Watching the two great assassins fall flat on their backs, and the muscles, tendons, and skin on Huo Yuanhong's body revert to their original state as though nothing had happened...
Whether it was Second Great-Uncle, the innkeeper, or the Southern Heaven Alliance's representative, all of them sank into another long silence.
As top experts of the martial world, they could be considered widely experienced. There were few martial arts they had not seen; even the supreme techniques created by ancient Martial Immortals throughout the ages had records preserved by certain sects.
But such an eerie martial art...
They had truly never seen it before.
What kind of martial art was this? It was too damned ghostly. It could even extend the muscles and tendons in one's arm by an inch just to form a sword-finger!?
It was simply as bizarre as the ultimate killing king of legend—even fingerprints were left behind no longer!
Especially this round, which was vastly different from the last. Four independent masters had built up their power and struck, yet still suffered defeat.
And they had been defeated in the arts they excelled at most.
The hard-training expert, the Ascetic Monk, had been defeated at hard training!
Edgeless, a sword master famed alongside the Northern Sword God, had been defeated at swordsmanship!
The Black-White Twin Balefuls, the second-greatest assassins under heaven, had been defeated by an even stranger and more unfathomable art of assassination!
All this sounded like a long tale, but it had actually happened in the space between lightning and flint. Almost as soon as the Ascetic Monk and Edgeless were defeated, before Second Great-Uncle had even finished shouting his warning, the Black-White Twin Balefuls had already lost.
Second Great-Uncle turned to look out the window and saw Edgeless lying on the ground, hugging