Three streams of knight Battle Qi shot skyward like wolf-smoke. Even in the wilderness, they were dazzling enough for anyone within several hundred li to see.
Besides signifying that a knight was driving their Battle Qi to fight at full strength, knight wolf-smoke also served as a summons to other knights, much like a whistle. If they were allies or knights who knew one another, the moment they saw the Battle Qi wolf-smoke, they would know that someone was fighting...
Watching the man who looked exactly like him, along with the black-clad man who had lured him here, turn to ashes and vanish amid black flames, while enduring the savage attacks of three knights, Zhang Tie knew that he had fallen into a terrifying trap. That figure wrapped from head to toe in a black robe had intended to lure him here.
Why had two living knights suddenly turned to ashes in black flames? Zhang Tie did not know.
Who exactly was the man who looked identical to him? What had he done? Why were Qin Wu and the other two knights pursuing him? Zhang Tie did not know.
Why had these three people begun attacking him without hesitation the instant they saw him? Zhang Tie did not know that either.
Yet as all these doubts and strange occurrences converged, Zhang Tie realized that what lay before him was absolutely a killing trap—the three knights attacking him, Qin Wu included, were not targeting him, but the man who had just turned to ashes. That man had disappeared. They had chased that man here, and so he had become that man.
Not only did that man look exactly like him, even his clothes and hairstyle were identical—this was a Disguise Technique modeled after him.
The terror and meticulousness of this killing