A Strange Dream (Two Chapters Combined)

"Whoosh."

An enormous, razor-sharp blade aura slashed out from the Spirit Artifact Short Saber, cutting toward the spot where the indistinct target stood on the ground.

"Boom!"

The sharp blade aura struck the white mist, splitting it in two in an instant. Then came an earth-shaking explosion, followed by the appearance of a terrifying trench more than twenty meters long and half a meter deep in the ground.

Smoke and dust drifted through the air, obscuring a large area. Once everything settled, the white mist rapidly vanished without leaving the slightest trace.

"Hm?"

Lu Qiheng extended his mental perception and carefully searched the area below, but found nothing.

That lawless Cultivator had vanished, disappearing without a trace and leaving not even the slightest clue behind.

From their exchange just now, Lu Qiheng did not believe that his previous attack could have killed the target. Now that his opponent had vanished without a trace, there was only one possibility.

"She actually got away. With an escape method like that, catching her is going to be difficult..."

In all the years since he had broken through to the Third-Order Initial Stage, this was the first time Lu Qiheng had encountered a target capable of slipping away from him unscathed while he was carrying out a mission.

During the earlier battle, he had still been thinking that he absolutely had to capture this lawless Cultivator tonight. In the end, however, he had still allowed his opponent to escape. To be honest, Lu Qiheng felt rather depressed at that moment.

He descended from the sky and turned to look at the people sealed inside the red crystals.

With a thought, the red crystals immediately shattered. The fallen fragments rapidly melted, then gathered together and returned to their original form before flying back into Lu