As the words fell, a sneer suddenly appeared on Meng Wanshu's exquisite face.
Her eyes made no attempt to conceal her ridicule.
The gaze she directed at Li Guanqi was as though she were looking down at an ant.
"I truly don't know what she ever saw in a fellow like you."
"Inferior bloodline, a mere spiritual body... a useless waste who cannot even touch Sword Soul Realm sword intent."
Ye Feng's expression shifted slightly, a ruthless glint flashing in his eyes.
The sword in his hand trembled faintly as he stared fixedly at 'Meng Wanshu'.
"Just what... are! You! So! Smug! About?!"
BOOM!!!!
The Yinming Profound Flame instantly erupted, blanketing the void a thousand zhang around in a single breath.
A terrifying black flame burst forth from within Meng Wanshu's body.
Yet 'Meng Wanshu' merely offered a chilly smile, forming a one-handed seal and lightly tapping the center of her brow.
A spiritual seal shaped like an ice blossom manifested in an instant.
"Petty tricks. Such clumsy methods are an outright insult to heavenly flames..."
"Trash of a heavenly flame that doesn't even rank in the top five, and you think you can burn me?"
BOOM!!
'Meng Wanshu' stomped hard against the ground, and in that instant, the void was frozen solid!!
The flames that blanketed a thousand zhang of the void were actually sealed within glacial ice...
Ye Feng's face turned pale. Just as he took a step forward, Li Guanqi held him back.
Buzz!!!!
A terrifying Sword Prison Thunder Pool enveloped everything within ten thousand zhang.
"Bingqi, that look in your eyes... seems... to hate men?"
A flare of anger abruptly flashed across 'Meng Wanshu's' eyes!!
Lifting her gaze to look at the surrounding lightning, she parted her fine white teeth.
"The Thunder Lord? Heh, now this is getting interesting."
"Hate men? You're not wrong."
"In my eyes, the men of this world are all the same lot of filth. Not one compares to even half of 'her'."
Li Guanqi licked his lips and spoke silently in his mind.
"Sword spirit, can you destroy her?"
The sword spirit's languid voice slowly sounded in his mind.
"Just crushing her? I can."
"However... if you destroy her, the future inheritance regarding the Ascension Realm may be severed."
The corners of Li Guanqi's mouth curved slightly upward, his face remaining as calm as before.
"It doesn't matter."
"With Wanshu's talent, she doesn't need Realm Lord Bingqi's inheritance to surpass her all the same!"
Li Guanqi shoved Ye Feng out of the domain and stepped forward!!
BOOM!!!!
"Sword Ruins: Spirit Absolution!"
Thud!!
Bingqi, whose divine sense had temporarily seized control of Meng Wanshu's mind, crashed violently to her knees!!
An irresistible force descended from the heavens.
Clad in a crimson dress, the sword spirit stood with her hands clasped behind her back, looking down upon her with utter contempt.
With merely a single glance, Bingqi's remnant soul destabilized.
Tens of thousands of blood threads suddenly shot out around the sword spirit. In the blink of an eye, Bingqi's remnant soul was clutched by the throat and hoisted into midair by the sword spirit!!
Judging by looks alone, the woman appeared to be around forty, yet her features were exceptionally beautiful, and she exuded an aloof, proud demeanor.
A flash of panic surfaced in Bingqi's eyes. Boundless frost power erupted from her remnant soul, creeping toward the sword spirit's arm.
Yet before the sword spirit, her strength was like a joke; the frost could not even draw near the sword spirit's fingers...
"Who are you?! A soul? No... you are a spirit!!!"
"How could the Human Spirit Realm have such a powerful spirit?!!! Just who are you?!"
Bingqi's words were filled with terror and unease, along with a trace of uncertain bewilderment.
The sword spirit slightly raised her chin, her eyes narrowing to mere slits.
"Who I am... is not something you are qualified to know."
"Though, those eyes of yours are rather blind."
