At this moment, an inexplicable flicker of dread flashed in the depths of Xun Tian's eyes.
With endless demonic energy surging, he slashed dozens of times in succession before finally tearing free from the restrictive seals.
Yet how could Li Guanqi's current sealing power be so easily cast off?
Xun Tian ultimately paid the price of an arm, a violent explosion abruptly thundering through the heavens.
Just as Xun Tian let out a breath of relief, a bone-chilling cold suddenly erupted behind him!
In an instant, an impenetrable cage of sword lights enveloped Xun Tian entirely!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
"Demonic Surge: Heaven Slaying!"
His face twisted in a ferocious grimace, Xun Tian slashed wildly with his sword. The terrifying power was suffocating, the sheer oppressive weight stiflingly intense.
Li Guanqi flew backward, evading the brunt of the assault.
At the same time, an inexplicable glint flickered in his eyes.
He had clearly perceived that Xun Tian's present strength was not truly that formidable.
His reckless, unchecked exploitation of Li Si'ang's physical body had left his foundation unstable.
He had been too eager to elevate his power as quickly as possible.
Only by ascending to the Tribulation Transcendence realm in the shortest time conceivable would he have any chance of tearing open a tiny rift in the Immortal Boundary Wall to transmit the information he possessed!
Had the Six Domains' cultivators not staged their desperate uprising to ascend earlier, he might still have had a chance.
Yet after those cultivators fought to the death to breach the heavens, Su Xuan had reinforced the strength of the Immortal Boundary Wall.
This had forced Xun Tian to reach the Tribulation Transcendence realm by any means necessary.
What he had never expected, however, was that Li Guanqi would track him down at this very juncture.
Boom!
A violent blast resounded as sword qi crisscrossed the void.
Xun Tian gasped for breath in heavy heaves. Li Guanqi's relentless, dense barrage had left him scarcely a moment to recover.
Yet right then, Xun Tian snapped his head toward the heart of the explosion in extreme vigilance.
Completely unscathed, Li Guanqi strode slowly out of the flames.
"Is that... all you amount to now?"
A trace of disappointment flickered in the depths of Li Guanqi's eyes. The power the other man currently commanded fell far too short of his expectations.
Xun Tian stared in disbelief, his eyes turning blood-red in an instant.
Raising his hands, he conjured endless demonic energy into howling, grotesque Abyss Demons that lunged toward Li Guanqi.
Li Guanqi shook his head. With a sweep of his hand, hundreds, thousands of fearsome thunder swords rained from the heavens, piercing straight through the bodies of these Abyss Demons.
At the same time, Li Guanqi stepped slowly forward and swept his sword across in a horizontal slash!
"Boundless Sword!"
Boom!
The berserk might combined with sword momentum, unleashing power of sheer terror.
Xun Tian's pupils constricted into quivering pinpricks. With frantic sweeps of his hand, he erected dense layers of primal energy barriers before him.
Yet in Li Guanqi's eyes, these barriers were laughably fragile.
A brilliant purple sword light cleaved outward with unstoppable, devastating force!
The sword light was astonishingly fast—so fast that one's peripheral vision could catch only a streak of freezing radiance.
Splat!
That horizontal slash nearly disemboweled Xun Tian!
A grotesque wound cut deep to the bone. Fortunately, the regenerative power of Xun Tian's Demon King Physique was remarkably rapid.
In the blink of an eye, the wound restored itself as though it had never been.
Perhaps emboldened by his peculiar physique, Xun Tian let out a cold laugh.
"Even if you are strong now, so what? You still cannot kill me!"
"Hahahahaha! Do you feel helpless?"
"As long as the demonic energy within me does not disperse, the Demon King Physique is immortal and indestructible!"
Li Guanqi curled his lip. Sensing the abnormal spatial fluctuations around them, he sneered, "Don't waste your breath trying to escape.
"Before coming here, I made thorough preparations.
"This time... there is nowhere for you to run."
The moment his words fell, Li Guanqi's body abruptly split into several clones!
Every single clone possessed overwhelmingly formidable strength.
From that point forward, the battle became an utterly one-sided thrashing!
The clones moved at blinding speed, their flurry of sword lights leaving Xun Tian with no room to parry.
Before long, wounds multiplied across his body.
Bang!
Catching Xun Tian off guard, one clone kicked him hard in the back.
Li Guanqi's fist crashed into Xun Tian's face, the impact caving in half of his skull.
As Xun Tian shot backward, Li Guanqi closed the distance once more, clamping a large hand around his head like a vise.
