As blue light flickered, the cry of agony Elder Guo had expected did not come. Instead, a cold snort sounded beside his ear:
"Hmph. You think you can ambush this Qin with a mere magic treasure and kill him? How presumptuous. Since you struck first, don't blame this Qin for being ruthless."
The cold snort had barely sounded when a crisp slap rang out. A flash of blue light streaked past, and Elder Guo saw his invincible blue arrow suddenly appear before tumbling end over end toward the forest below.
That blue arrow was something Elder Guo had purchased at an auction for three hundred thousand spirit stones.
Three hundred thousand spirit stones would have been enough to buy one or two precious magic treasures. The blue arrow, only a few inches long after being activated, had fetched such a high price because this magic treasure could ignore a cultivator's spiritual energy defenses and strike their physical body with ease beneath their protective spiritual light.
Relying on this blue-arrow magic treasure, Elder Guo had once easily killed several cultivators of the same rank. Yet this attack, which he had believed would leave no room for failure, had been effortlessly neutralized by the young cultivator before him. This was something Elder Guo had never imagined.
Just as Elder Guo's heart trembled with shock, the figure before him blurred, and a phantom vanished in an instant. When the figure appeared again, the young cultivator was only forty zhang away from him.
As the young man appeared, a huge, pitch-black palm suddenly materialized as well. With a flash of black radiance, it arrived above Elder Guo's head.
"Ah, no!"
Though Elder Guo had already sensed that something was wrong, the distance between them was simply too short. Although he saw the black giant