Slaying the Traitor (Part Two)

Ge Tianqing watched Shen Luo's swiftly receding figure, a complicated expression crossing his face.

Of everyone assigned to this mission, his cultivation was the highest. When Huangmu Adept had appointed Lu Huaming as their leader, he had said nothing, but inwardly, he had been far from convinced.

Yet now, both Lu Huaming and Shen Luo had displayed strength far beyond his own, leaving the always-proud Ge Tianqing somewhat crestfallen.

But he soon shook his head, put the matter out of his mind, and flew toward Xie Yuxin.

Shen Luo used the power of the Cloud-Drooping Formation to drive the Pure Yang Sword Embryo and execute the Sword Flight Technique. With just a slight surge forward, he flew several miles, everything around him changing in a blur. He was more than ten times faster than when he performed the Sword Flight Technique himself, almost matching the flight speed of an Out-of-Body Stage cultivator.

The Sword Flight Technique was a highly sophisticated method of flight, requiring complete harmony between the wielder and sword. Otherwise, since he had obtained the Mother-and-Child Swords long ago, he would not have needed to wait until he had refined the Pure Yang Sword Embryo before beginning to practice it.

Performing the Sword Flight Technique with the power of the Cloud-Drooping Formation should have been fraught with difficulty. After all, powerful though the formation was, its power was not entirely his own magic power.

However, the strength of his divine soul had more than doubled, making all his supernatural abilities much smoother to execute than before. To his surprise, he had succeeded in a single stroke.

Although the Red-Handed Perfected Person had also employed a secret art and was fleeing at full speed, he was still considerably slower than Shen Luo, and the distance between them rapidly