However, just as this seventh-level swordsman was about to catch Ethan Brooks, it was as if he had already anticipated the opponent’s move. His figure flashed in an unbelievable way, using a tree in the courtyard as cover to slightly block his pursuer’s line of sight. Then, with a burst of force, he dashed out of the courtyard.

“The only advanced swordsman in the Yunlai Sword Sect, Logan Foster, is already half dead. If I want to kill you, where do you think you can escape to?”

The middle-aged man watched as Ethan Brooks rushed out of the courtyard, took a step, and immediately chased after him. At the same time, the fine steel sword in his hand thrust forward. Even before the sword arrived, the sharp intent contained in its edge had already pierced to the bone.

“Not good!”

“Ethan!”

At this moment, a cry of alarm suddenly came from outside the courtyard.

The middle-aged man had just chased outside when a sword shadow slashed across the air, the fierce force contained in the blade colliding head-on with the true energy on the middle-aged man’s sword, causing a burst of explosive sound in the void.

“The opponent is a seventh-level swordsman, be careful!”

Seeing that it was Yvonne Brooks, who seemed to have come looking for him, Ethan Brooks shouted urgently.

“Seventh-level swordsman!?”

Yvonne Brooks was shocked, and immediately felt a terrifying force erupt from the middle-aged man’s sword, sending her flying back. Her internal organs were all injured by the shock of this power.

A fifth-level swordsman can still put up a fight against a sixth-level swordsman, but between a sixth-level and a seventh-level swordsman lies the true boundary between intermediate and advanced swordsmen. The former refines force, while the latter cultivates true energy—there is a fundamental difference in power.

Even ten sixth-level swordsmen would not be a match for a single seventh-level swordsman.

“Yvonne Brooks? The only young expert in Yunlai Sword Sect besides Logan Foster who can hold up the sect’s reputation? Boasting that you’ll fight our Xuanling Sect to the death? Very well, since you’re here, neither of you will leave. Tonight, I’ll kill you both!”

The middle-aged man sneered coldly, and his sword technique suddenly changed!

“Twin Masters of Wind and Cloud!”

In an instant, the sword in the middle-aged man’s hand seemed to split into two. One sword struck Yvonne Brooks’s sword, completely breaking down her technique, while the second sword drove straight in, aiming directly at Yvonne Brooks’s heart.

Even though Yvonne Brooks reacted immediately and dodged swiftly, the sharp sword light still pierced through her shoulder.

“Ethan, go! I’ll hold him off!”

Even with her shoulder run through by a sword, Yvonne Brooks did not retreat in the slightest. Gritting her teeth, she shouted, and the sword that had been knocked away stabbed fiercely at the middle-aged man once more.

Mutual destruction!

This was a completely self-sacrificing fighting style!

“Wretch!”

Facing Yvonne Brooks’s desperate, life-risking attack, the middle-aged man cursed harshly: “I’ll kill that brat first, then deal with you!”

As he spoke, he spun around like a tiger unleashed, charging ferociously at Ethan Brooks. The overwhelming aura he unleashed was enough to shatter the mind of an ordinary fourth-level swordsman.

Under this terrifying pressure, Ethan Brooks’s mental world suddenly boiled over. His powerful spiritual force almost burst out, and his sensitivity to every movement in the environment reached its peak.

As the middle-aged man’s sword enveloped his body, Ethan Brooks’s fine steel sword stabbed out, directly meeting the middle-aged man’s true energy-infused strike, managing to deflect the deadly blow of this seventh-level swordsman ever so slightly.

Even so, the terrifying force from the middle-aged man’s sword transmitted through the blade, causing Ethan Brooks’s body to shudder violently and forcing him to stagger back six steps.

“Hm!? Such sharp combat instincts! To survive a blow from me with only the cultivation of a fourth-level swordsman—if you grow stronger, you’ll surely become a grave threat to my Xuanling Sect. I cannot let you live!”

The middle-aged man shouted fiercely, charging at Ethan Brooks once more, his sword as swift as lightning.

“Not good!”

Having just been knocked back, Ethan Brooks’s entire body was already surging with turbulent blood and energy. His sword-wielding right hand felt as if it were shattered—how could he possibly withstand the middle-aged man’s second strike now!?

In an instant, the cold sword edge blossomed before his eyes.

“Ethan!”

At the very moment the middle-aged man’s sword was about to strike Ethan Brooks, Yvonne Brooks suddenly rushed over from the side, her jet-black hair flying in the night, her expression almost crazed.

“No!”

“Shhk!”

Blood splattered everywhere.

At the critical moment, Yvonne Brooks actually used her own body to block the middle-aged man’s deadly sword!

The blood-soaked sword pierced out from Yvonne Brooks’s back, less than three centimeters from Ethan Brooks’s brow.

Death was so close to him!

“Go!”

Yvonne Brooks shouted harshly, her hair flying, her face filled with pain and determination. All the force in her body locked the middle-aged man’s sword that had pierced into her, making it impossible for him to pull it out!

“Yvonne!”

“Go!”

Shock!

Clutching the sword that had been driven into her body, her face twisted in pain and madness as she shouted, Yvonne Brooks at this moment brought Ethan Brooks a kind of overwhelming shock that words could not describe!