Dongfang Mingyue had been a plain-looking woman who did not leave much of an impression despite her delicate features.
She was not much different from the office girls that could be seen everywhere on the financial street of the business district.
However, the smile that slowly spread out from her lips was like a rainbow that was gradually popping up in the thin sky, outlining and releasing all her charm.
Her eyes that seemed to contain a hundred years of stories stared at Li Yao without blinking. Subtle ripples were spreading out deep inside her eyes, too. She did not seem to be looking at a prey or an enemy but more like an old friend that she had not seen for a long time on the street. She was both surprised and delighted.
Li Yao, on the other hand, was not "delighted" but "shocked". He was so shocked that even his tailbone was shrinking.
His pupils, muscles, and every nerve ending were constricted to the minimum. His Cosmos Rings were seething impatiently on his fingertips, the tip of his tongue, and even the most unexpected parts below his crotch, ready to spurt out a dozen pieces of fatal magical equipment that could even pierce through the Crystal Suit.
Dongfang Mingyue's lazy smile overlapped with another vague and mysterious expression deep inside his memory.
Li Yao was still not sure whether or not Dongfang Mingyue was the person, or rather, the "creature" that he had been highly suspicious of.
If Dongfang Mingyue were not just a dark warrior of the Dongfang family and Dongfang Wang's loyal subordinate, Li Yao would've been caught in the greatest trouble right now. Chances were that he would have to resort to the Crystal Suit or even the Colossus in order to get away.
If she were … the "creature", she would be a hundred times more terrifying than the "real Dongfang Mingyue". He might not be able to get away even if he activated the Colossus!
On Li Yao's forehead, sweat was flowing nonstop and soon formed tiny streams on his eyes and cheeks.
Feeble noises were echoing all over his clothes. It was the sound of the fibers of his clothes being torn apart by the spiritual shield that was vaguely activated.
Ten thousand thoughts were swirling crazily in his head. The 3D map of the entire business district and even the entire White Stone City from the sky to the ground appeared clearly, allowing him to draw hundreds of routes of escape.
However, locked onto by Dongfang Mingyue's smile that was getting more and more intense, all the routes of escape seemed to have turned into dead ends.
While smiling, Dongfang Mingyue sipped the juice, showing no intention of summoning the demon hunters nearby to attack her.
But her eyes never left Li Yao, who had been carefully disguised, for a moment.
Li Yao's mind raced. With a cold snort, he walked towards her with a calm expression.
There was no need to count on luck anymore. It was definitely not a coincidence that the president of the Association of Demon Hunters was here, drinking juice casually. She had been waiting for him!
"It's really you?"
While he was walking, Li Yao sent the three words into Dongfang Mingyue's ears through the technique of private talk. He observed her face and tried to figure out what was going on from her micro-expression.
Dongfang Mingyue smiled without saying anything, but her eyes were really curved into two crescent moons. She first glanced around casually, and then her eyes fell on an empty table next to hers.
She seemed to be warning Li Yao to be careful of the demon hunters who were lurking nearby, and asking Li Yao to sit next to her after avoiding the demon hunters so that the two of them could talk in secret.
Li Yao frowned hard. The picture when the enemy disappeared last time was still echoing in his head. If it was really 'it', it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was the most dreadful 'creature' in the entire Imperium right now. What did it want exactly? Should he …
Right then, he suddenly had an alarm!
Dongfang Mingyue seemed to have foreseen that Li Yao would not be fooled easily. She did not even wait for Li Yao to walk close to her. She curled the straw that was in her red lips, and a stream of killing intent darted out of the straw at Li Yao's forehead without a sound!
Li Yao's forehead was so excruciating that it was almost exploding. Two gold rings flashed deep inside his eyes, and he activated all the nerves, muscles, and veins all over his body at the same time. Only then did he narrowly dodge the thing that Dongfang Mingyue spurted out of the straw!
But the thing exploded after brushing past his temple, turning into a vague mist of ice that fell on Li Yao's face softly like the hair of a ghost.
It was ice. To be more exact, it was countless tiny ice crystals that were condensed into tiny needles after being sucked out of the cup by Dongfang Mingyue, before she blew them at Li Yao!
Do you have to be so ruthless?
Li Yao cursed aloud in his heart.
The vague mist of ice seemed to have crawled into his heart, making his heartbeat slightly stagnate for a moment.
He finally understood why Li Linghai, Queen of the Imperium, vaguely felt threatened by Dongfang Mingyue even though she was protected by the spiritual gas of purple dragons.
There were two forms of competitions between experts. One of them was to release the spiritual energy and damage to the maximum blatantly without bothering about anything. They could split the waves, split the mountains, and even destroy the world. They could be as daunting as possible, and the sound and visual effects could be as cool as possible. It was often such a competition when one was galloping in the sea of stars among thousands of soldiers.
However, there was another form that was more advanced, which was to perform the most powerful ultimate move within a small area without alarming anyone. Even if the techniques of the Nascent Soul Stage were launched, the passersby who were right next to them would still be ignorant and ignorant of what was going on!
