Believe him?
Like hell!
The enraged Wu Cun spotted the even more insufferable Li Wufang, and without a word she raised her hand in his direction. But Li Wufang was far faster. The instant her eyes so much as flicked his way, he'd already thrown himself sideways, produced a plain longbow, and shouted:
"This area — Oblivion is forbidden!"
The declaration startled both combatants.
Edict Sung Afar was indeed a potent support tool in the Order arsenal, but these temporarily decreed laws never involved Them directly. The mont a prohibition referenced a god's power, the flimsy edict would crumble under divine interference.
There were, of course, exceptions. If soone held a Law Contract blessed by the Iron Law of Order, or possessed a talent boosted to extraordinarily high levels like Mo Li's, they could indeed suppress a form of Divinity for a brief window. After all — when Order intervened, everyone had to follow the rules, at least temporarily.
So both Wu Cun and Qin Xin froze. Wu Cun especially — the instant she heard those words, she wisely withdrew her hand, unwilling to waste ntal energy testing whether the edict was real.
Even if it were genuine, divine suppression would only last a few seconds. She just needed to dodge Qin Xin's pursuit, and then she could obliterate the other chattering flea at her leisure.
As for Qin Xin... she was well aware of her limitations. Their brief clash had shown her she couldn't defeat him. But killing her wouldn't be easy either — she still had an Oblivion Seed in reserve!
So Wu Cun flickered away again, scattering countless seeds behind her to block Qin Xin's pursuit.
Qin Xin eyed the seedlings, which bore no trace of divine energy, and frowned. He couldn't identify what kind of item they were. He suspected she was using ordinary seeds as a bluff to slow him down. But cautious as ever, he chose not to test them — instead circling the cluster and resuming his chase.
Just then, Li Wufang's voice rang out across the field again.
"Miss Wu, you ca back from an Oblivion Seed and all you learned was how to scatter seeds?
Who do you think you're fooling? I can tell — your trick is fake, pure bluster. Don't worry, Mr. Qin — just go hit her."
Qin Xin's eye twitched. Wu Cun's face frosted over. She didn't dare let her guard down, worried the peak hunter was using taunts to find her openings, so she counted the seconds and once again slipped through the about-to-be-annihilated space, dodging Qin Xin's third lash.
Watching Qin Xin's fighting style, Li Wufang frowned privately, thought hard for a mont, then bellowed:
"Mr. Qin, you can't go easy on her just because she's pretty! The Extinguisher is about to annihilate every clue in the trial! You're a warrior — act like one! That sword technique looks like you're cracking a whip, not swinging a blade. Don't tell
you're deliberately hiding your true strength?"
Qin Xin snorted a laugh, burst another pocket of Oblivion essence, and cast an appraising glance toward Li Wufang.
"Pot, et kettle. Investigator — how long are you going to hold back?
I don't normally question others' motives, but today your behavior makes
think you're waiting for us to wear each other out.
You want to play the fisherman? But the fisherman's role isn't that easy to fill.
Even if you wanted to — would Order agree?"
With that, Qin Xin pivoted his blade and — shockingly — abandoned his pursuit of Wu Cun to charge straight at Li Wufang. The Investigator's face changed. He drew his bow instantly: "This area — mory is forbidden!"
Qin Xin scoffed, ignoring the edict entirely. He charged faster and faster. Li Wufang's expression darkened further. His simple wooden bow was drawn nearly to full moon, yet he held the shot — suspicion flickering in his eyes as he called out again: "This area — War is forbidden!"
This ti Qin Xin reacted. He halted in his tracks, frowning as he felt for any shift in the divine forces around him. When he found not a whisper of Order's power, the Mirror Person's eyes turned glacial.
He'd been played. It was all bluster.
Qin Xin laughed at himself, then tensed. He was done with this ga of mutual probing. Eyes locked on Li Wufang's position, he triggered a flash step—
And didn't vanish.
Space had been locked!
Because at that exact mont, the distant Investigator had finally unleashed his true Order power. This ti it wasn't a fake. It was real.
"This area — teleportation is forbidden!"
That single command froze not only Qin Xin in place but also Wu Cun, who'd been slipping away to find another opening. The spatial lock jarred her body, instantly revealing her silhouette from within the Oblivion shroud. Li Wufang saw it, curled his lip, and imdiately trained his arrowhead on the now-exposed Extinguisher.
"The opening — I've given it to you, Qin Xin. You don't really think she and I are on the sa side, do you?"
Qin Xin's ability to seize opportunities was truly formidable. The instant Li Wufang's Order power manifested, he knew — however unreliable this Investigator might be — the man was at least on his side. The target had been the Oblivion believer from start to finish. The Investigator just happened to have... a rather chatty mouth.
But Qin Xin didn't waste the opening. His gaze hardened. He drove his sword into the ground, stomped both feet against the flat of the blade, and using the near-full-moon curve of the embedded weapon as a bowstring and his own body as the arrow — whoosh — he launched himself forward.
Order's power forbade teleportation. It didn't forbid high-speed movent. With velocity like a loosed arrow, Qin Xin closed the distance to Wu Cun in the blink of an eye.
The Extinguisher had never imagined — she'd barely caught her breath after escaping the chase, and with the other two seemingly about to fight each other, they'd snapped right back to targeting her in the span of a heartbeat.
A beautiful feint east, strike west. The real clown was her all along!
Wu Cun erupted with fury. The raging annihilation desire in her heart was ignited completely. Eyes blazing, hair streaming, she flared countless roiling surges of Oblivion force around her body, clearly about to raise her hand and erase everything before her.
And at that instant — Qin Xin arrived. And Li Wufang's... edict arrived with him.
The Investigator, in the end, never fired his Discipline Arrow. Instead, he played the Extinguisher one final ti — because his next edict was:
"This area — anger is forbidden!"
"..."
You know the feeling. It's like being pushed beyond the brink of rage over sothing — and then, at the very peak of seeing red, suddenly forgetting why you were angry in the first place.
That single instant of confusion slowed Wu Cun by a beat. The arrow-swift Qin Xin seized the millisecond window with ferocious precision. In the fraction of a second before impact, he shot out his hand and extended the "arrow's" reach, clamping down on the Extinguisher's throat. Then, the instant Wu Cun's bewildernt shifted back into fury, he crashed into her like a heavy crossbow bolt, and with one colossal heave of his arm—
Rrrip—
—tore the Oblivion believer's head clean off her body.
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