The Fengji Blade pierced through the elder’s head, entering from the back and exiting through his forehead. He died instantly. This time, the elder failed to manifest as a phantom; he had truly and definitively fallen by Zhou Xun’s hand. From the moment the engagement began to its conclusion, barely twenty breaths of time had passed. It was, without a doubt, the fastest battle Zhou Xun had ever finished.
It felt very much like a duel between masters, where the outcome is decided in a heartbeat. Both sides had exchanged several blows, each one a lethal strike; a single moment of negligence would have meant death. Zhou Xun was no exception. His seemingly effortless victory was only possible due to the coordination of his avatar. Had Zhou Xun reacted a fraction of a second slower when the elder utilized his displacement technique, he might well have been the one dead today.
In the Inner Workshop, within the immortal cave of the Meng family ancestor, the two Core Formation stage ancestors sensed the massive fluctuation of mana the moment Zhou Xun struck. Given their experience, they naturally recognized the pressure as that of two late-stage Core Formation cultivators. The thought of stepping out to enforce the no-fighting rule in Shuanghe Workshop vanished instantly. With masters of this caliber clashing in their territory, they weren’t concerned about rules; if not for their family’s roots here, they would have already deployed their flying Dharma Treasures to flee.
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