Unleashing Full Power, Clashing Head-On with a Mahayana Clone!

Li Guanqi stood alone with his sword before the crowd. His white robes whipped through the air, his long hair fluttered in the wind, and his gaze was piercing as a blade. With the thunder sword in hand, Li Guanqi stood as reassuringly solid as an immovable mountain. Facing the terrifying blood spikes assailing him from all directions, Li Guanqi remained impassive, suppressing the violent lightning primal energy within his blade. Holding the sword in his left hand, he unleashed a dazzling barrage of sword light. In an instant, the void shattered, and the hundred-zhang expanse of swamp-like blood mist fractured inch by inch. Behind him, the old man looked at the young man standing guard before him, his heart a tangle of mixed emotions. He did not know when it had happened, but the young man before him had grown more than a head taller than him. If not for Li Guanqi, he likely would have died long ago. Whenever Li Guanqi returned to the sect, he appeared to be attending to other matters, but in truth he would secretly leave a bit of his power inside Li Nanting every time. Having learned from painful past experience, Li Guanqi had long anticipated that enemies would inevitably target those closest to him! Pfft! Whoosh! As the blood mist descended toward Tianlei Peak, Li Guanqi shielded Li Nanting with his right arm and pointed his sword toward a patch of empty space with his left, his voice frigid. "Hiding away, afraid to show your face?" The void remained dead silent, without the slightest reply. Li Guanqi closed his eyes slightly, and his terrifying divine sense instantly swept across the entire territory of the Great Xia Sword Sect! Yet the very moment he released his divine sense, several dozen disciples across the various peaks of the Great Xia Sword Sect suffered bloated dantians and blew themselves apart with deafening booms! "Not good! What's happening?!" "These... these are all disciples who went out on patrol over the last three days!" "Damn it, the elder of Tianjin Peak is also... Quick, stop the blood mist!" Chaos erupted, but their efforts to intercept the mist were utterly futile. Li Guanqi's expression turned grim to the extreme. He could not sense the faintest trace of aura from the person behind this. Wary, Li Guanqi sent a low transmission: "Senior Nangong, Senior Gong Ze, immediately evacuate the disciples into the Guanyun Domain Boundary!" Hum! As the realm lord of the Guanyun Domain Boundary, Li Guanqi waved his hand and tore open three massive rifts within the Great Xia Sword Sect! Gong Ze and the others stood guard at the rifts, and in an instant, disciples across the Great Xia Sword Sect took to the air, pouring into the domain boundary. Li Guanqi watched the surging blood mist with cold eyes, sensing the horrifying power churning within it. Clearly, someone was orchestrating all of this from the shadows, and their cultivation was immense—at the very least stronger than his own! Only someone of that caliber could manipulate an external medium with such terrifying potency. The power displayed by this blood mist was nearly on par with a late Body Integration Realm cultivator. Otherwise, it could not have suppressed Gong Ze and the others in an instant and drained their vital essence. Boom! The writhing blood mist surged abruptly, forming a sphere hundreds of zhang across that enclosed Li Guanqi completely! A glint of cold light flashed through Li Guanqi's eyes. He lowered his stance slightly, relaxed on the outside but coiled with tension within. Watching the sky full of blood spikes surge down like crashing breakers, he burst forth instantly! Suddenly! Just as Li Guanqi raised his sword to meet the blood spikes, Li Nanting's panicked cry came from behind him! "Watch out!" Boom! An even more formidable aura erupted abruptly from behind. The instant the old man spoke, Li Guanqi completed his dragon transformation, his vital blood roaring as he pushed the Dragon Elephant Prison-Suppressing Art to its absolute limit! At this moment, Li Guanqi's physical body was no less durable than a resilient magic treasure. Wheeling around, Li Guanqi was met with an unbelievable sight. Countless reddish-gold chains burst from Li Nanting's body in an instant. Two fingers thick and blindingly fast, the chains pierced straight through Li Guanqi's limbs in the blink of an eye! Squelch, squelch, squelch! A muffled grunt tore from Li Guanqi's lips! Li Nanting watched this scene in terror and dismay, having completely lost control over his own body. Fine beads of blood seeped through his skin, and several more chains shot out from his dantian! However, these few chains appeared somewhat ethereal, not entirely corporeal. Clatter! Cold light gleamed in Li Guanqi's eyes as his body twisted, fighting frantically against the chains' dragging force. His face turned stark and grim. With a lift of his hand, his Sword Prison expanded beside him, instantly manifesting several dozen impeccably condensed thunder swords! "Thunder Wrath!" "Heaven Shatterer Sword Slash!" Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Deafening blasts resounded as mighty sword light slashed out one after another, yet nearly all the primal energy swords were shattered to pieces in an instant. Li Guanqi's eyes shook. Seeing the chains swaying like vipers lying in wait all around him, he felt a terrible premonition! Swish, swish, swish! At that moment, several chains shot forth with lethal speed, aimed straight between Li Guanqi's brows! Seeing this, Li Nanting's eyes turned bloodshot, wide with terror and fury. "Guanqi!" Primal energy surged within the old man as he grabbed fiercely at the ethereal chains before him! Inevitably, his hands passed right through the ethereal chains. Yet in that same breath, he understood what the chains were! Boom! A layer of silvery-white flame suddenly enveloped the surface of Li Nanting's body! "Soul Burning!" "Master! No!" Boom! Li Nanting's robes snapped wildly, his grizzled hair thrashing in the wind, his eyes blazing in fury. His hands, engulfed in white flame, clamped down hard on the ethereal chains. In just a single breath, the friction from the chains wore his palms into a bloody mess. Yet the old man wrapped the chains around his arms and gripped them tightly in his palms. Veins bulged along his neck as he braced his feet against the void and pulled with all his might! Incredibly, the eerie chains came to a screeching halt a mere inch from the center of Li Guanqi's forehead. Blood gushed from Li Nanting's nose. His teeth were gritted, the corners of his eyes twitching as his face flushed the color of pig's liver. "Go!" Li Guanqi condensed hundreds, thousands of primal energy swords around him, relentlessly battering the chains with thunder swords. Yet the chains did not budge an inch—clearly a sealing treasure of the highest order! He could even feel the primal energy within his body being sealed away bit by bit. Ruthlessness flashing in his eyes, Li Guanqi raised his left hand and violently severed his right arm! Clatter! The pull of the chains slackened, and Li Guanqi instantly swallowed a Spirit Burst Pill! Boom! A violent aura surged skyward, its horrifying pressure pressing right against the half-step Mahayana Realm! His eyes bloodshot, Li Guanqi swallowed yet another pill. Boom! Tier 7 Spirit Comprehension! This was a realm only ancient eccentrics could command. Swish! Primal energy surged within Li Guanqi's body, and aided by the medicinal power, his arm regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye. Li Guanqi's unhesitating act of severing his limbs to escape the seal's control seemed to catch even the mastermind off guard, for an instant later, even more chains shot toward him with explosive speed. Li Nanting struggled desperately to hold on, looking utterly tragic as blood streamed from his seven facial orifices. The sky full of chains was on the verge of trapping Li Guanqi completely. Hum! Golden light enveloped the chains, and in that instant, the power of every barbed chain surged dramatically! Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft! Several dozen chains pierced right through Li Guanqi's body in succession! Li Guanqi gritted his teeth, and in the next moment... Both of Li Nanting's arms were instantly torn off by the ethereal chains, and several chains shot violently into Li Guanqi's forehead between his brows.