The Lin Family's Tiger Marshal, Lin Ruhu!

At those words, Li Guanqi fell silent as well. He looked at Lin Wujiu, then took out an inscribed talisman. "Can I escape with this?" Lin Wujiu's eyes lit up the moment he saw the talisman, but he immediately shook his head with a bitter smile. "Not likely... Trying to pull off little tricks like this in front of a True Immortal is pure wishful thinking." Qisha felt rather helpless as well. With their meager strength, it truly was impossible... Lin Wujiu watched the surrounding secret realm steadily collapsing, his eyes flickering with thought. "I snuck out this time, so my Dao protector isn't around..." "Still, with my status, taking the two of you away shouldn't be a big deal!" Li Guanqi muttered skeptically, "Are you sure?" Yet at that moment, Qisha nodded. "As long as we're in Qinzhou, he can get us out!" Lin Wujiu nodded and smiled at Qisha. "We didn't know each other before trading blows, and we've been through life and death together now." "Let's exchange jade slips. We'll be outside in a moment." "Just stay by my side when we appear, and I'll take you out!" Qisha frowned, asking in a heavy voice, "What if Chen Tianhua is dead set on keeping us here?" Lin Wujiu sneered, the pride of the Lin family's eldest young master surfacing. "If I, Lin Wujiu, want to take someone with me, and Chen Tianhua dares to stop me, he'd better be ready for the Lin family to come knocking and raze the Tianhua Sword Sect to the ground!" The corners of Li Guanqi's mouth curved slightly. With a flick of his wrist, he stowed the Xue Ming Sword into his sword coffin. In an instant, Li Guanqi felt a mysterious force inside the sword coffin nourishing the Xue Ming Sword! Strangely, the sword coffin did not refine the longsword as it had done before. It seemed this was a sword recognized even by the sword coffin. Looking at it now, the second sword of his coffin of buried swords was to be the Xue Ming Sword. Donning the Rakshasa Ghost Mask, he altered his appearance and aura beneath the astonished gazes of the other two. The three of them involuntarily took a deep breath. As the secret realm shattered, the figures of Li Guanqi and his companions vanished from the spot in an instant. *Hum!* A surge of immensely powerful spatial fluctuations swept over them, and Li Guanqi gripped the Red Lotus sword in his hand ahead of time! Suddenly! A terrifyingly immense pressure erupted with a roar! A spiritual palm print several dozen zhang across came crashing down directly upon the three of them! *Boom!* A pendant on Lin Wujiu's wrist abruptly shattered! A purple-gold barrier enveloped Li Guanqi and the other two. By this point, Lin Wujiu had already changed into magnificent robes. He looked up at the man in midair and said in a chilling voice, "Sect Master Chen displays such grand airs... Are you trying to kill me?" As soon as those words were uttered, a commotion of noisy chatter broke out all around. "Hah, an arrogant fool who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth, daring to speak so wildly to the sect master!" "Courting death! The sect's senior brothers all perished in the secret realm, and it definitely has something to do with the three of them! Seize them first!" "Humph! For all we know, the three of them plotted in secret to murder our senior brothers and sisters inside!" "These three must have obtained what rightfully belongs to our Tianhua Sword Sect. Capture them first!" However, some sect elders had clearly made out the speaker's face. A white-haired elder narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "The pattern on that fellow's robes... Could he be from the Lin family? *Hiss*... That might be rather difficult to handle!" A woman in a purple dress sneered and leaned back against her chair, scoffing, "So what if he's from the Lin family?" "Right now, everything within a hundred li of this valley has been cleared out. Aside from us, who knows a Lin family member is here?" Li Guanqi's heart sank. A dark red sky barrier was no joke. The barrier covering the firmament was a full hundred li across. The valley that had been bustling with activity before they entered the secret realm was now dead silent. When Li Guanqi turned his head, he even saw numerous dismembered corpses strewn through the forest. It seemed... The moment the Tianhua Sword Sect discovered the mass deaths of their disciples, they had already dispatched people to purge the surrounding hundred li. Rogue cultivators who had hoped to wait for an opportune moment to ambush emerging cultivators had all been slaughtered here. *The Tianhua Sword Sect's methods are truly ruthless.