Cloud Boat Array Cannons!

*Slash!!* Several more sword gashes were carved across Lu Kangnian's body. His expression was resolute. Sword qi roared around him as the blade in his grip swept toward the old man with relentless ferocity. In a low, harsh shout, he bellowed, "Why? You will never understand! "Want to kill me? Come and try!!" In an instant, Lu Kangnian's sword momentum turned even more vicious. The old man's figure swayed slightly, leaving behind afterimages in the sky as his sword lashed out at Lu Kangnian with lethal precision. Suddenly! Han Tiange crushed a purple jade slip in his grip! Glaring viciously at the old man before him, he said in a chilling voice, "Brace yourselves. Here is a grand gift I've prepared for your Great Xia Sword Sect!!" *Boom!!* The dozen or so massive cloud boats that had remained stationary a thousand zhang away suddenly swung their prows around in unison! The colossal purple cloud boats turned completely broadside. Dozens of pitch-black apertures abruptly opened along the flanks of their hulls! Seeing this, the spectating Nascent Soul realm cultivators turned pale. Dazzling lights of various colors flared inside those black ports. Watching the sight unfold, Shen Ye of Zhenyue Mountain felt his throat tighten. He muttered in a grave voice, "Talisman array cannons! Ziyang Palace is dead set on wiping out the Great Xia Sword Sect!!" As expected!! The Great Xia Sword Sect elders' faces drained of color, their pupils constricting. Qin Xian swept his sword outward, blasting back the foes in front of him. Infusing his voice with origin energy, he roared, "Disciples of the Great Xia Sword Sect!! Disperse!! "Retreat into the sect at once!!" *Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!* "Hmph!! Does the old bastard look down on us that much?!" Seizing the fleeting opportunity, three figures bolted forward in an instant. Sword light flared from three blades, slashing straight toward the old man's vitals! Catching this out of the corner of his eye, Li Guanqi impaled a purple-robed disciple through the chest with a single thrust and bellowed, "Elder Qin, watch out!!" Without even turning around, Qin Xian curled his lips into a cold smirk. A sinister purple glow suddenly flashed across the blade in his hand. His lips parted as he murmured, "Sword Seal: Three Spirits!!" *Boom!!!* In that split second, the old man's sword traced the phantoms of three longswords in the air! The three swords instantly expanded into terrifying spiritual blades over a zhang long! Moving as fast as lightning, their speed was so great that Li Guanqi could not even track their silhouettes. *Boom!!* Like swords of divine retribution falling from the heavens, the three spiritual blades crashed down. One of the old men failed to dodge in time and had half his torso sheared away! Of the other two, one lost an arm, while the other was nearly sliced in two at the waist! The scene struck utter shock into everyone present! Li Guanqi's eyes went wide as well, and he exclaimed inwardly in stunned disbelief, *What kind of bizarre Sword Ruins ability is that?!* Indeed, it was Qin Xian's Sword Ruins ability! For when the elder had muttered those words just now, Li Guanqi had clearly sensed the sword coffin on his back tremble faintly. Furthermore, inside his own Sword Ruins, that blood-red sword had flashed with a crimson gleam. After heavily wounding the three men before him, Qin Xian's face went slightly pale. He did not pursue them to finish the kill. With a wave of his wide sleeve, the fabric expanded to over a hundred zhang against the wind, sweeping the Great Xia Sword Sect disciples back into the grand barrier in an instant! Li Guanqi expanded his divine sense across a fifty-zhang radius. As his gaze darted around, he spotted Ye Feng trapped in a heavy encirclement! At that moment, Ye Feng was drenched in blood. At some point, he had already broken through to late Foundation Establishment. What was more, Ye Feng was steadily consolidating his foundation amid the slaughter. Yet with his eyes reddened from battle, four Ziyang Palace disciples pressed tightly around him! Over a dozen sword wounds marked his body, blood streaming unchecked, leaving his face as pale as paper. Li Guanqi's