Sizzle!
Moonlight flowed like water as it collided with the raging thunder.
They tore at each other.
Both vanished without a trace.
Bai Yue moved to intercept it, but was still a step too slow. Or rather, she had not expected Jiang Qiao to be so forceful—to kill a Ninth Rank Expert in an instant!
Instant kill!
Bai Yue's pupils shrank violently, and shock appeared on her face.
How was that possible?
How could he die from a single strike?
A dignified Ninth Rank Expert.
When had he become so fragile?
It had to be known that the middle-aged man had risen from the great battle, becoming a top expert among Yang City's upper echelons step by step.
Someone like him.
To kill him instantly.
One would need to have at least stepped onto the fourth or fifth step of the Divinity Staircase.
She could clearly sense it.
No aura of the Divinity Staircase leaked from Jiang Qiao. In other words, he was still within the ordinary Ninth Rank.
A Ninth Rank instantly killing a Ninth Rank!
How had he done it?
Something was wrong!
She halted her movements and stared darkly at Jiang Qiao. "You were hiding your strength a few days ago."
A few days apart.
Jiang Qiao's strength was at least two levels higher than when they had fought last time. Of course, she could not believe that Jiang Qiao had encountered some fortuitous opportunity and advanced by leaps and bounds over the past few days.
That left only one possibility: he had hidden his strength last time!
But...
Even if he had hidden his strength.
An ordinary Ninth Rank should not have displayed such terrifying power... This had already exceeded her understanding to some extent.
Could it be... that he had some powerful weapon in his