Horror filled the Leopard Demon's eyes. The palm against his back unleashed an astonishing force, striking him like lightning. He flew high into the air, crashed to the ground, and rolled several times before stopping.
His whole body shook. He spat out a mouthful of blood and stared in disbelief at that ghostlike figure. "How is that possible? There were so many demons! How did you kill them all in an instant?"
He had been ready to turn and run while the demons held Qin An back.
But he had never imagined they would fail to slow Qin An down at all.
In a single instant, they had become headless corpses strewn across the ground.
And Qin An's blade had remained in his hand throughout, as though he had never swung it.
Qin An walked slowly up to the Leopard Demon. "I told you: if you want to scheme against me, you first need to know what it takes to be capable of it. Right now, you aren't. The sorry bunch you gathered to deal with me weren't even worthy of standing before me!"
A chill coursed through the Leopard Demon.
He struggled to rise, but a foot pinned his chest to the ground.
Then he heard Qin An speak.
"Want to live?"
The Leopard Demon's eyes widened. "Yes. I want to live."
"Then tell me what you're plotting," Qin An said.
Before coming here, Qin An had considered one question.
If the other side had only wanted to kill him, things could not have lined up so neatly.
He happened to need the water and fire Sources, and they happened to hand him those very two Sources.
It was too much of a coincidence.
They had to be plotting something beyond killing him. He simply had not discovered what