Chapter 4807 — Breakthrough! Late Nascent Soul Stage!
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Never mind the mental exhaustion—the mere fact that only a scant thirty percent of his true qi remained had already driven Leng Rufeng into a dead end. Thirty percent would have been more than enough against the Wei Zhao of ten days ago, but now, that little was nowhere near enough!
Yet for Yang Qianshuang's sake, however strained he was, Leng Rufeng had to try. To try was to have a chance; not to try was to have nothing at all.
But when he watched Wei Zhao step onto the platform for the fifteenth time, and above all when he sensed the faintly unstable aura around Wei Zhao, he was struck dumb on the spot, mouth agape, unable to utter a single word for the longest time, able only to stare blankly at Wei Zhao.
Nor was he alone. The spectators below with even a shred of discernment were all shocked witless. Some among them came to watch day after day, and were long since familiar with Wei Zhao, the consort of West Island—and precisely because of that, they were all the more stunned, gaping in speechless astonishment.
"You broke through again?" Leng Rufeng finally managed to force the words out, biting his tongue. How long had it been since the last breakthrough? Only about seven days, it seemed—so how had the brat's aura suddenly surged another notch? The hell—he was already at the late Nascent Soul stage?!
"Thanks to you," Wei Zhao said with a faint smile. Though the fresh breakthrough left him unable to fully control his aura, his heart was still brimming with delight. This Leng Rufeng was simply his lucky star.
Half a month of fighting him, and he had risen a solid two levels—from the mid Nascent Soul stage straight up to the late Nascent Soul stage. It was not as outrageous as vaulting two levels in one breath, but in everyone's eyes, what difference was there between the two?
Hearing that airy reply, Leng Rufeng—who rarely cursed—could not hold back a bellyful of profanity. It was not that he hated Wei Zhao to the bone; it was purely that without it, he truly did not know how else to vent this feeling.
"Let's begin," Leng Rufeng said, forcing down his shock. This time he dared not let Wei Zhao strike first. The words had barely left his mouth when he unleashed Ice and Snow World, closing in and bringing his blade down straight at Wei Zhao's head.
Wei Zhao gave not an inch, and with a low, deep dragon's roar, met him head-on with a blast of Five Elements Killing Qi at its fullest power. This time he intended to use no tactics at all; he simply wanted a good, hard clash with his opponent, to weigh just how much he was really worth.
After half a month of combat tempering, and above all after advancing a full two levels in cultivation, Wei Zhao's Five Elements Killing Qi now faintly showed a tendency to take the form of a dragon.
Though for the moment it was no more than a hazy omen, it was unquestionably an encouraging change. One day, when it truly took dragon form, that would be the true, complete version of the Five Elements Killing Qi!
It was a pity that the power of lightning, likewise inherited from the Transcendent Rift Sea era, had shown no improvement all this time. Not that there had been none at all—but compared with the Five Elements Killing Qi, its progress was utterly negligible. Apart from that slight numbing effect, against an opponent like Leng Rufeng it was practically useless.
Boom! The platform exploded with a thunderous blast. The Five Elements Killing Qi was once again cleaved in two at the waist—but unlike before, this time Leng Rufeng's blade force collapsed in the same instant. Wei Zhao and Leng Rufeng both grunted and each took a step back; the two had fought to a dead-even standstill!