Chapter 4957 — True Qi Transforms into Spirit!
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"Hmph, no need for cheap provocation. I can't beat him, true—but you think this one move of mine makes much noise? Hahahaha, open your eyes and look outside, you fool." Chang Minghui laughed and laughed, and to let Wei Zhao see clearly, he even deliberately weakened the tornado by no small measure.
At those words Wei Zhao glanced outward. He had assumed that since the man had unleashed so mighty a technique as a tornado, its reach must be vast—yet what met his eyes shocked him. The tornado was confined to the space between himself and Chang Minghui; beyond that boundary there was no earth-shaking spectacle at all, but perfect silence and utter harmlessness. Not so much as a grain of sand had been lifted.
The sight gave Wei Zhao a genuine fright. It meant that what he was seeing now was far from the man's true strength—quite possibly not even a tenth of it. This was no more than a cat toying with a mouse, a bit of sport with a mere little mouse like himself.
"How about it, boy? By now you should have a clear picture of where you stand. To live or to die—make up your own mind. My patience is very limited." Chang Minghui's figure advanced slowly.
"Is that so? My patience, on the other hand, is excellent. One so rarely meets a fine late-stage Kaishan expert like you—how could I let things end so hastily?" Wei Zhao smiled with easy composure, and then, giving the other no time to react, suddenly drove a palm strike forward.
Accompanied by a solemn dragon's roar, a wisp of Five-Phase Killing Qi such as had never been seen burst into being. Even Chang Minghui, watching from behind, was badly startled and could not help crying out: "True qi taking form? No—true qi transforming into spirit!"
Strictly speaking, the Five-Phase Killing Qi of moments before had already been true qi taking form. For a Xuansheng cultivator that was rare enough, but the Eastern Continent teemed with prodigies, and those who could master such a skill were not few.
Yet this new wisp of Five-Phase Killing Qi had not merely shaped a dragon's form—it had both form and spirit, and was in truth a living flood dragon!
Not only was its shape utterly faithful to a flood dragon; the crucial point was that something inexplicably profound circulated within it, as though life and vitality had been breathed into this flood dragon wrought of Five-Phase Killing Qi. Look closely and one would find that this something actually formed an exceedingly arcane pattern—the Fuxi Eight Trigrams.
True qi taking form merely conjured true qi into a shape; however much it resembled a flood dragon, it was a mere semblance. But true qi transforming into spirit was different—once this arcane vitality was poured in, this was a true Eight-Trigram Flood Dragon.
Were Wei Zhao strong enough to keep replenishing it with true qi, this Eight-Trigram Flood Dragon could even endure in the world forever, and in time it would become a wholly new and mighty spirit beast.
Such arcane and profound craft—know that even Chang Minghui, a late-stage Kaishan expert, had never mastered it. At most he had reached the stage of true qi taking form; as for true qi transforming into spirit, he had never even dreamed of it.
Chang Minghui was struck dumb on the spot, while Wei Zhao himself was wholly unaware of it. In truth he had no notion what true qi transforming into spirit was. The new shape of this Five-Phase Killing Qi had startled him badly too, but to his eyes it was merely an advanced version of the seven-attribute Five-Phase Killing Qi—the eight-attribute Five-Phase Killing Qi.