The battle quickly broke out. In the Fourth Domain, Li Guanqi led the group as they stepped into the void, facing the descending immortals in the firmament who brimmed with killing intent.
Their eyes held no fear, their expressions fierce.
In the previous battle, the Immortal Burial Realm had suffered catastrophic casualties; they still remembered that bitter price to this day.
Boom!
Li Guanqi, who had been resting with eyes closed to focus his mind, suddenly opened his eyes.
An utterly terrifying pressure swept through the void with a deafening roar!
Boom!
Snap!
His white robe whipped fiercely in the wind as that terrifying pressure saturated the void.
Lightning and fire intertwined into a vortex condensing beside Li Guanqi. Purple lightning flashed across his eyes. In that instant, his aura surged, breaking through to the late Tribulation Transcendence realm.
With Pengluo's assistance, this aura did not fluctuate violently, keeping his strength firmly anchored in the late Tribulation Transcendence realm.
He had no time to refine the power within him, but Pengluo allowed him to wield this true body's power without restraint.
Sudden, unheralded attacks abruptly enveloped Li Guanqi.
Flashes of blades and swords swept toward him like a deluge.
Li Guanqi stood motionless where he was, his left hand gripping Red Lotus tightly as he unleashed a flurry of slashes in smooth succession.
The skyful of attacks detonated with a deafening blast. Li Guanqi stood where he was, his robes fluttering, completely unscathed.
Li Guanqi locked onto two of the strongest among them and flashed right in front of them with a teleport!
"Come! Let's see if there are enough of you to slaughter this time!"
Boom!
Terrifying sword light instantly enveloped the two middle-aged men, and the Lightning Purgatory space forcibly dragged them inside!
Standing behind Cao Yan, Gu Li sneered coldly with a vicious grin.
"Come, try out my new inscribed talismans!"
Boom!
Golden light flooded the sky. Gu Li stood suspended in midair, recklessly exposing himself to enemy fire.
In an instant, several figures sped over, their swords carving profound trajectories toward Gu Li.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A tremendous roar erupted as Cao Yan stood broad and unyielding before Gu Li, punching forward with both fists.
Enormous fist astral energy surged like mountains, deflecting every incoming attack.
Though he was but a single man, he gave the impression of confronting an entire army—a formidable aura that truly embodied one man holding the pass against ten thousand.
With a stony face, flames washing over his body, Cao Yan murmured through icy eyes, "Are you all... looking down on me a bit too much?"
Gu Li grinned and formed hand seals. In an instant, hundreds of inscribed talismans, each one chi wide and one zhang tall, drifted outward.
These talismans were as large as painted scrolls, and their positions were meticulously arranged.
Vaulting backward in hasty retreat, a white-robed young man frowned at the rapidly flashing and shifting talismans, his voice heavy: "A talisman array?"
Boom!
"Great Inscription: Hundred Talisman Slaughter!"
Boom!
Terrifying golden beams linked together, moving in unison with the talismans.
The young man's expression twisted in horror. The moment he tried to move, he found himself terribly sluggish, as though mired in deep mud.
An immensely powerful suppressive force bore down from all directions.
Sweeping his gaze from the corner of his eye, he discovered to his dread that phantoms of golden dragons were soaring into the firmament around him.
Boom!
The power of a hundred oversized inscribed talismans far exceeded what Gu Li's cultivation realm should have been able to muster.
Golden threads sliced through, and the young man's body was chopped into countless pieces!
Gu Li's face paled, yet his lowered countenance was alight with sheer exhilaration.
Spear in hand, Xiao Chen charged alone into the enemy ranks, fierce as a god of war.
With Tang Ru assisting from the side, Xiao Chen knew every move the enemy made.
Yet due to his reckless charge, wounds multiplied across his body—though his enemies' wounds were far worse than his own!
Ye Feng drew his sword and surged forward with devastating lethality!
Silent as ever, he battled two immortals of the same realm, keeping them firmly pinned within a radius of thirty zhang.
