"So all this time, you've been looking down on me, boy."
As the old man retreated, he watched Ye Lin with a cheerful grin.
Ye Lin merely curled his lips upward, neither nodding nor denying it.
"Karmic Fire Red Lotus, kill."
With a raised hand, Ye Lin summoned a crimson lotus that slowly formed before him. The budded lotus was bewitchingly gorgeous, exquisitely beautiful.
"Go."
With a flick of his finger, the lotus pierced through the void and shot toward the old man.
"Boy, that's not how karmic fire is used."
"Karmic Fire Barrier, open."
Facing Ye Lin's Karmic Fire Red Lotus, the old man showed not the slightest surprise. He merely lifted a hand, summoning a flaming barrier that wrapped around him.
The instant the Karmic Fire Red Lotus touched the barrier, it shattered outright, without the slightest warning.
"Boy... hm?"
The old man had just been about to boast when he looked up, only to find that Ye Lin had vanished from sight.
A flicker of confusion crossed his eyes. Just as he was about to turn around, a sharp pain stabbed through his chest as a streak of sword light violently pierced it.
A bloody hole, neither large nor small, appeared in his chest, blood dripping from it.
"This... such speed."
The old man muttered to himself. When had this boy gotten behind him?
Yet in the next instant, his head shattered.
There was no warning at all. He did not even have time to react.
"Senior, you're still a little too slow."
With his hands clasped behind his back, Ye Lin strode toward the next stage, his face calm and composed, utterly without pressure.
Outside, the final spot on the Hundred Heroes Ranking had successfully changed to Ye Lin's name.
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