One breath.
Two breaths.
Three breaths...
The shouts of battle outside grew increasingly chaotic.
Hundreds of imperial palace guards had already rushed above the cabin, but the lingering Killing Path currents kept them outside the wreckage. They did not dare approach at all.
The assassin never appeared.
Only after the fifth breath passed did the flicker of anticipation in Qing Chen's eyes gradually turn grim.
This brat was far too cautious! After failing with one strike, he fled a thousand miles without even checking the result.
Boom!
The hundreds of thousands of pounds of wreckage pinning him down suddenly exploded outward.
Qing Chen stepped out with the Blood Abyss God-Slaying Halberd in hand. His disordered, feeble aura actually steadied in an instant.
Dark gold Immortality True Blood flowed swiftly along the wounds covering his body, and the fine cracks carved into his chest by the Killing Path Rules closed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He had indeed been injured.
Several meridians had been severed, and a few hairline cracks had appeared on the surface of his breastbone. The power of the Killing Path Rules that had invaded his body was vicious in the extreme, constantly trying to burrow toward his sea of qi and Nascent Soul.
However, his Blood Path True Essence and the power of Blood Path rules had already joined forces to strangle it.
These injuries were still far from truly severe.
His earlier appearance of being at death's door had all been an act.
Nine Lawless Blood Seals hidden in the void slowly faded away.
Standing on the shattered deck, Qing Chen swept his half-primordial spirit divine sense outward again and again. He even carefully searched every mountain, river, and sea of clouds within more than a thousand miles, yet he could no longer