Nisir stared blankly at the scene before him.
Within the milky-white sanctuary force, a streak of unusually intense white stood out.
Like a knife's edge.
Like a sword's blade.
White light brimming with metallic sharpness spread from Qin Ran's heart, forming a perfect circle that passed above his head and beneath his feet, rotating around him according to an indescribable pattern.
Even with white all around him.
Nothing could conceal that sharp radiance.
In fact, as it appeared, the surrounding milky-white sanctuary force began to dim.
"Thorn Radiance!"
Nisir blurted out.
As a deacon of the Sanctuary, Nisir was all too familiar with the Thorn Radiance before him.
Yet the more familiar he was with it, the more unbelievable he found it.
Everyone in the Sanctuary knew that Thorn Radiance was an inheritance skill unique to the late Holy Knight Hughes.
It could not be imitated.
Much less learned.
Within the Sanctuary, all knowledge and items marked with the word "inheritance" came from one place: the Hall of Inheritance.
Only the Holy Knights and grand deacons of successive generations were qualified to enter it.
Qin Ran, the assistant of the God of the Earth, bore titles such as Deathbird and Flame Demon.
But that did not mean Qin Ran could enter the Hall of Inheritance.
In fact, in some respects, entering the Hall of Inheritance would mean certain death for him.
After all, that place was the source of sanctuary force.
But that made the appearance of Thorn Radiance before him even harder to explain.
For a moment, Nisir fell into confusion.
Then something suddenly occurred to him.
"Could it be..."
"Did Lei develop a similar technique?"
Once that thought surfaced, the more Nisir considered it, the more plausible it seemed.
For anyone else, accomplishing such a feat might be