At the instant they brushed past each other, time seemed to stretch and slow. Shi Tiexin twisted his head to look at the attacker, his face filled with bewilderment, shock, frustration, and regret. After all, according to his aura perception, the attacker had never moved.
The attacker smiled as he savored that moment.
He loved watching others fall into his schemes.
Look at that unwilling yet helpless light in his pupils. Wasn't that the finest delicacy a strategist could savor?
That life-saving ultimate move of borrowing light to replace one's form, twisting one's aura within a meter and a half—wasn't that exactly why he had cultivated it?
Once they had passed each other, time returned to normal.
Shi Tiexin sped away, borrowing force from a huge slab that still had not landed to spring off it, intending to make another attempt. The Extremely Sharp Energy on his right hand had yet to dissipate; he could still strike again.
But the attacker had already raised a finger. Red light gathered at its tip as he unleashed a powerful move he had prepared long ago.
Bzzzz—!
A Heat Ray shot straight at Shi Tiexin's chest, incomparably fast, overwhelmingly powerful, terrifying beyond measure.
Left with no choice, Shi Tiexin raised his right palm before his chest. The blade-edge of his palm struck the Heat Ray head-on, and the Extremely Sharp Energy gathered in his hand violently collided with the Heat Ray. Bzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz—the Extremely Sharp Energy around Shi Tiexin rapidly depleted. The edges of his palm swiftly reddened, blackened, and smoked, then skin burned away, flesh charred, and bones fused.
That terrifying Heat Ray alone was enough to blast Shi Tiexin into a death without even a corpse left behind.
Yet while the Heat Ray was terrifyingly powerful, its consumption was also