The latter was obviously more than ten times more difficult than the former.
Other than the infinite expansion of spiritual energy and combat ability, absolute control and highly precise computational ability were more important.
When they were trained to the highest level, they could hurt people with nothing but their breath, and the bystanders and the targets would not even know how they were killed.
Dongfang Mingyue's attack just now was a perfect demonstration of such a combat pattern.
She blew the ice needle out of the straw and accelerated it to at least three times the speed of sound all of a sudden. However, the fragile straw did not explode. Also, there was neither a deafening sonic boom nor a white sonic barrier. None of the passersby on the street sensed anything. Missing the target, the needle immediately dispersed into a mist of ice. It was almost untraceable.
It must be noted that this was the central business district of White Stone City on the ground. Most of the people who worked and lived here were Immortal Cultivators. Even if they were not battle-type Immortal Cultivators, their senses were much keener than ordinary people's.
But except for Li Yao who was sweating hard because of the vague mist of ice, other people did not notice that a soul-stirring battle was going on at all!
Li Yao swallowed hard and evaluated Dongfang Mingyue's, or rather, 'its' latest combat ability quickly.
In Li Yao's eyes, Dongfang Mingyue's seemingly casual blow just now was even more threatening than cutting a crystal warship in half.
Damn it. If he had not broken into the Divinity Transformation Stage by force when he came to the Imperium and was still in the Yuanying level, chances were that the needle would've opened a bloody hole between his eyebrows, and even his soul would've been blown up!
All the analysis and cursing above were completed in 0.1 seconds.
But when Li Yao stared at the dessert shop again, there was already nobody around the white table.
The cat was the only one who jumped to the table, arched its back, and bared its teeth at Li Yao maliciously.
Li Yao did not hesitate at all and continued walking to the dessert shop without changing his expression.
If Dongfang Mingyue was lurking in the crowd and preparing to attack him, the last place where she could hide was the dessert shop.
When he passed by the table where Dongfang Mingyue sat just now, Li Yao snapped his fingers, and the cup of juice that Dongfang Mingyue drank and the straw fell into Li Yao's hands, which were covered by his briefcase.
Dongfang Mingyue didn't wear gloves just now, so it was very likely that her fingerprints were left on the cup, and her saliva was probably left on the cup and the straw. Of course, neither the fingerprints nor the saliva were real, but it wouldn't hurt to take it back and study it.
It was already summer on the main continent of the capital planet. The dessert shops on the street liked to set up a few tables outside and set up small awnings to block the sun. Li Yao stepped into the shop and condensed an invisible wind blade in his left hand. He snapped it and broke the fixed structure of the awnings.
In the exclamations of the boss and the customers, the awnings fell like parachutes, covering the few customers and blocking the narrow door of the shop. If anybody intended to follow Li Yao in, they would certainly be discovered.
Before Li Yao stepped into the store, he had scanned the store thoroughly with his telepathic thoughts. After he entered the store, he went straight to the bathroom without any hesitation. Five seconds later, he jumped out of the window of the bathroom. When he crawled out of an alley nearby, he had changed his appearance into a young man with wrinkled clothes and a face full of embarrassment and sorrow, as if he had just lost his job.
While sighing and squeezing in the crowd, he observed everybody around carefully. Thankfully, all the demon hunters had probably lunged at his nest just now. There was no threat here. It was like a still black-and-white photo …
"Shua!"
Li Yao summoned the potential of his body to the maximum again before he was able to turn his neck back fifteen degrees in 0.01 seconds. A white light flashed in front of his eyes, as if an unparalleled, magnificent flying sword had brushed past his forehead. Three hairs fell to the ground.
Had it not been for Li Yao's timely reaction, the sword might've brushed past his eyes and completely cut his eyeballs apart!
He looked more carefully, only to discover that there was no flying sword at all. It was just an invisible wind blade that had compressed the air to the maximum. It was exactly the same way that he had broken the awnings of the dessert shop, except that the "sword art" was multiple times more advanced than his.
It did make sense. Back in the Ancient Sages Sector, it had been a famous swordsman only second to "Sword Maniac" Yan Liren and known as the second best swordsman in the world.
The style of the attack was far better than 'Sword Maniac' Yan Liren's in the Ancient Sages Sector. It could not have been more perfect.
Li Yao looked at the direction where the wind blade came from, only to discover that Dongfang Mingyue was smiling a hundred meters away from him. The shocking attack from a hundred meters away still did not alarm any passersby.
She was not in disguise, and her face was as casual as before. She blended into the crowd and the background perfectly, as if she were an insignificant black and white shadow in a group photo.
Even though Li Yao had locked onto her with his telepathic thoughts, she still gave off an unpredictable feeling, as if she would disappear again if he was distracted for one moment, like a drop of water melting into the ocean.
She blinked at Li Yao with an innocent expression on her face, as if the fatal attack just now was not launched by her at all.
"Long Yangjun!"
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