"I don't... f-fucking care who the hell you are..."
"You're... all going to die!!"
Li Guanqi smiled, leaned in close to his ear, and whispered, "My name is... Li Guanqi."
*Buzz!*
*Drip, drip...*
Luo Siyang shook like a sieve, his pupils shrinking to pinpricks, shuddering madly.
Sheer terror painted his ashen face, and a yellow puddle began dripping beneath him.
Li Guanqi crushed the finger bones in Luo Siyang's hand one by one.
Removing the storage ring from his finger, Li Guanqi's powerful divine sense instantly erased the imprint upon it.
Rummaging through its contents, he pulled out a verdant jade slip.
Waving it before Luo Siyang's eyes, he asked softly, "Is this Luo Changqing's jade slip?"
Luo Siyang was utterly paralyzed with terror, his breathing ragged, his mind ringing violently.
*Li Guanqi... He's actually Li Guanqi! Why is he here?!*
*Right... the Great Xia Sword Sect... He's from the Great Xia Sword Sect!!*
Seeing Luo Siyang fail to respond, Li Guanqi found it boring.
Turning back to Kong Yan, he smiled and said, "Senior, please rest assured and recover your strength. I know what I'm doing. Once you've recovered a bit, you can tell me in detail what happened."
Hearing this, Kong Yan had no choice but to tend to his injuries first. Having his inner power sealed for so long without any cultivation to rely on had left him feeling uneasy.
Once the elder closed his eyes and began refining the power within his body, Li Guanqi's face darkened at once.
He raised a hand to seal the void around the elder, then slowly turned back.
Looking at Luo Siyang, he did not kill him right away. Instead, right before his eyes, he broke the restriction on the jade slip and spoke coldly to the person connected to it:
"I am Li Guanqi."
"Your brother is in my hands. Come find me in the Taiqing Domain."
With that, Li Guanqi crushed the jade slip to powder.
Beneath Luo Siyang's bewildered gaze, Li Guanqi said softly, "Give it up. Even if he comes, he won't be able to save you."
As his words fell, a sealing spirit incantation shot hundreds of zhang into the sky!
It hung Luo Siyang beneath the clouds to bake under the blazing sun!
In just two hours, with his primal energy sealed, Luo Siyang could not help whimpering, completely dehydrated and listless.
Now, all Luo Siyang could hope for was that his elder brother would arrive quickly—preferably bringing all the Luo Clan's powerhouses along!
Drained of all strength, Luo Siyang fantasized about Li Guanqi kneeling and begging for mercy. Perhaps only through such thoughts could his heart find any solace, and perhaps only then would the sunlight overhead not feel so mercilessly scorching.
Li Guanqi sat cross-legged atop the mountain peak, clad in a white robe as he leisurely sipped his wine.
Narrowing his eyes, he did not know what Kong Yan had suffered over the years.
Yet he knew the old man had undoubtedly endured endless humiliation during all that time.
Earlier, he had hesitated over whether to reveal his true identity, fearing that learning Li Guanqi belonged to the sect might make the elder feel embarrassed or humiliated.
Yet after thinking it through, he had chosen to tell Kong Yan after all.
Precisely because they were family, he would not let the elder feel awkward or ashamed.
And just as he expected, the moment Kong Yan learned Li Guanqi's identity, his first reaction was to urge him not to kill Luo Siyang.
Because doing so might bring danger to the Great Xia Sword Sect, and he feared for Li Guanqi's safety as well.
Drinking his wine, Li Guanqi pondered the matter of Luo Changqing.
After a moment's thought, he took out a jade slip and asked softly, "Are you familiar with Luo Changqing?"
Soon, Qin Wushang's puzzled voice came through the jade slip.
"Heard of him, not close."
"You bumped heads with him?"
Qin Wushang made no effort to hide his eager, gossiping tone in that last question.
Li Guanqi gave a helpless chuckle. "His brother is in my hands, hanging from the sky taking a sunbath right now."
Qin Wushang practically bolted upright in bed. "*Tsk*, his brother... Luo Siyang?"
"That guy is an outright profligate playboy, a worthless piece of trash. How did the two of you cross paths?"
Li Guanqi had no intention of saying too much. After exchanging a couple of words, he put the jade slip away.
Yet how could Qin Wushang sit still? Knowing Li Guanqi, if Li Guanqi said Luo Siyang was hanging from the sky sunbathing, then if he hadn't already skinned him and turned him into a dried corpse, that was already being lenient.
Qin Xiao happened to pass by the rear courtyard and frowned as he saw Qin Wushang taking to the air. "Where are you going?"
"To watch the show!"
With that, Qin Wushang vanished from the domain, departing straight out of the Qin Imperial City in the Ethereal Immortal Domain.
Within an ancient clan in the Ethereal Immortal Domain, a streak of saber qi suddenly sliced through the air in a courtyard on the rear mountain.
Immediately after, a young man clad in a blue-violet robe stood suspended in midair.
The young man had sharp features and a cold, grim expression, entirely devoid of smiles.
He stood tall and straight like a proud pine on a mountain summit, carrying a pitch-black scabbard in his left hand, its hilt equally dark.
A lock of his long black hair draped down his forehead, covering the left side of his face. When the breeze brushed it aside, one could see that the youth had no left ear!
Luo Changqing narrowed his eyes, his brows tightly knit.
A sharp glint flashed in the depths of his gaze. Soon, several Luo Clan elders flew over.
The leader frowned and asked, "Changqing, why did you emerge from seclusion so early?"
Luo Changqing's gaze swept over the men before him, and he sneered as he turned away. "Isn't it all thanks to your wonderful grandson!"
With those words, Luo Changqing slashed his saber out!
*Rumble!*
The entire domain trembled beneath the strike, tearing open a fissure a hundred zhang wide.
Luo Changqing stepped into the void, turning a deaf ear to the inquiries of the people behind him.
With a solemn face, he stepped through the fissure, murmuring under his breath, "Li Guanqi, is it..."
"I've heard much of your name. Let us see each other then."
"Over the past two years, the others have been under tremendous pressure. Those few are probably his sworn brothers, right?"
Li Guanqi waited quietly, and before long, Kong Yan woke up.
A sharp light suddenly flashed in the old man's eyes. Exhaling a breath of turbid air, a powerful surge of primal energy swirled around him; it seemed it would not be long before he restored his cultivation to the late Soul Formation Realm.
Moreover, every medicinal pill Li Guanqi had given him was exceedingly precious. In the future, once he consumed the remaining two pills, he might even have a shot at attempting to break through to the Void Refining Realm!
Looking at the clean robes neatly laid out before him, the elder picked them up, his eyes suddenly growing moist.
Because the white robe Li Guanqi had prepared for him was none other than the elder robe of the Great Xia Sword Sect!
With trembling hands, Kong Yan lifted the robe, gently brushing his fingers across the sect insignia. He sighed with emotion. "Wandering adrift for so long, and in the end, it was still my sect that saved me..."
"This was truly destiny..."
Watching the elder put on the pristine robes and bind his messy white hair, Li Guanqi saw that the gloom between his brows had softened considerably.
Li Guanqi asked softly, "Elder Kong, can you tell me what happened over the years?"
"And how did it come to this?"
Chapter 1000