Ye Feng Carries Li Guanqi!

"Red Lotus: Blood Asura!!" Boom!!!! Magnificent sword light blossomed amidst the self-detonations of the cultivators. The scales on Li Guanqi's chest instantly ruptured, mangling his flesh. Even one of the dragon horns atop his head was snapped off by the blast, while cracks spread across the other. Roar!!!! An urgent, piercing dragon's roar rang out. A shadow fell across Li Guanqi's field of vision. Jiuxiao had forcibly plunged into the explosion. His massive frame coiled like a giant serpent, shielding Li Guanqi within. Heaven and earth trembled as the self-detonations of three entire cultivators washed outward in wave after wave. Jiuxiao's dragon scales fractured and shattered, the flesh facing the shockwave blasted to a bloody pulp. Dark golden blood dripped into the void. Meanwhile, a large white radish extended its tongue, heedless of the lingering shockwaves as it licked up the true dragon blood. "Mine!! It's all mine!!" "Hahahahaha!! Brother Nine is injured! Hahahaha!!!" Pengluo's withered body regenerated at a speed visible to the naked eye. Under normal circumstances, it would never dare plot against Jiuxiao. But at a moment like this... only an idiot would pass up free pickings. Besides, keeping the fertile water within their own field made perfect sense. Pengluo had intended to go help Li Guanqi once it recovered a bit. Yet as it gorged itself, its expression suddenly froze. "Oh, crap..." Divine patterns flickered across Pengluo's body, radiating a dense white light, and its eyelids grew heavier and heavier. It turned out that Pengluo had already been on the verge of a breakthrough; having now consumed too much dragon blood, its vital energy surged beyond control. It was passively slipping into a deep slumber. Feeling its consciousness growing hazier by the second, Pengluo snapped off both of its arms without a second thought!! It divided the broken limbs into five portions and shot them toward the others!! Then, summoning its last shred of strength, it ducked back inside the sword coffin. Li Guanqi took a huge bite out of Pengluo's arm, saving half of it for Jiuxiao. Whimper... Roar... A flicker of agony crossed Jiuxiao's dragon eyes. His aura was faint to the extreme, and mouthfuls of dark golden blood spilled from the corners of his maw. Heartache flashed through Li Guanqi's eyes. With a wave of his hand, he forcibly recalled Jiuxiao into the sword coffin. Looking into the distance, Li Guanqi saw that the entire left half of Song Yuan's body was gone. Terror filled Song Yuan's eyes as he hurtled backward. He could not understand how one person could possess such boundless primal energy!! After slaughtering for so long, even Song Yuan had barely any primal energy left in his body. How could Li Guanqi still maintain such a formidable state?! "A monster... He is a monster!!!" "Should I do it... No... If I do, I'll die!" Song Yuan's eyes flickered. He could naturally tell that Li Guanqi was also critically injured. Perhaps if he just stalled a little longer, he could drag him to death! Yet inside Li Guanqi's chest, a scorching inferno seemed desperate to burst free. He wanted nothing more than to tear open his own chest and unleash this blazing fury. Besieged on all sides, Meng Wanshu was also in dire peril. Having expended too much primal energy earlier, her aura had dropped substantially. Cao Yan and the others were in even worse shape, covered head to toe in wounds, their faces pale from severe blood loss. Cao Yan and Xiao Chen had no choice but to fight back-to-back to support one another. Fully twenty cultivators surrounded the two of them. Within a space of a hundred zhang sealed off in every direction, the pair struggled desperately to hold their ground. Soon, more cultivators charged in. Li Guanqi was stretched thin parrying attacks, entirely unable to pull away to reinforce the others! With the thunder gates shattered, the suppression on the Immortal Realm cultivators diminished. The pressure on Cao Yan and Xiao Chen surged, and wounds multiplied across their bodies. Suddenly!!! A beam of sword light slashed toward Xiao Chen from an extremely vicious angle. The instant Cao Yan caught it out of the corner of his eye, he rammed Xiao Chen aside with his shoulder without hesitation! Xiao Chen flew backward, only to turn and watch as Cao Yan's arm was severed clean off!! "Third Brother!!!!" "I'll fuck your mothers to death!!!" Xiao Chen hurled his spear with explosive force, piercing through one cultivator's shoulder. Yet the enemy clamped down hard on the shaft, wedging it in his bones so it could not be retrieved. Xiao Chen condensed his flame primal energy into a new spear, looking like a madman possessed. Cao Yan groaned, the punching speed of his sole remaining arm slowing noticeably. Slash!!!! A longsword swept across. Xiao Chen's pupils constricted as excruciating pain flared at his waist. His abdomen was torn open and his intestines severed. Blasting away the enemy before him with a thrust, he clutched his waist and retreated in haste to Cao Yan's back. On the other side, a sword impaled Ye Feng's shoulder. His left hand clamped like an eagle's claw around