More terrifying still, just as the longsword was about to strike him, Bone Chi suddenly felt an agonizing pain in his brow, as though a red-hot steel needle had pierced it! A tyrannical, icy spiritual force as vast as a sea of stars ignored the defenses of his sea of consciousness and forcibly invaded, throwing his mental awareness into utter chaos!
Though that chaos lasted only an insignificant instant, in a duel between top experts, that instant was the difference between life and death!
"Ssssh—!"
The faint sound of a sharp blade slicing through flesh was especially clear in the deathly silent hall.
Gu Sheng's figure flashed like a wisp of smoke, already landing several yards away. His longsword pointed diagonally at the ground, and a bead of crimson blood slowly slid from its tip.
Bone Chi stood frozen in place. A thin line of blood quietly appeared on the side of his thick neck. The next moment, it burst open, and scalding blood sprayed out like a fountain!
He instinctively raised one hand to cover the wound, while his other still gripped the ghost-headed broadsword tightly. Yet the fury and killing intent in his eyes had been replaced by stunned horror mixed with agony and humiliation.
A severed neck was not necessarily fatal to a Venerable Realm cultivator with such tenacious vitality. With timely treatment, even severed limbs could regenerate.
But what Bone Chi found truly unbearable was that he had actually... been slit across the throat so casually, almost playfully, by a mere Origin Realm brat?! And this was after the brat had directly withstood his strongest slash!
That disparity, that humiliation, instantly ignited all the savagery and madness in his bones!
"Aah—!! I'll kill you!!!"
Bone Chi let out a roar like a wounded beast. No longer