You're Crazy!

"Lin Quan!!" The terrified cries grew increasingly shrill. The bloody sight before them stripped nearly everyone of their ability to think. When they noticed the golden cicada silk tied to the door handle, they understood in an instant what had transpired. Two people! Li Guanqi had stormed straight into Ziyang Palace's compound and brutally slaughtered two late Foundation Establishment disciples! Staring at the youth whose face was spattered with blood, quite a few felt a chill strike their very cores, unnerved by his vicious methods. Even Zhao Beichen, accustomed to seeing corpses, broke out in a light cold sweat across his forehead. His throat moved slightly as he drew his personal sword and gripped it tightly. Perhaps only that could grant him a shred of security. He had seen many ruthless killers, but in Li Guanqi, he detected an unparalleled malice! Looking at the golden cicada silk still dripping with blood upon the doorframe, it felt as though Li Guanqi wasn't just killing for the sake of killing. Scattered across the floor were countless messy smears of blood where Lin Quan had writhed in agony. Zhao Beichen looked closely at a lump of mangled meat and realized it was Lin Quan's tongue—identical to the one in the other room. In other words... Lin Quan had been killed by them ramming the door. Zhao Beichen stepped past the crowd to stand outside the threshold, looking down at Lin Quan, who lay lifeless on the ground amid pools of blood. "A left-handed sword! Could it be that he's been left-handed all along...?" "Which means... from the very start of the Purgatory Challenge, he never once fought at full strength!!" This conclusion made Zhao Beichen's heart skip a violent beat. He realized that from the very beginning, he had never truly seen through this person! Zhao Beichen slowly raised his head, looking at the blind youth standing a zhang away, and said softly, "You are truly a madman through and through... Do you know what you are doing?" Li Guanqi spoke with absolute calm: "I know." "Which is why I say you're a madman through and through." "You won't be walking out of here alive today." Zhao Beichen suddenly leveled his sword forward, his eyes narrowing as a glimmer of killing intent flashed within them. *Boom!!* Li Guanqi's eyes narrowed slightly, and then his left hand violently swung his sword, shattering the wall behind him! Executing his movement technique, he drifted away like a goose feather caught on the wind, soaring into the distance! Zhao Beichen's brows shot up as he roared, "Pursue him! If we don't kill him today, the entire Northern Region will mock Ziyang Palace tomorrow! "He won't be taking part in the Purgatory Challenge the day after tomorrow. If necessary, break through your realms!" The few remaining disciples nodded one after another, then flashed into motion, streaking off into the distance in pursuit! Watching the figures giving chase behind him, Li Guanqi's lips curled into a bloodthirsty, cold sneer. Behind Mount Tianyu lay a vast, boundless mountain range, which was precisely the battleground he had selected in advance. Far from Mount Tianyu, even if the Ziyang Palace elders returned, it would be of no avail. Besides... he didn't want to put his master in a difficult position. Soaring through the air, Li Guanqi slowly stripped off his bloodstained sect robes. Holding them in his hands, his expression was complex. Doffing them to put on his old, ragged grey hemp clothes, it was as if he had reverted back to that village boy. That little beggar who fought stray dogs for scraps. He cast the sect garments down from the sky, and with a sharp snap, crushed his identity jade slip in his grip! He sent a final spiritual voice transmission to Li Nanting: *This disciple is unfilial. Seeing Sui'an's tragic state, the malice in my heart cannot be quelled. To avoid bringing trouble to the sect, I take the liberty of leaving the sect today. Master, please do not blame me.* Just then, the sword spirit's voice slowly resonated in his mind. "You've made up your mind?" Li Guanqi wove through the mountain range expressionlessly and nodded faintly. Glancing back at the seven pursuers hot on his trail, he accelerated once more! In the blink of an eye, he pulled ahead of them by over a hundred zhang! The heavy snowfall beneath the night sky further obscured their vision. At this moment, a youth named Li Hua curled his lip and said disdainfully, "Split up to search, then surround and kill him!" Zhao Beichen sneered, "With his strength, if any single one of you ran into him alone, whether you could last five breaths against him remains uncertain. Split up? Li Hua, have you gone stupid staying in the Tianxiao Sect?" The gaunt Li Hua narrowed his eyes, looking at Zhao Beichen with a sneer. "If you're afraid to die, just say so. He merely ambushed and killed Lin Quan and the other. It's not like you haven't watched his matches in the Purgatory Challenge—how strong could he possibly be?" Seeing that the others didn't take the warning seriously either, Zhao Beichen was not the sort to waste more words. He simply let Li Hua make his reckless arrangements. In the end, they decided to split into pairs to search for traces of Li Guanqi. The moment he was spotted, they would immediately signal and converge via their identity jade slips to surround and slaughter him! Zhao Beichen did not join them, instead circling around to the west alone. As he departed, he couldn't help but curse under his breath, "A pack of fools!" Not long after they parted ways, faint sounds of clashing steel suddenly drifted from behind Zhao Beichen! Carried along by the wind and snow, the true location of the clash was impossible to pinpoint from the sound alone! Zhao Beichen dashed toward the sound at once. Along the way, he checked his jade slip and found that two disciples were positioned several hundred zhang behind him. *Swish! Swish! Swish!* Zhao Beichen streaked through the air like a ray of golden light, racing furiously back the way he came. Yet by the time he approached within a hundred zhang, the sounds in his ears had already fallen quiet. With an ominous feeling gripping his heart, Zhao Beichen accelerated further. When he finally arrived, all he saw was blood covering the ground, accompanied by severed limbs and shattered torsos... The two Ziyang Palace disciples had met horrific deaths, without even an intact corpse left behind! Standing frozen, Zhao Beichen felt an icy chill wash over his entire body. Li Guanqi was truly butchering them without the slightest restraint! Suddenly! As if struck by intuition, he whipped his head around to look to his side! Veiled beneath the swirling wind and snow, a youth dressed in ragged hemp clothes stood thirty zhang away. Those pure white eyes stared dead at Zhao Beichen, and his lips parted slightly to mouth a word. Though Zhao Beichen heard no sound, he understood. The youth was saying, *"Four."* Zhao Beichen's hand trembled slightly on his sword hilt. Seeing that figure vanish, he instantly pulled out his jade slip and roared, "Regroup!! No one can be left alone!! Rong Jiang and Yuan Kai... are both dead! He's right near me!!" *Boom!!* At that moment, Zhao Beichen abruptly unleashed a powerful aura, staying on high alert against his surroundings. The origin energy within him surged madly, on the verge of condensing a core at any second! At this thought, Zhao Beichen unhesitatingly began his breakthrough! He roared into the jade slip, "Break through quickly!! The Foundation Establishment realm poses no threat to him whatsoever!!" Yet on the jade slip, aside from Li Hua's pair, the other pair gave no response at all! Zhao Beichen's heart lurched as he cursed internally, *Oh no...* Sure enough! When he focused on the jade slip to sense the positions of the others, he discovered that the spiritual lights representing the other pair had suddenly extinguished! And their location was nearly a thousand zhang to his east! In just ten-odd breaths, Li Guanqi had managed to appear so far away!!