By the time Li Guanqi realized this, it was already too late.
Having exhausted every ounce of his mental strength to suppress and slay Lu Tiancheng, he was now powerless to stop it.
Pengluo had also slipped into a deep slumber from sheer exhaustion.
"Shiwu!! Shiwu!!"
Li Guanqi received no response. His origin soul was parched, and Shiwu had no strength left to spare.
The others behind him were still at least a hundred li away.
Lu Tiancheng burst into frantic, maniacal laughter.
"Hahahahaha!!! In the end, you walked right into my trap!! Hahahahaha!"
Hearing the remnant soul's crazed laughter, Li Guanqi's expression suddenly froze.
"A trap... What trap..."
The Realm-Breaking Immortal Butterfly emerged from its chrysalis at astonishing speed.
In barely the blink of an eye, it transformed into an iridescent, dazzling butterfly.
The moment the Realm-Breaking Immortal Butterfly appeared, the oppressive weight of heaven and earth grew intensely heavy.
The terrifying pressure nearly swallowed the entire void.
A glimmer of light broke through the world.
Immediately after, the halo expanded, and a thunderous roar boomed out!
Boom!
Clutching two objects in its mouth, the Realm-Breaking Immortal Butterfly prepared to flap its wings and breach the realm.
Lu Tiancheng's remnant soul was on the verge of scattering into nothingness.
His sunken eyes fixed on Li Guanqi.
"Luring you out of the Immortal Burial Realm."
"Forcing you to take me away from the Great Xia Sword Sect to erect an impenetrable domain seal."
"Using my life to exhaust your mind and immortal primal energy."
"All of it... was for this very moment!!!"
Boom!!!
"Stop right there!!!!"
A woman's furious cry suddenly rang through the void!
Plumes of blood mist burst from Meng Wanshu's body.
Transforming into an ice-blue streak of light, she sped forward, sword qi crisscrossing as she charged straight toward the Realm-Breaking Immortal Butterfly high above the clouds!
Behind her, a blood-colored spear shot across a distance of a hundred li.
Within the pitch-black void, several silver gleams flashed in rapid succession, drawing closer and closer.
Li Guanqi frantically absorbed the immortal crystal in his palm, yet he was still powerless to halt the Realm-Breaking Immortal Butterfly as its aura mounted higher and higher!
Channeling the power of the freshly refined immortal crystal, he slashed twice!
Yet the moment the sword lights neared the butterfly, they shattered with a deafening crash.
Lu Tiancheng's form was already fading away. With only half of his soul body remaining, he sneered.
"It's useless..."
"In this Human Spirit Realm... no one can touch you anymore."
"Xun Tian couldn't, Gu Xici couldn't, and neither can I..."
"This world is entirely within Su Xuan's grasp."
"I am almost certain that thing is on you!!"
"Other than that, I can think of no reason why you could have grown to your current level so fast."
"Li Guanqi, ascend soon... This is a great gift..."
"...that I leave for you!!"
"Didn't you want to retrieve your sister's ashes? Then go to the Immortal Realm!"
"Hahahahahahahahaha!!!"
Lu Tiancheng's eyes were filled with triumph.
Li Guanqi's heart swelled with fury and shock.
Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that Lu Tiancheng would use his own life as bait, all so the Realm-Breaking Immortal Butterfly could carry these two items up to the Immortal Realm!
One was his sister's ashes!
The other was a wisp of Li Congxin's divine soul!
Having these two items placed together gave him a terrible premonition.
Beside him, immortal crystals shattered one after another.
Under the circulation of his cultivation technique, rich immortal spiritual qi flooded into Li Guanqi's body like a whale drawing in water.
Li Guanqi lunged forward, shooting into the sky.
Yet the butterfly's power and the pressure of heaven and earth were far too overwhelming.
Heavily injured and with his dantian depleted, Li Guanqi could do nothing to stop it.
Immortal spiritual light manifested, illuminating the entire void.
At this moment, the heavenly pressure reached its peak.
