It's just...
At this point, these people were not ones he could kill just because he wanted to.
When he drew the sword from his waist and aimed it at those people, before the blade could pierce their bodies, he felt a spiritual force directly striking towards him.
He quickly raised his hand to block it, but was still caught off guard, getting knocked away entirely.
"Ugh!"
With a muffled groan, his subordinate fell to the ground, kicking up an invisible cloud of dust.
"Yan Qing!"
The boss, upon hearing the sound, immediately sensed something was wrong, and shouted his subordinate's name.
"Who's there, hiding and sneaking around? If you have the guts, come out and fight me one-on-one!" he shouted into the air.
What shocked him was that, with his subordinate already knocked out, he couldn't even sense the opponent's presence.
