The outcome of the battle struck like a bolt from the blue, shaking everyone present to their core.
Before the fight, some had speculated that the Jingwu Bureau might have a trick up its sleeve, perhaps even calling in experts from the Outer Mansion for support. But no one could have imagined such a crushing, one-sided affair.
Xiong Lie, hailed as the top fighter of the Iron Sword Sect below the Earth Fiend realm, had been utterly suppressed from start to finish, completely unable to fight back. In the span of a mere hundred breaths, he had gone from a high-spirited True Disciple to a defeated warrior, staining the sky with his blood as he crashed wretchedly to the ground.
For a moment, gasps of shock, sharp intakes of breath, and murmurs of disbelief rose and fell, merging into a cacophony of noise.
