Ten breaths later, only two mangled corpses remained in the foul ditch.
The results of the interrogation were unexpected.
There had been no ambush, only an encounter on a narrow road.
Another ten breaths passed.
In the fields on the way to the south of the city,
Su Xinghe hid behind a haystack.
Within his mental perception, he could now clearly detect a swirling cloud of blood-colored mist rapidly approaching.
He detected no fluctuations from a Mental Secret Art, only the terrifying pressure of surging true qi within the mist. Judging by its strength, the Core Qi Domain was only about seventy percent as powerful as Li Shunjun's had been.
His confidence in winning this battle quietly rose another thirty percent.
Having confirmed his opponent, Su Xinghe slowly stirred his qi-blood power.
He concealed his aura with the secret art First Insight into Light and Darkness. Tightening his grip on the black iron saber beneath his cloak, he waited for his opponent to enter striking range.
A hundred zhang...
Fifty zhang...
Thirty zhang...
Farmland surrounded him, and his ambush position was slightly off. Seeing that his opponent was about to pass him by, Su Xinghe sighed inwardly.
At this distance, the fifteen-zhang radius of his Water Conception still could not reach his opponent. But the opportunity could not be missed. He would strike first and worry about the rest later.
Boom!
The black iron saber tore through the air like a ghost in the night. The qi-blood power he unleashed, however, erupted violently like a volcano.
At that moment, First Insight into Light and Darkness, still only at the hall-entering level, could no longer conceal his utmost qi-blood power erupting at full strength.
In a flash, beneath a hundred thousand jin of force,
Su Xinghe felt as though his saber