"Uh..." The old woman in black had her throat pierced, leaving her unable to speak. Her eyes stared downward in disbelief before, with a whoosh, she turned into a streak of white light and vanished.
A Golden Core expert had been defeated!
The treasure seal in the air lost the spiritual power sustaining it and rapidly shrank to the size of a palm. It fell from the sky, only for Chen Fan to draw it into his hand.
The blue-white sharp sword in Chen Fan's hand also exploded in an instant, turning into an incomparably dense ripple of spiritual energy that thundered outward.
Yet he was not affected in the slightest. He turned around and slowly walked back, step by step.
Amid the deathly silence of the entire hall, he pulled his sword from the ground and silently sheathed it.
In truth, this battle had not been easy for him. Had he not unleashed his domain with all his strength to resist at the very instant the first seal came crashing down, his Eight Trigrams Sword Formation would likely have already collapsed, and he might even have suffered graver internal injuries.
Yet no one knew of his domain—not even the old woman in black had sensed it. In the end, he had exhausted all his strength and used the penultimate sword of the Nine Palaces Sword Art, ultimately claiming victory.
The old woman in black had lost because of her carelessness. She had believed Chen Fan's sword was aimed only at her brow, so she merely tilted her head aside to evade it instead of retreating. In the end, she was suppressed and slain.
Even if she had retreated, Chen Fan could still have used his domain to restrain her. Fortunately, she had not forced him to reveal it, or