Ye Feng! Say Something!!

Ye Feng's eyes showed almost no ripple of emotion as he looked at Li Guanqi. Those frigid eyes seemed devoid of any humanity whatsoever! Standing to the side, Lu Tian burst into raucous laughter upon seeing this. "Hahahahaha, good, good, good!" "Hahaha, well done!" Lu Tian's eyes were filled with morbid excitement, his expression overflowing with sheer satisfaction. More than three years had passed since the last great battle, and he was finally witnessing the scene he had longed to see. Though it was not yet the grand finale of his performance, it was more than enough to thrill him! Seeing this, Li Guanqi completely lost control! Especially when his eyes fell upon that expressionless woman, standing there as though none of this had anything to do with her. Li Guanqi gripped his longsword and slashed twice toward the woman in an instant! "Thunder Wrath!" "World Annihilation!" Song Zhi'ang felt a chill sink deep into her heart as she watched the incoming sword lights and the near-insane murderous intent in Li Guanqi's eyes... Even though thousands of words and countless explanations welled up inside her, the moment she met Li Guanqi's bloodthirsty, slaughterous gaze, they all choked in her throat, unable to form words. Ye Feng whirled around in an instant. Primal energy surged through his body as he struck out with two slashes with everything he had! Ye Feng's pupils contracted violently! Boom! Bang! Blood sprayed. Ye Feng had stepped directly in front of Song Zhi'ang, forcibly taking the brunt of the sword qi's aftermath. Wounds covered him from head to toe. Blood soaked his black robe, dripping steadily from the hem of his garment. Ye Feng lowered his sword hand, bowing his head in silence as he stood behind Lu Tian. The man curled his lip slightly and murmured inwardly, "Still a bit lacking, but there's no rush." Looking at the ferocious, roaring flame fiends around them, Lu Tian's lips curved faintly. Reaching out, he crushed a ten-zhang dark-green flame fiend into oblivion. Boundless demonic qi surged into the sky. Lu Tian glanced around with an unreadable expression. With a flick of his hand, signs of life miraculously returned to the demonized cultivators below who had already perished, and they rose to their feet once more! Their fatal wounds vanished without a trace, leaving bewildered expressions on many of their faces. Numerous experts observing the battlefield from the shadows sucked in a sharp breath! Lu Tian's cold, aloof voice rang out slowly. "Six Domains, remember this. "I am Lu Tian, Lord of the Heavenly Demon Hall. "Follow me, and I shall bestow upon you eternal life!" Having spoken, Lu Tian turned toward the distant void beside him and sneered, "Meng Jiangchu, one day, I will make you pay." With that, Lu Tian turned and tore open the void, intending to depart with Ye Feng and Song Zhi'ang. As he turned to leave, Li Guanqi roared and soared forward. "Stop right there! "Ye Feng! "Why?! Say something!" "Song Zhi'ang! "I should have killed you long ago! "You wretched woman!" Li Guanqi gripped his longsword once more, and in the span of a single breath, fractures spiderwebbed across the blade! Several terrifying thunderous sword beams surged forth, carrying his sword intent. A mocking smirk tugged at the corner of Lu Tian's mouth as he turned to gaze at Li Guanqi's face. Behind him stood Ye Feng and Song Zhi'ang, their backs turned to Li Guanqi, never looking back once. With a wave of his hand, Lu Tian shattered Li Guanqi's two sword beams and spoke in a chilling voice, his back turned to Li Guanqi. "Li Guanqi, wait for me... "I've got a grand gift prepared for you! Hahahahahahaha!" "Remember, my name now... is Lu Tian." Swish! The fissure sealed shut. Along with it, every single revived cultivator dissolved into puddles of demonic qi and vanished without a trace. Nearly all the cultivators whose corpses had remained intact had been revived—numbering close to two thousand! Staring fixedly at the empty air where the void rift had vanished, Li Guanqi violently coughed up a huge mouthful of blood! Blood sprayed in a red mist as his body swayed and plummeted from the sky. Boom! Scorching flames flared as if to incinerate the heavens! Armored and brandishing a longsword, Meng Jiangchu burst from the void. Catching sight of Li Guanqi, he immediately reached out to catch him. Sensing the chaotic aura churning inside Li Guanqi, Meng Jiangchu's face changed drastically. He hurried to channel the power of heavenly flame, suppressing the unruly energy raging through Li Guanqi's body. Right after him, Gu Changsheng arrived treading upon heavenly flame. His gaze turned sharp the instant he looked at Li Guanqi, and he cursed in low, angry tones: "Absolute madness!" With that, Gu Changsheng swiftly drew out and stripped away the residual pill energy lingering inside Li Guanqi's body. Meng Jiangchu stood aside, his gaze icy as he looked down at the piles of corpses strewn across the ground. With a cold snort, his dark-green flames instantly transformed into five hundred-zhang-tall vengeful ghosts! Five Ghosts Devour Corpses! In an instant, every corpse of the demonic cultivators across the ground was devoured clean. The flames spread for ten thousand zhang around, incinerating almost every remnant of demonic qi into ash. Meng Jiangchu took a deep breath. It seemed he would need to construct a rapid-transit teleportation array within the Great Xia Sword Sect. Otherwise, if something unexpected happened here again, he wouldn't be able to reinforce them in time! Had it not been for earlier events that gave him a sense of unease, he probably would still have been on the road. Gu Changsheng sighed and murmured, "This kid can't keep acting so recklessly. Elder Guo and the other two worked together just to straighten out his meridians earlier! "Such a violent way of circulating primal energy... even those bastards from the Ancient Clan would call him a maniac. "No matter how sturdy his physical body is, he can't trash himself like this!" Looking down at Li Guanqi, whose brow remained tightly furrowed even in unconsciousness, Meng Jiangchu let out a soft sigh. "Don't blame him... "Put yourself in his shoes, and you'd probably handle it even worse. "The one-armed fellow who drew his sword earlier is his sworn brother since he entered the path of cultivation—the kind who went through life and death together countless times... "And that woman was once closely entangled with him as well. In fact, Sha is still alive because of her. "If it were you, could you stay rational?" Gu Changsheng's mouth fell open, and he remained speechless for a long time. Imagining himself in Li Guanqi's place, he realized that he, too, would have swallowed whatever pills were at hand... Gu Changsheng sighed, resting his palm against Li Guanqi's back, and said softly, "Alright, I'll take care of him. "Go outside and investigate what happened with those fellows who were revived earlier. "Also... the Heavenly Demon Divine Hall. This time, the Sha organization didn't just change its name; even Sha himself has taken the name Lu Tian. "Moreover, even from afar, I could sense that the power of these demonized cultivators was vastly different from before..." Meng Jiangchu nodded with a grim face and said coldly, "Something is definitely amiss. 'Revival'... 'eternal life'... "The two things Lu Tian threw out at the end hold far too great a temptation for certain people! "I even suspect that his goal this time was never the Great Xia Sword Sect to begin with." Gu Changsheng's expression shifted, and his tone turned grave. "You mean... Lu Tian's purpose this time was merely to let all the cultivators watching from the shadows learn of the Heavenly Demon Divine Hall's existence? "And... that he possesses the power to raise the dead, and even grant eternal life?"