Chapter 4958 — Liu Ziqi Appears
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"Hmph, don't get smug, boy. All you have done is prove what I said before—a self-important fool!" Chang Minghui's gaze fell upon Liu Ziqi, whose fighting spirit surged, and he sneered: "You really think a woman like this can stop me?"
The words fell, and the wild wind around Chang Minghui erupted skyward. His feet were pinned fast, but that did not stop him from fighting. Even trapped inside the Nine Palaces Sand Formation, he had never truly taken Liu Ziqi seriously—when all was said and done, mid-Kaishan or not, she was only a woman.
The wind raged, and a colossal tornado descended in an instant upon the sands of Thunder Plain Isle. At this point Chang Minghui could afford no more scruples; alarming Zhuang Yifan and the rest could be dealt with later. What he had to do now was kill this mid-Kaishan woman before him—and Wei Zhao, hiding off to the side.
"Look after yourself!" Liu Ziqi's expression turned grave at the sight. She waved Wei Zhao back. Though his strength now rivaled early-Kaishan experts like Zang Zili, against a being such as Chang Minghui he could hardly make a difference—as their two exchanges just now had plainly shown.
At this stage, the trap laid tonight was already more than half a success. Yet even so it could only mildly restrain Chang Minghui's strength; whether the man could ultimately be driven back still came down to her, Liu Ziqi.
In but a brief moment, the skyward tornado Chang Minghui unleashed had swept up countless tons of yellow sand, until from afar it became a whirling sandstorm. The shrill, keening howl of wind and grit within was enough to make the heart quail and the spirit shrink.
By now both Liu Ziqi and Chang Minghui himself were swallowed in the sandstorm, their figures blurred beyond recognition. Watching from outside, Wei Zhao felt a chill of alarm—this Chang Minghui was formidable indeed, turning the whole situation around with a single move!
The Nine Palaces Sand Formation had in an instant become a raging sandstorm. Chang Minghui's strength was still much restrained, true—but by the same token, Liu Ziqi must likewise be gravely affected. Given the gap in their native strength, once both sides were suppressed alike, the one who stood to gain in the end was still Chang Minghui.
Wei Zhao could not help growing anxious. Liu Ziqi had come to help at the near-certain risk of being killed. If anything truly happened to her, he would never be able to atone for it, and what face would he have left to meet Huo Yudie in the days to come?
Yet with his meager strength he dared not recklessly charge into the sandstorm. That would not only fail to help, but would make him a burden to Liu Ziqi—and see her die all the more miserably.
"I can only trust Aunt Liu now." Wei Zhao prayed silently, while deep within his body he swiftly gathered and built up a vast, surging torrent of thunder and lightning power. Ordinary moves were of little use against Chang Minghui—even the Five-Phase Eight-Trigram Killing Qi rarely showed any remarkable effect. At a time like this, the only thing that could serve was that ultimate killing art, the Thunder Burial.
Apart from its fatal flaw of requiring a long time to build up power, the Thunder Burial was all but flawless. Not only was its might immense, its speed was astonishingly swift—impossible to guard against! (To be continued.)