Li Guanqi's eyes flashed like lightning, and thunder surged and roared around him.
Assuming a cloud-sword stance with his left hand, his aura climbed once more!
Lin Wujiu's breath hitched.
"I really don't know where your limit is..."
Without another word, the blazing sun behind Lin Wujiu instantly merged into his sword.
In a flash, the blade turned crimson gold, blazing like a radiant golden sun.
Space subtly warped, sending ripples across the void.
Terrifying sword intent surged within it, sweeping forth with the momentum to split mountains and cleave the earth!
Lin Wujiu transformed into a streak of golden light and charged straight at Li Guanqi.
Li Guanqi took a deep breath, suppressing the blood churning in his chest.
He slowly raised his sword with his left hand. No matter how Lin Wujiu twisted or shifted his trajectory, he remained firmly locked in Li Guanqi's sights.
Li Guanqi parted his lips, and thunder-flame sword glow flared wildly from his blade with a roar.
"Red Lotus: World's End!"
Boom!
As the strike descended, the Dao platform beneath their feet began to fracture inch by inch, seemingly unable to bear the sharp, oppressive weight of Li Guanqi's sword.
The bluestone bricks burst apart, tearing a deep trench that sliced clean across the platform.
Boom!
A deafening detonation rang out, and two blood-soaked figures were blasted backward through the air.
Lin Wujiu's eyes were dazed and unfocused, his soul shaken and his sea of consciousness plunged into chaos.
Yet right at that moment, Li Guanqi abruptly arrested his backward momentum and shot straight back toward Lin Wujiu!
What was more... the power of this sword strike even surpassed the one before!
"Dao Fall!"
Skrrrt! Boom! Crash!
Angling his sword toward the ground, Li Guanqi skimmed mere inches above the platform's bluestone floor.
Thunder coiled around his body, and the blade dragged against the surface, cleanly slicing off an entire corner of the thousand-zhang square Dao platform!
A suffocating aura of death enveloped Lin Wujiu.
His muddled mind snapped to attention. Seeing the young man less than a hundred zhang away, his pupils contracted violently!
"You!"
Under this overwhelming sense of mortal peril, Lin Wujiu reacted on pure instinct, his sword rising in response.
In that instant, countless scenes from his years of sword training flashed through his mind.
The shackle holding back his seventh sword shattered in a flash, and everything clicked into place...
The immortal primal energy within him roared, circulating on its own through a specialized path.
The seventh illusory blazing sun flared with blinding radiance!
Boom!
Faced with a life-and-death crisis, Lin Wujiu tapped into his greatest potential and unleashed the strike in a split second!
Yet the moment he struck, panic seized him.
Because Li Guanqi's strike had made him feel an unprecedented brush with death, the crisis had driven him to unconsciously break through the seal suppressing his cultivation, releasing the full power of his true realm.
Boom!
As the swords collided, one of Li Guanqi's arms was severed in an instant.
"You motherf—"
The sharp Geng Metal power invaded his body, frantically tearing through his meridians.
Had Li Guanqi not been on guard and shifted a foot to the right at the critical moment, that strike would have claimed his life!
Crash!
Like a kite with a broken string, Li Guanqi was blasted backward, blood spurting from his mouth.
Thud!
He tumbled to the ground, panting heavily.
Only now, lying on the ground, did Lin Wujiu realize that he had just broken his cultivation seal.
"Brother Li! Brother Li!"
Lin Wujiu was filled with intense guilt...
With a blur of movement, he rushed to Li Guanqi's side and helped him up.
Lin Wujiu's eyes were laden with remorse.
They were supposed to be sparring with suppressed cultivation, yet at the final moment, he had lost control, broken through the suppression, and unleashed his true power.
Had Li Guanqi not dodged fast enough, that strike would very likely have killed him by mistake!
Li Guanqi's aura was in utter disarray, his immortal primal energy frantically suppressing the Gengjin sword qi raging through his body.
Even so, his meridians were damaged...
Seeing the look of guilt in the eyes of a young man who had always acted aloof and cold, Li Guanqi's gaze turned playful. Clutching his severed arm, he feigned excruciating agony.
After a brief thought, he even forced up the stale blood within him, coughing up a mouthful of dark purple blood.
"Lin Wujiu... I kindly... sparred with you..."
"Yet you threw sportsmanship out the window... breaking your suppression against me..."
Lin Wujiu was on the verge of tears from panic.
He had never dreamed Li Guanqi could push him to such an extreme.
Feeling death close in, his body had instinctively counterattacked with everything he had; it truly hadn't been intentional.
"I... I, I..."
Seeing this, Li Guanqi immediately pressed on:
"'I' what? Don't tell me you're about to say it wasn't on purpose?"
"Lin Wujiu, I never knew you had such little conscience, to even think of saying that."
Lin Wujiu choked, his face flushing crimson as he held Li Guanqi.
"No, no, no... that's not what I..."
Hearing this, Li Guanqi frowned.
"As the Lord of the Spirit Realm, I sparred with you to discuss the Dao, and you're telling me you did do it on purpose?"
"Such petty villainy... the character of the eldest young master of the Lin clan really worries me..."
Li Guanqi shook his head repeatedly as he spoke.
Looking at Li Guanqi's injuries, Lin Wujiu's guilt was plain to see.
Flustered, he whipped out several exquisite jade bottles and attempted to shove medicinal pills into Li Guanqi's mouth.
Seeing his chance, Li Guanqi deftly took the bottles into his own hand.
"I'll do it myself."
With that, he poured out a pill and popped it into his mouth. At once, potent medicinal energy circulated through his entire body.
His damaged meridians healed rapidly, and the turbulent Gengjin sword qi was completely suppressed and purged from his system by the medicinal power.
A glint shone deep in Li Guanqi's eyes.
Tsk, these pills... they really pack a punch.
Li Guanqi looked at Lin Wujiu, whose face was flushed with unbearable shame, and found it rather amusing.
Who would have thought this seemingly cold and aloof fellow was actually quite fun?
His thoughts were surprisingly pure, without so many twists and schemes.
To put it plainly, he was actually quite upright.
"Brother Li... you... this... I..."
Li Guanqi feigned exhaustion and pointed into the distance.
"Go on, fetch my arm back for me."
"Oh, right, right! I'm on it!"
Yet when Lin Wujiu picked up the severed arm and turned back, he saw Li Guanqi pouring out the pills and counting them one by one.
It suddenly dawned on him.
"Li Congxin!! You're completely fine, aren't you?!"
Li Guanqi flinched, swiftly stashed the pills away, and snapped, "What are you yelling for? If I hadn't been sharp, that last strike would've hacked me to death!"
"What, you think you did nothing wrong?"
"Come on then, let's both suppress our cultivation to the Mahayana realm and fight, and at the end I'll hack you with a strike at the Mystic Immortal realm so we're even!"
As Li Guanqi spoke, he clutched his shoulder and grimaced, twisting his face into an expression of excruciating agony.
Lin Wujiu felt guilty all over again...
"Uh... I'm sorry, I'm sorry... It was my fault, I was wrong."
Li Guanqi snatched the arm back and began repairing his injury, curling his lip.
"That's more like it. You need to show some gratitude, understand?"
"If I weren't so magnanimous and forgiving, anyone else would have fought you to the death."
"We agreed to spar in the same realm, then you suddenly went all out. Who else would be as easygoing as me?"
Chapter 1583