A resonant sword cry rang out!
Immediately after, a spiritual sword of thunder burst through the roof of a detached courtyard in Linyan City, soaring straight up from the ground!
The spiritual sword expanded rapidly against the wind, swelling in an instant to a hundred zhang in size.
It plunged violently into the ground south of the city, dazzling purple light illuminating the void.
Terrifying waves of power washed over the surroundings again and again.
Mountain peaks shattered, ancient trees were uprooted, wild dust filled the sky, and raging flames ran wild!
Outside a collapsed building, a young girl stared intently at Li Guanqi's ferocious, mangled face.
The hem of her pink dress fluttered in the air.
For some unknown reason, as she gazed upon that colossal sword lodged in the earth, an ache filled her heart.
Her right hand clutched her chest, a wrenching pain cutting through her...
Within this explosion, the power bursting from the spiritual sword was horrifying.
Yet amidst the blast's aftershocks, the spiritual sword shrank little by little.
Lying in the deep crater, Li Guanqi turned his head toward Linyan City, his eyes practically splitting as tears of blood streamed down!
His face contorted, Li Guanqi poured every shred of strength in his body into the spiritual sword.
Rumble, rumble! Boom, boom!
In the end...
Aside from the collapsed wall south of the city, Linyan City remarkably became the only place to survive across a hundred-li radius!
Pengluo broke their fusion voluntarily. Without a moment to say more, he reached into the void, pulled out a large pile of radishes, and shoved them frantically into Li Guanqi's mouth!
As he stuffed them in, his body trembled as he muttered, "Eat, eat, eat! Hurry, eat, eat, eat..."
"He's coming down... He's descending, descending! Aaaaargh! Someone came down!"
Pengluo's eyes were filled with terror. He kept shoving them into Li Guanqi's mouth while looking up at the sky, not even noticing that radishes were being stuffed right into Li Guanqi's nose.
Li Guanqi chewed ravenously, opening his storage ring to swallow more than ten medicinal pills!
Shattering thirty full purple gold crystals, he gulped down the dense spiritual qi that had transformed into a river of energy!
Li Guanqi crawled slowly out of the deep crater, resembling a vicious fiend!
Blood drenched his clothes, vicious wounds covered his body, his face was battered beyond recognition, and his aura was frail.
This was perhaps the most severe injury Li Guanqi had sustained since embarking on the path of cultivation...
Jiuxiao desperately channeled its primal energy into Li Guanqi, and Li Guanqi accepted all of it.
Pengluo's power rapidly restored his shattered meridians and injuries within his body while continuously replenishing his primal energy and divine sense.
Yet Li Guanqi had no time to heal.
Because...
Li Guanqi slowly looked up.
Across the entire Qingyun Continent, all could see a massive hole a hundred zhang across torn through the vault of heaven!
Terrifyingly, what lay behind this hole was not a collapsed void.
Within the circular breach, seven-colored light shimmered, and from the warped space, a gigantic hand suddenly thrust out!
Hum!
A pressure that compelled all living beings to submit suddenly descended!
In an instant, cultivators below the Mahayana realm across the Qingyun Continent plummeted from midair one after another, prostrating on the ground!
Monsters in the mountains wailed in distress, soiling themselves in terror.
The earth trembled, mountain peaks shattered, and the void distorted.
Li Guanqi gritted his teeth and looked back toward Linyan City.
With a single glance, he saw the young girl standing on the street, weeping her eyes out.
The girl was none other than the reincarnated Yu Sui'an—now known as Yun Chuxue.
She wore an embroidered pink gown, her long, glossy black hair cascading like a waterfall.
With an oval face and willow-leaf eyebrows, her eyes sparkled as clear as mountain springs.
She had a delicate, high-bridged nose, rosy lips, fair skin, and a touch of lingering baby fat.
The corners of Li Guanqi's mouth curved upward without him realizing. He gazed at her with tenderness, as if wanting to etch her appearance deep into his mind.
