Instant Kill

With a muffled thud,

Xiao Chenyang felt the Heart Protection Mirror that automatically shielded his body shatter in an instant. As though something had pierced straight through it, it let out a sharp hiss!

Before he could make any move,

The next moment,

A stabbing pain

Shot out from his chest.

Xiao Chenyang stood rooted to the spot, his pupils scattered.

Drip, drip—

The crisp sound of liquid falling was especially piercing amid the silence.

He mechanically lowered his head. A crystalline longsword condensed entirely from pure spiritual power was jutting out through his back, glinting with a cold light.

The blade had emerged from his chest, and a crimson trail of blood snaked down the sword body wreathed in spiritual radiance.

That steady dripping was the sound of his heart's hot blood striking the bluestone.

At that moment,

Xiao Chenyang was utterly stunned,

A blank look appearing on his face.

He seemed not even to understand what had happened!

For one brief moment,

He even wondered whether the spiritual-power sword piercing through his body was merely an illusion!

However,

When he tried to move,

The searing pain from his chest surged into his mind like a tidal wave in an instant, stabbing at his soul.

This pain, along with the weakness flooding through his entire body, told him one thing at every moment.

That was—everything before his eyes was real!

His body

Had truly been pierced through by someone's sword!

In that instant just now,

He had not even seen how Shen Changchuan had made his move,

Yet his body had already been pierced through by the spiritual-power sword condensed by him!

How could this be?

Was the gap really that vast?

This reality made Xiao Chenyang's head buzz. His mind felt as though it had been churned into