Chapter 1272: You Are My Trump Card
Spreading his fingers, Meng Chao drove them deep into a crevice like iron hooks and pried out a fist-sized chunk of rock.
He weighed the rock in his hand, assessed its shape, then narrowed his eyes to gauge the wind speed and direction before extending his arm and letting it fall freely.
"What are you doing?"
Ice Storm asked curiously.
"Testing."
Meng Chao answered shortly.
Before his words had faded, the rock had been blown seven or eight meters to the left by the gale. It fell several hundred meters and landed atop the rolling Sea of Clouds.
Logically, the rock should have passed straight through the clouds, continued falling several thousand meters, and struck the ground.
But the instant it touched the mist, something strange happened.
It was as though the rock had struck an invisible barrier. It first bounced lightly, then was shattered into powder in a single blow!
Ice Storm's eyes widened.
Without changing expression, Meng Chao dug another similarly sized stone from the fractured cliff face and repeated the experiment.
Sure enough, this rock too was pulverized by an invisible force when it fell above the clouds.
It was as if one—no, a hundred—invisible rock crushers lay in ambush within the Sea of Clouds.
One could well imagine that if Meng Chao had jumped down rashly without testing first, there was a ninety percent chance he would have met the same fate as the rocks.
Meng Chao picked up a third stone. After a moment's thought, he changed direction and infused his arm with enough Spiritual Energy to turn his muscle fibers into tightly coiled springs, hurling the stone far away.
Only after tracing a long arc did the third stone fall onto the Sea of Clouds nearly two