210: Chapter 211 The Shadow's Thorn: The Martial Saint's Back, Also a Dead End!

Seven.

Six.

Five.

Ying Wan counted down silently in his heart, each number sounding like a tolling death knell.

He was like a dormant venomous snake, his muscles tensed to the absolute limit, all his essence, energy, and spirit focused entirely on his eyes.

The golden light on the surface of the boy's body on the platform was flickering unsteadily, like a candle in the wind that could be extinguished at any moment.

The tremors in his body grew more violent, and the bulging veins beneath his skin throbbed like the churning of an earth dragon; clearly, the energy conflict within him had reached its limit.

Now is the time!

A terrifying glint burst from Ying Wan's eyes.

Without another moment of hesitation, he poured all the remaining Origin power of his class into the space before him.

"Open for me!"

Ying Wan ground his molars, a beast-like low growl escaping his throat.

Twenty times gravity pressed down on his skeleton like an invisible mountain, making every bone groan as if about to shatter.

But he completely ignored the load, which would have crushed an ordinary expert into meat paste.

Before him, a black crack no thicker than a strand of hair was forcibly torn open.

This was the technique that made Void Walkers famous, and it was his only chance now.

His figure didn't pause for a second as he dove headfirst into that tiny Rift.

The next second.

At the top of the Blood Sacrifice Altar, behind Lin Qi, a negligible ripple appeared in space.

Ying Wan's figure slid out from it silently, like a drop of water merging into the ocean.

He had succeeded.

He appeared behind Lin Qi's completely defenseless back.

The distance between them was less than half a meter.

For a top-tier assassin, this distance was equivalent to a death sentence for the target.

In the dim underground space, the tip of the legendary dagger [fang of the night god] in Ying Wan's hand shimmered with a faint green light.

That wasn't the luster of a gemstone, but the aura of the Law of Decay emitted by a Rank 6 Genetic Toxin.

"Die!"

Ying Wan spat the word out in his mind.

The muscles in his arm twisted into a single cord as he thrust the dagger forward with all his strength.

This thrust didn't make a single sound of breaking air.

The Karma-based judgment attached to the dagger had already activated, and the System Laws forcibly locked in the result.

A backstab is guaranteed to hit, and a hit is guaranteed to maim!

This was the core killing move of the Void Walker class and Ying Wan's greatest reliance as a gold-medal assassin.

The dagger's target was accurately locked onto the medulla oblongata at the back of Lin Qi's neck.

An absolute fatal pressure point of the human body.

If it pierced even slightly, the genetic toxin would spread through the central nervous System to the entire body; even a god would be unable to save him.

An S-grade space skill book, a seat as a guild Elder, and an astronomical bounty.

Everything would belong to him.

A cold smile of impending mission completion uncontrollably surfaced on Ying Wan's face.

He could almost see Lin Qi's head flying into the air and visualize the scene of himself carrying the head back to report the mission.

However.

At the final instant before the tip of [fang of the night god] could touch Lin Qi's skin.

The sound of the Void Realm Rift opening, though so weak it was almost negligible, ultimately failed to completely bypass Lin Qi's tempered martial instinct.

Buzz!

At the back of Lin Qi's neck, every single hair stood on end in an instant.

A fatal sense of crisis, enough to freeze the Soul, enveloped his entire body like a tsunami.

It's here!

This rat is finally willing to come out of its hole!

But the dagger was too fast.

So fast it exceeded the reaction speed of nerves.

Furthermore, that vague sense of being locked on was like the shackles of fate, forcibly correcting any possibility of dodging or parrying.

Any conventional response was destined to be in vain.

Longya Academy, Highest Authority Monitoring Room.

"Not good!"

Old Mo sprang from his chair, the teacup in his hand falling to the floor and shattering into pieces.

He stared fixedly at the black dot that suddenly appeared behind the red dot on the main screen, his whole body shaking like a leaf.

"He's gone up! That assassin used a Spatial Warp to get up there!"

Instructor Su Qing's face turned deathly pale in an instant, devoid of all color.

She watched the two light points on the screen almost overlapping, her heart feeling as if it were being squeezed hard by an invisible hand.

"It's over..."

Old Mo slumped back to the floor, his eyes hollow, muttering to himself.

"It's the Void Walker's ultimate Profound Truth, the Karma Assassination! This move ignores defense and cannot be dodged. Once the heart is locked from behind, it's a certain death sentence!"

"Lin Qi..."

Instructor Su Qing's voice was trembling.

"His entire focus is currently on resisting the true dragon relic blood; his body is rigid, and he can't make any reaction at all. He's dead for sure."

Old Mo closed his eyes in despair, as if he couldn't bear to watch the following scene.

On the Blood Sacrifice Altar.

The smile on Ying Wan's face grew increasingly hideous.

But at this critical moment, Lin Qi's next move caused the excitement that was about to reach its peak to get stuck in Ying Wan's throat.

Lin Qi didn't make any conventional dodge or parry.

He didn't even turn his head.

He made a suicidal move that Ying Wan couldn't understand at all, one that even seemed like the target had gone completely mad with fear.

He gave up his resistance.

He actually directly abandoned the suppression of the boiling, violent blood and Qi within him that was enough to burst his Meridians!

Boom!

Losing the constraint of Martial Saint-level Internal Energy micro-manipulation, that overbearing energy from the ancient true dragon, like a prehistoric beast escaping its cage or hundreds of millions of tons of floodwater suddenly bursting a dam, went completely berserk within his Meridians!

"Aaaaah—"

Lin Qi let out a suppressed roar; the sound wasn't human, but more like the wail of a beast enduring the pain of being skinned and deboned.

He didn't let this energy run rampant throughout his body.

Instead, he used his will to forcibly guide this destructive power, letting it all rush into his right arm!

Rip!

The sound of cloth tearing rang out.

The muscles of Lin Qi's entire right arm expanded to the limit in an instant, completely shredding the remaining clothes on his body.

The veins under his skin were like hideous little blackish-blue snakes, bursting out and twisting together.

The size of his entire arm increased by a full circle in less than a tenth of a second, glowing with a violent and ominous dark golden luster.

And that wasn't all!

That right arm, expanded to its limit, twisted backward with a bizarre motion that completely defied human anatomy. His elbow snapped back, and he swung it violently toward the position of his own heart from behind!