He Ao raised his hand and rotated the hilt of the sword along with the opening and closing of his fingers, making an outer wrist gesture, changing from holding the sword in the forehand to holding the sword in the backhand.

Then he raised his wrist, the sword instantly stood upright, and swung it forward diagonally.

Under the cover of night, a pitch-black narrow sword suddenly stretched out from the void and collided with the invisible sword body.

Buzz——

It was the trembling sound of swords clashing.

Rhodes and He Ao took two steps back at the same time and looked at each other.

Evenly matched.

In the 'test move' just now, He Ao activated his super memory, mobilized his spiritual consciousness, and used techniques to gather the power of his body into his wrists.

And Rhodes is a real B-class.

"Your body is not as weak as it appears."

Rhodes smiled, and he stretched out his hand to loosen the tie around his neck, so that the decoration would not affect his movements.

At this moment, under his feet, a circular array with a triangular cross pattern embedded in the middle slowly lit up.

In the city behind Rhodes, green rays of light shined under the lights.

These radiances complement each other with the magic circle at his feet, providing coordinates and directions for the great existence beyond endless time and space.

Heao stared at the places that were lit up with light.

Not all murder scenes are illuminated.

In fact, because He Ao destroyed the contaminated World Tree organization and killed the puppeteer, Rose and others.

This directly resulted in Rhodes' original planned ritual being unable to be realized, so he had to settle for a less perfect ritual.

Some of the points originally arranged were abandoned.

He Ao discovered this problem when he inspected the scenes of these 'homicides' in the morning.

This also makes the ceremony arranged by Rhodes actually far more fragile than a normal ceremony.

But he ran out of time. As He Ao's investigation deepened and the opening time of the ruins passage approached, Rhodes also realized that if he delayed it any longer, he might be exposed, so he had to forcefully activate this imperfect system.

ceremony.

Therefore, he must kill He Ao, the only "insider" who poses a threat.

Because the power that He Ao is currently showing may really destroy his fragile ritual.

This reason also works for He Ao. He has been marked by the mysterious shadow. Once the mysterious shadow really comes, he will immediately become one of the mysterious shadow's many sacrifices.

The gods don't care about the lives of the ants, so the ants have to fight for their own lives.

He Ao turned the Shadowless Sword back in his hand, held the hilt of the sword with both hands, held the blade across his eyebrows, and made a gesture of accumulating strength.

The thunderous 'heartbeat' that accompanied the ceremony still echoed in his ears, becoming more and more powerful and powerful.

He Ao moved slowly and stared at Rhodes opposite.

Under the vision of spiritual consciousness, Rhodes' body only has one energy core, located at the position of his heart.

Theoretically, it seems that piercing his heart can kill him, but obviously, this matter may not be that simple.

Based on Rhodes' current ability, He'ao's strength is actually slightly inferior to Rhodes.

After all, this body is just a C-level body.

Although He Ao has maximized the power of the 'robber' talent sequence in his body through the killing just now, he is still only a C-level person.

He holds the peak Shadowless Sword, and with the peak gangster status, coupled with the blessing of Super Memory, he can barely reach a level similar to Rhodes.

However, although his strength is slightly weaker, in a battle where the two sides are extremely close in strength, it is not just strength that determines the outcome.

Rhodes held a long knife in his hand and stared at He Ao.

The two people looked at each other, and the next second, their figures disappeared at the same time.

This time the attacker was replaced by He Ao. He changed his moves and slashed at Rhodes with his sword, but was blocked by Rhodes's sword.

The swords collided together, and in the crisp collision sound, He Ao's attack was blocked by Rhodes, and Rhodes also took half a step back.

Immediately afterwards, Rhodes took a step forward and slashed vertically towards the face of He Ao, who had not yet stood firm. He Ao blocked it with his sword. With the force of the rebound of the blade, Rhodes immediately changed his moves and slashed horizontally at He Ao.

He turned sideways and was blocked by He Ao's returning sword again.

