A person of virtue should not perish in a sneak attack!
"Third Brother!" The Fifth Elder cried out at the sight.
Yet it was as though the Third Elder had heard nothing. All the virtue within him swept up his soul and turned into a mass of "white water."
Still Water Comes Alive: Dike-Breaking Form!
The moment he used this move, he had never intended to survive.
Surging life force, freed from every restraint, crashed down upon Lin Rongyang in full force along with the Third Elder's movements.
That power was fierce and resolute, and water virtue also restrained fire virtue to a certain extent.
Even so, the Third Elder was still no match for Lin Rongyang.
"Mountain fires are not so easily extinguished!" Mountain fires burned fiercely and swiftly, yet were difficult to put out.
Lin Rongyang could sense the Third Elder charging at him with a force that spread through the air in an instant, soaking into the surroundings and attempting to invade his body.
He swept his spear, but the Third Elder twisted around it and rapidly closed in.
Lin Rongyang raised a hand and struck the Third Elder's head with his palm. Blood immediately flowed from the Third Elder's seven orifices.
Yet that strike was not the cause of his death. Before his body perished, his soul had already shattered.
As a Third Elder at the Divine Communion tier, he had sacrificed himself in this manner. He had even given up the chance to enter the ancestral hall and become an ancestral soul.
Although he had killed the Third Elder, Lin Rongyang discovered that his originally overwhelming momentum seemed to have reached its limit.
Those final few steps the other man had taken had still allowed that water-aspected life force to seep deeper into him.
That