figure flickered, darting past two Core Formation cultivators in rapid succession. He flung the Red Lotus Sword outward, using his divine sense to manipulate the blade and instantly execute the four disciples surrounding Ye Feng! With a slap to the wrist of Ye Feng, who was whirling around to strike, Li Guanqi seized him by the collar and dashed backward at full speed. By then, every mobile disciple of the Great Xia Sword Sect in the sky had pulled back behind the barrier. An earth-shattering roar tore through the heavens. Hundreds of light beams erupted from the dozen-plus cloud boats, hurtling toward the eight-colored barrier!! The brilliant illumination lit up the surrounding ten thousand zhang as bright as day. Wherever the light passed, towering ancient trees on the mountain were flattened by the fierce pressure, whipped by raging gales. *Rumble!!* *Boom, boom, boom!!!* The immense recoil blasted the dozen-plus cloud boats of Ziyang Palace backward by over a dozen zhang. Aside from four figures locked in combat within the origin energy domains high in the sky, both sides had long parted by several hundred zhang. Every elder of the Great Xia Sword Sect raised both hands toward the sky!! Boundless origin energy surged forth wildly, pouring into the barrier. Instantly, the barrier flared with blinding radiance, growing noticeably denser. Seeing this, Li Guanqi leaped into the air as well, throwing his arms forward to press hard against the barrier! A second joined! Then a third!! Countless figures took to the air, even though every single one of them was covered in wounds. *Boom!!!!!!* *Rumble, rumble, rumble!!!* *Boom, boom!!* Hundreds of light beams slammed into the barrier!! In an instant, an earth-shattering explosion threatened to overturn the firmament, and the space along the barrier warped violently. In the blink of an eye, the dense curtain of light began to shudder frantically. Fierce ripples surged across its surface, radiating outward. Li Guanqi's face paled. Through his senses, the barrier's energy was being depleted at an astonishing rate!! *Boom, boom, boom!!* As the roaring subsided, dozens of long fractures appeared across the barrier! "We held it!!" Yet before anyone could breathe a sigh of relief, Li Guanqi saw the array cannons on those dozen-plus cloud boats blazing with blinding light once more!! Without hesitation, Qin Xian cast down several thousand low-grade spirit stones beside him!! *Bang, bang, bang!!* Surging origin energy shattered the spirit stones, channeling all their spiritual qi into the barrier. As the fractures mended, the old man roared with a grim face. "Disciples, fall back to Tianjian Peak!! "All elders, hold the front!!" Yet not a single person stepped back. The elder turned his head and bellowed furiously, "Didn't you hear me?! Fall back!!" Seeing that no one was moving, Li Guanqi said quietly, "If we retreat, the elders alone won't be able to stop this wave!" The old man did not argue, making a decision in an instant. "Disciples below Core Formation, retreat at once!! This is a sect order!!" Li Guanqi gave Ye Feng and the others a solemn nod. Ye Feng shouted without hesitation, urging the others away. With Ye Feng and Lin Dong rallying them, the Foundation Establishment disciples began retreating frantically. Only the Core Formation disciples remained behind to face the onslaught alongside the elders. And this volley would be the final attack from Ziyang Palace's cloud boats. If they could withstand it, the outcome would rest solely on whether their Sect Master above could defeat the white-browed elder. If they failed... not only would their peak Soul Formation combatant fall, but the Great Xia Sword Sect's entire mountain gate would be razed to the ground!! Inside the origin energy domain, Lu Kangnian understood this just as well. With a vicious slash, he knocked the old man back several dozen zhang! Immediately after, Lu Kangnian flicked his wrist and drew his sword across his left thumb! *Slash!* Smearing the blood from his thumb across the space between his brows, a ruthless glint flashed in Lu Kangnian's eyes! "If it's a fight you want, then let it be to the death!! "If I don't beat you into submission today, I'll take your damn surname!!"