Of the Martial Artists who had surrounded Li Yun on the ground, only a handful remained.
Seven or eight had retreated beneath a nearby wall, trembling. They looked at Li Yun as if he were a demon.
"What... what kind of technique was that?"
"We're both Xiantian Martial Artists. How can you wield such strange flames?"
On the rooftop, the Silver-Ranked Assassin with the saber still seemed unwilling to accept it. He could not help shouting in anger.
"What kind of technique?"
"If I told you, could you use it?"
"Useless trash like you can't fathom half the things in this world... and I have no obligation to enlighten you."
"All you need to know now is that you're about to die."
Li Yun curled his lip in disdain. He swept his long saber across and slashed. A Blade Light shot at least twenty meters into the sky, becoming a long, gleaming arc that came crashing down toward the saber-wielding Silver-Ranked Assassin.
Before it even fell, immense pressure bore down on the assassin.
"Damn it..."
"Soul-Severing Slash..."
Furious, the assassin instinctively swung his saber upward, trying to meet blade with blade and sever that arc of light.
But what good would that do?
Both wielded sabers, yet the assassin's Soul-Severing Slash was nowhere near Li Yun's blade of light. It fell like a hot knife through bamboo, sweeping all before it.
Annihilate!!
Beneath the night sky, everyone saw that unmatched blade of light engulf both the assassin and the house beneath him.
It tore the assassin's body apart on the spot.
It pierced and shattered the house below as well. Flames erupted, leaping into the sky.
One slash, and it seemed the world had ended.
In the firelight, every terror-stricken face seemed starkly visible.
"Bastard..."
"Lin Zishan! Go on acting