning martial techniques struck terror into the hearts of all cultivators. For the same reason, any lightning-attribute cultivator was all but invincible among peers. It was only that such cultivators were exceedingly rare in this world; most people might go their whole lives without ever encountering one.
The Wei Zhao of today, however, could at best be counted a half-baked lightning cultivator—all speed and no lethality. Otherwise, with his strength, he truly might have been able to give Leng Rufeng a proper run for his money.
Feeling that familiar lightning paralysis once more, Leng Rufeng's brows knitted slightly. Though he had begun to grow accustomed to the sensation and the numbing effect was growing weaker each time, being subjected to this again and again by Wei Zhao still stoked no small amount of irritation in him.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A dense, rapid series of impacts rang out as Wei Zhao's legs became a blur of fire, hammering blow after blow into his opponent's body—the Raging Inferno Thousandfold Kick paired with the Super-Limit Butterfly Microstep. The crowd below could no longer track Wei Zhao's position at all; they could see only a blurred shadow flitting around Leng Rufeng. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote