But just as the Nine-Headed Snake Demon prepared to unleash its strongest move and make Sect Master Luo suffer, the hideous grin on its face abruptly froze.
"What's going on?"
At the sight, Lu Beishen and Gao Yuliang, who had already moved in secret to block the attack for Luo Yi, both went still.
What happened next left them even more dumbstruck.
As though time itself had stopped, the two figures, one large and one small, stood frozen in place.
Then the Nine-Headed Snake Demon struggled to raise its heads and looked toward the young man in disbelief.
"Sect Master Luo, you really are... so... underhanded!"
As the words fell, a thin, sliding sound rang out. An impossibly smooth line appeared across the necks of all nine of the Nine-Headed Snake Demon's savage heads at once.
"Plop, plop, plop..."
Then came the rhythmic sound of something falling into the water.
The Nine-Headed Snake Demon, so arrogant just moments before, had died on the spot within a few short breaths.
A closer look would have revealed its nine heads floating on the sea, their eyes still wide with unwillingness to die.
"Phew!"
Having crushed the Nine-Headed Snake Demon as easily as an ant, Luo Yi let out a breath and slowly withdrew his hand.
Since breaking through to the Great Vehicle Realm and surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, he had crossed an immense, invisible gulf separating him from Great Vehicle Realm cultivators and demons.
The difference between them was like that between a true Immortal and an ordinary mortal.
With the slightest crook of a finger—or even a passing thought—he could decide the life or death of a demon this powerful.
Good thing I kept a low profile and didn't recklessly offend any faction with a Tribulation-Crossing Pseudo-Immortal Powerhouse.
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