The Human-Immortal Realm Barrier shattered, and the Realm-Breaking Immortal Butterfly flapped its wings to soar high into the air!!
Li Guanqi's eyes widened with fury as the wounds across his body burst open, spraying blood.
Yet he still soared upward, slashing out with every ounce of strength he had left!!
"Sword-Drawing Stance: Dao Fall!!"
Boom!!!!!
A torrential sword light surged from the ground!
The sword beam, hundreds of zhang wide, began to crumble the instant it neared the immortal spiritual passage!
Yet just as despair crept into Li Guanqi's heart,
a streak of blood-red spear glow arrived in an instant!
The spear glow struck right as Li Guanqi's sword strike was spent, crashing violently against the passage!
The passage shuddered, shaken by the strike, and faint cracks appeared along its surface.
Li Guanqi's brows narrowed slightly as he noticed the butterfly's flight path falter.
Right then, a woman's bone-chilling cry rang out!
An ice-blue sword light followed right behind. The God-Shooting Spear lost its spiritual glow and was flung backward.
Her azure gown stained crimson with blood, Meng Wanshu's gaze was as sharp as a blade.
Though she did not know the exact details of what was happening,
she understood one thing: that iridescent butterfly about to ascend to the Immortal Realm must not make it through!!
Boom!!!!
Meng Wanshu forcefully halted her forward flight. Twisting her waist, the green blade in her grip trembled with a soft hum!
At the same time, Lu Tiancheng's remnant soul completely dissolved.
"It's... no... use..."
"You... cannot... stop it..."
Boom!!!
A violent pressure erupted without warning—Meng Wanshu had actually forced her way through the bottleneck at this very moment, breaking straight into the middle stage of the Tribulation Transcendence realm!
Across ten thousand zhang around them, the temperature plummeted to the absolute freezing point, filling the air with frost.
Ice-blue light flashed in Meng Wanshu's eyes as she cried out coldly,
"Song of Spring and Autumn: Spring Burial!"
Boom!!!
A terrifying wave of frost sword qi detonated.
Crack!!
A crisp snapping sound echoed as the sword light cleaved straight into the fissure opened by Li Guanqi and Xiao Chen's attacks!
Inside the passage, the sword light sheared off one of the butterfly's wings.
Yet in the end, the Realm-Breaking Immortal Butterfly transformed into a beam of light and ascended into the Immortal Realm!!
The Human-Immortal passage closed, vanishing into the void in an instant.
Li Guanqi's face went pale. He violently coughed up a mouthful of blood, his vision blurring as he fell unconscious.
His hand reached out feebly toward the sky.
"Despite calculating ten thousand possibilities... I never imagined Lu Tiancheng would give his life just to send the Realm-Breaking Immortal Butterfly up..."
"Those two things are enough to tell the people of the upper realm that I am the one they are looking for."
In the Seventh Domain.
The small courtyard belonging to Su Xuan was deserted.
Beneath the Immortal Gate, however, Su Xuan was locked in combat with three mighty figures whose faces were obscured.
Terrifying saber glows crisscrossed the sky, their violent roars echoing across a thousand li.
Suddenly!
Su Xuan whipped his head around toward the depths of the void.
Within the pitch-black emptiness, an impossibly swift streak of light vanished into the darkness in an instant.
Su Xuan pinched his fingers in divination, and his face changed drastically.
After a long silence, the old man let out a sigh. Looking up at the massive Immortal Gate overhead, he muttered softly,
"It seems... Guanqi will not escape this tribulation after all."
Seeing this, the three heavily injured figures hesitated no longer, instantly disengaging from the battlefield to retreat into the Immortal Gate.
Su Xuan gave a cold snort, his eyes narrowing as a frigid light flickered within them.
"You think you can come and go as you please?"
Boom!!!!
Inside the scabbard, violent power suddenly condensed into a spiritual saber.
Su Xuan lowered his stance, shifted his footwork, and the instant his hand gripped the hilt, he shot forward like lightning!!!
Chapter 1495