Earth level martial artists were much stronger and faster than black level. Ye Mo could easily kill black level but he was having trouble with the surrounded attacks of earth levels.
Other than the old man he killed, there were two earth levels out of the five attacking him and they were both intermediate stage. Although Ye Mo had summoned back his flying sword, he was still a step slower. The flying sword stopped the 3 but couldn’t stop the other 2.
Ye Mo used a wind blade on the black level while punching the back of the sword of an earth level. This was just a moment. The earth level struck back by Ye Mo retreated a few steps and happened to see Ye Mo kill that black level with wind blade. Although he didn’t know what projectile Ye Mo used but it was obviously very strong.
