Gu Qingshan moved, and Zhang Yinghao moved with him.
Like a ghost, he appeared silently behind the Wolf Race Elder. Without a word, he stabbed straight through the elder's chest, then tightened his grip on the spiked dagger and twisted hard.
The Wolf Race Elder had still been struggling, but now his breath stopped at once.
Zhang Yinghao's brow relaxed slightly. He was about to pull out his dagger when Gu Qingshan shouted:
"Don't move—"
Gu Qingshan rushed forward and swung his long saber with all his strength.
Swish—
The Wolf Race Elder's head was severed and went rolling across the ground.
Zhang Yinghao shrugged. "He was already dead. Why'd you have to cut off his head?"
Gu Qingshan sheathed his saber and said, "They're from the Beast Race. Their bodies are built differently from ours. If stabbing the heart doesn't kill him, we'd be in trouble."
—No one knew what other tricks the enemy might have up their sleeve.
So they couldn't give the enemy a chance to strike.
That was Gu Qingshan's simplest principle of combat.
Zhang Yinghao thought it over, then praised him. "Thorough."
Gu Qingshan stood there and waited a little longer, but no Yellow Springs phenomenon appeared.
He couldn't help feeling puzzled.
So many Holy Chosen had died. Had none of them entered the Yellow Springs?
Mountain and Sea Qixia read his expression and explained, "Don't wait. The entire Five Elements War Zone is a place sealed off from the Six Paths. The dead can't leave, nor can they reincarnate. Only when the Five Elements are fully settled and the world is stable will the seal here be lifted. Then they'll be able to go be reborn."
"I see." Gu Qingshan suddenly understood.
He introduced Zhang Yinghao and the others to one another.
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