Between brothers, everything went unsaid.
"Your sword is still not fast enough."
"Come, let's spar!"
For once, a rare look of apprehension crossed Ye Feng's face.
"Spare me, Big Brother... I just had a fight with Senior Hong Zhi. These wounds haven't even healed yet."
Li Guanqi gave an enigmatic smile.
"On the battlefield, would you tell the enemy to hold on so you can catch your breath?"
Ye Feng rose reluctantly.
"Fine, let's do this."
The two tore through space and established a domain barrier.
Though Ye Feng had grumbled, the moment he entered combat mode, he was fiercer than anyone!
As Li Guanqi probed Ye Feng's limits, he could not help marveling inwardly.
*To think Old Second Ye has become this strong...*
*In that case, as your big brother, I'll stoke the fire for you!*
Boom!!
Going all out, Li Guanqi wielded his sword with his left hand, his strikes coming faster and faster!!
Gradually, Ye Feng found it harder and harder to keep up, and the suppression from Li Guanqi's higher sword intent grew increasingly severe.
The cuts across his body multiplied. Li Guanqi had fashioned a cage around Ye Feng!
A cage of sword intent.
If Ye Feng could not push past his limits to touch the sword intent of the Sword Po realm, he would be trapped and ground to death inside!!!
This was an extremely risky gamble on Li Guanqi's part.
After consecutive battles, Ye Feng was already near his breaking point.
Yet Li Guanqi was determined to push him!
He was confident he could halt everything at any moment, but Ye Feng would not find this kind of sensation again next time.
To step into the ranks of Sword Po realm sword intent, Li Guanqi had to place Ye Feng on the razor's edge between life and death.
Li Guanqi swung his sword frantically, and Ye Feng's figure was completely submerged beneath a terrifying sea of sword radiance.
Ye Feng bellowed, swinging his blade faster and faster as golden sword qi surged around his body!
The power of laws grew ever thicker. Golden sword qi crisscrossed, clashing violently against the descending sword light!!
His surging sword intent soared straight into the clouds, yet sword intent at the Sword Soul realm was brittle as porcelain before Li Guanqi, shattering at the slightest touch.
Li Guanqi's gaze was dead serious, closely monitoring Ye Feng's condition every second.
Ye Feng's eyes turned bloodshot. Facing the sky full of sword rays, he was like a lone skiff on a tempestuous sea, in constant danger of capsizing.
Gradually, Ye Feng forgot that this was merely a spar with Li Guanqi.
Tearing sounds came from his robes, and sword wounds cut deep enough to bare bone.
Gash after bloody gash appeared across his flesh.
Yet he had long lost himself in the fight, hacking wildly with his blade purely on instinct.
His sword intent was suppressed to the absolute limit, threatening to collapse at any moment.
Yet his gaze remained resolute, never wavering.
Li Guanqi seemed like a formidable nemesis seeking to sever his path to immortality, as if demanding of him: *By what right do you seek to shatter the vault of heaven and tread upon the nine skies?*
The concussive roars ringing in his ears sounded like whispers:
*Give up... You cannot withstand the storm.*
*Insignificant, powerless...*
An unyielding will suddenly rose within Ye Feng's heart.
Gazing fiercely at the heavens, he sneered and muttered under his breath,
"The storm?"
"I AM the storm!!!"
Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft!
Just as Ye Feng reached his limit, unable to resist the raining swords filling the sky, dozens of new wounds instantly opened across his body.
Li Guanqi sighed, and the sword in his hand slowly drew to a halt.
He could not continue; any further, and Ye Feng truly would die under his blade.
Yet the moment he eased his hand, he suddenly sensed the unyielding will erupting from Ye Feng.
Li Guanqi gritted his teeth, his eyes flashing as he increased the force of his sword by another twenty percent!!!
Boom!!!!!
Flesh was stripped from Ye Feng as plume after plume of blood mist erupted from his body.
Li Guanqi's eyes were bloodshot, watching Ye Feng intently.
