With a casual flick, the Supreme Elder, eyes wide and face full of disbelief, was sent hurtling behind Zhuge Chi. A blind eunuch caught him and swiftly drifted backward, vanishing with the corpse.
Only one blind eunuch remained behind Zhuge Chi, standing with his hands bound at his sides.
Zhuge Chi's old eyes remained cloudy. Hunched over beneath the eaves, he quietly watched the other two Supreme Elders of the Artifact Cloud Sect.
The two Supreme Elders were equally astonished. Had their fellow disciple been careless and suffered a mishap?
Naturally, the two could not simply give up. One flashed forward again—there was no way he would be careless this time.
"Watch out!" The other Supreme Elder watching from the side suddenly shouted, horror in his eyes.
The lamps went out. Ordinary people might not have been able to see what had happened beneath those pitch-black eaves, but cultivators with Dharma eyes could see the scene clearly at such close range. Besides, it was not utter darkness; there was still the light of the sun, moon, and stars.
The Supreme Elder who had flashed in to strike suddenly discovered that the old eunuch before him had vanished. Hearing the warning, he tried to dodge, but it was already beyond his power. All he felt was a searing pain in his back, another in his chest cavity, and an icy chill at his breast. Looking down, he saw a bloody hand protruding from his chest, a heart clenched in its palm.
He could see that heart still beating in the man's grip, until the five fingers squeezed with a pop, bursting flesh and blood apart.
At some unknown moment, Zhuge Chi had appeared behind him. One hand had punched straight through his back. Then, with a sweep of that hand, the