In an instant, a bolt of lightning burst from Zhou Xu's fingertips and struck Tanaka Yotaro, who was kneeling before him, with the speed of thunder and lightning.
It had all happened too fast.
The moment before, Zhou Xu had still been speaking calmly. Then, in the next, he had suddenly struck.
They were less than three meters apart. Let alone Tanaka Yotaro—even if it had been anyone else, they probably would not have had time to react.
The powerful current instantly spread throughout Tanaka Yotaro's body, taking his life!
"You had a chance, but you didn't cherish it."
At that moment, even Shilke, who had been standing nearby, was a little dazed and had no idea what was happening.
It was only when their emperor unhurriedly rose and walked over to Tanaka Yotaro's corpse, then raised his hand and drew out the cluster of light symbolizing the True Word, that Shilke suddenly understood.
[Well, look at that—he was hiding True Words!]
To put it in the worst light, it would not be an overstatement to say that he had been harboring sinister intentions.
White Butcher only had Eye of Insight, not Secret Peeping Eye, so he could not see whether the other party had any True Words.
That fellow had previously handed over the two True Words that were incompatible with him, but he had kept the True Words that he could absorb and that possessed a certain degree of compatibility with him.
[System Prompt: Congratulations, 'Zhou Xu' has obtained the True Word 'Life'.] [System Prompt: Congratulations, 'Zhou Xu' has obtained the True Word 'Summon'.]
Zhang Xuemei had actually done something similar before.
But Zhang Xuemei was a professional three-star talent. Over the years, she had surveyed the geology of Great Zhou and searched for ore deposits,