After Xu Ke finished speaking, although they were fuming with rage, they couldn't possibly pull away to kill him.
"Fine! Let's count down!" the Military Spike Assassin battling Shi Hongda quietly eased up on the pressure.
Shi Hongda nodded. They were desperate to separate and stop wasting energy. It was absolutely impossible for Shi Hongda and his companions to fight the Assassin's Alliance to the death. They were only blocking attacks for Xu Ke because they had been poisoned. Thus, the ceasefire proposed by their opponents perfectly aligned with their own wishes.
The reason they needed to count down before disengaging was because the spiritual lock between Innate Great Perfection experts was too powerful. If they didn't stop simultaneously, they could injure each other or suffer a backlash from their own True Qi. Because of this, they had to release their True Qi at the exact same moment after the countdown.
"Three."
"Two."
"One."
