At that moment, the dark clouds in the sky above slowly parted.
Li Guanqi slowly opened his eyes as well.
Within those pure white irises, violet lightning flickered ceaselessly for a breath before gradually fading away.
Li Guanqi looked down at his lean, powerful body and clenched his fist.
Instantly, the void around his right hand distorted slightly under the strain.
He had never felt so powerful!
Li Guanqi slowly raised his head, casting a bloodthirsty, freezing gaze across the crowd of cultivators.
In that instant, the immortals who had descended from above felt as if they were being stared down by a primordial beast. Every hair on their bodies stood on end, and a bone-chilling dread surged straight to their skulls.
Li Guanqi broke into a grin, though in their eyes, that smile was utterly horrifying.
In the next breath...
The thunder wings on Li Guanqi's back snapped violently!
The lead man's expression changed drastically. With a wave of his hand, a colossal golden net billowed outward against the wind.
"Don't scatter! Give it everything! Hold nothing back!"
The words had barely left his mouth when the man's vision blurred, violet lightning streaking into afterimages before his eyes.
Li Guanqi stood three zhang away from him, his scales slick with blood that slowly dripped to the ground.
His pale face and cheeks were splattered with fresh crimson.
"Your 'everything'... looks like this?"
As the words fell,
the lead man discovered in sheer horror that all the Heavenly Immortals beside him had had their heads severed from their necks!
In an instant, bodies plunged downward like dumplings dropped into boiling water.
Yet the sight was so appalling that the few remaining cultivators stood frozen in place.
A single breath...
In merely a breath, every cultivator comparable to the late Mahayana realm had been completely slaughtered.
The man's speed was incomprehensibly fast.
His sword momentum was formless, his strikes swift as lightning.
With a flap of his thunder wings, he could pivot midair at will, moving with breathtaking rapidity.
A rain of blood drifted down alongside severed limbs and shattered torsos.
A thick, nauseating stench of blood permeated the void.
In Li Guanqi's hand, Red Lotus let out an excited chime, seemingly exulting in the sheer height of his power.
It was a battle without suspense.
As one, the five surviving cultivators unleashed their greatest strength, forming a sword array.
Sword light of the five elements cascaded from above.
The five took their positions, the primal energies of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth reinforcing one another.
Yet before the current Li Guanqi, all of it proved futile.
Li Guanqi focused his assault on one of them, crushing and slaying him with a flick of his palm.
The remaining men held out for merely half an incense stick of time.
Terrifying thunder sword light bloomed through the void; within the Sword Prison, there was nowhere to flee!
Sword qi crisscrossed in all directions. By his own strength alone, Li Guanqi beat the four others back step by step!
More than ten magic treasures and dharma artifacts were shattered to pieces, while Li Guanqi only grew fiercer the longer he fought.
The power of heart demon manipulation erupted alongside his formidable divine sense.
The instant the minds of the four wavered, Li Guanqi raised his hand and slashed out with two World Annihilation strikes.
Two of them perished instantly. Gripped by sheer terror, the remaining two completely lost the will to fight.
They sought to flee, only to realize the surrounding domain had already become a land of death.
Li Guanqi severed the lead man's head with a single blade strike. His chest heaved slightly as primal energy surged tempestuously through his veins!
Wiping the blood from his face, he noticed the distant void distorting slightly.
Immediately after, an anxious Hong Zhi and the others filed in through a tiny spatial rift.
Yu Shan, Nangong Xuandu, and the rest looked upon the field of corpses floating throughout the void, their expressions growing intensely grave.
Among the dead, Chan Kongzi also recognized quite a few cultivators belonging to the Immortal Burial Realm.
Just then, Xiang Huaizhi murmured,
"Something's wrong... Why are there nearly three hundred corpses?"
Hong Zhi's pupils contracted sharply. Without time to ponder, her eyes immediately locked onto Li Guanqi beating his thunder wings at the center of the void!
*Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!*
The group flickered forward and arrived before him.
