Given his cultivation, Solitary Ice wouldn’t have been killed in just a few short seconds if he’d faced off against her directly, even if he was no match for her. If he’d activated his ice ki armor, it would have taken the daoist nun a significant amount of effort to break through it.

Unfortunately, most of his attention had been focused on eavesdropping on the conversation happening below him. He was also too overconfident, believing that his senses were so keen that not even the sound of the wind blowing through the grass could escape his detection.

He had no idea that a powerful enemy had already crept up on him silently, and he wasn’t even granted the slightest opportunity to fight back.

Even in the jungle, when two evenly-matched vicious beasts fought, the one who was caught off-guard would be killed immediately. Who cared whether or not his cultivation was equal to the daoist...