In truth, as one's cultivation advanced, one's style of attack often became more focused and extreme.
The more specialized and precise the fighting, the less it resembled the battles of low-level cultivators, where one might hurl a Baleful Intent spear and the other answer with a Baleful Intent saber. Often, victory or death was decided in the blink of an eye.
A Tier Three soul artifact. A Level 1 Grade 3 Fire Talisman.
Either one alone was enough to support a battle that would shake the world.
Yet both of these supreme treasures had appeared at once. More uncanny still, Xu Yi's method of breaking through the talisman's barrier had seemed all the more mysterious because it was so well concealed.
Jiang Beiming, the First Deputy Seat Master of the Household Registration Department, had fallen in a single battle, leaving not even a corpse behind.
Apart from a Sumeru Ring, which Xu Yi had generously handed over to the Northern Court Envoy, nothing remained.
The battle ended, and silence fell over the entire field.
The Northern Court Envoy did not know what to say either. He left with a single remark: "That's enough." Then he departed.
Jin Kuixing looked somewhat dazed, yet could not quite conceal his delight. He gave Xu Yi a meaningful glance, then led the Household Registration Department's people away first.
Xu Mingyuan stared at Xu Yi for a long while. He had been bursting with things to say, but now he could not get a word out.
Ever since hearing that Xu Yi had killed Zhao Tingfang, he had wondered whether there was a chance Xu Yi had acquired the Hidden Spirit Pearl from Zhao Tingfang's Sumeru Ring.
He had been waiting for this matter to end, intending to sound Xu Yi out.
But after what