Hiss—
Qian pulled out the Short Sword and let Gari's corpse collapse to the ground. The blue light around him faded with it.
That layer of blue light was nothing else. It was Wind Style Chakra.
He had already mastered the technique of covering his entire body in Wind Style Chakra after developing the Flash Sword Technique.
Back then, it had been for the sake of merging himself and the Short Sword into one, using the power of Wind Style to achieve ultra-high-speed short-distance movement.
But now, the Short Sword in his hand was of average quality. No expensive Chakra Conducting Metal had been mixed in during forging, so it could not effectively transmit chakra.
Because of that, he could not use the Flash Sword Technique.
The reason he had covered his whole body in Wind Style Chakra just now was only to resist the surrounding high temperature.
Gari thought he could not cross the sea of fire to get close, so he did the exact opposite. Relying on Wind Style's protection, he forced his way through the barrier of flames.
In doing so, he caught Gari completely off guard.
Once he got close, he directly used Genjutsu: Sharingan, pulling the other man's consciousness into an illusion and ultimately completing the kill.
It could be said that Gari had died because of his own fixed way of thinking.
However, Qian had not come out completely unscathed either.
The Wind Style covering his whole body could indeed block the flames from burning him to a certain extent, but the scorching air around him had still burned his skin.
It could be seen that large areas of redness and swelling had already appeared on the surface of his skin, and in some more severe places, blister-like bubbles had even formed, as if