Silence, complete silence.

Neither player knew what the other was doing. Even listening carefully, there wasn't a whisper to hint at the other's presence.

Only the omniscient audience knew that both of their characters were moving.

Lord Grim rolled twice after a Slide Kick, swiftly leaving his hiding spot for another. As for Huang Shaotian's Troubling Rain? As Ye Xiu expected, he had merely slowed and rolled into a crouch, carefully approaching where Lord Grim had been hiding before.

Without any hesitation, sword light flashed, cutting through Lord Grim's previous hiding place.

Whoosh!

Lord Grim had originally settled next to a meter high mud wall. Troubling Rain had attacked with a Piercing Form.

This skill had very high priority, and sword light shot into the mud wall, tearing through it like paper and exposing the upper half of the blade on this side.

A miss. Huang Shaotian made a swift judgement. He immediately had Troubling Rain tug his sword out, but Ye Xiu's Lord Grim ha