* Qisha observed their surroundings carefully, his expression growing increasingly grim. They had been left with no chance of escape whatsoever. Beneath Li Guanqi's wide blood-red sleeves, an inscribed talisman burned furiously in his hand, yet without the slightest reaction or fluctuation transmitted outward. The inscribed talisman originally placed in the alleyway of Donghua City showed no response at all. Naturally, Chen Tianhua sensed Li Guanqi's covert actions. Yet he did not care in the slightest about such petty tricks. Chen Tianhua looked at Lin Wujiu, his gaze sweeping over him as a glint of sharp light flashed deep in his eyes. "The eldest young master of the Lin family?" Lin Wujiu held one hand behind his back, facing Chen Tianhua with absolute fearlessness. Retainers at the Heavenly Immortal realm were as plentiful as carp crossing a river in his Lin family, and they were not lacking in True Immortal cultivators either. His father, Lin Jinting, was even an advanced expert in the True Immortal realm. Lin Wujiu looked down and straightened his robes without a trace of dread. Yet when he raised his head, his expression had darkened as well. Glancing at the giant spiritual hand overhead, Lin Wujiu sneered. "Could it be that Sect Master Chen wishes to kill me?" Curling his lips, before Chen Tianhua could even speak, Lin Wujiu actually took the initiative to suddenly dispel the barrier! *Bang!* The spiritual palm print crashed downward instantly! The overbearing pressure, from its stray aura alone, pinned the three of them in place, rendering them unable to move. Yet Lin Wujiu's expression remained calm as he murmured softly, "If I die, the entire Tianhua Sword Sect will be buried with me." *Boom!* The spiritual palm print abruptly shattered merely an inch above Lin Wujiu's head. The robes of the three fluttered wildly in the gale, and Lin Wujiu sneered. "It seems Sect Master Chen isn't foolish..." Chen Tianhua looked extremely displeased. Flicking his sleeve with a cold snort, he spoke in a dark, chilly voice, "Where are the disciples of my Tianhua Sword Sect?" Lin Wujiu wasted no words and tossed the shadow-casting stone Li Guanqi had duplicated for him straight into midair. Immortal spirit light flashed, and a projection a hundred zhang across instantly materialized in the air. The image depicted none other than Pei Tianchen employing evil cultivation methods to slaughter the Tianhua Sword Sect disciples on a massive scale. In truth, Li Guanqi could guess Pei Tianchen's thought process. The aura emanating from the Xue Ming Sword was that of the Purgatory Path and the Asura Path. Pei Tianchen had naively assumed that this demonic sword required the sacrificial essence blood of enough people to break its seal. Yet... no one had been around to tell him that the demonic sword possessed a spirit. In the image, Pei Tianchen was maniacally slaughtering the disciples of the Tianhua Sword Sect. The expressions on the faces of the Tianhua Sword Sect members gradually grew conflicted. Chen Tianhua's face turned especially ugly! The time Pei Tianchen committed the slaughter matched the exact moments when the disciples' lifebound jade slips had shattered... Lin Wujiu raised his hand and tossed the shadow-casting stone toward Chen Tianhua. "You may keep this shadow-casting stone, Sect Master Chen. If there is nothing else... we shall take our leave." Chen Tianhua reached out and crushed the shadow-casting stone to dust! Looking at them with freezing eyes, he sneered, "You? Leave?" "You kill my Tianhua Sword Sect disciples... and expect to leave so easily?" "Aren't you underestimating my Tianhua Sword Sect a bit too much!" *Boom!* A horrifying pressure erupted in an instant, spatial force binding the three of them tightly in place. Li Guanqi even felt the circulation of his immortal essence become extraordinarily difficult! Lin Wujiu's face darkened at once. Gritting his teeth so hard that his jaw muscles bulged, he glared furiously at Chen Tianhua and said in a frigid tone, "Are you certain you want to detain us?" Chen Tianhua wasted no words. Looking down at the three, he slowly reached out his hand. "Leave behind the sword from inside, and I will let you go." Lin Wujiu's face flushed red, and he craned his neck, looking up at the man as he snapped coldly, "And what if I refuse?" Chen Tianhua wasted no more breath. With a wave of his hand, three chains shot out instantly to wrap around the three of them! Flourishing his sleeves, he turned around and sneered, "Then I can only invite you to come sit as guests at the Tianhua Sword Sect..." As the chains coiled around them, a powerful sealing force swept through their bodies in an instant. The dantians and seas of consciousness of all three were instantly locked down! Yet right at that moment, a piercing screech rang out. *Clang!* A scarlet halberd wreathed in roaring flames pierced through the void and shot forth with blinding speed! *Boom!* The sky barrier shattered, and a green-robed man descended, treading across the sky atop the halberd! A pair of tiger-like eyes swept across the entire area, an overwhelming pressure shaking the world. Ancient mountain trees cracked and shattered inch by inch across heaven and earth, and everyone below the Heavenly Immortal realm plummeted from the void! With a flick of his toe, the man hoisted the halberd onto his shoulder and cast a disdainful look at Chen Tianhua. With a sullen expression, his deep voice slowly reverberated through the sky. "Detaining a member of my Lin family?" "Chen Tianhua, have you grown tired of living?"