There's no one here!
The instant she saw cotton wadding drifting through the air but no sign of anyone, the sword-wielding woman's expression shook. Her heart pounded wildly, and a sense of danger surged from the depths of her being.
Her entire body jolted as she tried to shift away at top speed.
But it was already too late!
"Whoosh—"
A figure had appeared soundlessly behind her like a ghost the moment she attacked, and she had not noticed in the slightest.
The instant she sensed something was wrong, surging yet condensed Aperture-Condensing Realm true qi poured into her body, accompanied by a concentrated, incomparably vicious force.
The woman's body stiffened. Several major acupoints around her body were sealed tight in an instant. With that external force lodged within her, all the power in her body immediately reacted beyond her control, leaving her rooted to the spot, unable to move.
"Not even in the Aperture-Condensing Realm—what gave you the nerve to ambush and kill me?"
Under the woman's horrified, shaken gaze, Li Chengfeng walked before her. Expressionless, he yanked the longsword from her hand and looked at her with the eyes of someone looking at a corpse.
Hearing Li Chengfeng's words, shock flashed through the woman's pupils.
But Li Chengfeng's powerful true qi had frozen her acupoints, making it difficult for her to move even a finger. She could not even speak, and could only desperately signal with her eyes.
"I saw you during the day. You were among the disciples of the Southern Six Sects, so I suppose you're a disciple of one of those sects."
Li Chengfeng looked at the woman before him, his voice calm. He had no intention of unsealing her acupoints and allowing her to explain herself, merely continuing his own questioning. "The Southern Six