Li Guanqi flicked his wrist with a tranquil expression, sending the blood on Red Lotus's blade flying as he stared emotionlessly at his foe.
"How is Ye Feng doing now?"
Hearing Li Guanqi's words, an amused smirk crept onto Mu Congyi's face.
He tilted his head toward Li Guanqi. "Want to know? Hahahaha! Beg me. Beg me, and I'll tell you!"
At the same time, the power of the demon spirits within Mu Congyi erupted instantly!
Terrifying demonic flames incinerated space itself, causing it to crumble to ash inch by inch like burning paper.
Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes. The power Mu Congyi displayed now was indeed somewhat frightening.
Demonic flames coiled around Mu Congyi's entire body, his eyes turning a purplish crimson as an alarming aura washed through his surroundings.
The demonic qi within ten thousand zhang boiled violently, wisps of it drifting outward in all directions.
Demonic flames also began to gather around Mu Congyi's eye sockets, though this degree of demonization was not even half of what Ye Feng had shown before he was taken away.
In other words...
Even though Mu Congyi had absorbed three whole demon spirits into his body, his control and degree of fusion with their power were not very high.
Even so, his strength had surged once more.
Furthermore, bolstered by the divine markings upon his skin, his physical strength was beginning to approach Li Guanqi's own!
"You want news of Mo Da? Hahahahaha! I won't tell you! I've never understood why someone as strong as Mo Da is constantly thinking of you! Even under the Hall Master's punishment, he has never been willing to abandon the last trace of his humanity!"
Li Guanqi frowned. Judging from Mu Congyi's behavior, the man's reverence for Ye Feng bordered on obsession. This made it even harder for Li Guanqi to imagine what Ye Feng had become now.
Narrowing his eyes, Li Guanqi decided to stop probing.
His concern for Ye Feng's current condition had reached its peak.
*Hum!*
As chilling killing intent rolled out, the void beside Li Guanqi abruptly shattered and collapsed!
*Boom!*
A flash of lightning came and went in an instant. Mu Congyi leaned back almost purely on instinct, but a cold flash sheared off his nose nonetheless.
Before he had time to think, the corner of his eye caught Li Guanqi's emotionless face.
Eyelids slightly lowered, Li Guanqi looked down at him with head tilted back, standing sideways with his longsword held high!
A suffocating, icy dread surged over Mu Congyi!
"Aaargh!"
Gripped by fear, Mu Congyi swung his sword at Li Guanqi with all his might!
The sky across ten li plunged into sudden darkness. Sword light surged from Red Lotus as lightning hissed.
"Demon Shadow Slash: Dark Night!"
*Boom! Boom!*
Two terrifying sword beams blossomed in space.
The void across a hundred zhang violently shattered, and a battered figure scrambled out from the crisscrossing sword qi.
Mu Congyi was covered in wounds, dripping with blood. His flesh was charred and turned outward, blood spilled from the corners of his mouth, and his hair was in disarray. He looked utterly wretched.
A massive laceration tore across his waist, and nearly half the meridians in his body were damaged.
Mu Congyi stuffed a large handful of pills into his mouth, their power churning through his body.
The pills emitted a nauseating stench, and Li Guanqi sharply noticed a fingernail-sized black crystal resting in the palm of Mu Congyi's hand!
"A demon crystal!"
*Boom!*
Mu Congyi's terror toward Li Guanqi had now reached its peak.
A casual swing from his opponent was already something surpassing a Heaven-rank sword technique!
*The Thunder Lord... What a terrifying monster!*
*This primal energy... is far too frightening...*
The lightning wreaking havoc inside his meridians was impossible to purge!
It tore through his pathways like maggots clinging to bone, completely shattering his demonic qi whenever he tried to suppress it.
Now, only by relying on the power of the demon crystal could he briefly keep the surging lightning at bay.
Mu Congyi narrowed his eyes and held his longsword horizontally before him.
Though his tongue was unyielding and he seemed to look down on Li Guanqi, his heart was weighed down with immense dread.
Yet while he had clearly seen Li Guanqi standing a hundred zhang away, in the very next breath the man was already upon him!
