Hell's Killer Saint stood in the distance, his eyes filled with a mixture of shock and delight. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stared fixedly at Lu Chen. "Junior, was that the legendary Nine Secrets: Xing you just used?"
Of the three great assassin organizations of old-Heavenly Court, Hell, and Human World-why had Heavenly Court stood at the head of the three Divine Dynasties?
The reason lay in Xing, one of the supreme Nine Secrets. Its unrivaled speed allowed one to ascend to the nine heavens and descend into the Nine Netherworlds. Even peerless divine formations could scarcely block it, and cultivated to its pinnacle, it could even break through the domain of time.
For assassins, cultivators who appeared and vanished like ghosts, walked in darkness, and relied chiefly on ambushes and assassinations, no secret technique could surpass Nine Secrets: Xing and its ultimate speed.
Back then, relying on the ultimate speed of Nine Secrets: Xing, Heavenly Court could freely enter the core pure lands of the Various Holy Lands and assassinate their experts. None of their sect-protecting grand formations could stop Heavenly Court's assassins.
This was one of the fundamental reasons Heavenly Court had once reigned supreme over the world.
Later, Heavenly Court was destroyed. Its last old Saint was surrounded and hunted by the Various Holy Lands, with no road into heaven and no door into the earth. Left with no choice, he fled into the deathtrap of Saint Cliff. From then on, Nine Secrets: Xing vanished from the world.
Many years later, Ye Fan and the Old Madman, one of the Three Heroes of Tianxuan, finally obtained the complete Nine Secrets: Xing at Saint Cliff. Lu Chen subsequently learned it from Ye Fan.
"So what if it was?" Lu Chen's gaze was