The blade of the sword collided with the blade.

The two raised their heads, looked at each other, and separated again.

However, this time the two of them did not completely separate. They each took half a step back, their swords resting together, their center of gravity pressed down, and they prepared a posture to accumulate strength.

The swords that were held together made a sizzling sound as they rubbed against each other.

He Ao suddenly exerted his strength, pushed away Rhodes' long knife, and stabbed Rhodes's heart sideways.

Rhodes also dodged sideways, pointing his sword away from the Shadowless Sword.

The phantoms of knives and swords collided in the air. After several confrontations, the two staggered their bodies, turned their backs to each other, and stood in the other's previous position.

Then He Ao immediately turned around and slashed at Rhodes.

Rhodes turned around and jumped back, dodging He Ao's attack and slashing He Ao's back with his knife.

boom--

He Ao blocked the blow with his sword behind his back, but the blade tilted forward still cut open his clothes and scratched his skin, and the red blood soaked the black long knife.

Under the impact of Rhodes' attack, he staggered, took a few steps forward, turned around, raised the Shadowless Sword, and looked at Rhodes.

Some invisible force penetrated his body along the black knife and was eroding his flesh and blood.

The originally transparent and clear glass curtain walls around it were now covered with fine cracks and turned into mottled white.

This was shattered by the aura that escaped during the battle between the two.

Although both of them have extremely strong power control, just the breath they release is enough to cause a devastating blow to these glass curtain walls.

Rhodes stood there and did not catch up. He raised the knife, glanced at the blood slowly falling along the black blade, and then looked at He Ao,

"I take back what I just said. Your body is indeed weak. If you are only this weak, it makes me think that the puppeteer is too stupid."

He raised the knife and took a step forward. The blade cut through the void, creating a harsh sonic boom.

boom--

The knife and the sword collided again.

Although his body was injured, the strength of He Ao's hands did not decrease at all. Because of the constant fighting, he had become more and more skilled at mobilizing energy in his body. At this time, he began to adjust the method of mobilizing energy according to the rules he had figured out.

In the blink of an eye, the swords collided several times again.

Rhodes' attack was very fierce, and within a few moves, he was close to He Ao's neck.

When the black long knife was blocked in front of the shoulder by the Shadowless Sword, huge energy gathered in He Ao's hands.

It's now!

He suddenly pushed away Rhodes' long knife, and the huge force that exceeded Rhodes's expectation made Rhodes lean back. In a very short time, his center of gravity became unstable. He spun around, trying to relieve the force.

And at this moment, He Ao pressed down, and the shadowless sword slashed through the void.

boom--

The glass curtain wall that was already full of cracks could no longer bear the breath of the two people and collapsed.

Zila——

Blood with a light green glow splashed onto the glass fragments that fell like raindrops.

Rhodes staggered two steps back and glanced down. A long, narrow wound with gushing blood attached to most of his right calf.

He Ao stood up and stood in the rain of glass fragments that reflected the light and fell like stars. He looked up at Rhodes and smiled.

He raised his fingertips and flicked the blade of the Shadowless Sword. With a slight buzzing sound, the blood on the sword was blown away, and the entire sword returned to its shadowless state.

"Are you ready?"

He raised his head and looked at Rhodes, who was steady.

"Ready."

Rhodes raised his long knife.

The cold wind outside blew against their cheeks.

Amidst the sound of crackling glass shards falling to the ground, the swords clashed again, and the ritual circle under their feet shone brightly.

Rhodes' calf injury was greatly affected. After several confrontations, He Ao once again mobilized his energy to the maximum, deflected Rhodes' long knife, and pierced Rhodes' heart with one sword.

Rhodes stiffened and froze on the spot.

He Ao pulled out the Shadowless Sword, staggered back a few steps, and stared at him quietly.

After all, this method of extreme mobilization of energy to temporarily increase strength was improvised by He Ao during the battle. It has great side effects and can cause serious damage to the body.
To be continued...