The gray-robed man swung the iron saber in his hand downward.
A massive green saber shadow came crashing down like a pillar holding up the heavens.
One of the two Puppet Armored Soldiers raised its Iron Shield over its head, while the other desperately fired Crossbow Bolts into the air, all to no avail.
The green saber shadow flashed and landed on the two puppets.
Boom!
Amid the flickering green light, the two Puppet Armored Soldiers remained unscathed, but the space around them filled with strands of green light that burst outward.
The next instant, those strands began spinning rapidly around the two puppets, faster and faster. Seen from afar, they instantly formed a massive green vortex, drawing everything nearby into it.
The seemingly harmless strands of green light suddenly became extraordinarily sharp. Like countless slender blades, they frantically sliced through everything inside the vortex.
At the center of the vortex, countless deep cuts instantly appeared in the two Puppet Armored Soldiers' thick armor, multiplying furiously with every passing moment. Within just a few breaths, the battered puppets collapsed and disintegrated in the vortex. Their heads, limbs, and even the weapons in their hands were shredded into heaps of fragments by the strands of light.
The horse-faced elder cried out and clutched his head with both hands, his expression twisted in agony.
The gray-robed man pointed his iron saber toward his distant opponent, and the massive green vortex thundered forward.
"I surrender!"
At this sight, the horse-faced elder barely managed to suppress the backlash to his divine sense before immediately surrendering without hesitation.
The gray-robed man chuckled and slipped his iron saber behind his back. The massive green vortex collapsed and vanished.
The scholar overhead promptly announced the result.
At that moment, however, the gray-robed man turned his gaze toward