"Would someone I chose be as pathetic as you claimed?"
Bingqi panicked. She had believed she could seize the moment Meng Wanshu broke through to the peak Mahayana realm to take over her body.
To her, Meng Wanshu's feelings for Li Guanqi were utterly useless.
If one wished to become a pinnacle powerhouse of this world, the seven emotions and six desires had to be severed!
The best way... was to kill Li Guanqi!
Only then could she devote herself entirely to ascetic cultivation.
Yet what Bingqi never anticipated was that Li Guanqi would harbor such a formidable spirit within his body!!
So powerful... that she could not muster the slightest thought of resistance!!
In her eyes, the sword spirit right now was as unattainable as an emperor of the Immortal Realm.
The gulf in power between the two was as vast as clouds and mud!
Looking down at Bingqi's flickering remnant soul, the sword spirit turned to Li Guanqi and asked in a calm voice,
"Kill her?"
"Yes. Kill her and eliminate all future trouble."
"No... don't kill me!! I am a peak Ascension Realm cultivator!!!"
"Keep me alive—I can assist her!! I can—"
"Kill her."
BOOM!!!!!
Endless bloody radiance, like a surging river of blood, erupted instantly from the sword spirit's palm, submerging Bingqi's remnant soul in an instant!!!
In the Seventh Domain, Su Xuan smacked his lips and spat out a bit of tobacco leaf.
"Of all the people to provoke, why did you have to provoke her..."
"Was staying alive not good enough? You just had to seek death and try to possess that girl Wanshu."
From the very beginning, the old man had never worried about Bingqi possessing Meng Wanshu...
With Li Guanqi there, not even ten Bingqis could have possessed her.
Li Guanqi stared blankly at the scene before him, realizing he had still underestimated the sword spirit's strength.
Whether it was spirits or souls, the sword spirit had never paid them any regard.
Even back when her own strength was still remarkably feeble, she had never feared any soul body or spirit body.
Just as she herself had said, against such existences... no one could suppress her!
The sword spirit reached into the river of blood; terrifying power nearly obliterated Li Guanqi's entire Sword Prison Thunder Pool.
An ice-blue bead appeared in her hand. After examining it for a moment, she casually tossed it to Li Guanqi.
"Keep it for her. The inheritance inside is intact, sufficient to sustain her cultivation all the way to the Ascension Realm."
Li Guanqi had not expected the sword spirit to possess such divine ability—to slay Bingqi while preserving her inheritance intact.
After tossing the bead to Li Guanqi, the sword spirit stretched with her hands behind her back, turned, and dissipated.
Li Guanqi softly murmured his thanks and flashed over to Meng Wanshu's side, only for the bead to unexpectedly merge into the center of her brow on its own!!
"Mmh..."
A soft moan escaped her lips. Meng Wanshu's eyelashes fluttered slightly, and the moment she opened her eyes, she was met with Li Guanqi's face full of worry.
"What's wrong?"
"What happened?"
Evidently, Meng Wanshu knew nothing of what had just transpired.
Li Guanqi smiled as he brushed the strands of hair from her forehead aside. "It's nothing. I helped you resolve the latent threat of Bingqi."
Hearing this, Meng Wanshu's eyes widened, and she looked at Li Guanqi in disbelief.
"You... knew she was there?"
Li Guanqi helped her up and spoke calmly.
"Your words and behavior were already clearly affected by her."
"The look in her eyes... she hates men. She must have had her heart thoroughly shattered by a man!"
"Ah? How could you tell..."
Meng Wanshu had no idea when she had ever let Bingqi's remnant soul surface.
Li Guanqi turned his back, clearing his throat awkwardly as he said, "Ahem, last time, when we were... you know... for a brief moment, her remnant soul was struggling violently."
"The emotional fluctuations on your face were far too dramatic."
Meng Wanshu bit her lip, her cheeks flushing crimson as she covered his mouth.
"All right, all right, not another word!"
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