Within the small room, Li Yue was in a standoff with the black shadow.
The black shadow was blurry, like a distorted shadow. It was basically impossible to see through its true form. However, Li Yue's eyes gleamed with the color of chaos as runes intertwined. He was able to see through the true appearance of the black shadow with a single glance.
That was an old man with a face as pale as a ghost. He had a skinny face and a short stature. His ten fingers were as long as daggers, and his fingernails were so sharp that they gleamed with a metallic light.
That old man's feet didn't touch the ground. He floated in the air and stared at Li Yue with a pair of sinister eyes that gleamed with a jade-green light. They were like the eyes of ghosts, extremely cold and terrifying.
"This is a terrifying killer."
Li Yue immediately understood what was going on when he saw the old man. This old man had definitely taken countless lives and slaughtered countless people.
Looking at him, it was like looking at a sea of blood. Even his appearance was filled with a killing intent that could seep into one's heart. This old man had simply refined his dao of slaughter to an extreme level.
For such a character, only those who specialized in the dao of slaughter in the legends would have such a phenomenon.
"Also, the aura of this old man has already reached the peak of the fifth-level of immortal-foundation. His killing intent is so deep that it seeps into his bones, manifesting on the surface. How many people did he have to kill to reach this level?"
When he thought of this, even Li Yue couldn't help but feel some shock in his heart.
This kind of killing referred to assassinations, one-on-one or one-on-many assassinations, and so on. It was not like Li Yue's indiscriminate killing with a single palm strike.
It was only through assassination that the Dao of Slaughter in one's heart would grow stronger with every kill, perfecting one's own Dao and becoming even stronger.
"Since you can reach the level of a saint, you should be someone from an assassin organization, right? There are three great assassin organizations in this world. The Heavenly Court, Underworld and the Mortal World. I wonder which one are you from? "
"Heh!"
The old man laughed sinisterly, revealing a mouthful of white teeth that were as sharp as knives. He glanced at Li Yue before glancing outside. After that, his body suddenly moved.
With this movement, his speed was extremely fast. At this instant, time seemed to have stopped. Li Yue had no time to react and that old man had already appeared before him.
Then, he killed with a single finger.
At the critical moment, Li Yue twisted his head and directly raised it by an inch, dodging the fatal finger.
However, the area between his eyebrows was unharmed. Instead, a terrifying bloody hole had been pierced through his neck, causing him to bleed profusely.
The old man was slightly surprised, as if he was surprised that Li Yue was able to dodge this attack. Soon after, he sneered, and with a twist of his body, he disappeared from the room. Before he left, he stared coldly at Li Yue, as if saying that the next time would be the day of his death.
…
Li Yue was speechless. There was a finger-sized wound on his neck that was bleeding profusely. Within the wound, a terrifying killing intent permeated the air. That terrifying killing intent forcefully prevented his neck from healing. It needed to be removed.
He raised his hand and gently swiped it across his neck. This sort of fatal injury to a mortal was instantly healed.
After clearing away the killing intent and recovering from his injuries, his expression remained silent.
"What a terrifying killer. The previous attack was just a test, but the speed was too fast. It was so fast that … it seemed that he had surpassed time."
From the beginning until now, the killer old man had not used any secret methods. He had only made a few probing assassinations, but it was still extremely terrifying.
From the silent infiltration at the beginning to the final attack that surpassed time, all of this showed that this guy was not simple. Moreover, from the cold look in his eyes before he left, Li Yue knew that this was just the beginning. There would be more assassinations to come.
"This is the Border Pass City. There are too many people coming and going here. As a result, that old man did not dare to cause too much of a ruckus, nor did he use any secret techniques. He only tried to assassinate him once."
There were too many cultivators in this world, and there were too many ways of cultivation. In the entire Big Dipper, only three major forces could cultivate the Way of Slaughter to the level of a Saint.
They were the three major killer dynasties, the Heavenly Court, the Underworld, and the Mortal World.
The Heavenly Court was an assassin faction that inherited the legacy of the ancient Heavenly Court. Although they had the same name, their nature was completely different. Legend had it that they were created by the same existence.
They were once invincible in the world and there was nothing they could not kill. It could be said that in that era, being targeted by the Heavenly Court meant death.
But now, with the destruction of the ancient Heavenly Court founded by the Ancestor, the faction with the same name as the ancient Heavenly Court gradually declined and even split up.
Because of this, there was the Underworld and the Mortal World. They were both split from the Heavenly Court.
"Although the Heavenly Court has been dilapidated, it is not weak compared to the Underworld and the Mortal World. The ancient books of the Yuhua God Dynasty have important records of them, and they are also very afraid of them."
"This old man's various methods are mysterious and unfathomable. That extreme speed that surpassed time, could it be the secret 'Attainment' character of the Heavenly Court?"
The 'Attainment' character is a powerful secret technique of the Great Dao. Legend has it that there are nine great secret techniques in this world. 'Lin, Bing, Dou, Zhe, all move forward in groups. "
Nine words, nine great secret techniques, known as the Nine Secrets. Each secret technique had peerless divine effects and was incomparably terrifying.
