The Blood Fiend Tower assassin's speed was fast to the extreme!
With his Qi Condensation Fourth Layer cultivation erupting at full force, he had rushed before Chen Chen in the blink of an eye!
His withered claw tore through the air with a piercing shriek, reaching straight for Chen Chen's throat!
That claw contained every ounce of spirit and focus he possessed as an assassin—vicious and lethal!
In his eyes, this brat at merely the Second Level of Qi Condensation had absolutely no chance of dodging his thunderous blow!
He had even thought of the tortures he would use to force every secret out of this brat once he caught him.
Yet just as his claw was about to touch Chen Chen's neck—
Chen Chen moved.
He neither retreated nor dodged.
He merely raised his head.
Beneath the bamboo hat, a pair of eyes lit up.
What kind of eyes were those?
His left eye was an eerie blood-red, like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!
His right eye was the bottomless Nine Nether Ink Black!
Two utterly different yet equally heart-palpitating auras erupted from those eyes!
"Eye of Asura!"
"Nine Nether Soul Refining!"
In that instant, Chen Chen drove both of his soul cultivation arts to their limits!
A majestic spiritual assault, fused from two extreme powers, crashed into the Blood Fiend Tower assassin's mind like invisible raging waves!
"Buzz—!"
The assassin felt as though two great mountains had crushed his head from opposite directions!
His entire soul trembled violently at that instant, as if it were about to be torn apart!
An unprecedented agony exploded from the depths of his sea of consciousness!
"Argh!"
He let out a miserable scream, and his charging body abruptly stalled!
The killing intent and wild delight in his eyes were instantly replaced by endless terror and pain!
A soul attack!
This brat had actually concealed such a terrifying soul attack technique!
The intensity of this Spiritual Power had even... surpassed the scope of the Qi Condensation Realm!
What kind of monster was he?!
When experts clashed, victory and defeat were decided in an instant.
For a top assassin, this one-tenth of a second of distraction was fatal!
"Now!"
Killing intent flashed explosively in Chen Chen's eyes!
This was the opportunity he had been waiting for!
Seven Shadows Step!
His figure instantly blurred. With one step, seven afterimages appeared at once!
The next second, the seven figures merged into one, and the Ink Shadow Sword in his hand had somehow already left its sheath!
That vicious sword, having absorbed thirty percent of his Asura True Qi, let out a hum of thirst for blood!
A sword gleam black as ink, streaked with a trace of eerie blood-red light, silently stabbed toward the assassin's heart like a bolt of death lightning ripping through the night sky!
Fast!
Too fast!
That sword contained all of Chen Chen's speed, strength, and killing intent!
Though the assassin forcibly regained his senses through the searing pain, faced with this earth-shattering strike, he no longer had time to mount any effective defense!
He could only watch helplessly as that black blade rapidly enlarged within his pupils!
"No—!"
He let out a despairing roar.
Yet just as the blade was about to pierce his heart—
Another sudden change occurred!
"Clang!"
A crisp ring of metal striking metal abruptly sounded across the silent Mass Grave!
A white longsword, bright and pure as moonlight, came from nowhere and precisely blocked Chen Chen's Ink Shadow Sword!
An immense force forcibly knocked Chen Chen's sure-kill strike aside!
Chen Chen's pupils suddenly contracted!
Without a second thought, he immediately pulled back, widening the distance between himself and the newcomer.
He raised his head and looked ahead.
A white figure, like a fairy beneath the moon, silently descended between him and the Blood Fiend Tower assassin.
The newcomer wore white robes, with a graceful figure and a frosty temperament, a three-foot blade in her hand.
It was Lin Yueru!
"You!"
The Blood Fiend Tower assassin, having escaped death, looked at the suddenly appearing Lin Yueru in shock and fury. "Who are you? How dare you meddle in Blood Fiend Tower's affairs?"
Lin Yueru could not even be bothered to spare him a glance.
Her cool eyes merely rested quietly on Chen Chen. Her red lips parted, and though her voice was not loud, it reached every ear clearly.
"Your opponent is me."
"Kill Wang Teng."
Four words, decisive as nails driven into iron.
They declared her stance and fulfilled her promise.
Chen Chen looked at her and nodded.
He knew Lin Yueru had not disappointed him.
"Lin Yueru?!"
On the other side, Wang Teng, who had been preparing to rush over and reap the benefits, had his expression drastically change the instant he saw Lin Yueru!
He had never imagined that Lin Yueru would appear here!
And from the looks of it, she was actually in league with that trash who had won the Azure Cloud Token!
"Lin Yueru! What do you mean by this?!" Wang Teng demanded in shock and rage. "You're actually colluding with some guy of unknown origin, and you even want to kill me? Have you gone mad?!"
"Wang Teng, one year ago, you disgraced my honor." Lin Yueru slowly turned her head toward Wang Teng. In that instant, boundless hatred and killing intent erupted from her cold eyes!
"Today is the day you pay the price!"
Her words had barely fallen when the aura around her erupted!
The powerful pressure of the Qi Condensation Sixth Layer swept in all directions like a mountain flood and a tidal wave!
"Qi Condensation Sixth Layer!"
The Blood Fiend Tower assassin's expression changed once more!
He finally understood why he had felt a fatal threat just now!
Besides that brat with the bizarre soul techniques, there had actually been a Qi Condensation Sixth Layer expert hidden in the shadows!
This was a trap!
A trap set specifically for him!
"Run!"
Without another thought, he turned and fled!
Though he was a Qi Condensation Fourth Layer assassin skilled in assassination, he had no confidence in confronting a Qi Condensation Sixth Layer genius cultivator head-on!
"Trying to leave? Too late!"
Lin Yueru snorted coldly. Her figure flickered, and the longsword in her hand spun into a dazzling flower of sword light as she pursued the assassin like a maggot clinging to bone!
"Bitch, you're courting death!"
Seeing that he could not escape, the assassin's ferocity was stirred as well. With an angry roar, he turned and fought Lin Yueru!
For a time, sword light and blood shadows intertwined, and the powerful energy waves sent the surrounding burial mounds flying!
Meanwhile—
Wang Teng's face had turned uglier than ever.
As he watched the bamboo-hatted youth walk toward him step by step, fear arose in his heart for the first time.
The two Qi Condensation Fifth Layer protectors beside him immediately stepped before him, staring solemnly at Chen Chen.
"Brat, who exactly are you? Why do you stand against our Azure Cloud Sect?" one protector shouted in a deep voice.
Chen Chen did not answer them.
His gaze passed through the two protectors and locked firmly onto Wang Teng.
It was the gaze one gave a dead man.
"Kill him! Kill him for me!"
Chen Chen's gaze made Wang Teng's scalp prickle, and he shrieked hysterically!
"Yes!"
The two Qi Condensation Fifth Layer protectors exchanged a glance. No longer hesitating, they both let out low roars and attacked Chen Chen from the left and right!
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