Chapter 765

On the field, an imperial guard expert protected at Prince Duan's side was directly killed by an expert who launched an attack from behind, crushing him with the force of rotten wood giving way before a storm. Though he resisted, it was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot—utterly unable to withstand a single blow.

Granted, the newly appeared expert had concealed himself nearby with an extraordinary stealth technique and suddenly struck, catching the imperial guard expert with a surprise attack, but the gap in their strength was equally plain to see.

Through the binoculars, Duàn Yì, Ding Ling, and Qin Xin could clearly see that the man had an ordinary build and a plain face. Dressed in coarse hemp clothing and straw sandals, with deep wrinkles carved across his face, he looked like any elderly farmer one might find in the countryside.

Yet this frail-looking old man, seemingly trembling and weak enough to be blown over by the wind, displayed an incomparably profound and terrifying finger technique. One finger landed between the imperial guard expert's brows, and it was more than a level above even Wusheng Laomu's World-Abandoning Effortless Finger.

"Ling'er, who is this man? Could he be the White Lotus Sect Leader?"

Recently, Duàn Yì had been cramming information about the White Lotus Sect's internal structure and its corresponding experts. Though the Holy Son and Saintess held lofty status, their martial arts were not necessarily supreme. The sect's peak forces were instead its Dharma Kings and certain Holy Envoys, while above them stood only the Sect Leader and Deputy Sect Leader.

According to what Duàn Yì knew, the White Lotus Sect's Deputy Sect Leader had long since suffered mutual destruction in a great battle with King Yama of the Ten Directions Hall, vanishing without a trace. He