This man's vital energy was tightly sealed, making him look like an ordinary person, but clearly, he was anything but ordinary. So Ian Song directly used Clairvoyant Vision to peer into his dantian.
The moment he looked, Ian was startled.
The man's dantian was at least ten times larger than Ian's, his true qi vast and surging, thick as mercury.
So Ian judged that this was a martial artist whose cultivation had reached at least Innate Seventh or Eighth Layer.
"I have no grudge against you. Why do you want to kill me?" Ian stared at the man and asked in a low voice.
"I owe someone a favor. If I kill you, my debt to him is settled." The man spoke calmly, neither hurried nor slow.
"Who is that person?" Ian pressed further.
The man was silent for a moment. "Sorry, I can't say."
"Young Master Song, hurry and go! I'll block him for you!" Grace Jing's figure flashed, landing between the two. Although the man showed no sign of his aura, Grace instinctively felt he was terrifying.
"You can't stop me!"
The man shook his head and took a step forward.
It looked like an ordinary step, but it was as if he shrank the earth beneath his feet, instantly arriving in front of Grace Jing and then throwing a punch.
The punch wasn't fast—in fact, it was extremely slow. But Grace felt that no matter how she tried to dodge, she couldn't avoid it.
Still, she didn't try to dodge. Her palms lifted and struck out in rapid succession, forming layer upon layer of true-qi palm shadows.
"Pop!"
With a soft sound, his fist easily pierced through the palm shadows and landed on Grace Jing's chest.
At the moment the fist struck her, Grace felt an irresistible force surge into her body, instantly shattering her internal true essence and finally crushing her organs.
Her body floated up like a stalk of straw, and before she even hit the ground, she spat out several mouthfuls of blood and lost consciousness.
Ian Song's figure flashed behind Grace, catching her, and handed her over to the stunned and terrified Lilian Yue. He said in a low voice, "Take her and go. Leave this to me!"
The man's strength was beyond Ian's expectations. After Grace switched to the Origin-Nurturing Scripture, her true essence was already comparable to an average Innate Sixth Layer, but she was still defeated by a single punch. This man was definitely an Innate Eighth Layer expert.