Chapter 5051 — The Outcome Is Decided
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And even Sun Baimei, whose mental cultivation method was unusual, would have found it hard to register anything unless he deliberately probed. Their attention was wholly fixed on Leng Leng; none of them would have gone out of their way to investigate an utterly unrelated "ordinary man" like Wei Zhao.
"I'm really fine—now hurry back!" Leng Leng pushed Wei Zhao toward the door as she spoke, but to her astonishment she failed to move him at all. She was a capable cultivator at the early Foundation Establishment stage, and she had put no small amount of force behind that shove—and yet she could not budge a "commoner" like Wei Zhao?
"Don't worry, I'll protect you!" Wei Zhao only grinned and jabbed a finger at Sun Baimei and Fei Yangnian. "These two are home-invasion robbers, aren't they? Watch me beat them to death and give you a taste of the glory days. I may not be what I was back then, but finishing off these two idiots is more than enough."
At that, Leng Leng was on the verge of tears. She begged hurriedly, "Stop fooling around and get out of here—there really is nothing wrong on my end..."
"Hmph. Since you're here, you may as well stay." Sun Baimei was standing just a short distance from the two of them; as he spoke, he made ready to strike Wei Zhao dead. With his strength, killing an ordinary man was easier than crushing an ant. Whether Wei Zhao lived or died hardly mattered to him, but since this brat had barged in without knowing his place, then he had only himself to blame.
Leng Leng was frantic at the sight and rushed to shield Wei Zhao behind her body—only for Wei Zhao to seize the moment and pull her out the door, while flinging a horrifying mass of true qi from his hand. They were so close, and the move so sudden, that Sun Baimei had scarcely any time to react before the qi bomb slammed straight into his face.
From their last exchange, Wei Zhao knew Sun Baimei was the one he feared most. To his present spirit-body form, this creature was practically a natural predator, and the qi bomb had been prepared specifically for him. So long as he could take the thing out first, everything else would be easy.
Boom! With a tremendous roar, the qi bomb detonated right against Sun Baimei's face. It had not been charged for long, so its power was hardly exceptional—yet at such close range, its lethality was still formidable, and Sun Baimei was blasted backward through the window behind him.
"Good thing the fool underestimated his enemy. Otherwise, with his late Foundation Establishment strength, even if he couldn't dodge entirely, he'd at least have cleared some distance—and then it would have been trouble." Wei Zhao breathed an inward sigh of relief.
This was the flaw of the qi bomb. It could be devastating given enough time to build up, but it was not like the Thunder Burial, which was so fast it left no chance to evade, nor like the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Killing Qi, which could be freely controlled at will and might even evolve a spirit of its own. Once thrown, it was bound to detonate—but if the opponent reacted quickly enough, it could easily miss.
So at best it was a surprise killing move, never a true ace in the hole; the higher one's level, the less use it was. By the time he was on Cloud-Tier Island, Wei Zhao had already begun to use it less and less.
But the situation now was special. Never mind the Thunder Burial and the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Killing Qi—he could not even employ techniques like the Thousand Thunder Bursts. His only way to turn the tables was the qi bomb fused with pill fire. He had no other choice.
All of this was within Wei Zhao's calculations, but the other two still present were utterly dumbstruck. Leng Leng had spent over half a month in his company, always taking him for an ordinary man—who could have imagined that Wei Zhao would blast the late-Foundation-Establishment Sun Baimei flying the instant he acted?