Instant kill!
To Jiang Qiao, it was a term both familiar and unfamiliar.
Familiar.
Because he often killed others in an instant.
Unfamiliar.
Because now, that term might very well apply to him, and it had been many years since he had felt this kind of danger—the possibility that his life could end at any moment.
After all.
Before the Three Lives Stone had thrown him back, he could even go toe-to-toe with a Half-God.
Even after returning to his "hometown," he had been overwhelmingly powerful during the first timeline. Neither Vicious Ghosts nor living people had been a match for him.
And since entering the second timeline, he had encountered practically no worthy opponents either.
There had only been Gui Jizhen.
He had been a little stronger.
But even he had only forced Jiang Qiao to use Stove Fire.
In essence.
He was still utterly worthless.
But now, an Evil Spirit that seemed to be an urban legend had appeared. That made this a serious problem.
Urban legends...
In theory, anyone below the sixth tier.
Would die!
No matter how experienced you were, how much of a genius you were, or how much potential you had—even if you were a future Half-God—as long as you had not reached the sixth tier, even if you were at the peak fifth order.
An encounter with an urban legend meant death!
In fact, even reaching the sixth tier did not let you fight an urban legend.
It was just that sixth-tier beings had ghost domains.
They could run.
A ghost domain could temporarily block an urban legend's perception.
After a while.
Once the urban legend had set its sights on someone else.
You would be safe.
As long as you did not court death by appearing before it again, it would not