Boom, boom, boom!
Violent explosions erupted as desperate battle cries echoed everywhere.
The very instant the trio shot forward, an Immortal Burial Realm elder's head was severed in a flash.
Spurting blood splattered against Li Guanqi's cheek, scalding and searing.
The next breath, another cultivator stepped into the fallen elder's position, tangling once more in fierce combat with that descended foe!
Li Guanqi's gaze turned complex, and Ye Feng remained silent as well.
Though any one of them could have slain that adversary, they could not afford to stop.
At the very center of the battlefield in the void, three cultivators—two men and a woman—slaughtered with complete abandon, moving as though through an empty land!
Relying on their formidable power and ruthless methods, they reaped a life nearly every few breaths!
Counting Li Guanqi's group of seven, their side in the Second Domain possessed only twenty-six Immortal Burial Realm cultivators in total.
In barely the time it took to drink a cup of tea, four people had already been slain!
Never in the past thousands of years had there been such a brutal battle.
For reasons unknown, the conflict between the Immortal Burial Realm and the Immortal Realm had grown increasingly fierce of late.
The enemy's assaults had grown steadily more ferocious, and more and more cultivators were descending.
Even the price the enemy had to pay to do so was far beyond what burying the entire Human Spirit Realm could make up for!
The resources the Immortal Realm had to expend just to send people down into the lower realms were astronomical.
Boom!
Li Guanqi locked his eyes firmly onto the most powerful of the three—the scarred-face man—and said coldly, "That guy is mine!"
The trio had a clear division of targets and immediately settled on their opponents.
Six cultivators were surrounding the three, trying to keep them pinned down.
This, however, forced the remaining allies to face ever-increasing numbers of enemies.
Li Guanqi roared furiously, "Disperse!"
At his shout, the Immortal Burial Realm cultivators turned their heads toward Li Guanqi's group of three.
The news that Li Guanqi had slain a Mystic Immortal single-handedly had long since spread throughout the Seventh Domain.
Now, the trio surged with imposing momentum, their murderous aura soaring.
Several heavily wounded cultivators pulled back at once, fishing out pills and frantically refining their medicinal power.
Meanwhile, many called out to Li Guanqi in concern:
"Be careful, Sword Venerable! Something is... wrong with these three!"
With those words, the six cultivators wasted no time and threw themselves back into other engagements across the battlefield!
The atmosphere was thick with killing intent. Li Guanqi's trio stood less than ten zhang from the opposing trio.
The scarred-face man immediately locked onto Li Guanqi, whose presence was staggering and whose white robes were now soaked in blood.
The dark-skinned man suddenly grinned, baring a mouthful of white teeth.
"Just the few of you think you can stop us?"
"Heh, what wishful thinking..."
Beside him stood a diminutive dwarf wielding a bloodstained axe, his features somewhat twisted.
Cold light flickered in his triangular eyes as he stared at Meng Wanshu with an utterly lewd, vile gaze!
Exposing a mouthful of yellow teeth, drool dripped from the corner of his lips as he muttered, "Tsk, to think the Human Spirit Realm has a little girl with such a constitution."
"A natural-born cultivation vessel, and a Frost Master to boot... Heh heh."
Li Guanqi stepped forward, positioning himself between them and blocking the creature's sight.
The dwarf looked up at Li Guanqi!
Li Guanqi's tall, straight posture and handsome features filled the creature with bitter jealousy, and naked murderous intent flared in his eyes.
Li Guanqi's gaze was even colder. Forcing himself to remain calm, he sent a quiet voice transmission:
"Second Brother, he's yours. I want you to gouge his eyes out!"
Ye Feng smiled viciously with a savage expression.
"Don't worry, Eldest Brother. I'll cut his head off!"
Boom!
The dwarf sneered, "Insects daring to boast so brazenly!"
Ye Feng slowly drew Nu Sha, pointed the blade at the dwarf, and sneered back, "Whether it's boasting, you'll find out soon enough."
Dong!
The void shattered, terrifying golden sword qi blanketing the expanse as Ye Feng and his opponent vanished together into the nothingness!
The woman in the yellow robe narrowed her eyes, surveying Meng Wanshu warily.
After a long pause, she murmured, "Heh, who would have thought that bitch Bingqi's legacy would end up in the Human Spirit Realm..."
"Seems we didn't cleanse the realm thoroughly enough last time."
Two short blades appeared in her hands—dual daggers!
Meng Wanshu stepped forward with an icy face, her tone devoid of joy or sorrow.
"She's mine."
The woman sneered, entirely fearless.
Little did she know what price she would pay for her words, deeds, and arrogance!
Now, only Li Guanqi and the scarred-face man remained at the center of the battlefield.
The man didn't share the contempt of his two companions; instead, he studied Li Guanqi with grave caution.
He could sense the terrifying power concealed within Li Guanqi's body.
What was more... he could clearly perceive the looks of anticipation the surrounding cultivators directed at Li Guanqi.
Even after he had demonstrated such overwhelming might, they still pinned their hopes on this young man.
Which meant...
In the eyes of those cultivators, this youth was fully capable of contending with him—or even killing him!
Li Guanqi frowned slightly. He felt deep vigilance radiating from the man's eyes.
It seemed this opponent would not be as easy to deal with as he had thought.
Weng!
Lightning spread beneath Li Guanqi's feet. The scarred-face man narrowed his eyes, and as his gaze dropped, an immense surge of Geng Metal power erupted in an instant.
In a flash, heaven and earth roiled, and violent storms of primal energy whipped through the void.
Their powers clashed furiously in midair. The scarred-face man could sense Li Guanqi's intent:
The youth was desperate to drag him into his domain barrier!
Yet why would he give Li Guanqi that chance?
Underestimating the enemy was fatal!
In the Immortal Realm, countless cultivators had lost their lives to complacency.
Boom!
The violent energies coalesced into two pillars of light shooting straight into the clouds as the full power of both combatants burst forth.
The horrific shockwaves directly swept clear a thousand-zhang expanse of the battlefield around them.
Both were sword cultivators, and in the Immortal Realm, his opponent had been a ninth-layer Mystic Immortal before descending!
A dreadful, lethal sword intent erupted. The chilling murderous aura caused Li Guanqi's eyes to narrow, his expression shifting slightly.
A blinding, golden sword light flared before Li Guanqi's eyes, starting from a single point before branching into countless golden threads that enveloped him completely!
An intense sense of oppression crashed down!
Such mastery over personal strength and sheer oppressive pressure was something not even ordinary cultivators who had newly entered the Tribulation Transcendence realm in the lower worlds could rival!
This was a manifestation of a completely different level of power control.
Even though the man's cultivation was clearly suppressed to the peak Mahayana realm, the oppressive weight he exuded was far more terrifying than that of an early Tribulation Transcendence cultivator!
As the impenetrable sword light enveloped Li Guanqi, the scarred-face man's expression remained grim.
For he trusted his instincts: against someone of Li Guanqi's caliber, an attack like this...
Boom, boom, boom!
Chapter 1232