The flame spirit had originally planned to simply surrender and submit.
Yet on second thought, wouldn't doing so cost him far too much face?
Boom!!!!
The two clashed in an instant explosion of power. Relying on the formidable defense of his sacred armor, the flame spirit actually withstood a direct horizontal slash from Red Lotus with sheer grit!!
Raising his arm slightly, Li Guanqi had no intention of giving him a chance to speak.
His vital blood surged within him as his physical strength instantly peaked.
Dragon scales shifted slightly, his arms swelling a ring thicker.
With immense strength, he whipped his sword back and slashed out once more.
Boom!!!
Sword intent of the Sword Po realm soared straight into the clouds, piercing cleanly through the fiery clouds the flame spirit had cast across the firmament!!
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Thump! Boom!!!!
Li Guanqi swung his sword in an assault as relentless as a downpour of rain, his Sword Po realm sword intent now fused with tremendous battle intent.
The power he unleashed grew even more terrifying!
Under Li Guanqi's tempestuous onslaught, the Devouring Void Sacred Flame was driven back step after step.
The flame spirit's eyes flickered, a look of astonishment flashing through his gaze.
"What terrifying sword intent!!"
"Looking back across the tens of thousands of years in the Human Spirit Realm, not many swordsmen possessed genius like his!"
Boom!!!
The flame spirit's body shot like a cannonball, slamming violently into a distant mountain peak!!
At the same time, Li Guanqi's figure blurred, hurtling forth at breakneck speed in hot pursuit.
Red Lotus let out a ringing sword cry in his hand.
Li Guanqi's eyes flashed, and he swung his sword in a heavy slash!!
Boom!!!
"Dark Moon!"
Boom!!!
A terrifying sword radiance carrying unmatched power erupted in an instant, transforming into a brilliant gleam of sword light that shot forward.
The sword light surged toward the mountain peak the flame spirit had just crashed through.
This sword light was astonishingly fast—so fast that the flame spirit could not dodge it with speed alone.
Boom!!!
Seeing the terrifying sword light drawing closer and closer, an inscrutable smile touched the corners of the flame spirit's lips.
He made no effort to arrest his backward momentum, for none of the mountains behind him could harm him in the slightest.
Anything that came within a hundred zhang of him would be instantly incinerated into nothingness.
The flame spirit opened his left palm and murmured softly,
"Annihilation."
Buzz!!!!!
A mighty burst of flame power erupted from the flame spirit's palm.
The flames transformed into a pitch-black void—a black hole several hundred zhang across.
The massive vortex of flames forming the black hole actually swallowed whole the powerful sword ray Li Guanqi had slashed forward!!
Witnessing this, Li Guanqi halted his charge at once, and in his perception, the flame spirit's strength was instantly amplified!!
Holding his ground, Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes at the distant flame spirit, his gaze brimming with wariness.
It seemed this was another of his unique abilities...
"Annihilation... what a terrifying ability."
"He swallowed my sword ray whole in an instant and claimed all its power for himself!!"
The flame spirit curled his lips into a faint smile, chuckling softly, "In this world, there is nothing I cannot devour."
Li Guanqi smiled, twitching the corner of his mouth, unable to hold back.
"I've got something... that you really can't handle."
With those words, Li Guanqi murmured softly, "Sword Ruins: Spirit Absolution."
Boom!!!
In that instant, the power of Spirit Absolution suffused his whole body, his primal energy immediately merging with the sword spirit's power of Spirit Absolution...
The moment the sword spirit's aura was revealed, the flame spirit recoiled several steps in sheer terror!!!
"Wh-what kind of power is this?!"
The flame spirit's eyes flickered; he could clearly sense just how terrifying this aura was...
Earlier, Li Guanqi had relied on this very power to severely wound and nearly kill that Ascension Realm cultivator with a single sword strike.
Yet across all the long years of his existence, he had never felt such power.
It was an absolute disparity at the fundamental level of origin...
As a sacred flame born alongside primal chaos, facing this aura, he actually felt... insignificance and fear!
The flame spirit's body trembled slightly, while Li Guanqi wore a wicked grin.
Next, a peculiar ring appeared on his finger.
The Ancient Spirit-Burning Ring!!
Li Guanqi understood that relying solely on his primal energy would not be enough to suppress his opponent.
The flame spirit had yet to display his ultimate fire power.
All the more reason to take him seriously...
With the empowerment of Spirit Absolution, Li Guanqi had no fear of failing to harm him.
Swish!!
His figure vanished, and when he reappeared, Li Guanqi swept his sword in a horizontal slash!!!
The flame spirit did not move; purplish-black flames materialized beside him into a barrier out of thin air.
The sword slashed across, but a defense that had always been foolproof now failed...
The razor-sharp edge, carrying the horrifying power of Spirit Absolution, tore through his defenses in an instant.
The tip of the blade left a long gash across his cheek.
A glimmer flashed in the flame spirit's eyes, accompanied by a cold snort.
Violent fire power erupted around him, forming a terrifying, heaven-scorching storm of blazing heat!!!
The storm linked heaven and earth like a tornado, its terrifying fiery might melting Li Guanqi's dragon scales in a single instant!!!
Li Guanqi was blasted back over a thousand zhang, his eyes flickering with lingering fear.
Yet immediately afterward, an uncanny pressure radiated from the ancient ring.
The unbearable sensation of scorching heat was instantly alleviated by a great deal.
The corner of Li Guanqi's mouth curved upward. It seemed this Ancient Spirit-Burning Ring truly was an extraordinary treasure!
However... when he closed in on the flame spirit again without restraint,
he felt the opponent's aura shift entirely.
Violent flames transformed into a downpour of fire, shooting wildly toward him!!!
The power of the Ancient Spirit-Burning Ring erupted instantly, forming a crimson barrier around him.
His figure turned into afterimages, dodging continuously midair, when the Ancient Spirit-Burning Ring suddenly let out an overburdened crack.
A crack as fine as a strand of hair became clearly visible!!
Li Guanqi took a deep breath, knowing that the Ancient Spirit-Burning Ring in his hand likely would not last long against the flame spirit.
"In that case, let's have a real brawl..."
Boom!!!
Li Guanqi's aura underwent a dramatic transformation, just like his state when fighting Long Hou.
His essence, energy, and spirit reached their absolute peak.
Moving with the grace of a roaming dragon, he unleashed potent sword techniques with effortless mastery.
For a time, the two figures turned the entire Third Domain into their battlefield, darting and flickering in a frenzied clash.
At this moment, Li Guanqi truly felt the strength of the flame spirit.
Any powerful attack and sword qi would be swallowed whole by his opponent.
The ability of Annihilation was simply too heaven-defying; as the spirit of a heavenly flame, in this Third Domain brimming with fire-attribute spiritual energy, he was practically immortal and indestructible.
Li Guanqi licked his lips, his eyes gleaming as he watched the cracks appearing on the flame spirit's armor.
Buzz!!!!!
Boom!!!!
Li Guanqi's aura climbed once again in this very moment!!
"Divine Punishment: Void Release!"
Boom!!!!
Going all out!
The flame spirit suddenly felt a jolt of foreboding...
"Not good!! How did he suddenly become so strong?!"
Before he could figure out what was happening, a cold voice rang out abruptly at his side.
"Dance of God Burial!"
Boom!!!
Disordered sword gleams falling like cherry blossoms occupied the void in an instant, blanketing every inch within a thousand zhang of him!!
The flame spirit shuddered and collapsed in an instant, disintegrating into a cloud of purplish-black flames that dispersed across the void!!!
"Phantom Sea!!!"
Chapter 1358