Legend has it that if one gathered the Nine Secrets, they would have a chance to peek into the mysteries of the immortals. But since ancient times, the Nine Secrets had always been a legend. Not to mention gathering all nine, even one of them was incomparable.
"And one of the Nine Secrets, the 'Attainment' character, exists in the Heavenly Court. Cultivating it can allow one to reach the extreme speed of the world, even surpassing time and reversing the river of time."
"It is precisely because of this that the Heavenly Court has always been incomparably terrifying in that era. Even if it has declined now, it cannot be underestimated."
…
It was obvious that the old man from before was a killer from the Heavenly Court who killed a Saint.
Cultivating the 'Attainment' character allowed one to grasp the extreme speed of the world, so fast that it surpassed the limit of time.
This was only one of the points. As a Saint of the Heavenly Court, it was impossible for him to only grasp this one secret technique. What other terrifying divine abilities did he have?
He was very difficult to deal with.
"Now that I have been targeted by him, it is useless even if I hide in this ancient city."
It was just that he didn't know how he found his traces.
Could it be that there were spies from the Heavenly Court in the Border Pass City? That was the only possibility that could explain it.
As for why the Heavenly Court wanted to kill him and why they knew his appearance, he had already guessed it.
Apart from the Heaven Lack Holy Land, who else had the qualifications and reason to invite a Saint of the Killer Divine Court to kill him?
Thinking about it, apart from the Heaven Lack Holy Land, he had never offended anyone. Only the Heaven Lack Holy Lord of the Heaven Lack Holy Land knew his current appearance.
"However, although the Saint of the Killer is difficult to deal with, does he think he can kill me?"
The laws of this world were broken and the timeline was chaotic, so secret techniques and divine abilities related to time were rare and very powerful.
The reason why the 'Attainment' character was strong was not because of its speed, but because when one cultivated it to a high level, it could touch time and interfere with it.
This was its strong point, and it was not difficult for Li Yue to break this point.
"Secret technique of time? I know it too. Although it may not be suitable for the laws of this universe, as long as I modify it, it may not be impossible to give it a try. "
Li Yue muttered. This was the only thing he could do. There was no other way. He was not the main body and did not master the Gravity God Art. He was also not good at the concept of dimensions. Otherwise, he would have killed the old man directly with a distorted timeline.
Moreover, his realm was not enough and he could not jump out of the timeline. He could not peek into the timeline and fiddle with it. With his current cultivation, he was still far from being able to do so.
"It is imperative that I create my own means to deal with the enemy."
…
In the next few days, Li Yue did not go out. He stayed in the room of the inn and cultivated in seclusion.
During this period, he was also on guard against the old man's sneak attack, but there was no movement. The old man did not come again these days.
The more it was like this, the more Li Yue frowned.
That old man was like a venomous snake hidden in the dark. His whereabouts were mysterious. No one knew when this venomous snake would suddenly appear in front of you and bite you.
This kind of enemy hiding in the dark was the most troublesome.
On the bed in the room, Li Yue closed his eyes. On the surface, he was absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to cultivate, but deep in his mind, his consciousness was comprehending one divine ability after another.
These divine abilities were related to time or divine abilities that involved time. They came from the sacred cultivation memories in the Pure Yang Great Cosmos.
Therefore, there were many, such as Time Domain Technique, Dawn Fold Technique, Sundial Evolution, Time Derivation Technique, Hand of the Future, Door of the Past, etc. There were too many.
There were descriptions of all the techniques that involved the past, present, and future of time. Acceleration, pause, delay, and other states were also involved. It was very complicated.
It was indeed not easy to unify so many complicated divine abilities and evolve a technique that belonged to him, especially one that targeted the speed of the 'Dimension' Secret Technique.
"Since the 'Dimension' Secret Technique is said to be the fastest in the world, I will be faster than it."
Li Yue thought with a calm expression. Suddenly, footwork, flight, time acceleration, and other divine abilities that involved time appeared in his mind. Through the foundation of these divine abilities, he could modify a technique that was suitable for him in a short time.
Otherwise, it would take too long to create something out of nothing. His body was not his main body, so his ability to deduce was far too lacking.
…
Three days later, Li Yue opened his eyes. Within his pupils, one could vaguely see a blurry figure flickering, churning, and changing endlessly.
"It's time."
With that, Li Yue stood up. His body moved, and the bones in his body crackled.
He pushed open the door of the room and walked down the stairs along the corridor.
At the counter downstairs, a short and fat middle-aged man stood there with a smile on his face. From time to time, he would greet the guests coming in and out. He was the manager of this inn.
Li Yue walked over and was ready to pay the bill and leave.
"Sir, there's a total of XXX. Do you need anything else?" The shopkeeper asked with a warm smile.
"No." Li Yue shook his head. He turned his palm and was ready to pay the bill.
Right at this moment, the manager who had been grinning from ear to ear suddenly stretched out a finger. This finger tore through space, transcended time, and pierced fiercely towards the center of his forehead.
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