Judging by Widow Xie's words, her enemy's martial arts must have reached a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering level.
Ordinary martial arts Grandmasters were likely no match for Widow Xie's enemy. That was why Commander Bai had only given her a promise—one that might be fulfilled, or might prove impossible to fulfill.
As for him, although Widow Xie saw limitless potential in him, judging solely by their apparent strength, there was still some gap between him and Commander Bai. After all, Commander Bai was a Grandmaster of martial arts, while no matter how stunningly gifted he was, he was merely at the Innate realm. It was a difference in essence.
Thus, Widow Xie would rather believe that Commander Bai could help her avenge herself than believe Meng Zhao had the ability to do so.
And it was precisely because of the exceptional martial arts of Widow Xie's enemy that Meng Zhao's vast power could hardly play any role.
After all, for a martial artist standing at the pinnacle of the Divine Continent, it was truly difficult to place any restrictions upon him. Only a genuinely peerless powerhouse could kill him through sheer strength; or several experts of the same rank could lay an ambush and surround him to death; or some enormously influential major power could issue a dragnet-wide wanted order for him—alive, they wanted to see the man; dead, they wanted to see the corpse—and once his trail was found, use a great army in formation to forcibly kill him.
Meng Zhao met none of those conditions. Moreover, even the Heavenly Punishment Hall established under Great Yong had so many heinous criminals hanging on its wanted list, yet several years might pass without a single one being captured or killed. This showed that the circumstances of such martial arts experts were truly