Chapter 786

"Lin Yan, is that you?"The leading man spoke in a deep voice. "Very well... We'll remember you."

As soon as he finished speaking, numerous domains simultaneously unfolded, their terrifying pressure transforming the entire area into a purgatory. Under this overwhelming sensation, Jian Changsheng felt his legs grow incredibly heavy.He gritted his teeth, preparing to fight his way out of the encirclement, when a large character suddenly emerged from the ground:—Earth.The character appeared extremely subtly, as if it had always been carved into the soil's fissures. The crowd, on the verge of battle, didn't even notice its appearance!

Just as Jian Changsheng was about to take a step, he felt as if he had stepped into quicksand, and his entire body rapidly sank into the ground, disappearing in the blink of an eye!

The Dragon Slayers, poised for attack, suddenly froze.After a bewildered glance around, they fixed their gaze on the flat ground. The leading man tapped the surface with his finger, found it solid, and his brow furrowed slightly."Escape technique... Hmph, and he claims he's not an assassin?"

"What now? Should we keep pursuing?""Forget it. We've caused such a commotion; the people from the Heavenly Pivot Domain will probably be coming for us soon. Before we left, that person told us not to cause trouble outside, to show respect to the Heavenly Pivot Domain.""That kid doesn't look old; he's probably here to compete for the Celestial Star Seat too. If so, we'll meet again eventually.""Lin Yan, I remember that name.""Disperse."

Comet Hotel."He's still not dead even after that?" The assassin's brows furrowed deeper as he watched the young master, who still had a sword embedded in his neck, glaring at him with bloodshot eyes."Not only that, but this aura..."

Bang—!!The black-clad figures surrounding the young master simultaneously charged toward the assassin. All the tables and chairs in their path shattered into splinters, which danced wildly in the air!

With his sword still lodged in the young master's neck, the assassin, hands now empty, snorted coldly. Two short daggers slid from his sleeves, and the next moment, his fingertips danced lightly, making the daggers seem to tear open a rift in time!A domain simultaneously unfolded!

The scattering wood splinters almost hung suspended in mid-air, drifting downwards at a rate of one millimeter per second. As the assassin took a step, they all appeared to be brushed by his blade, shaved into tiny, intricate wooden flowers... Within the time rift, thousands of wooden flowers silently bloomed in the blade's light!

The assassin moved;He weaved through the slowly falling wooden flowers like an agile black fish. His sharp blade swiftly passed by the heads of the two closest black-clad figures, their black hoods silently splitting little by little within the slowly flowing time rift...

The assassin didn't look back; he simply glided through the airborne wooden flowers like the wind. Though no blade seemed to be in his hand, the flashing blade light filled every corner of the hotel.In 0.5 seconds, the blade light flashed seventy-two times.

When the assassin reappeared before the young master, the black-clad figures that had surrounded him like planets orbiting a star had each been struck multiple times. Their black robes, embroidered with silver clouds, gradually disintegrated in mid-air, resembling shredded black petals intertwined with the slowly falling wooden flowers, suspended in space.

Meanwhile, the young master, his neck still pierced, remained motionless like a statue, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the spot where the assassin had just stood.

"This time, let's see how you'll hide," the assassin said coldly.

Just as his blade was about to strike the young master, those bloodshot eyes suddenly swiveled in an eerie way!The young master's gaze seemed to instantly track the assassin's movements, meeting his eyes... Through those bloodshot pupils, the assassin could see reflections of something behind him, and an inexplicable chill surged through his heart!

The assassin whirled around, only to see that amidst the swirling wooden flowers and fragments of black robes, there was not a single trace of blood...Beneath the black robes, there had never been anyone."...No one?!" The assassin's pupils sharply contracted. "How is that possible?!"

He had clearly seen those black-clad figures clustering around the young master, meticulously guarding him like elders, capable of serving soup, picking up food, and even emitting various distinct sounds... How could there have been no one there?

Those bloodshot eyes began to tremble, at times gentle, at times furious, at times violent, as if dozens of personalities were crammed into a single mind. An extreme chill enveloped the assassin's body!

"I said... my brother is not a traitor!"The moment the young master's chilling voice rang out, a sense of mortal danger washed over the assassin. Without hesitation, he twisted his body and retreated through the time rift, as several invisible cold winds whistled past him!

Boom—!!!In an instant, several slashes narrowly missed the assassin's body, striking the wall behind him and directly shattering it. A burst of sound once again erupted from the second floor of the Comet Hotel!

On the street, the startled cries of residents rose and fell, and swirling dust billowed from the shattered wall... A somewhat disheveled figure stood there, crimson blood trickling from his fingertips onto the ground.

"Were those 'puppets' just now?" The assassin glanced at the wound on his arm, as if he had guessed something. "Invisible 'puppets,' that's a first... What exactly are they?"

The young master did not reply. He remained within the assassin's domain, his movements incredibly slow. However, his bloodshot eyes continuously tracked the assassin, and those invisible "puppets" seemed unaffected by the domain.A fatal sense of crisis constantly lingered in the assassin's mind!

"Interesting..."As if he hadn't experienced a life-or-death crisis in a long time, a hint of excitement appeared in the assassin's narrowed eyes. He licked his lips."Even if your 'puppets' can ignore my 'Dawn Petal Hour,' your body is still trapped within it... Unless my mental energy is depleted, it's almost impossible for you to break free from the inside.So, let's see, will your 'puppets' kill me first... or will I cut off your head first?"

The young master's blood-red eyes stared intently at the assassin, deep in thought.

Just as the tension between the two reached its peak,From behind the dust-shrouded broken wall, a black gun barrel was aimed at the second floor of the highly tense hotel."Tribunal."

As a faint voice sounded, a bullet that deconstructed all things whistled through the void, striking the time-rift domain and forcibly tearing open a corner of it!In that corner, the wooden flowers that had been suspended in the air suddenly seemed to revert to their original time flow, transforming back into scattered wood splinters that rapidly fell to the ground. A gust of wind dispersed the swirling dust, gradually revealing the scene behind.

The assassin frowned and turned his head to look. A figure in a black trench coat stood silently, one hand grasping a gun, in the void outside the hotel.