Unexpected Battle Results

"Die!"

The Starfire cultivator's entire body was pushed to its limits in an instant. In that fleeting moment, the dejection that had filled him vanished, and he surged straight to his peak. Sword light flickered, so pure and so blindingly fast that a faint icy-blue glint seemed to bloom along the blade.

"Too slow, too slow! With a move like that, how could you possibly touch me?"

More than ten meters away, the delight on the blond preacher's face reached its peak. His eyes flew wide open, while his body simultaneously tensed taut in that instant.

Come, let me hear it—just where will the path of this strike be?

In that instant, the perception of his ears was heightened to the utmost limit. At this moment, he too had reached an unprecedented state of transcendence.

"Then listen to your heart's content!"

A cold laugh came from outside. Before the words could even reach his ears, the blond preacher felt a piercing explosive roar erupt in his mind.

"Aaaaargh!"

The violent shockwaves exceeded the limit of what he could endure in an instant. With a soft pfft, two clouds of bloody mist burst from the preacher's ears beneath the moonlight.

The sudden turn of events made his tightly tensed body lose control completely in an instant. He had mobilized every muscle in his body in preparation to dodge; maintaining such tension for an extended period was difficult to bear even for a body whose vitality had become astonishing after being mixed with a vast number of genes.

And more importantly, this was not a safe haven where he could find an opportunity to recover.

Sword light cleaved through the moonlight as it descended from the sky. Even the howling wind seemed to let out a mournful cry at that moment.

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