His other hand clamped down firmly onto the black horn sprouting from Xun Tian's forehead.
"Aaaaargh!"
Amid Xun Tian's bloodcurdling shrieks, Li Guanqi ripped the black horn straight from his forehead!
The horn tore away flesh and skin in a gruesome, dripping mess.
Just as Xun Tian attempted to fight back, a flash of sword light severed his left arm, sending it flying into the air!
Thwack!
A cold glint flickered in Li Guanqi's eyes as he drove a foot straight into Xun Tian's abdomen.
The colossal force cracked his internal organs, bowing his torso like a boiled shrimp.
Xun Tian coughed up a mouthful of blood mingled with bits of shattered flesh.
Not stopping there, Li Guanqi's right hand struck like lightning.
His fingers hooked like talons, digging deep into the bones of Xun Tian's face.
Transforming into a streak of lightning, he dragged Xun Tian's body and shot forward at extreme speed!
Through the gaps between those gripping fingers, Xun Tian could see only the world blurring backward in a dizzying rush.
Boom!
A massive crash sounded, followed immediately by a screeching, gruesome grinding noise.
Several solidified spiritual swords impaled Xun Tian's limbs and torso.
Clutching Xun Tian's head in one hand, Li Guanqi scraped him violently against the mountain face!
Across a towering peak that soared a full thousand zhang high, Li Guanqi dragged him from the very base straight to the summit.
The friction carved a deep, gaping chasm through the mountain, as though the peak were about to be split in two.
Yet at that moment, divine sigils flared incessantly across the Demon King Physique. Xun Tian's eyes turned vicious with desperation.
Unleashing a tremendous burst of power, he attempted to swallow Li Guanqi whole!
A cold smirk curled the corner of Li Guanqi's mouth, and he hurled Xun Tian away with a savage toss!
Boom!
Xun Tian's body rocketed outward like a cannonball, smashing clean through a mountain peak before crashing heavily onto the earth below!
The clones around Li Guanqi gradually dissolved.
Narrowing his eyes, he murmured inwardly, "What formidable regenerative power..."
By now, Xun Tian was soaked in blood, a wretched wreck of a figure.
With his limbs shattered, an arm severed, and the horn on his head ripped away, he lay within the deep crater, half-dead and barely clinging to life.
Xun Tian's voice trembled with sheer disbelief and creeping terror as he muttered, "Impossible..."
"In such a short time, how could his strength have grown so terrifying?!"
Li Guanqi had no intention of listening to any more prattle, nor would he grant him another chance.
Drawing a deep breath, he caused the skies to churn and thunderclouds to surge.
Rumble!
In an instant, the deep crater behind the mountain transformed into a thunder pool!
Endless bolts of lightning descended from above, falling like celestial tribulations of divine punishment.
Within moments, the entire valley turned into an ocean of lightning.
Yet he was not done. Li Guanqi, having long gathered his strength, was now enveloped in terrifying thunderous might.
His sword intent soared to the heavens. Circulating the fourth layer of Divine Punishment at full tilt, Li Guanqi's aura climbed to an unfathomable height.
"Eight Desolations: Extinction!"
Boom!
The sword light crashed down with the fury of sundering the heavens and eradicating all under the eight desolations!
Struggling within the crater against the thunder pool, Xun Tian's pupils trembled violently.
"No! Noooo!"
Yet no matter how he shrieked, the sword light arrived in the span of a breath!
Boom!
As the sword descended, the void quivered, and the entire domain was cleaved straight down the middle!
At the same time, the surrounding sea of sealing inscribed talismans flared with blinding radiance. Li Guanqi clearly sensed the presence of Xun Tian's soul beginning to dissipate.
No matter how Xun Tian tried to scatter his soul power, the sealing inscribed talismans deflected it all back!
Not to mention the sword spirit intervening from the periphery!
Boom!
The mountains and rivers cracked apart, and the entire domain was halved by Li Guanqi's single stroke!
Xun Tian... was dead!
Perhaps to the very moment of his demise, he had never imagined that in less than a year's time, Li Guanqi's strength would have grown to such heights.
The unease that had weighed on Li Guanqi's heart finally vanished.
Yet right then, the figure of the sword spirit appeared at Li Guanqi's side.
Her eyes flickered as she stared at Xun Tian's shattered corpse in the distance, and she said in a solemn voice, "Devour his Demon King Physique!"
Li Guanqi started slightly, his brow furrowing in bewilderment.
"Devour it?"
"I can devour his Demon King Physique?"
Chapter 1261