Taking Control of the Medicine King Valley, Securing Ice-Attribute Essence Blood, Facing Six Demons!
"No-hrrgh, hrrgh!"
The sound was forced from True Person Zhen's throat, broken and intermittent, like the last bubbles rising from a drowning man struggling underwater.
It was also the last thing he would ever say.
His neck had been crushed into a hemp stalk by sheer force, and his already hideous head sagged at an impossible angle, dangling limply to one side.
His eyes remained wide open, his pupils unfocused. Even in death, they had not closed.
From Lin Chang's arrival by teleportation, to the ambush, to his killing one of his attackers, everything had happened within a mere three breaths.
It was clean and decisive, beyond anything anyone could have imagined.
It was not that True Person Zhen was weak. On the contrary, his strength was considerable, befitting both his cultivation and the fearsome reputation he had earned throughout the Jin Kingdom.
He had truly lived up to his name.
The Mystic Underworld Sect was renowned for cultivating both orthodox and demonic arts, and True Person Zhen was among its finest. His methods were bizarre and unpredictable; ordinary Late Core Formation Cultivators would give him a wide berth.
Unfortunately, he had provoked someone he should never have provoked-his opponent was Lin Changheng!
Against Lin Chang with his body-tempering defenses and both poison-resisting demonic arts fully activated, his Soul-Shattering Demon Thunder Pearl could neither breach his defenses nor take effect.
With the speed of the Wind-Thunder Escape Technique and the Sun-Chasing Cloak, compounded by the slowing effect of the imitation ancient treasure, the River-Calming Pearl, the Ghost-Shadow Movement Technique that True Person Zhen prided himself on was as slow as wading through mud before Lin Changheng. He could not escape the range of his attacks.
His natal treasure artifact had also been restrained by the newly acquired Seven-Star Bracelet, unable