Just at the moment Li Guanqi was about to call it quits, an incomparably terrifying sword intent tore through the torrential rain of swords in an instant!!!
A dazzling golden sword beam flashed across the air, sweeping away the sky full of thunder swords!!
The sound of shattering thunder sword light crackled ceaselessly, like beans popping in a bamboo tube.
Li Guanqi's eyes flashed, and he forcefully shattered all of his remaining sword rays!!
Ngh...
Blood and qi surged backward within Li Guanqi, drawing a muffled grunt from his throat.
His face turned slightly pale, a trace of blood leaking from the corner of his lips before he swallowed down the surging blood.
Looking at the man whose aura had plummeted as he tumbled out of the void, Li Guanqi blurred forward and caught him on his back.
"Old Second Ye... you're a real beast!!"
A faint, ethereal pressure of sword intent washed outward.
Consciousness hazing over, Ye Feng lay slumped across Li Guanqi's back, covered in wounds.
"Heh... Just a bit short... Didn't... didn't break through..."
Li Guanqi grinned, sending waves of pure primal energy surging into Ye Feng's body.
Ye Feng closed his eyes to focus, biting the tip of his tongue to force himself to stay lucid.
Lying across Li Guanqi's back, he began stabilizing his sword intent realm.
Exhausted of strength, Ye Feng was exceptionally weak, so Li Guanqi hurried to bring him into the Nirvana Pagoda.
Pulling precious healing pills from his storage ring, he popped them into Ye Feng's mouth.
"Pengluo, look after him."
Pengluo popped out and nodded repeatedly.
It had never seen Ye Feng so frail before; terrified, it hurriedly snapped off one of its fingers and stuffed it into Ye Feng's mouth.
Li Guanqi made a trip to the Pill King Pagoda to find Gu Changsheng.
Gu Changsheng grumbled a couple of complaints—after all, Gu Li's miserable shrieks had been ringing constantly across the Celestial Spirit Mountain Range lately.
Li Guanqi simply said one sentence:
"He's my brother. I don't want him to die, and I want him to have more means to save his own life."
Hearing that, Gu Changsheng fell silent at once and grabbed an armful of healing pills for Li Guanqi without hesitation.
Yet he also added a word:
"Right now... the Human Spirit Realm still has no ninth-grade Pill Saint..."
This comment jolted Li Guanqi awake. Cao Yan possessed exceptional talent in alchemy, but currently that had been put on hold for cultivation.
However, Li Guanqi merely turned the thought over in his mind.
At a time like this, he did not want Cao Yan to focus on refining pills.
Time was pressing; there wasn't much time left for them.
Once they reached the Immortal Realm in the future, he did intend to have Cao Yan pursue the Dao of Alchemy properly.
After all, the Immortal Realm was not like the Human Spirit Realm; without abundant cultivation resources handed to them, alchemy would serve as a major shortcut.
After parting from Gu Changsheng, Li Guanqi returned to the White Jade Tower.
Lately, the floor of the White Jade Tower had practically turned red, completely dyed with blood.
When Meng Wanshu emerged from the Nirvana Pagoda, she was completely bewildered, having no idea what had happened.
After Li Guanqi administered the pills to Ye Feng, Ye Feng's aura steadily grew stronger.
Relieved, Li Guanqi gave a wry smile and recounted everything that had transpired.
Meng Wanshu covered her mouth with a chuckle, rolling her limpid eyes at him.
"Isn't this all your doing? The Seven Domains are bound to be swept up in a wave of challenges again."
"It's just that... you're probably a target for challenges now too. Won't that disrupt your own cultivation?"
Li Guanqi was unconcerned. Anyone willing to spar with him was unlikely to be weak, and he would draw plenty of experience from them as well.
Still, Meng Wanshu's words gave him an idea...
Rubbing his chin, Li Guanqi muttered,
"Can I find a way to rework the Hundred Champions Illusionary Realm?"
Chapter 1456