I had just obliterated four of them in one strike, and the remaining man was startled. The instant his eyes met mine, his pupils visibly shrank. In the next moment, I charged straight at him with the Wood Transformation Dance. My speed had nearly doubled!
Seeing that my speed was actually far faster than before, the man instinctively fled toward the market. After all, anyone who had witnessed what happened just now would be shocked by my tightly woven plan. This was not something an ordinary newcomer could accomplish. Thus, when he saw my youthful face, he no longer held the slightest contempt for me.
Just as I sent two vines of the Wood Transformation Dance shooting toward the sky to wrap around the tree below and accelerate my movement, the young palace mistress and her bodyguard from earlier were also taken aback. Seeing me relentlessly pursue the middle-aged man who had barged into the market from outside, they both wore looks of astonishment.
Because the spiritual energy of the Eight Desolations was far less refined and chaotic than the aura in the Dao Proving Heaven, it was possible to connect with one's own aura to investigate another person's cultivation. Therefore, to see through someone's cultivation, one needed to come into contact with them, or at least make the full power of their cultivation erupt into the Eight Desolations, or possess cultivation far higher than theirs. Otherwise, there was no way to detect it.
As for the pursuer's cultivation, perhaps only the bodyguard knew it inside out. When the young palace mistress saw me actually chasing the man into the market entrance, she immediately asked in surprise, "What's going on?"
"Looks like he was counter-killed. We knew that boy was not to be trifled with, but we didn't know he