His lips trembled slightly, and he murmured in a gentle whisper, "She's... grown so big..."
"Fair and clean... How wonderful."
Right then, a middle-aged man and a woman came running from the corner of an alley.
Their eyes darted anxiously in search of something, and the moment they spotted the girl, they hurriedly pulled her aside.
Turning his head back, Li Guanqi held only a single thought in his mind:
Namely...
Even if an immortal had descended into the mortal world, he would keep Linyan City completely safe and intact!
Li Guanqi lowered his head, forcing himself not to look back again.
Because he knew that from this moment onward, his every move could not escape the immortal's gaze.
Therefore... he had to do everything possible to avoid exposing Sui'an's presence!
Li Guanqi took a deep breath, his breathing ragged and heavy like a torn bellows.
He slowly raised his head and strode forward through the air against the other party's terrifying pressure!
Hum!
A golden phantom fully a hundred zhang tall squeezed out of the rift in the span of a breath.
The moment the man appeared...
Boom!
A horrifying aura overwhelmed heaven and earth!
Li Guanqi's body suddenly plummeted a hundred zhang from the sky, as though a hundred thousand mountains were crushing down upon his shoulders!
Blood spilled from the corner of Li Guanqi's mouth. Bent half-over, he rested both hands on his knees!
Under the crushing weight, veins bulged along his neck as if they were about to burst from the strain.
His entire face turned the color of pig liver, his temples throbbed violently, blue veins stood out on his forehead, and his eyes were bloodshot.
The bones across his body let out creaks of immense strain, and the bones in his legs cracked under the unbearable load!
The golden phantom shattered, and a young man with a face fair as jade slowly emerged above the firmament.
He had sword-like brows and starry eyes that ran deep, a hooked nose, and thin lips, giving him a somewhat sinister air.
He wore an exceptionally opulent robe of flowing golden brocade, with gilded ribbons looping under his arms and drifting in the air.
With hands clasped behind his back, he looked down at Li Guanqi with utter contempt, his brow slightly furrowing.
He waved his hand in disgust and looked around, murmuring, "Coming down to this Human Spirit Realm truly is difficult..."
He then turned to Li Guanqi, tilted his head slightly, and sneered coldly, "Insignificant ant. Failing to kneel before an immortal is a capital crime."
Li Guanqi had had his fill of these immortals' arrogant, self-important posture.
Spitting out a mouthful of bloody saliva, he snarled, "I'll kneel... on your mother's cunt..."
Boom!
An irresistible force crashed down!
The young man glanced toward Linyan City nearby, where countless mortals lay prone on the ground, staring at him with terrified eyes.
That gaze displeased him greatly.
Raising a pale hand, he pressed it down toward Linyan City!
Boom!
"No!"
The divine mark between Li Guanqi's brows erupted, and he teleported into the sky above Linyan City.
Boom!
A spiritual palm print of phantom light a hundred zhang across descended from the heavens.
The golden palm print solidified from an illusion in less than the span of a single breath.
Even the palm lines on the imprint were distinctly visible, and wherever it passed, space was completely obliterated!
The horrifying aura was so intense that even a Mahayana cultivator catching a glimpse of it would likely feel unable to muster the slightest will to resist, left only to await death.
Yet was Li Guanqi such a man?
With a furious roar, he braced himself against the crushing pressure of the descending immortal.
Relying purely on physical strength, he blasted upward thousands of zhang in an instant, appearing beneath the palm print as if by teleportation!
The immortal closed his eyes slightly, his terrifying immortal sense surging out like a tidal wave, instantly blanketing a radius of a thousand li!
And that aura was still expanding further outward.
"How barren..."
Opening his eyes, the man glanced at Li Guanqi and sneered with disdain, "A mayfly trying to shake a tree—hopelessly overestimating yourself!"
Standing beneath the palm print, the skin of Li Guanqi's face shuddered and contorted under the violent gale, yet from beginning to end, his eyes never showed the slightest hint of retreat!
He... actually intended to take this blow head-on!
Chapter 1200