Chapter 3545 — The Death of Tagan Long

The fifteenth stance of the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm! This was the second-strongest move Wei Zhao could now unleash; after successive upgrades and breakthroughs, he had become capable of performing both the fifteenth and sixteenth stances of the Frenzied Fire Eight Trigrams Palm!

Still, backed by the attack-level bonus of the Essence Necklace, the fifteenth stance was more than enough to instantly kill a master at the peak of the late Heaven Stage—provided, of course, that the master was caught off guard!

Otherwise, even the sixteenth stance with its bonus would find it hard to instantly slay an opponent who was defending with all his might!

"BOOM—" Tagan Long let out a shriek as his whole body was sent flying, blasting a great hole through the wall of the inn; he sailed clean out of the building...

"You... you actually killed Tagan Long?!" Ancestor Xuanchen shot to his feet, staring at Wei Zhao in shock and disbelief! He had never imagined that Wei Zhao would strike Tagan Long dead!

After all, Tagan Long was the opener of the Cloud Terrace Island—without him, no one could go to the island at all. And judging by Wei Zhao's earlier behavior, he had seemed entirely willing to cooperate with the plan to open the island. So why had he suddenly gone berserk and killed the man?

Didn't that make all his earlier cooperation pointless?! Kang Zhaoming and Libationer Nantian also stared at Wei Zhao in disbelief; they had never expected him to do such a thing!

The power of the move Wei Zhao had just unleashed surpassed that of an ordinary martial technique at the peak of the late Heaven Stage. There was no need to check—Tagan Long was certainly dead beyond any doubt.

Even if they wanted to save him, it was impossible now. Ancestor Xuanchen was somewhat dumbfounded.

The trial-goers present were at a loss as well! Was it over just like that? They couldn't go to the Cloud Terrace Island anymore? The opener was dead?

"Attack! Everyone, attack together! Kill Wei Zhao, kill the man who ruined the plan!" Though Kang Zhaoming regretted that they could no longer reach the Cloud Terrace Island, the problem now was this: since the trip was ruined anyway, they might as well maximize their gains—have these people join forces and eliminate Wei Zhao first!

Of course, Kang Zhaoming shouted the order, and the crowd was indeed furious—Wei Zhao had known full well that Tagan Long was the opener and utterly indispensable, yet he had struck him dead anyway. This was a blatant slap in the face to the Cloud Terrace Island plan and to every Inheritor present!

But Wei Zhao's strength was plain for all to see, and everyone knew the saying: the bird that sticks its head out gets shot. Who among these cultivators, able to reach the level of Heaven Stage Great Perfection, was a pushover? Their goal now was to ascend to the Heavenly Dao, not to get into death feuds with just anyone.

So at this moment, though Kang Zhaoming's words struck a chord with the crowd, no one dared to make the first move. Instead, they all turned, as if by unspoken agreement, to look at Zhong Yongliang and Zhang Naipao!

After all, Zhong Yongliang and Zhang Naipao were members of the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow Sect. Apart from Ancestor Xuanchen, Zhang Naipao and Zhong Yongliang were the strongest people here; only if they made a move would the others possibly rise up and attack together!

Zhang Naipao, of course, looked to Zhong Yongliang. Since Zhong Yongliang said nothing, naturally he said nothing either.

Kang Zhaoming was also looking at Zhong Yongliang now. Back at the inn's entrance, Zhong Yongliang had given his word: if Wei Zhao dared to obstruct the Cloud Terrace Island plan, Zhong Yongliang would definitely stand against him.

"Huh? Why are you all staring at me?" Zhong Yongliang had just been in a state of shock, sunk in endless painful memories—he had no idea what had just happened before his eyes!

"..." Kang Zhaoming was speechless! Brother, what were you doing just now? Playing on your phone? At a time like this, you're still playing on your phone? But he was still counting on Zhong Yongliang to raise the call and get everyone to act together, so he could only explain patiently: "For the sake of his own selfish desires, Wei Zhao didn't want his woman to have relations with the Cloud Terrace Island opener Tagan Long, so he killed Tagan Long..."

"Oh, well killed!" Zhong Yongliang said at once upon hearing this.

"Gah!" Kang Zhaoming's eyes went wide, and he stared at Zhong Yongliang in disbelief, thinking he must have misheard!

"Mad Dragon Patriarch, what the hell are you playing at?" Ancestor Xuanchen frowned and glared at Zhong Yongliang. This wasn't what they had agreed on! They had agreed to kill Wei Zhao together—how had he gone back on his word?

"Playing at your head!" Zhong Yongliang roared. "So what if I said well killed? If he weren't dead, I'd add a palm strike to finish him off! Son of a bitch, daring to touch Wei Zhao's woman—I, Zhong Yongliang, would be the first to kill him! Right, Paozi?"

"Huh? Right..." Zhang Naipao was taken aback, but he followed Zhong Yongliang's lead. Though somewhat puzzled, whatever Zhong Yongliang said was right—so if Zhong Yongliang had suddenly decided to acknowledge Wei Zhao as his leader, then Wei Zhao was naturally his leader too. "I'll suck him to death with the Bee-Absorbing Divine Art!"

"?!!??!" Kang Zhaoming stared at the two of them, utterly stupefied. What the hell was going on?!

"You—do you think Leader Wei Zhao did the right thing?" Zhong Yongliang casually pointed at the Formless Boxer not far from him and asked.

"Uh... right!" The Formless Boxer nodded.

"And you? You think the killing wasn't good enough?" Zhong Yongliang casually picked out another expert from a foreign land.

"Good, very good!" the foreign expert said hurriedly.

"Mm, and you? Pretty little lady?" Zhong Yongliang looked toward Song Lingrui and asked. He kept feeling that this girl looked somewhat familiar—as if he'd seen her somewhere before?

"Mm-hm, I'll go help too!" Song Lingrui nodded.

"Xuanchen, Kang Zhaoming, there's no problem here, is there? Look, everyone approves of Leader Wei Zhao killing Tagan Long!" Zhong Yongliang shrugged, his face full of smiles.

"You..." Ancestor Xuanchen was so furious he was practically smoking—this was a full-scale mutiny! He turned to Libationer Nantian. "Libationer Nantian, what do you make of this..."

"Mutiny! Utter mutiny! But I wash my hands of it. If you people don't want to go to the Cloud Terrace Island, then I'll be on my way. Cultivators from the secular world really are a low-quality lot! What trash!" Libationer Nantian shook his head.

"Wei Zhao, what exactly are you trying to do? Do you understand Tagan Long's importance?" Ancestor Xuanchen was beside himself with rage! True, there was still Tianchan as a backup, and with her Four Realms One Void attribute she could just barely serve as a substitute—but the crucial problem was that she was a woman!

This was precisely the flaw in the hidden piece that Ancestor Xuanchen had always worried about! Tianchan had no ties of blood or friendship with those Inheritors, so they might not go all out for her! Even if Tianchan and Wei Zhao were on good terms, she was not Wei Zhao, and the Inheritors might not risk their lives to protect her!

So at this moment, Ancestor Xuanchen was on the verge of losing his mind! He had thought the hidden piece could remain unused, but now he realized it would have to be deployed after all! There was no help for it now—flawed as she was, she would have to be used. RS

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