When they felt the terrifying, abyss-like pressure radiating from Li Guanqi's body, every face stiffened in shock.
Hong Zhi quickly glanced toward the floating island hall behind him.
Seeing that the grand hall was still enveloped in a powerful thunder barrier and had remained untouched by the brutal fighting, she finally breathed a long sigh of relief.
Then she saw that only Li Guanqi was left standing, and a terrible dread seized her.
Her voice trembled with remorse and self-blame as she whispered,
"The... the others..."
Li Guanqi's expression darkened as well.
"Most fell in battle..."
"The rest are inside my domain."
Xiang Huaizhi turned to look at the dense sea of corpses drifting through the void, eyes wide with disbelief.
"Most fell, but you annihilated nearly three hundred enemies... Such a feat is unprecedented."
Li Guanqi said nothing more.
Suddenly!
Heaven and earth trembled as a searing saber light flashed across the sky!
The terrifying saber beam pierced straight through seven domain layers, cleaving a hundred-zhang illusory silhouette clean in two.
A slight, wizened old man stood with his back to the firmament, blood slowly dripping from the hand gripping his saber scabbard.
Su Xuan had slain a mighty foe, but a mouthful of blood abruptly erupted from his lips!
Li Guanqi started slightly, murmuring in a low voice,
"Grandfather... is injured?"
Su Xuan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, turned, and flicked his fingers to unleash several arcs of saber light!
Wherever the terrifying saber light swept, the cultivators were completely obliterated within it.
Fucking Heavenly Immortals, True Immortals, all rubbish...
Yet after doing all this, Su Xuan's face turned stark white. Forcibly suppressing the roiling blood and vitality within his body, he raised his hand and reformed the Human-Immortal Realm Barrier!
The light barriers of the Third and Fifth Domains re-formed, sealing off the domains once more.
This battle... had finally drawn to a close.
Tragic beyond measure.
The light gate of the Fifth Domain flickered faintly. With torn lips and a severed wrist, Li Qingchan's figure materialized.
When she caught sight of the corpses carpeting the void before her, her expression shifted drastically!
Among those bodies, she could sense the auras of five or six Heavenly Immortals who had descended from above!
Looking at Li Guanqi's surging aura, Li Qingchan's pupils contracted to needlepoints.
The Tribulation Transcendence realm! And a remarkably powerful one at that!
Hong Zhi and the others beside him were not severely injured, and the spatial fluctuations in the distance were still fresh, showing they had only just returned.
Li Qingchan's eyes flickered with shock...
*Could it be that he killed them all by himself?*
*Where is he? Why don't I see him...*
Drenched in blood, the woman pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, and then flashed over to Li Guanqi.
"Where is he?"
Li Guanqi looked at her flustered face and gently reassured her,
"He is severely wounded, but his life is in no danger."
Li Qingchan visibly breathed a sigh of relief. Turning on her heel, she prepared to depart.
As she reached the light gate to the Third Domain, she suddenly looked back and said,
"Come by the tavern later—drinks are on me!"
Li Guanqi smiled, then turned to Hong Zhi and the others, speaking softly.
"I'm going to take the rest to the Pill Pagoda to treat their wounds."
Hong Zhi nodded slightly. The looks the others directed at Li Guanqi were filled with profound complexity.
It was unimaginable how Li Guanqi and his companions had managed to endure such an ordeal...
Li Guanqi flew through the Third Domain, discovering that there had been no shortage of enemies here either.
Yet the cultivators of the Third Domain had only suffered a thirty percent loss!
The grievously injured cultivators of the Third Domain looked toward Li Guanqi, every eye filled with heartfelt gratitude.
Li Guanqi halted his flight, clasped his fists, and said in a deep voice,
"My fifth sworn brother, Tang Ru, is heavily injured and unconscious. I must take him for treatment first."
Everyone stopped where they stood, clasped their fists, and bowed deeply!
In this battle, Tang Ru's renown had reached its absolute zenith in the Third Domain!
Chapter 1311