Bab 770: Acute

"That was close. Help me up quick, we need to leave before they realize I was bluffing!"

Huffing and puffing Hao Xuan extended his hand which Burak swiftly grabbed, lending him a much-needed shoulder as they started sprinting towards the exit again.

"'You will stay here until I call for you.'"

That was perhaps the best bluff Hao Xuan had ever pulled off, and quite successfully to boot.

After using 'Sunder the Heavens' he quickly realized there was no way he would be able to do it again. His hands almost shattered into pieces from the sheer pressure that traveled through them.

But he obviously couldn't let them know that so Hao Xuan pretended that it was just a warning strike and not at all intended to behead Lazar, which it obviously didn't manage to do.

Thankfully, more often than not the idea of something is far more powerful than the actual act itself.