338: Chapter 338 The Faceless Man's Terrifying Strength

The moment the voice fell, the air around Captain Ji Xiaoyun suddenly shook violently!

Boom!

A powerful spiritual energy, belonging to a mid-Fourth-Order expert, surged out from her body like floodwaters bursting through a dam.

As the second-ranked core combatant of Nanhai Academy, Captain Ji Xiaoyun was able to firmly hold this position not just because of her family's resources, but because of her extremely rare and devastatingly lethal S-rank Supernatural Ability, Star Dust Prologue!

"Starry sky, descend!"

Accompanied by Captain Ji Xiaoyun's sharp cry, a dreamy azure halo suddenly shimmered in the pitch-black space where one could not even see their own fingers.

Tens of thousands of brilliant starlight particles, resembling diamond dust, emerged out of thin air around her body without any warning.

These star dust particles floated in mid-air, emitting a charming yet dangerous cold light, completely illuminating this enclosed dark domain.

The edges of every tiny speck of starlight were surrounded by sharp cutting laws capable of easily slicing through refined steel.

Captain Ji Xiaoyun's fingers moved with the speed of butterflies weaving through flowers as she quickly formed hand seals, then suddenly pushed forward.

"Go!"

The brilliant star dust suspended throughout the sky, like an army receiving orders from its commander, followed the direction of her fingers, transforming into a gorgeous galaxy storm that swept toward the Faceless Man a few meters away.

The Faceless Man stood quietly in place. Facing this overwhelming storm of starlight, he not only did not dodge, but he did not even raise the zixiao thunder bamboo in his hand to defend himself.

Swish, swish, swish!

The star dust storm instantly engulfed the Faceless Man.

However, these starlight particles did not directly cut his body; instead, they rapidly intertwined in the void around him.

In the blink of an eye.

A massive star dust cage made of countless sharp starlight particles trapped the Faceless Man tightly in the very center.

Every pillar of light in the cage pulsed with the violent power of astral strangulation; as long as the prey inside dared to move even a fraction, it would immediately be sliced into countless pieces of meat by this meat-grinder-like formation.

Seeing this scene, Captain Ji Xiaoyun let out a long breath, her tense nerves relaxing once again.

She clapped her hands, looking at the Faceless Man who was like a caged bird, a smug smile reappearing on her fair face.

"Hmph, and here I thought you were some kind of hidden master."

Captain Ji Xiaoyun lifted her delicate chin, unable to resist mocking him: "You fell for it so easily, not even bothering to dodge. It seems you don't have any real skills after all! Relying on just having quick eyes isn't enough to be a robber."

It was no wonder she was so confident.

This Star Dust Cage move was her ultimate trump card, which she had painstakingly cultivated for two whole years.

In the previous school selection tournament, she had even relied on this move to forcefully trap Chu Tiankuo for a full ten minutes!

With a binding that even a Peak Fourth-Order big shot couldn't easily break free from, how could this masked man, who didn't even reveal a hint of his aura, break it?

"Big brother, don't waste your energy struggling."

Captain Ji Xiaoyun crossed her arms and smiled triumphantly: "This starlight carries cutting laws. If you dare to move even a little, you'll lose several pounds of flesh."

"Be good and withdraw this pitch-black space. I'm in a good mood today, so I might spare your..."

She hadn't even managed to say the word "life" yet.

The Faceless Man trapped in the very center of the star dust cage suddenly tilted his head slightly.

That pale mask faced Captain Ji Xiaoyun's direction, and the voice that came from behind the mask still had that same tone, completely devoid of any fluctuation.

"Boring."

"I don't have time to play with you anymore."

Captain Ji Xiaoyun was stunned, then a cold sneer curled the corners of her mouth: "Stubborn to the end! Even Captain Chu's deep sea heavy sword couldn't slash this cage open; I'd like to see what skills you have to break it!"

She originally thought the other party was just putting on a brave front and posturing, preparing to forcefully break the formation with brute strength.

