Assassins might not be much in a frontal spell duel, but their methods of hiding and fleeing were exceptionally formidable.
He vanished into the seawater in an instant. Even when Wang Daoyuan searched with his divine sense, he could not find any trace of him.
If he let this man escape, he could only wait to be hunted down by the Seven Stars Alliance and the Blood Shark Pirates.
As his divine ability unfolded, all the spiritual energy within a radius of three hundred li came under his control.
No matter how exquisite the assassin's escape technique was, it could not possibly avoid causing the slightest disturbance.
The instant his divine ability spread out, he discovered an abnormal patch of seawater over thirty li due north.
His divine sense could not even lock onto it. Had the spiritual energy flow within that patch of water not clashed so sharply with the surrounding seawater, Wang Daoyuan truly would not have noticed it.
Silver light flickered across the Returning Origin Sword as it cleaved through the seawater and slashed toward the assassin.
Knowing that his tracks had been exposed, the assassin no longer hid himself.
Black spiritual power throughout his body poured into a longsword as he tried to receive the blow head-on.
To keep this fellow from abandoning his physical body and fleeing, Wang Daoyuan unleashed Black Tortoise Purgatory.
A black flame prison five hundred zhang in diameter enveloped the assassin's entire body.
Silver light flashed, and the spiritual power around the assassin's body scattered.
The black longsword in his hand broke into two, and his head slid from his body as well.
His Nascent Soul flew from the corpse, trying to escape.
A Nascent Soul's speed generally far surpassed the escape speed of cultivators at the same realm.
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