Silver lightning swept an arc across the Glacier like a half-moon. By the time they could make it out, it was already upon them, its bitterly cold blade wind turning the airborne spray into scattering ice crystals!
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Li Huaichuan had not been careless. He had been guarding all along against the Transcendent Grade poison witch hidden in the fog.
But poison witches, even at Transcendent Grade, cast their curses and poison arts from far away. Charging straight into a martial artist's face with those fragile bodies was sheer madness, so what he had been guarding against was the Mind-Disrupting Curse Technique.
Yet judging by its momentum, the incoming saber strike clearly came from a genuine Transcendent Grade martial artist. Combined with the Gu Poison Sect's gift for concealment, it sought to "break concealment and decide life or death with one stroke"-a textbook assassination technique!
By the time Li Huaichuan realized this, the dazzling saber light had already shattered his Protective Gang Qi and swept toward his neck, leaving him no time to react.
Fortunately, Li Huaichuan had fought and struggled his entire life, and his mastery was ultimately a little deeper. Even against this killing stroke, he managed to react by the narrowest of margins. The sword in his right hand flashed back to block the saber's edge, while he swept the Ming Dragon Spear toward the ghostlike assassin beside him.
Clang-
Boom-
The lightning-swift curved saber was blocked, and the nine-foot spear shaft swept aside the poisonous fog beside him, striking the blue-skirted woman in the waist and abdomen.
The woman's cheeks were as white as jade. Pain showed in her peach-blossom eyes, but a faint dark red also rose within them, like a nine-tailed white fox poking her head out of the Sea of Mist!
Li Huaichuan