Chen Fei slid the Qian Yuan Sword into its sheath and waved his right hand. A ripple of sword essence swept through the surroundings, silently disintegrating Shi Yuanmin's body. His Universe Bag and High-grade Magic Treasure fell into Chen Fei's sleeve.
The speed Shi Yuanmin had unleashed at the end was indeed beyond an ordinary peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivator's ability to catch. Even Chen Fei would have struggled to pursue him under normal circumstances.
That burst of escape speed had come from Shi Yuanmin abandoning everything else to preserve a single thread of survival.
Unfortunately, Chen Fei happened to know how to teleport. He crossed more than a dozen li in a flash, leaving Shi Yuanmin no chance to resist before killing him with a single slash.
In the distance, Tong Linyun and the others were still utterly bewildered, unable to wrap their minds around what had happened.
Shi Yuanmin, a late Joint Aperture Realm cultivator who had condensed one flower, had been killed by Chen Fei in two strikes without the slightest ability to fight back. Forget fighting back-even his desperate attempt to flee had failed.
This was a late Joint Aperture Realm cultivator, someone qualified to establish a second-tier faction within the Thousand Feathers Alliance. Though such factions fell short of the foremost powers with peak Joint Aperture Realm cultivators, they still stood near the top of the alliance.
Yet he had been killed so easily, and his killer was Chen Fei, a young martial artist who had only broken through to the Joint Aperture Realm ten years ago.
Youth sometimes meant weakness. After all, no matter how great someone's talent was, they needed time to realize it. Of course, those with exceptional gifts could raise their cultivation in an extremely short time.
But even that "short