At that moment, the pressure blanketing heaven and earth was utterly chaotic and savage.
Faced with the convergence of the Immortal Path thunderstorm and the Ascension Realm heavenly tribulation, even this Immortal Spirit Realm personally constructed by Su Xuan began to shatter.
The earth gave way, mountains collapsed, and shattered rock tumbled into the void.
Li Guanqi’s aura surged to its absolute peak.
A century of solitude, tempered in isolation.
Sword path piercing the heavens, a hidden dragon soaring from the abyss!
BOOM!
The thunderclouds erupted as a terrifying bolt of lightning, a full hundred zhang thick, crashed down toward Li Guanqi with power that could obliterate heaven and earth!
Rumble!
The lightning took the shape of a dragon, swooping down and opening a bloody maw to tear into him!
Without flinching or dodging, Li Guanqi looked up at the sky with a fierce expression.
Terrifying sword intent crisscrossed the void, and Red Lotus rang out in an exhilarating, piercing cry.
Clang!
Li Guanqi’s low voice cut through the roaring thunder, reverberating between heaven and earth.
“A hundred years of time—this sword questions the heavens!”
The sword light was like a dragon, illuminating the suffocating darkness all around.
Li Guanqi moved, surging straight upward to meet the colossal bolt of lightning head-on.
With every step he took, his sword intent stacked and bloomed.
At this moment, all the sword intent across heaven and earth converged into this single strike.
“This Sword: Hidden Dragon!”
BOOM!
Accompanied by a ferocious shout, his sword cleaved the night sky, lifting a sword beam a thousand zhang long straight from the earth to hurtle toward the lightning!
Boom! Boom, boom, boom!
The moment the sword light collided with the lightning, the entire world seemed to freeze.
Then a cataclysmic boom erupted, draining the color from heaven and earth!
That horrifying lightning was actually severed in two by the sword light!
The moment the shockwaves rippled outward, the entire Immortal Spirit Realm instantly disintegrated into void fragments.
Li Guanqi was also blasted a hundred li away by the sheer impact!
“*Gah!*”
Blood gushed from his mouth, his internal organs shattered and displaced.
He spat out mouthfuls of blood mixed with bits of flesh, and the dragon scales across his upper body were nearly ripped away entirely.
His flesh was torn to shreds, mangled and charred black from the blast.
Half of his shoulder had been completely pulverized by the lightning.
Under this apocalyptic power, the entire Immortal Spirit Realm was wiped out.
Li Guanqi’s face turned as pale as paper.
He hurriedly propped up a primal energy barrier, allowing the residual shockwaves to batter him.
Only after a full dozen breaths did he manage to steady his footing.
Tottering on unsteady legs, he stood frozen in place, not daring to move an inch.
Even drawing a breath brought searing agony.
His sea of consciousness buzzed and throbbed with a splitting headache, blood trickling down from his scalp.
Amidst the aftershocks, Li Guanqi’s long hair whipped wildly in the wind, and the bloodstained hem of his white robe flapped loudly in the air.
Nearly half an incense stick of time passed before Li Guanqi finally recovered some of his strength.
“Damn, this power is terrifyingly fierce...”
The lightning dissipating through the air condensed into wisps and trickles, which Li Guanqi began inhaling into his body.
He let the raw force ravage his meridians and flesh over and over again.
Eventually, it transformed into the purest energy, merging into his frame and nourishing his body.
Though it was agonizing, Li Guanqi could not bear to waste it; opportunities like this were exceedingly rare.
The lightning coursed through his body, turning unusually docile.
Gradually, heaven and earth regained their clarity.
Li Guanqi’s aura began to climb wildly.
Finally, under the power gifted by heaven and earth, his cultivation settled firmly at the peak of early Ascension Realm!
Faced with this skyrocketing surge of power, Li Guanqi felt no panic whatsoever.
After a century of contemplation, his understanding of the Ascension Realm had already surpassed his current cultivation.
He was not worried in the slightest about the sudden explosion of strength granted by the heaven-and-earth reward.
Li Guanqi spread his arms, and terrifying lightning law power saturated the void.
He actually suppressed all the dissipating heavenly lightning power, claiming it for his own!
Hidden Dragon...
This strike had pushed his grasp of the lightning’s ever-shifting volatility to the absolute limit.
The destructive force unleashed in a single instant was astonishingly terrifying, impossible to defend against.
Countless domain fragments drifted toward the void, brushing past Li Guanqi.
With his eyes closed, Li Guanqi also felt the summons of the Immortal Realm.
At the same time, he sensed an unimaginably heavy pressure!
Frowning slightly, Li Guanqi opened his eyes and looked in all directions.
Worlds gleaming like brilliant stars appeared deep within the void.
“You little bastard, you scared me half to death.”
Su Xuan’s voice came from beside him, and a withered palm patted his shoulder.
Li Guanqi snapped back to reality, turned to look at the old man beside him, and beamed a grin.
“Grandpa!”
Su Xuan’s eyes were rimmed with red as he nodded heavily.
“Good, good, good...”
“Ascension Realm! You’re finally in the Ascension Realm!”
“Hahahaha, it’s not far now!”
Li Guanqi did not know what the old man meant by ‘not far.’
Yet he could clearly feel the deep affection and care radiating from him.
Thinking back on what he had just endured, the corners of Li Guanqi’s mouth twitched.
“Grandpa... not a single one of those three spiritual herbs of yours was simple.”
“More than half of the Falling Star Cold Lotus’s power is still sealed inside me.”
“And don’t even get me started on the Mind-Calming Cloud Rainbow Grass... After a hundred years, there were supposed to be two hundred more!”
“When I realized that, I nearly lost my mind.”
Yet Su Xuan burst into hearty laughter.
“Hahahahaha!”
“Just a measly century, and you’re reduced to feeling that lonely?”
“In the Immortal Realm, let alone three hundred years, even three thousand or thirty thousand years in seclusion are gone in the blink of an eye for others.”
Li Guanqi curled his lip, wanting to retort, but ultimately held his tongue.
Inside that space of consciousness, he had had no way to cultivate primal energy and could only contemplate insights in his head.
It had been entirely different from his usual secluded cultivation to refine primal energy.
Li Guanqi took a deep breath. As they talked, his injuries had already recovered by seventy or eighty percent.
Such a frightening rate of healing was likely something one could only experience upon reaching this realm...
Li Guanqi let out a long sigh, his brow furrowing slightly as he felt the crushing pressure of the space around them.
Su Xuan smiled from the side.
“You feel it?”
Li Guanqi nodded and looked around.
“Yeah, I feel something different...”
“This isn’t the void we normally see, is it?”
Su Xuan turned, nodded, and said in a low voice, “This is the true void.”
“The void you saw before when tearing space apart was still confined within the rules of a world.”
“Where you stand right now is outside of any world!”
Su Xuan pointed toward an empty expanse of the void.
In that direction, faint traces of many icy-blue continental fragments could still be seen.
Su Xuan murmured softly, “That fragment that looks like a thumb is actually vaster than the entire Great Xia Domain.”
A glimmer of shock flashed across Li Guanqi’s eyes.
Then he knitted his brows tightly, an ominous thought striking him.
“Could it be...”
“That’s where the Bingqi Realm used to be?”
Su Xuan sighed with deep emotion and nodded gently.
“Indeed. The Bingqi Realm was right there, not far from us.”
Li Guanqi fell silent. Looking at the continental fragments drifting through the void, he was at a loss for words.
It was hard to imagine the sheer devastation and misery the Bingqi Realm must have endured when it was obliterated by the Immortal Realm...”
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Chapter 1475