his assailant's throat and tore it out, while the sword in his right hand instantly pierced the man's heart. He hurled the corpse toward another enemy, only to take a sword strike to his back. But as he swung around to retaliate, several sharp beams of sword light rained down from above. Left with no alternative, Ye Feng abandoned his strike and pulled back to parry. Yet that split second of hesitation earned him several more wounds as he dodged. Without the suppression of the thunder gates, with Gu Li's inscribed talismans exhausted, and with Tang Ru absent... The pressure weighing on everyone multiplied. At this rate, they would not last much longer before every single one of them was slaughtered here!! Right then, a terrifying sword intent soared straight into the clouds. A dreadful sword light that caused heaven and earth to lose all color swept across the void in an instant!!! "Sword-Drawing Stance: World Annihilation!!" The six or seven cultivators besieging Li Guanqi were obliterated by the sword light before they could even attempt to dodge. Immediately after, Li Guanqi's body blurred, splitting into nine avatars. Endless lightning swords then condensed beside each of his avatars. Dense swarms of spiritual swords blasted outward in a flash!! The sky-filling sword light nearly drowned the heavens, blanketing the firmament like a drift of falling cherry blossoms. "Body Transforms into Nine Dragons: Ten Thousand Swords Burying Gods!!!!" Song Yuan's pupils shrank to needlepoints, his gaze trembling frantically. "Defend! Defend, quickly!!!" All the cultivators halted their attacks at once to unleash protective primal energy and fling out defensive magic treasures. Ye Feng and the others gained a brief respite, hurriedly swallowing medicinal pills and crushing spirit stones. At the same time, everyone except Li Guanqi swallowed a Violent Spirit Pill!! "Eight Desolations: Extinction!!!!" Boom!!!! The moment the enemies were wholly occupied with defense, Li Guanqi's remaining avatars shattered. Standing in the center of the crowd, Li Guanqi poured every ounce of his strength into a single swing!! A purple-black sword light laced with scarlet radiance swept across the heavens in an arc, vanishing in a flash. In that instant, astral gales froze, lightning ceased, and heaven and earth paled. There was only that surging sword light tearing through the void, slicing across the firmament in the blink of an eye!!!! This single strike devoured and wiped out the lives of fully a dozen cultivators!! When the sword fell silent, Li Guanqi stood trembling where he was, blood dripping down his hands. His shuddering frame stumbled, nearly collapsing to the ground. The scales over his upper body had long since shattered. Countless crisscrossing wounds covered his chest and back in a bloody ruin, some deep enough to expose bone. Yet when the dust cleared, fully thirty-odd cultivators remained in the skies!! Li Guanqi, however, no longer possessed the strength to fight. Those three strikes had emptied his primal energy, exhausting even the power stored within his nascent soul's thunder bead. Meng Wanshu, Cao Yan, and the others looked on with grave expressions. Right then, Ye Feng flashed to Li Guanqi's side, slowly turned his back, and crouched down. A length of rope appeared in Ye Feng's hands. Li Guanqi smiled. Ye Feng had clearly realized what he intended to do. Was the churning celestial might gathering in the sky really Long Hou's heavenly tribulation for crossing into the Tribulation Stage? Li Guanqi leaned onto Ye Feng's back, and Ye Feng tied the rope into a firm knot around them both. The moment he lifted Li Guanqi onto his back, both men felt a momentary daze. It was as if they had returned to the days when they were hunted by the beast-hunting squad through the mountain forests. Ye Feng grinned. "Until you wake, I won't die." Li Guanqi said nothing, merely nodding slightly before closing his eyes. The instant Li Guanqi's eyes shut, the thunderclouds that had been brewing above the heavens suddenly roiled with violent fury!!!! A terrifying celestial pressure erupted in an instant, bearing down so heavily that no one could breathe. Only now did Song Yuan realize what was happening, terror blazing in his eyes as he looked toward Li Guanqi. "No!! This thunder tribulation... it isn't Long Hou's, it's his!!!!" "Kill him!! We must stop him from breaking through and facing his tribulation!!" "If he succeeds, all of us will die!!!" Yet no matter how Song Yuan shouted, the cultivators before him only looked back with contempt. Had it not been for their respective statuses, they would have long since killed a despicable coward like Song Yuan. Meng Wanshu and the others had all swallowed Violent Spirit Pills. That power could sustain them for at most the burning of an incense stick! In other words... If Li Guanqi could not tear through the barrier of laws within fifteen minutes and seize that sliver of life to complete his breakthrough, everyone here would die! Even with four people taking Violent Spirit Pills, their grievously injured bodies stood no chance against thirty-odd enemies! All they could do was buy him time!