Twin Souls' First Battle, Striking Fear into Scoundrels!

Scarface and the tall, thin man attacked with fierce whistles of wind, one chopping viciously downward, the other thrusting forward!

They aimed straight for the spot where Xiao Han had been before he vanished.

Yet their weapons pierced nothing but a faint afterimage lingering in the air.

The short, stocky martial artist's axe missed as well, nearly chopping into the muddy ground.

A soft puff sounded as the weapons sliced through the afterimage.

All three froze when their attacks missed.

Scarface reacted fastest. The flesh on his face twitched and his pupils abruptly contracted as he roared, "Where is he?! All of you, watch yourselves! This brat's movement technique is too strange!"

He hardly needed to say it. The other two had already sensed that something was wrong.

The young man they had targeted had vanished far too abruptly, without making a sound.

Only a patch of shadow remained where he had stood. Darker than the surrounding darkness, it gave off an aura that made their hearts tremble.

Unfortunately for them, before Scarface's warning had fully faded, something happened!

Xiao Han had not faded into nothingness.

His entire body had actually sunk into the shadow beneath his feet.

The shadow had been stirred by the Eternal Night King Martial Soul, and it was astonishingly active now.

At this moment, A Step to the Ends of the Earth was no longer just a footwork technique. It was more like an authority granted to him by the shadows.

Space seemed to twist and fold beneath his feet. With one step, he silently circled around behind the comparatively short, stocky martial artist.

The light around them seemed to dim. The short, stocky martial artist felt a chill on his back, and an indescribable sense of danger instantly gripped his heart, making every hair on his body stand on end.

Without thinking, he tried to turn and swing his axe to block.

Unfortunately, he was too late.

A seemingly ordinary fist, without the slightest glow of spiritual power and making barely a sound as it cut through the air, landed lightly on a vital point in the center of his back.

It was the Annihilation Divine Fist!

"Pfft!"

The short, stocky martial artist's body went rigid. His eyes bulged, filled with incredulous horror.

He felt an indescribable force bearing an aura of destruction instantly penetrate his body and rush violently into his internal organs.

Wherever that force passed, his life force melted and crumbled away like ice and snow beneath a blazing sun!

He opened his mouth to scream, but spat out only a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of his organs.

Immediately afterward, his aura rapidly ebbed like a punctured balloon. The light in his eyes swiftly dimmed, and his large frame crumpled limply to the ground, never to stir again.

From Xiao Han's disappearance to the short, stocky martial artist's death, the whole process had been as quick as a flash of lightning, taking no more than a breath or two!

"Third Brother!"

Scarface and the tall, thin man both let out horrified roars.

They had seen their companion die with their own eyes, just like that.

He had been a genuine Martial Artist Realm Second Level cultivator!

Yet they had not even been able to see clearly how he died, or how Xiao Han had attacked!

A bone-deep chill gripped their hearts in an instant.

It was fear.

A fat sheep?

This was a monster wearing human skin!

The tall, thin man's triangular eyes were filled with terror.

Surround and kill him?

Rob him?

All of it had been thrown to the back of his mind.

Only one word remained in his head: Run!

Unfortunately, Xiao Han's icy gaze had already locked onto him.

The tall, thin man had only just turned to flee.

Xiao Han's figure blurred once more, tracing an exceedingly strange arc through the shadows.

A Step to the Ends of the Earth combined with the Eternal Night Monarch's power of shadow.

He traveled through the darkness, disregarding distance, and in an instant appeared ahead of the tall, thin man, off to one side.

He completely blocked his escape route.

"Get out of my way!"

The tall, thin man had reached the end of the road, and his face was filled with madness.

He channeled all his spiritual power and whirled the short blade in his hand into a grim net of steel, bringing it down over Xiao Han's head and face.

He hoped to force his opponent back and seize that sliver of a chance to live.

Faced with this desperate counterattack, Xiao Han's gaze remained utterly unruffled.

He swayed slightly.

At an exceedingly tricky angle, he narrowly avoided most of the flashing blades.

At the same time, his right hand clenched into a fist again.

An even more concentrated Annihilation Fist Intent gathered around his fist.

His target: the head!

His fist tore through a gap in the net of blades, moving so incredibly fast that, though launched later, it struck first!

The tall, thin man's vision blurred.

A terrifying, irresistible force had already slammed into his temple.

"Bang!"

A dull cracking sound rang out.

The tall, thin man's entire head caved in, his skull collapsing and deforming.

Red and white splattered everywhere.

The madness and terror on his face froze completely.

His body went rigid and toppled backward, crashing heavily to the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust.

Another one dead!

In the blink of an eye, only one of the three arrogant robbers remained!

Scarface, the only one left, was completely stunned.

He stood there trembling violently, the scar on his face twitching.

Only boundless horror and despair remained in his eyes.

Too fast!

Too strong!

Too strange!

This was not a fight between opponents on the same level!

The Warrior Realm cultivation they had been so proud of was utterly vulnerable before this young man!

"A... a devil!"

Scarface let out a shrill scream, his voice breaking.

His mental defenses had completely collapsed.

He could no longer muster the slightest thought of resistance. He did not even dare utter a threat before turning to flee!

He poured every last ounce of strength into his legs and raced desperately toward the depths of the dense forest, wanting only to get as far away from this harbinger of death as possible.

"Trying to leave now? Too late."

Xiao Han watched Scarface's back as he fled in disarray, his tone indifferent.

He did not immediately give chase. Instead, he willed something into being.

Hum!

The phantom image of a lotus, lush and green and radiating a hazy, clear glow, quietly appeared behind him.

Its petals overlapped in layers, circulating a profound aura of life. It was his other SSS+ martial soul—the Chaos Green Lotus!

Although the Eternal Night Monarch excelled at pursuing and killing, Xiao Han wanted to test the Chaos Green Lotus's means of attack.

With the Chaos Green Lotus's appearance, Xiao Han's aura changed as well. It became less cold and sinister, and more vast and majestic.

He held two fingers together like a sword and pointed from afar in the direction Scarface was fleeing.

Whoosh!

A solid green lotus petal detached from the Chaos Green Lotus's phantom image and instantly transformed into a streak of light, moving almost too fast for the naked eye to follow!

The lotus petal's edge was incomparably sharp. It traced a faint green line through the air, bearing an awe-inspiring aura that could purify all evil, and caught up with the desperately fleeing Scarface with perfect accuracy.

As Scarface ran, he felt a chill in the center of his back. An irresistible, razor-sharp aura had already pierced through his body!

He looked down to see the tip of a translucent green lotus petal protruding from his chest, as though carved from jade. It was even stained with warm blood.

"Ugh..."

Scarface's body stiffened, and he abruptly stopped running.

The terror and despair on his face froze, and the last light in his eyes swiftly faded.

His massive body staggered forward several steps before finally falling to the ground with a thud. The Green Lotus Sword Qi continued unabated, pinning him dead to the ground. Blood gushed out, staining the fallen leaves beneath him red.

All three robbers, including one at Martial Artist Realm Third Level, had been killed in less than a minute!