Chapter 257: [208] Using a knife as a sword, slashing your future, and cutting you into the divine path (New Year’s plea for votes)_3
 

The wind howled past his ears.

He didn’t have time for anything else, unleashing all his strength, the intense heat from his arms greatly amplifying the energy of the sword strike he had delivered.

A month ago, he had used this very sword strike to completely cripple Tai Yuan of the Old Gods Association.

And today, he faced Pei Jinye with the same swordsmanship.

However, not a single change appeared on Pei Jinye’s face.

Using the knife as a sword, the strike fell.

The light in mid-air suddenly exploded, the myriad forces that burst forth instantly swept away everything around and beneath the two men.

The fiercely dangerous tip of the knife swept perilously close to Lin Ye’s face, but before he could feel relieved as if he narrowly escaped death, Pei Jinye’s fist, like thunder exploding in the sky, struck Lin Ye’s chest with a gust of wind.

Bang!

A loud noise.

The two figures entangled in an instant fight rapidly flew apart.

Lin Ye’s gaze was grave as he stared at Pei Jinye, suddenly feeling a surge of blood rushing to his throat, yet he forcefully suppressed it.

“Your swordsmanship… is very strong.”

This was the first time today that he had taken someone so seriously.

At this moment, he even wondered if this young man, who didn’t seem very old, could be the murderer who killed his brother.

But his brother, Lin Jun, had been killed by a palm strike that shattered his bones and blasted his chest cavity open.

He was not aware of such experts arising from the Old Gods Association.

Therefore, he naturally excluded Pei Jinye from his suspicions.

Instinctively, he felt the killer who murdered his brother was between the ages of thirty-five to forty, an age where one could only possess such strength after many years of practicing martial arts.

“Ah,” Lin Ye sighed, tasting blood in his mouth. Slowly lifting his head, he said, “If it were before, I would fight you seriously, but now… sorry, I have other matters to attend to.”

He was just about to retreat.

Pei Jinye’s knife was already in pursuit.

Lin Ye frowned, “I don’t want to fight you.”

Pei Jinye’s knife slashed down fiercely.

One strike, two strikes, three strikes.

Forcing Lin Ye back against the wall.

He replied coldly, “Who do you think you are? Thinking you’re capable of beating us and so you disdainfully attack. Now you find it troublesome and don’t want to fight? You’re taking yourself way too seriously.”

Lin Ye blocked Pei Jinye’s Titanium Alloy Knife with his sword, but his arm was so numb from the reverberation that he clenched his teeth and said, “Don’t force me.”

Pei Jinye answered with a ferocious blow.

“Then what can you do to me!”

Lin Ye was once again sent flying against the wall.

The members of the Investigation Team from around the area had already arrived.

Seizing the opportunity, Lin Ye scrambled over the wall to escape.

Pei Jinye followed close behind.

Brother Bi’s complexion changed slightly, “Stop chasing.”

One after the other, the two figures disappeared into the streets, leaping and dashing across the rooftops of a row of lofts.

What Lin Ye failed to perceive was that he never felt as if Pei Jinye had intentionally let him escape, but rather, he believed he had the ability to escape from Pei Jinye’s grasp.

He indeed found Pei Jinye troublesome, but judging from their current skirmish, he felt that if he truly treated it as a life-or-death battle, he could definitely have the potential to kill his opponent.

But he didn’t want to do that now.

In fact, he regretted acting impulsively against the members of the Investigation Team last night.

With the arrow nocked, he had no way to turn back.

If he couldn’t catch the killer, he wouldn’t be content.

“Don’t push me!”

Lin Ye roared in a low voice.

Pei Jinye charged forward expressionlessly.

In his eyes, the once overpowering Heaven God Protector, now boasting a spiritual power rating of[17-18.8], no longer posed any threat.

Lin Ye was annoyed, his whole body arching like a bow, and if someone were beside him at that moment, they could clearly hear the creaking and groaning of muscles and bones in his body as they stretched and bent under strain.

This was the power gathering at breakneck speed, ready to erupt and release.

He tore off his shirt in one go, revealing a rugged upper body without a single scratch, but there was a Fierce Tiger pattern on it, marking him like a human hand grenade, exuding an intensely ferocious aura.

“You forced this on me!”

“Such a waste of words.”

Pei Jinye’s knife came slashing head-on.

Lin Ye’s pupils suddenly constricted!