"[Ninesoul Dragonblade—Fourth Form: Warping Space and Time]!" Put simply, Zhang Lie's technique allowed him to cut space and time—to cut apart his enemy in the past, rather than the present.

As long as Zhang Lie was able to pinpoint his opponent's location in spacetime, he would be able to kill anyone.

Zhang Lie had slashed at where Duan Zisuan was before he fled from Zhang Lie—before he had shot out his final blow.

With the Duan Zisuan from the past dead, his attack likewise vanished into thin air, and there was no chance of self-destruction at all.

In the end, because Duan Zisuan was too slow to react to Zhang Lie's abstruse attack, he was even unable to use any of his life-saving talismans.

Zhang Lie sheathed...