Chapter 530: Who?! Who’s Attacking from the Shadows?! Map Completed! Mysterious Beast Bone Fragments! Blind Box!
Previously, he thought Xiao Ce was impatient, only because Xiao Ce had not chosen the proper moment to strike. He should have waited until the black-robed monk was entangled in combat, then used his Swift Saber Art to breach the monk’s body.
The young mother cradling the infant seemed moments away from a fatal blow, her life hanging by a thread.
Suddenly, a bloodied arm dropped to the ground. The black-robed monk froze, lowering his head in disbelief at the desiccated arm before him.
He looked utterly bewildered... Blood trickled only slightly from his shoulder, his flesh grayish. It seemed the old monk’s body hardly had any blood at all, almost like a corpse.
“Patron Xiao, exquisite blade work!” the white-robed elder praised.
“Xiao Ce, well done!” Ding Rou’s eyes lit up, and she exclaimed loudly.
At this moment, Xiao Ce felt dazed. The old monk’s palm strike had been overwhelmingly powerful, and he hadn’t fully recovered. Hearing the praise, he looked utterly confused.
“Did I chop off that hand?” But in the next second, he quickly realized and shouted, “It wasn’t me!”
As a young prodigy practicing with unusual techniques, Xiao Ce scorned taking credit for someone else’s work. Strictly speaking, he had been slightly overconfident moments ago; otherwise, he wouldn’t have nearly been wiped out by the old monk. At this point, his health was dangerously low, and charging in again would likely be fatal.
Yet Xiao Ce, a combat enthusiast at heart, was ready to use his Swift Saber Art once more. He refused to believe that the Swift Saber Art couldn’t breach the old monk’s physique.
Clang clang clang!
The sound was sharp and grating, like metal being struck by blades. Even with one arm severed, the old monk suppressed Xiao Ce, a Swift Saber Art practitioner, with just a single hand. He struck out with tremendous palm force, so strong it was as if he could even topple mountains,