Come Down!

On the battlefield where war was about to erupt, the banter from Li Guanqi and his companions gradually eased the tension of many cultivators. Li Guanqi's gaze was sharp as a blade. Gripping his sword, he swept his eyes across the surroundings. Then he looked up at the celestial spiritual light flickering across the firmament, speaking in a steady, solemn voice. "Seniors, please rest assured. We will not drag you down." "Until the Eight Generals return... take care!" With those words, Li Guanqi and Gu Li exchanged a glance. Gu Li took a deep breath. As he raised his hand, his expression grew somewhat grave as well. Yet in the depths of his eyes flickered a glint of madness. After breaking through to the Tribulation Transcendence realm, countless wild and wonderful ideas had surfaced in his mind. Furthermore, combining the Dao of inscribed talismans with the Dao of the Four Towers had already yielded modest success. "Great Celestial Talisman: Heaven-Imprisoning Dragon Trap!" As his voice fell, nine long golden talismans shot into the void, burning furiously! In an instant, the void trembled as nine phantom golden dragons roared toward the heavens! An uncanny power of sealing and suppression abruptly bore down. Everyone's body sank slightly before returning to normal. Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes. The power of these nine talismans was no small feat... Gu Li's command over inscribed talismans was just like his own mastery of the sword—unrivaled, leaving everyone far behind! Li Guanqi did not know that during the time he had been away, Gu Li had become a hot commodity among the masters of the Four Towers, all of whom wanted him as their direct successor. Because of his extraordinary divine sense capacity and terrifying natural comprehension, Gu Li dabbled in alchemy, arrays, and artifact refinement alike. Tang Ru took a deep breath and opened his palms; beneath his feet rose a Yin-Yang Bagua Diagram. The glowing formation diagram ultimately faded into the void. Yet at this moment, nearly everyone in the Fourth Domain felt a peculiar aura envelop them. Under this power, they could easily perceive what was happening around others. Li Guanqi and his companions stood ahead of everyone, their eyes fixed straight overhead! Having slipped to the edge of the Fourth Domain by the portal of light, Zhou Shiyu watched this scene with a surging heart! His eyes were fixed tightly on the group of seven, fists clenched, jaw set. Such stirring emotion was something he would never have experienced in his entire life staying in the Six Ancients Sacred Sect. Yet today was only his first day coming to the Seventh Domain. Retreating back to the Second Domain, Zhou Shiyu was unfamiliar with everyone. Yet when the cultivators saw him, they simply nodded slightly and instinctively shielded him behind them. When Zhou Shiyu saw two old men standing in front of him, his tranquil heart was touched once more. The aged, gentle voice of one of the elders sounded in his ear: "Little kid, stand a bit further back." And that elder held a silver spear and wore silver armor. Sun Changlin! After his severe injuries from last time, Sun Changlin had not fully recovered, his meridians damaged. As a result, he had not gone to the Third Domain battlefield; those who could stand there were the cream of the crop among the Mahayana realm. Yet in the Second Domain, Sun Changlin was unquestionably a powerhouse. After hesitating for a long time, Zhou Shiyu looked at the elder's back and could not help asking: "Senior, we are neither kith nor kin. Why do you protect me?" Sun Changlin glanced back at Zhou Shiyu. "Heh, what reason or rhyme could there be?" "Only that you are young, with a bit more of a future than old men like us with one foot in the grave." Those words struck Zhou Shiyu's heart like a heavy hammer. "A bit more of a future..." Buzz! RUMBLE! The celestial spiritual energy in the firmament abruptly contracted, followed by a resounding roar. Surging celestial spiritual energy coalesced into a colossal spatial rift. Not only the Second Domain, but the entire Immortal Burial Realm trembled faintly. Even the Human-Immortal Realm Barrier in the outside world rippled imperceptibly. Li Guanqi stood in place, his face calm. Glancing toward the Seventh Domain, he was not in the least worried about his grandfather's safety. If his guess was correct, with Su Xuan's strength... Not a single immortal coming down could kill him. As long as Su Xuan wished it, not a single immortal would return alive. Su Xuan's might... was likely even greater than he had imagined. In other words, Su Xuan was an invincible existence as far as the Human Spirit Realm was concerned. Li Guanqi took a deep breath. Watching the phantom figures of immortals gradually emerging in the heavens, he narrowed his eyes. Before anyone could react, the lightning wings behind Li Guanqi flapped. Fused with Pengluo, he instantly erupted with pressure comparable to the late Tribulation Transcendence realm and shot outward like an arrow. In his hand, the Red Lotus sword let out a resonant, fiercely venomous cry. Skreeee! A sword light devouring all illumination flashed across heaven and earth like a single line. Li Guanqi assumed his Dragon Transformation and circulated his Devil King Body with full power, divine patterns spreading across his dragon scales. His eyes flashed with icy chill as a killing-intent-infused Sword Po realm sword intent tore through the clouds. "Red Lotus: Fallen Dao!" BOOM! The sword light flashed, thunder roared, and flames burned the heavens. Three immortals who had just descended to the lower realm, before they could even steady their auras, were instantly slain by this single strike! Three corpses plummeted from the sky. Where the sword light passed, terrifying flames lingered in the sky like a dividing boundary. Standing before the curtain of fire, Li Guanqi looked up at the terrified immortals and said softly: "Come down." No sooner had the words left his mouth than more than twenty descending immortals stood frozen where they were, none daring to move. Li Guanqi sneered. Flipping his hand, he produced over a hundred purple gold crystals and shattered them with a forceful jolt. Ye Feng frowned. "What does Eldest Brother mean by this?" "Is he breaking through right in front of them?" Cao Yan shrugged. "Looks like we're still too slow..." Xiao Chen twitched his lips, spinning a spear flourish with the Blood God Spear as he muttered: "Who could ever catch up to him?" Though they spoke casually, Li Guanqi's overwhelmingly domineering display was wildly exhilarating! Bang, bang, bang! The crystals burst apart. Li Guanqi's body swallowed the spiritual energy that had liquefied like a leviathan. With the power of Shiwu circulating, his speed of devouring and refining grew even faster. The power Li Guanqi displayed was horrifying in the extreme. Those descending immortals all remained within the passage, steadying their cultivation realms. A clean-looking young man in the lead stared dead at Li Guanqi. His gaze flicked down toward Ye Feng and the others below, his eyes glinting. "Stabilize your realms! Kill as many as you can!" At those words, the immortals behind him turned grim. In contrast, Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes. Though he could not hear what the man was saying, he knew time was running short. Closing his eyes slightly, Li Guanqi actually began preparing to break through right there before the curtain of fire. In an instant, lightning enveloped a radius of several thousand zhang. The thunder crashing down made everyone's heart tremble in terror. The cultivators originally stationed in the Fourth Domain looked up at that figure in the firmament and could not help marveling: "Could this kid become a new king?" "Who would've thought our Seventh Domain would have a day to hold our heads high like this?" Yet the Fourth Domain's situation did not reflect the others. At this moment, the Second Domain, Third Domain, and elsewhere had all plunged into gruesome slaughter. Facing the descent of the immortals for the first time, Zhou Shiyu found it extraordinarily grueling with only his early Mahayana realm strength. Yet at the same time, he was rapidly adapting to the battlefield, his eyes flashing with sharp resolve.