Your Growth Frightens Me

Boom! Ye Feng plummeted toward the earth like an eagle falling from the vault of heaven. A terrifying sword light erupted in an instant, surging power discharging without restraint. Yet the strength of the two formations far exceeded everyone's expectations. With the demon spirit's power fully unleashed, Ye Feng's aura pressed straight into the peak of the mid Mahayana realm! Under his full-strength strike, Ye Feng was knocked back over a hundred zhang by the recoil, yet the two grand arrays merely developed a hairline crack. And the purple grand array at the very bottom was completely unscathed! In other words... Ye Feng's eyes flashed with profound solemnity. If he wanted to shatter the formation below, he had to punch through the blue formation before him first! Yet the defensive power of the two formations was layered together. Suppressing the surging blood and qi within him, Ye Feng swallowed the blood that rushed into his mouth. Looking at the majestic array before him, he knew that if he could not break through it quickly, Li Guanqi and Meng Wanshu would face grave danger. He knew all too well how powerful Lu Tian was; even at his best, he did not possess half of Lu Tian's might. With this thought, Ye Feng took a deep breath. As he raised his hand, the mottled bloodstains on the sword Nu Sha began to glow with a crimson light. Ye Feng murmured softly: "If... you can hear my call." "Then please... lend me your strength!" Screeech! Perhaps the sword spirit of Nu Sha sensed Ye Feng's mindset. In this instant, the sword let out a resonant, piercing cry, and the mottled bloodstains on Nu Sha surged like a flowing river of blood. An unprecedented aura spread from the blade! This aura made the heavens and earth tremble, as though the world itself feared the blood on that sword. Lu Tian's heart gave a start, and he murmured, "Immortal blood! And it seems to have belonged to someone whose cultivation realm was far from low..." Wielding his sword, his graying hair fluttering in the wind, Ye Feng cleaved madly down toward the formation below! Crack! An unexpected sight unfolded. Tainted by immortal blood, Nu Sha cleaved directly into the formation with a single strike, suddenly carving a massive hundred-zhang gap into the grand array that covered a radius of a hundred li! Furthermore, under the burning of the Yinming Profound Flame, the formation could not heal at all. A flicker of joy crossed Ye Feng's eyes. This was the first time he had truly felt the immense power of Nu Sha! Ye Feng's spirit ruins trembled slightly. His eyes narrowed, and his voice was icy cold: "Apocalypse: Nu Sha!" Boom! At this moment, Nu Sha's imposing momentum surged even higher. Li Guanqi flitted through the air, sidestepping a sharp blade of sword light, and swung his sword in a frantic flurry without hesitation! Li Guanqi fought alongside Meng Wanshu. Flawlessly coordinated, their dazzling sword lights enveloped Lu Tian. Fierce ice primal energy and lightning primal energy unleashed nearly the most terrifying of elemental source powers. Lightning held significant suppression over Lu Tian, leaving him somewhat strained on defense for a moment. His figure was forced back again and again! Li Guanqi and Meng Wanshu's strength and cultivation could never be measured by common sense. Given their present combat power, even slaying a late Mahayana realm cultivator would be well within their means. After all, one was the Ice Lord, and the other was the Thunder Lord. The sheer dreadfulness of their primal energy was something not even Lu Tian dared to take lightly. Lu Tian had no choice but to yield step after step. The violent demonic qi posed not the slightest threat to Li Guanqi. Even when facing Meng Wanshu, that monstrous demonic qi was instantly frozen solid by her frost power! Yet at the same time, numerous deep, bone-exposing wounds appeared across both Li Guanqi and Meng Wanshu. Clang! Clang! Clang! The clash of weapons rang out dense as rain. Crisscrossing sword qi shattered the surrounding space, shaking mountains and rivers and twisting the domain. Lu Tian's strength was far beyond Li Guanqi's imagination. The man's mastery over the sword Dao was hardly inferior to Li Guanqi's. His strikes were swift and ferocious—a grazing blow meant injury! That demonic qi, refined to the extreme, invaded his body and battered incessantly against his sea of consciousness. Fortunately, Li Guanqi's sea of consciousness was vast, and his Dao platform stood firm. Meng Wanshu, however, was another matter. Even having received the Bingqi inheritance, the strength of her sea of consciousness still fell short of Li Guanqi's. At this moment, her face was slightly pale, and her eyes grew unfocused from time to time. Seeing this, Li Guanqi instinctively poured more strength into his hands. His tremendous physical power forced Lu Tian back step by step, furrowing Lu Tian's brow tightly. Sensing the pressure abruptly lift from her, Meng Wanshu hastily retreated several zhang through the air, circulating her cultivation technique to expel the turbulent, rampaging demonic qi from her body. Left to face Lu Tian alone, Li Guanqi grew more ferocious the longer he fought! Gradually, more wounds appeared on Lu Tian's body. Li Guanqi's eyes were bloodshot, and the speed of his sword grew faster and faster! So fast... that even Lu Tian could barely track the sword's trajectory. Such a development astonished even Lu Tian. What was more, Li Guanqi's aura was growing increasingly formidable, and his power was climbing at an unbelievable speed. Unbeknownst to Lu Tian, the primal energy in Li Guanqi's meridians was flowing wildly, circulating according to a profound route. Moreover, relying on the sheer toughness of his meridians, Li Guanqi had adopted the method of the Ancient Clan, trading brute force for the greatest speed. Li Guanqi murmured inwardly, "Divine Punishment, Second Layer: Gathering Momentum!" Boom! The moment Li Guanqi pushed the second layer of the technique to its utmost limit, he struck Lu Tian flying with a single slash! Lightning coiled around Li Guanqi, making him a full fifty percent stronger than the power he had shown before! Drenched in blood, Li Guanqi stood ten zhang away from Lu Tian, gasping for breath in heavy heaves. The high-intensity combat drained a massive amount of his primal energy, and his mind had remained under extreme strain throughout. Reaching out, Li Guanqi crushed several purple gold crystals, circulating his primal energy to frantically devour their essence. Lu Tian's gaze was solemn as his eyes narrowed at Li Guanqi. Lowering his head to look at his shredded robes and the gruesome, bone-deep wounds on his body, the smile completely vanished from his face. His voice was calm as he spoke slowly: "Though I loathe to admit it... your growth is far faster than I ever imagined..." "Your growth... frightens me." As Lu Tian spoke, Li Guanqi's expression shifted drastically. He shot backward, pulling Meng Wanshu back over a hundred zhang in an instant! Below, Ye Feng was still frantically attacking the grand array, but unable to locate the core, the formation was still rapidly healing. Lu Tian glanced down at Ye Feng. The fact that the man could damage the formation had caught him off guard. If Ye Feng truly managed to destroy the array core by dumb luck, then with Li Guanqi's present strength, things would become rather troublesome. At that thought, Lu Tian tapped a finger against the empty air. Instantly, countless pitch-black rifts tore through the void, and powerful Abyss Demons surged densely out of the fissures. There were thousands upon thousands of Abyss Demons, every single one rivaling a Body Integration Realm expert! It was unimaginable how many Abyss Demons Lu Tian had secretly nurtured! Ye Feng's expression changed, yet his steady voice still rang in Li Guanqi's ear: "Don't worry about me! I can handle this!" Ye Feng dodged and slashed through the Abyss Demons. He even harnessed the power of the demon spirit to devour the source energy of these Abyss Demons, keeping himself out of immediate danger for the time being.