“Is that it? I was expecting a bigger challenge!”0

Ye Qing raised an eyebrow as he stared at the broken window where Faceless had escaped from.0

One of the main reasons he had bested Faceless so easily was because he had entered the middle-stage of the Vessel Augmentation stage, augmenting another four Standard Meridians, two Extraordinary Meridians, and one hundred and eight points all in one day. A middle-stage Vessel Augmentor’s internal energy was much stronger than an early-stage’s, not to mention that he had reached the adept level in the “Blood Shadow Divine Art”.0

Admittedly, it would’ve taken him much more effort to defeat Faceless if he hadn’t made these breakthroughs. He still would’ve won, but he certainly could not have gotten away without any injuries either. The fact that his enemy still managed to escape despite his overwhelming dominance was proof that Faceless was a formidable foe. In general, a Stranger’s resilience, abilities, talent, magic and more were just far, far greater than a human’s.1

Of course, just because he failed to kill Faceless now didn’t mean he wasn’t going to kill him later. From the start, Ye Qing had never intended to let the Stranger live. A Malice-class...0