However, the scene that unfolded next completely shattered all the martial arts common sense Captain Ji Xiaoyun had built up her entire life!

The Faceless Man inside the cage made absolutely no attacking movements.

She saw that the large black hooded trench coat on his body suddenly rippled with eerie waves without any warning.

Immediately after, under Captain Ji Xiaoyun's constricted pupils!

The Faceless Man's body actually dissipated directly into the air, like a drop of thick ink falling onto rice paper, in a way that completely violated the laws of physics.

In the star dust cage that had originally trapped a living person, only a wisp of ethereal black cloud gas remained in an instant.

"This... how is this possible?!"

Captain Ji Xiaoyun was shocked, her mouth opening wide enough to fit an egg.

She hurriedly urged her astral power, manipulating the cage to shrink and strangle inward frantically.

Those sharp starlight particles instantly cut through the black cloud gas, strangling the center of the cage into a vacuum.

However, it cut nothing.

That black cloud was like air, letting the starlight cut through it, and then it directly turned into a wisp of light smoke, completely merging into the surrounding boundless darkness.

"Where is he?!"

Captain Ji Xiaoyun only felt a chill down her back; an unprecedented sense of crisis crawled frantically up her spine like a venomous snake.

Her S-rank Supernatural Ability, a star dust cage sufficient to trap a Peak Fourth-Order expert, was completely useless in front of the other party!

The other party had even skipped the steps to break the formation and had simply vanished on the spot!

"What are you looking for?"

A hoarse and cold voice, like the whisper of the Grim Reaper right beside her ear, sounded behind Captain Ji Xiaoyun's head without any warning.

Captain Ji Xiaoyun's blood seemed to freeze in that instant.

She didn't dare to look back at all; a martial artist's instinct made her use all her strength to try to lunge forward and dodge the moment she heard the voice.

However, it was too late.

A mass of pure black shadow had already condensed behind her back, though she didn't know when.

The Faceless Man stood there quietly like a ghost.

He slightly raised his right hand, and a long, slender finger, with wisps of black mist lingering at its tip, pointed toward the back of Captain Ji Xiaoyun's head in an extremely understated manner.

It was just a symbolic poke.

It brought no violent gale, nor did it trigger any phenomena of mountains collapsing or the earth splitting.

"Crack—!"

Just at the critical moment when that pale finger was about to touch Captain Ji Xiaoyun's hair!

A crisp cracking sound exploded in the quiet, dark space!

The life-saving jade pendant hanging at Captain Ji Xiaoyun's neckline seemed to have sensed some terrifying crisis capable of instantly erasing the wearer from the world completely.

The runes on the surface of the jade pendant instantly overloaded, erupting with blinding red light, and then directly exploded into powder filling the sky!

"Hum—!"

A dense white absolute defense light shield, like a huge inverted bowl, rose from under Captain Ji Xiaoyun's feet, wrapping her entire body tightly within it.

The white light shield suddenly expanded outward, forcefully blocking the finger that the Faceless Man had pointed at her outside the light screen.

Sitting slumped in the light shield, Captain Ji Xiaoyun gasped for breath, her chest heaving violently, and cold sweat from her forehead dripped onto the ground along her chin.

She stared blankly at the masked man outside the light shield who was slowly retracting his finger, her pupils trembling wildly, the depths of her eyes filled with the horror and shock of having narrowly escaped death.

One must know that this life-saving jade pendant was a magical artifact refined by a Tier 5 Grandmaster.

Its trigger mechanism was extremely strict; it only actively activated to protect the master when it detected that the wearer was about to suffer a truly life-threatening and fatal blow that they absolutely could not withstand on their own.

Just now, the other party hadn't even released a trace of killing intent.

The other party had merely raised a finger!

With just that light poke, it had caused this Grandmaster-level jade pendant to determine that she was already a dead person, thereby activating the highest level of absolute defense without hesitation?

What kind of earth-shattering power did this guy hiding behind the mask possess?