Chapter 4906 — Neither Advance Nor Retreat
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"A formation! There must be a formation here!" A thought burst into Wei Zhao's mind. This could only be explained by a formation; without one, it would be impossible that he could retreat without ever reaching an edge.
"Perhaps..." Old Ghost said, none too certain. His knowledge far surpassed Wei Zhao's, and indeed all of this could only be explained by a formation—yet that there should exist in this world a formation so profound that even he could detect not the slightest trace of it was, well, a bit too fantastic.
"Senior, what do we do now?" Wei Zhao asked hurriedly. He was by nature a man of firm judgment, but such a situation as this he had never heard of nor seen. Without finding the way in, retreating from this place was all but impossible.
"If it is a formation, then we must find the formation's eye for any chance of breaking it. As things stand, we can only search for it," Old Ghost said gravely.
"Mm, that is all we can do." Though his intuition warned him most ill, Wei Zhao had no other choice. He could only steel himself and begin probing his surroundings. Even if he could not find the so-called formation's eye for the time being, he must at least first make clear what this place was like—whatever happened, he needed to be mentally prepared.
Yet before Wei Zhao could take two steps, thunder and lightning suddenly flashed overhead!
Because of the heavy mist, visibility here was wretched, to say the least; whether one could not see one's own hand before one's face or not, what was overhead could not be made out at all. But in this moment, accompanied by a tremendous peal of thunder, an incomparably powerful bolt of lightning pierced the fog and split the heavens, and Wei Zhao saw it plain and clear!
At the sight, Wei Zhao's heart gave a lurch: this bolt was no longer merely deep blue—it had already verged upon purple.
Ever since he had received the lightning inheritance of the giant electric eel, he had possessed a very clear understanding of the power of lightning. Ordinary lightning was pale blue; a stronger thunder tribulation was pure blue; and the tenfold thunder tribulation he had endured before had been nearly deep blue.
The might of purple lightning, however, far surpassed deep blue. After all, by the strength of the giant electric eel at the Sea-Splitting stage, apart from its strongest killing move—the black heavenly punishment—its ordinary thunderstrikes were merely deep purple.
Though the bolt overhead was not deep purple but only near-purple, it was already enough to make Wei Zhao's heart pound with fright. He had seen the giant electric eel use deep-purple thunderstrikes to slay several Sea-Splitting stage spirit beasts outright. Even if it had looked like a sneak attack amid the chaos, the fact that a single blow could kill on the spot was enough to set forth its terrifying might in full.
Deep-purple thunderstrikes could slay Sea-Splitting stage spirit beasts; then this near-purple bolt, even if somewhat inferior, would surely be more than enough to do away with a mere Wei Zhao at the early Profound Ascension stage, would it not? This was far more powerful than a thunder tribulation!
In his shock, Wei Zhao had no time to scrutinize his surroundings further. He at once employed the Butterfly Microstep and, without the slightest hesitation, turned and fled.
At first glance this choice seemed foolish, for even if this near-purple bolt were circling overhead, it would not necessarily fall upon this very spot; wherever he ran, the odds of being struck were much the same. And with his vision so poor, he was all too likely to run into other dangers besides.