Everything had happened too quickly. It had been a complete blur.
A second ago, Indra had just summoned lightning and Ye Fan had been ready to launch into his Cloud Sun Kick.
In the next second, a strange figure had somehow teleported out of nowhere and appeared right behind Ye Fan.
His timing had been impeccable.
Ye Fan had had his full concentration on Brahma then.
With his full focus on Brahma, Ye Fan hadn't been able to spare any attention on his surroundings.
The strange figure had appeared at lightning speed and with impeccable timing to unleash a powerful and lethal blow.
One might even call this a perfect assassination.
Ye Qing-Tian himself couldn't have reacted
to the ambush in time.
When Ye Fan realized that someone had just sneaked up on him, it was too late.
There was no time for him to do anything about it.
All he could do was rely on his instincts and try to avoid getting hit in his vitals.
The cold metal of the blade glimmered as it sank into flesh.
Everyone watched in shock as a sharp dagger pierced through Ye Fan's defenses and sunk deep into Ye Fan's back.
Alongside its blade was an incredible power that flowed down its edge and thrusted deep into Ye Fan.
Ye Fan trembled, then spat out a mouthful of blood.
The man in gray robes was shocked when the fatal blow that he had thought that he had dealt failed. His dagger stopped after sinking three inches into Ye Fan's body. It was as if it had got caught in something.
"Damnit! What's going on?"
Disbelief filled the eyes of the stranger.
He had been hiding for a very long time, biding his time and awaiting the perfect opportunity.
It didn't matter if Ye Fan was a supreme grandmaster. With the perfect window of opportunity, he had been confident that he would be able to kill Ye Fan with a single shot.
Even if he should fail to kill the young man, he would still succeed in maiming him and stopping the fight.
But in order to do that, he needed the full blade of his dagger buried inside Ye Fan.
That was the only way he could injure Ye Fan's vitals.
Everything had been in his favor. He had not foreseen that his dagger would only sink midway into Ye Fan's flesh before something stopped it from going any deeper.
That had severely reduced the impact of his attack.
While the man was still in the grips of shock, Ye Fan turned around and stared at the man with eyes filled with cold rage.
The blood on his cheek made him look demonic.
The sight sent shivers down the spine of the man in gray robes.
"Are you mad? Are you going to attack me now? What about the Vajr?" blurted the man in alarm.
Ye Fan was flanked.
Before him was a bolt of lightning ready to strike him down while behind him was another enemy who had just sneaked up on him and succeeded in his ambush. Any reasonable person would turn his full attention to the bolt of lightning that was waiting for him before contemplating revenge against the man in gray robes.
Yet, to the surprise of the man in gray robes, this Chinese young man had disregarded the threat of lightning to deal with him instead.
"He's out of his mind!" thought the man.
He dared not linger. Instead, he turned tail and ran.
But the proximity that had allowed him to inflict the greatest damage was a doubleedged sword. If he should fail to kill Ye Fan, he might not be able to escape unharmed.
Ye Fan had decided to exact immediate vengeance on the man who had sneaked up on and attacked him. The latter had lost all hope of escaping unharmed the moment that Ye Fan had made up his mind.
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