The change happened far too suddenly. Even Elder Li, who had been standing right there, was left utterly stunned by the abrupt turn of events.
The Bai clan cultivator wrapped in gloomy mist moved far too quickly. Although Elder Zhan had cast a high-speed secret art in advance and successfully fled more than sixty or seventy zhang away,
Elder Bai had nevertheless arrived first despite setting out later. After flying only a little over a hundred zhang, he caught up with Elder Zhan.
With a single strike from his secret art, the terrified Zhan clan cultivator had only just managed to summon his protective spiritual light before suffering the opponent's devastating blow head-on. He fell in the opponent's hands with virtually no resistance.
It was not that Elder Zhan had failed to resist. He simply had never imagined that the opponent's movement technique would be so fast. In almost the blink of an eye, the man had appeared behind him. At such speed, Elder Zhan could barely even track the opponent's movements, let alone capture them.
Overwhelmed by shock, Elder Zhan could no longer cast his secret art even if he wanted to.
A streak of dark light circled once around Elder Zhan's corpse. With a flick of his hand, flames enveloped the body. In the blink of an eye, Elder Zhan, who had still been standing there moments ago, had perished on the spot, leaving not even the slightest trace behind.
"Hmph, Fellow cultivator Bai, your heart is truly black and your methods vicious. You actually dared to kill an elder of your own sect at the Ghost Lord realm. Aren't you afraid the Ghost Talisman Sect's cultivators will find out?"
Watching the Bai clan cultivator suddenly strike and kill an elder of his own sect, Elder Li stood