Chapter 4930 — The Kaishan Stage Is Nothing Much
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Zang Zili pressed her palms together and, before Thunderous Thousand Bursts could close in, thrust out a super-grade fireball. Its color was not the common dark red or deep crimson, but a dazzling, almost blinding white!
Boom! A thunderous explosion rang out, and Thunderous Thousand Bursts and the white fireball proved evenly matched. The shockwave from their collision blew the surrounding Yuan Ying peak masters clean off their feet; only the early Xuan Ascension masters managed to hold their ground, and even they barely did so.
White flame? Wei Zhao could not help but frown at the sight. It meant the temperature of her flame far surpassed his own elixir fire. As expected of an early Kaishan alchemist—she might be good for nothing else, but when it came to playing with fire, few titan-realm masters of her level could likely match this Zang Zili.
As elixir fire's temperature rises, its color changes accordingly—from red at the start, to orange as it climbs, and then to gold at a further stage. But Zang Zili's white fireball far surpassed even gold in temperature; its power was truly extraordinary.
"Seems I underestimated this woman a little. She is an early Kaishan master, after all—one careless move and it's death," Wei Zhao thought with a chill. Fortunately, she was unsuited to combat; had that white flame been unleashed through some powerful fire-attribute martial technique rather than as an ordinary fireball, his Thunderous Thousand Bursts would likely not have been a match, and he would have suffered badly.
While Wei Zhao was secretly alarmed, Zang Zili was in fact more shocked than he was. She was not as haughty and ignorant as she appeared; she knew full well how much she was worth. That white fireball could not deal with masters of her own level, but it had always been invincible for crushing Xuan Ascension masters—so how had it come out evenly matched against this opponent?!
It did not show on the surface, but panic began to stir in Zang Zili's heart. As an alchemist she had no powerful martial techniques worth boasting of; her ability to improvise on the spot was third-rate at best. Her only recourse was to crush the enemy head-on through the sheer disparity in strength—there was no other way.
But once she could no longer crush them, what then?
"You've got some skill, boy. In that case, I can even less afford to spare you today!" Zang Zili said viciously, her face dark and cold. The stronger the opponent, the more she must root him out entirely—if a mere early Xuan Ascension master could already trade blows head-on with her, what would happen once he grew stronger in the years to come?
"Is that so? Then I shall open my eyes wide and see clearly—so this is the so-called Kaishan-stage titan. Nothing much after all." Wei Zhao gave a cold smile, and as his voice fell his figure suddenly flickered, appearing before Zang Zili in the blink of an eye like a ghost.
Facing a Kaishan-stage titan, after all, he had spared nothing—employing the utmost limit of his Butterfly Microstep, all to catch her off guard.
Zang Zili had meant to toss out a few more harsh words, but the words died at her lips and were swallowed back. A Kaishan-stage titan, and she had been genuinely startled by the speed Wei Zhao displayed in that instant; her first reaction was not to face the enemy head-on, but to draw back and retreat.
Not far off, the Alliance Chairman and the others could only shake their heads at the sight. Wei Zhao's strength was indeed unimaginably formidable, but this woman Zang Zili truly was weak to a remarkable degree—her sense for combat was simply garbage.