Yet faced with this, only a flicker of surprise passed through Tu Yuan's eyes.
Everything remained within his control.
Dragon scales covered Li Guanqi from head to toe, his gaze sharp as a hawk's.
Under the stare of Li Guanqi's white eyes, Tu Yuan felt an unbidden pang of fluster in his heart.
Li Guanqi licked the blood at the corner of his mouth and murmured softly, "Tu Yuan of the Liuli Land, I'll remember you."
"My title in the Spirit Realm... is Yanluo."
"When I ascend to the Immortal Realm in the future, I will settle every score with your Tu family!!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, before Tu Yuan could even speak, Li Guanqi's figure materialized right before his eyes!
Tu Yuan's brow furrowed slightly as he swung his sword in response.
*So fast!*
*Clang!*
Terrifying power erupted instantly, yet from the clash of blades, it was Li Guanqi who was knocked back a hundred zhang.
The webbing of Li Guanqi's hand tore open, blood streaming down, and his entire arm went faintly numb.
*What terrifying physical strength! Is he also a dual cultivator of spirit and martial paths?*
Feeling the force transmitted through the blade, Tu Yuan was inwardly startled as well.
"I never expected anyone in the Human Spirit Realm could practice the dual cultivation of spirit and martial paths and temper their physical body to such an extent!"
"You are strong!!"
With that, Tu Yuan's figure turned into a blast of astral wind, vanishing on the spot.
He moved so fast that even Li Guanqi's divine sense could not track him!
Wind element!
Moreover, it was a mutated astral wind of exceedingly high caliber—more formidable even than Xiao Chen's wind and fire dual elements!
Tu Yuan's footwork was erratic and blindingly fast.
Like the wind of early spring thawing the snow, seemingly gentle yet bitterly piercing.
*Swish, swish, swish!*
Like moisture soaking silently into the earth, the blade drew afterimages that instantly enveloped Li Guanqi!
Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes, pulling Red Lotus back in a flash to parry!
*Clang, clang, clang!*
Fierce clashes rang out. With every blow, Li Guanqi bore an immense concussive backlash.
With his current physical strength, he was surprisingly unable to match it!
His opponent was likewise a dual cultivator of spirit and martial paths, and someone of no low cultivation level even within the Immortal Realm.
Though Tu Yuan's physical strength was suppressed by worldly laws, his muscles, bones, and flesh were far beyond what Li Guanqi could withstand.
*Clang, clang, clang!*
A dense cacophony of ringing steel shook the heavens, the thunderous impacts relentless as torrential rain.
The terrifying shockwaves shattered the void, causing the already fractured Seventh Domain barrier to tremble.
Wind and thunder roared across the skies.
Two figures darted and clashed madly high in the firmament, trading over a hundred blows in the blink of an eye.
Li Guanqi's gaze was solemn beyond measure. For the first time, he felt someone overpower him on the path of the sword!
A fine line of blood was etched across Tu Yuan's neck, his narrow eyes filled with gravity.
Never could he have imagined that in a mere Human Spirit Realm, someone would possess such towering sword attainments!
His opponent's sword momentum was ethereal, shifting through more than a dozen sword arts and techniques in the span of just a few breaths!
Furthermore, his sword intent had actually reached the Sword Po realm!
Tu Yuan's own sword intent was merely at the Sword Soul realm—and only at the initial stage of it!
Po realm sword intent... What terrifying talent!
A glint of cold killing intent flashed in the depths of Tu Yuan's eyes. He finally understood why so many descended immortals harbored such dread toward Li Guanqi.
*Clang!*
Red Lotus's blade grazed past Tu Yuan's cheek, sparks bursting from the clash of steel and casting flickering shadows across their faces.
Suddenly!
Tu Yuan's expression shifted. With a crisp snapping sound, he retreated abruptly.
Looking down at his sword, he found a notch the size of a mung bean chipped into the edge!
He snapped his head up to glare at Li Guanqi's hand. The crimson longsword radiated an eerie red glow.
His personal sword had actually been chipped by a sword from the Spirit Realm!
Tu Yuan narrowed his eyes, staring intently at Li Guanqi's weapon.
Even after watching for a long time, he could detect nothing unusual.
Wiping the blood from his neck, Tu Yuan looked back at Li Guanqi, who was in an even more battered state.
Li Guanqi's white robe had long since been dyed blood-red.
Blood dripped from the hem of his robe, his face was pale, and the dragon scales across his body had been sliced open, exposing mangled flesh.
His opponent's wind primal energy was simply too ferocious, moving faster than any blade.
The sheer slicing force generated by the flowing wind had breached his defenses at every turn.
Li Guanqi remained vigilant, while Tu Yuan curled his lip and discarded the sword in his hand without a second thought.
Reaching into the void, he drew out an archaic longsword with a cyan hilt.
Its design was simple, yet Li Guanqi could sense a vibrant, spirited nature dwelling within it.
The instant the young man gripped the sword, his entire presence underwent a complete transformation!
Sharp, piercing, full of cutting edge!
Merely standing there, the space beside Tu Yuan was torn into streaks of pitch-black rifts.
Sharp sword qi crisscrossed in all directions, making Li Guanqi feel like a lone skiff caught in the heart of a tempest.
Faint sizzling hissed against his scales as sparks sprayed over him, as though he were enveloped in an unseen firelight.
Tiny cuts gradually appeared on Li Guanqi's face.
Yet his eyes did not blink even once.
"The sword's name is Void Cleaver," Tu Yuan's aloof voice sounded.
Li Guanqi took a deep breath, and the lotus petals carved upon Red Lotus slowly bloomed.
A resonant sword cry rang out, declaring war against his foe.
Red Lotus trembled faintly as the sword spirit transmitted a surging, fiery battle intent.
Li Guanqi smiled faintly in tacit understanding. Ripping away his shredded robe, he lunged a step forward!
*Boom!*
"Illusory Form, Blade Break, Killing Power, Spirit Absolution!"
Waves of formidable pressure erupted from Li Guanqi's body!
Crimson light wrapped around him, and lightning lotuses bloomed beneath his feet!
Flames surged into towering waves, shaking the entire domain in that instant.
Bolstered by the cultivation technique of the Divine Punishment realm, Li Guanqi unleashed his power without holding anything back.
The only reason Tu Yuan and the others had been able to cross over was that the force of the earlier self-detonations had torn through the barrier separating the two worlds.
Now that the residual shockwaves had dispersed, even if all the descended immortal cultivators self-detonated together, it would not suffice to agitate both realms.
Thus, Li Guanqi held nothing back, his aura vast and imposing as the firmament.
Tu Yuan frowned slightly, his brow steeped in gravity.
His muscles tightened, his whole being braced on full alert.
From Li Guanqi, he could actually sense the scent of death!
However...
Li Guanqi's primal energy was draining rapidly, and even his frantic devouring and absorbing of spiritual energy could not keep pace.
"Heh, your Flame Spirit is having quite a hard time hiding deep in the void to absorb spiritual energy for you."
Li Guanqi felt a sudden jolt. He hadn't expected his opponent's senses to be so keen.
Crouching low, he put weight into the balls of his feet, poised like a hunting lion about to strike.
Suddenly!
Li Guanqi became momentarily distracted, his pupils quivering.
The laws of the Heavenly Dao were pierced by an inexplicable force.
Li Guanqi murmured, "The Shenbao Domain... someone is ascending..."
That faint aura could likely only be sensed by cultivators at or above the Tribulation Transcendence realm.
The aura of ascension was very weak, seemingly belonging to a mere Mahayana realm cultivator.
Yet at this realization, Li Guanqi's expression drastically changed!
Chapter 1541