Everything had happened too quickly.
The flying swords at Heavenly Light Peak Summit had actually failed to react at all.
This was also because the Green Mountain disciples were too shocked at that moment.
Once flying swords were drawn, life and death were decided in an instant. Naturally, what shocked them was not the blood on the cliff, the pair of severed arms, or Elder Bai, who was still screaming.
Nor was it the outcome that shocked them-Zhao Layue was the most gifted cultivation genius in the Green Mountain Sect. At such a young age, she had already reached the Wandering the Wilds Upper Realm. Though she had yet to reach the Sea-Breaking Realm, a sudden strike while Bai Rujing's flying sword was being swallowed by Lord White Ghost could naturally have produced such a result.
The crucial point was that no Green Mountain disciple had imagined Zhao Layue would seize such an opportunity to strike.
Her choice of timing was too cold, too ruthless. It even gave the impression that she would stop at nothing.
The Green Mountain disciples usually saw such things only in the demonic cultivators of evil sects. How could they have expected to see it in her?
Zhao Layue was an innate Dao Seed. Before Jing Jiu, she had been the person most admired by Green Mountain's young disciples, like an immortal maiden in everyone's eyes.
Later, she had become the Divine End Peak Master, her high position and great authority putting a vast distance between her and ordinary disciples, making her even more unapproachable.
Who could have imagined they would witness such a scene today?
Only now did many Green Mountain disciples recall that when Zhao Layue first left the mountain to travel, her cultivation realm had not been particularly high, yet she had