Meng Wanshu was equally terrifying in her lethal might, blood splashing across her azure robes like scattered blossoms of winter plum.
The great war raged; the wind blew bleak and chill.
An uncanny air of slaughter permeated the void, the deafening roars never ceasing for a moment.
Under Tang Ru's formidable battlefield command and foresight, the Seventh Domain's cultivators completely suppressed the enemy!
Gradually, casualties among the Immortal Realm cultivators mounted.
Unleashing his full lethality, Li Guanqi slew three people in just thirty breaths.
Counting the three from earlier, Li Guanqi alone had eliminated nearly a third of the foe.
The pressure on Cao Yan and the others lifted drastically.
By rights, having only barely stepped into the Tribulation Transcendence realm, they should not have pushed themselves so hard.
Yet with the Eight Generals absent, the seven of them were indispensable.
They had to slay the enemy to the best of their abilities.
And their performance made even the veteran seniors of the Seventh Domain look upon them with newfound respect.
In the absence of the Eight Generals, the Human Spirit Seven Sons could fully match their combat prowess!
Moreover, Li Guanqi's current strength had even surpassed Long Hou's.
The cultivators on the Immortal Burial Realm's side fought with ever-growing valor.
With Tang Ru's support, the veteran seniors of the Fourth Domain felt as though blessed by the gods, fighting until their eyes turned crimson.
Many had died in the previous battle, including countless friends and family.
This time, bloodlust took hold of everyone.
Yet right at that moment, Tang Ru keenly noticed this.
Gu Li paused slightly, gave a small nod, and bounded up into the firmament.
Pinching a pale-blue inscribed talisman in one hand, he softly chanted under his breath.
The talisman burned away, turning into a rain of spiritual light that showered over everyone.
Cleansed by the spiritual light, the bloodlust in the cultivators' eyes gradually receded, restoring some of their clarity.
Sensing that the tide had turned against them, the Immortal Realm cultivators faltered, voice transmissions buzzing in their ears: "Retreat! Retreat! Retreat! Move, hurry!"
Li Guanqi's gaze turned cold.
"You think you can come and go as you please? Old Six, cut them off!"
Before his voice finished echoing, Tang Ru, concealed in the shadows, formed seals with both hands, and a Five Elements Bagua formation abruptly manifested, instantly sealing the rift that flickered with celestial light.
Yet Tang Ru's cultivation was still too weak; an immortal slashed out several rapid sword strikes, shattering the formation's glow.
Gu Li chuckled mischievously.
He crushed a storage ring on his finger.
In an instant, a vast, dense sea of inscribed talismans surged around the rift passage!
"I already predicted you bastards would want to run."
Li Guanqi's eyes flickered, the thunder wings on his back snapping open.
"Shiwu!"
Boom!
Flames incinerated the sky as Shiwu's power transformed into a sacred sword and sacred armor covering his entire body.
Tall and commanding, Li Guanqi looked like a primeval beast.
The void beneath his feet collapsed in an instant, and his body shot forward like a bolt of lightning!
Boom!
"Eight Desolations: Extinction!"
Eleven Immortal Realm cultivators remained. Banding together, they shattered Gu Li's sea of talismans.
But Li Guanqi was right behind it.
This sword strike was unstoppable!
Every last one of them surged frantically toward the passage; for a moment, not a single person struck back.
Boom!
The sword light flashed out like a streak of lightning.
Two mangled corpses tumbled from midair.
Li Guanqi watched the few who had escaped into the passage, his eyes locked onto it.
Licking his lips, he turned and asked, "Can we go in?"
Gu Li rubbed his nose and adopted a thoughtful look, scaring those immortals into scurrying frantically back up the passage.
Li Guanqi let out a sneer and said coldly, "Next time, find a way to seal off their retreat. Besides, from now on, this Fourth Domain is our battlefield. Old Six, you can find a way to turn the entire Fourth Domain into a realm of runes."
Hearing that, Gu Li's eyes instantly lit up, making the people beside him shudder involuntarily.
"Tsk. Next time, they're really going to suffer."
Chapter 1438