"Dance of God Burial!"
A chaotic flurry of sword light filled the sky like a celestial maiden dancing with her blade—dazzling, yet fatal!
Mu Congyi's expression changed drastically. His divine markings blazed with brilliant light, and demonic flames surged to the heavens as he thrust his sword outward!
"Thousand Demon Sword!"
*Boom!*
The blinding lightning sword light collided with the sword light surging with demonic qi.
With overwhelming force, the lightning sword beams crushed through everything in their path!
In an instant, the sword beams crashed down upon Mu Congyi. Wherever the light passed, flesh and blood disintegrated.
A few breaths later, all the demonic qi across the Eighteen Misty Peaks was incinerated into nothingness.
His aura completely withered, a battered Mu Congyi knelt on one knee in midair, his entire body covered in grotesque wounds.
The black sword in his hand, forged from some unknown material, was riddled with notches. Both hands trembled slightly as he leaned on it for support.
His arms were stripped down to the stark white bone, and every rib across his chest was fractured.
Mu Congyi had never imagined he would lose to Li Guanqi.
Much less did he expect to be defeated so decisively; from beginning to end, Li Guanqi had treated him with absolute, crushing dominance.
He had no room to strike back...
Powerful...
So powerful that the thought of resisting could not even take root!
He had no idea what he could do to win...
He had clearly exhausted all his methods, yet his opponent handled everything with effortless ease, making him feel like a toddler flailing about with a sword!
Mu Congyi gritted his teeth, reached into his own body, dragged out a demon spirit, and crushed it violently.
By the time Li Guanqi moved to stop him, it was already too late.
*Whoosh!*
A massive hand suddenly filled Mu Congyi's vision, covered in dragon scales, and slammed down hard across his face!
Desperate to break free, he raised his sword to hack at Li Guanqi's wrist.
Yet right at that moment, two sword lights flashed past in the corner of his vision like lightning!
Both of his arms flew through the air as Li Guanqi's cold voice rang out slowly.
"In my eyes, your strength is not even worth mentioning."
*Boom!*
Lightning erupted outward from the center of Li Guanqi's palm!
Under the terrifying discharge of lightning, Mu Congyi's body turned to ashes, his shrill screams echoing across the heavens!
With only a severed head remaining, Mu Congyi's shrieks rang out ceaselessly.
"Aaargh! Save me! Mo Da! Mo Er! Aaargh! Save me! I don't want to die!"
Li Guanqi remained impassive, his fingers tightening slightly.
Charred black, Mu Congyi's head vividly felt the agony and tactile crunch of fingers crushing his facial bones.
*Bang!*
Mu Congyi's head suddenly exploded. Divine sense surged out in an overwhelming wave as Li Guanqi spoke in a chilling voice:
"Blood Technique: Soul Searching!"
A distinct soul was ripped out in an instant, and a wisp of lightning bored into it. But just as Li Guanqi began to close his eyes, a horrifying blade beam tore through the void and shot straight toward him!
Li Guanqi's expression did not waver. Ripples stirred in the void beside him, and a cold-faced woman whose face was stained with blood walked out slowly, raising her hand to slash out with her sword!
The shockwave of the explosion threw them both back several tens of zhang, and Li Guanqi's expression darkened.
A young man dressed in an ornate black robe stood a hundred zhang away, turning his head to look back at Li Guanqi.
A heavy sense of danger radiated from the young man. Half of his face was enveloped by demonic qi, morphed into the visage of a ghost.
Yet he was not Ye Feng...
The young man held an ethereal soul in his grasp, his gaze toward Li Guanqi exceptionally grave.
"And who are you?"
Behind the youth, a void fissure slowly opened like a gaping maw, swallowing his body. This movement carried a mysterious spatial teleportation power; even if Li Guanqi attacked right now, he would not be able to stop it...
The young man slowly sheathed his blade and cast a deep look at Li Guanqi.
"I am Zhuang Yan. You may also call me Mo Er."
As the words fell, his figure warped and faded away.
"Li Guanqi, we will meet again."
Zhuang Yan's voice echoed softly in Li Guanqi's ears, carrying an inexplicable, lingering weight.
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