163: Chapter 163 Su Lei's Bewilderment

In that instant, Su Lei only felt a massive surge of spiritual energy flowing along the blade into his body like an overwhelming mountain wave!

His proud Qi Refining Second Layer cultivation was instantly crushed and scattered before this spiritual energy.

Su Lei let out a muffled groan.

He was knocked back five or six steps by the counter-shock before barely managing to steady himself.

When he looked up again, he felt a surge of blood in his chest and a metallic sweetness in his throat.

How is this possible?!

Su Lei's eyes widened, looking at Zhou Qingying standing there in disbelief.

This woman, whom he had dismissed as mere eye candy, was actually a master!

Moreover, her cultivation was definitely above his.

Even higher by who knows how many Realms!

In less than half a stick of incense's time of fighting, Su Lei had already realized this.

Every full-strength attack he made seemed as slow as a snail to Zhou Qingying.

Zhou Qingying wasn't using any sword techniques at all; she was simply playing with him through absolute cultivation suppression.

That's right, playing with him!

Zhou Qingying's movements were like lightning, and the longsword in her hand seemed to turn into a bolt of electricity.

“Swish!”

A flash of sword light.

Su Lei felt a chill on his cheek, and a lock of hair slowly drifted to the ground.

“Swish!”

Another strike.

A clean slit was cut into the front of Su Lei's robes.

“This is your so-called once-in-a-century Genius?”

Zhou Qingying's voice rang in Su Lei's ear, saying mockingly:

“After consuming so many resources, you've only practiced such mediocre skills? You don't even have the qualification to make me draw my sword!”

Su Lei was stung by these words, his Face turning red with shame and indignation.

He was the pride of Su Family Village.

The leader of these thirty Cultivators!

Now he was being toyed with like a monkey by a woman in front of the whole village!

“I'll fight you to the death!”

Su Lei roared, his eyes bloodshot as he lunged at Zhou Qingying.

Now, he was frantically squeezing out the remaining spiritual energy in his body.

But a massive gap in strength cannot be bridged by desperation alone.

As time went on, Su Lei's physical strength began to be severely overdrawn; he panted heavily, his punches slowed, and his footsteps became unsteady.

He was afraid.

Because he saw undisguised Killing Intent in Zhou Qingying's eyes.

This woman really dared to kill him!

Su Lei wanted to admit defeat.

As long as he shouted those two words, this fight would end.

Though his Face would be completely lost.

At least he could save his life.

But Zhou Qingying didn't give him the chance!

Every time Su Lei opened his mouth to surrender.

Zhou Qingying's longsword would strike at his vitals like a venomous snake's tongue.

Either his throat or his heart, forcing Su Lei to dodge desperately.

Su Lei now had only one feeling: utter frustration!

He felt like a mouse being toyed with by a cat, his life and death entirely in someone else's hands.

“Huff... huff...”

Su Lei panted heavily while dodging Zhou Qingying's attacks; sweat blurred his eyes, and his vision began to fail.

Just then, he stumbled, his body lunging forward.

He actually crashed straight toward the tip of Zhou Qingying's incoming sword!

It's over!

Su Lei wailed in his heart and instinctively closed his eyes to wait for death.

However, the expected pain did not come.

At the critical moment, Zhou Qingying's wrist flicked, and the longsword deviated by half an inch, grazing past Su Lei's neck and only cutting off a section of his collar.

Su Lei broke out in a cold sweat, his legs gave way, and he slumped directly onto the ground.

A voice with undisguised Killing Intent suddenly exploded from the edge of the crowd.

“Wife, you don't need to give me Face!”

The voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached the ears of everyone present.

Su Lei, slumped on the ground, shuddered violently.

This voice...

It was too familiar!

This was the voice of the one who pulled him out of the mire and bestowed him with immortal methods, the one he regarded as his second parent.

Su Lei snapped his head up, looking in the direction of the voice.

The crowd automatically parted to both sides.

Clearing a path.

Su Bai, dressed in Black Battle Armor with a Face as cold as water, stepped into the Martial Arts Arena.

The way his eyes looked at Su Lei was like looking at a dead man.

“Gen... General?!”

The moment Su Lei saw Su Bai, a surge of wild joy welled up in his heart!

The General is back!

The General must have seen this woman bullying him and spoke up to stop it!

He was the number one Genius under the General.

The General would never stand by and watch him be humiliated by a woman.

Like a drowning man clutching at a straw, Su Lei scrambled to stand up, reaching out toward Su Bai and shouting excitedly:

“General! You're finally back! This Venomous woman, she...”

However, Su Lei hadn't finished his sentence.

The next second.

Su Lei's words came to an abrupt halt.

And Zhou Qingying, standing beside him, upon hearing Su Bai's remark about not needing to give him Face.

A breathtaking smile suddenly blossomed on her Face.

Zhou Qingying knew her husband too well.

Those words weren't a stop, but—

Encouragement for her to kill Su Lei!

“Swish!”

A sword light more brilliant than any before suddenly lit up.

Zhou Qingying's wrist turned, and the longsword in her hand transformed into a silver ribbon, carrying the unreserved spiritual energy of the Qi Refining Sixth Layer as it swept across!

It was too fast.

So fast that the wild joy on Su Lei's Face hadn't even had time to fade.

So fast that no one present could react.

“Squelch!”

A faint sound.

Then, Su Lei's movements froze.

He remained frozen in his reaching posture.

Immediately after.

A line of blood slowly emerged from his neck.

“Roll, roll...”

A large head, wearing an expression of disbelief, slid off Su Lei's neck, hit the ground, and rolled several meters away.

Blood erupted from the headless torso like a fountain, splashing all over the surroundings.

Thud.

Su Lei's headless corpse crashed heavily onto the Martial Arts Arena.

Quiet.

Deathly silence.

The remaining twenty-nine Cultivator seeds in the entire Martial Arts Arena.

Everyone was as if petrified, staring dumbfoundedly at the headless corpse still twitching on the ground, their minds blank.

Dead?

The once-in-a-century Genius in their eyes, the pride of Su Family Village, had been decapitated by the First Madam's single sword strike?!

No one cared how wretched Su Lei's death looked.

At this moment, all eyes fell on the figure slowly walking into the arena.

Su Bai.

The true Dominator of Su Family Village!

Su Bai didn't even spare a glance at Su Lei's corpse on the ground.

With a grim Face, he swept his gaze over the remaining twenty-nine Su Family Village Disciples.

At this moment, the anger in his heart was almost beyond measure.