Decapitation with a single stroke. Clean, smooth, and neat.

“What?!” shrieked the tall man. His comrade had been upper human rank and a hair stronger than him!

How could a young man, one who couldn’t train in martial dao, execute a cultivator with one stroke?!

This was a conspiracy!

Yushi Moli was plainly a formidable swordsman, but the rumors circulating in Aurora City made him out to be useless trash. Stories of his ineptitude were everywhere within one hundred kilometers of the city and many jeered that he was the dog son of a tiger father.

Was all of this a conspiracy planted by Yushi Jianchou?

A myriad of emotions assailed the tall man, but he felt incredible fear more than anything. Whether it was the angle or speed of Yushi Moli’s blow, it rivaled, if not surpassed what an experienced swordsman could deploy.

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