The middle-aged man in black instantly felt as if he were suffocating. In the blink of an eye, his chest tightened and his head swelled, and the magical power inside him abruptly began to circulate sluggishly. He immediately opened his mouth and shouted.
But before the words that followed could leave his throat, a hand clamped around his neck, and he could no longer make a sound. The newcomer's strike was like lightning, and the sheer strength of his cultivation completely suppressed every divine ability he possessed.
All at once, the middle-aged man in black's entire cultivation became fragile and helpless. What terrified him even more was that the moment the shadowy figure's hand seized his neck, a tremendous force rushed into his body in the time it took for lightning to flash. The Nascent Soul he had desperately tried to drive out of his body in that desperate instant was also pinned down hard by that power, unable to leave him at all!
Bang!
A terrifying force erupted in the palm with which that black shadow gripped the middle-aged man in black's neck. A muffled sound rang out from inside the man's body. Blood streamed from his seven orifices, and his head tilted limply to one side as all life left him on the spot.
The two sides had only met face-to-face for an instant, yet a Spirit Transformation cultivator had died in the blink of an eye. Under this sudden killer strike from the black shadow that had appeared out of nowhere, his cultivation was actually powerful enough to annihilate a Spirit Transformation cultivator in a single move!
Only then did the shadowy figure rapidly solidify. It was a young man with a sallow complexion. Carrying the corpse of the middle-aged man in black, he quickly descended. In