Turncoat, Crushing Two Castellans!!

BOOM!!! A violent explosion rang out; the earth shook and the mountain peaks trembled. Two figures were hurled out of the firelight of the blast!! Huyan Lie's entire right arm had been sheared off in an instant by a sword light sweeping from below to above. At the wound, a three-chi blood contract congealed!! The spurting blood all became fuel for that blood contract to form. In that moment, Huyan Lie panicked for real. Without the slightest hesitation, he tore the flesh from the wound completely away! The instant the flesh separated, a terrifying explosion erupted. BOOM!!! The blast flung the burly man hundreds of zhang; half his body was reduced to a bloody mess. Li Guanqi, by contrast, had taken the giant axe across his left waist, leaving a huge gaping wound. The flesh was mangled, his intestines severed — the dragon-scale defense on his skin had been utterly unable to withstand that strike. Li Guanqi's figure flickered, and in an instant he actually split into nine figures that charged straight at Huyan Lie. Not only that — the nine figures drew close to one another. Pairing off two by two, their left and right hands formed seals against each other in midair!! Heaven's Might Suppresses the World! Across the ten-thousand-zhang vault of heaven the clouds churned, and thick bolts of thunder flashed and roared. Then three giant gates, each a hundred zhang tall and painted with mysterious patterns, descended from the sky!!! The gates pierced the barrier as though condensed from the great momentum of heaven and earth, and the moment they appeared they slammed to a halt, suspended above the Castellan Manor. The three gates linked to one another and in an instant released a supremely powerful suppressing force. Lou Fuchang and Zhao Mu were startled; even they felt a heavy weight pressing down on them from that force. It was hard to imagine what it was doing to the Heavenly Immortal cultivators under their command. Sure enough, everyone below the Heavenly Immortal realm had a full level of their cultivation forcibly suppressed!! In an instant, the situation across the whole battlefield eased enormously. At that moment Xiahou Cang, his body covered in wounds, also glanced at how Li Guanqi was faring. When he saw that Li Guanqi, gravely wounded, could still deal Huyan Lie a grievous blow, a storm surged in his heart!! A fourth-level Heavenly Immortal... gravely wounding a second-level True Immortal!!! Such a thing had never been seen or heard of!! Hope kindled in Xiahou Cang's heart as well. But just then, Li Guanqi's voice came roaring out. "Watch out!! Their target is the patrol camp!!" And at Xiahou Cang's ear there was also a murmur from Li Guanqi. "Stop them, even if it kills you!" Elsewhere, Lou Fuchang and Zhao Mu's eyes met, as though by accident. "What's the situation outside?" "Is Huyan Lie really trustworthy?" Zhao Mu charged at Xiahou Cang, sword in hand, meaning to hold him back and buy Lou Fuchang time, and as he moved he sent a voice transmission. "What Huyan Lie said should all be true. My people outside tell me Chu Yuan and Chen Ce have already begun attacking Beizha City!" "At most half an incense stick's time, and they'll be here!" At that, Lou Fuchang finally let go of his misgivings; he swept his hand down and barked in a low voice. "Kill every cultivator in the patrol camp!!" "Old Zhao! Go all out — no more hiding your strength!!" By now Li Guanqi's face was deathly pale, and the Nirvana Spirit Feathers behind him had begun to shatter; clearly he no longer had the strength to fight a True Immortal. Li Guanqi gritted his teeth and could only flash down to charge the black-robed men below. The badly wounded Huyan Lie, restoring his arm all the while, regrouped with Lou Fuchang and Zhao Mu, intent on killing Xiahou Cang. The black-clad figures kept racing toward the patrol camp. Xiahou Cang fought three alone, danger closing in from every side, while Li Guanqi struck again and again, killing more than ten Heavenly Immortal cultivators in an instant. Clang, clang, clang!! Boom, boom!! KRAK-BOOM!! BAM!! Xiahou Cang's body shot backward like a cannonball, smashing through a great many buildings along the way. Blood poured from his mouth; his injuries were horrifying. Dozens of savage, razor-cold sword lights fell from the sky and closed over Xiahou Cang. The man flung out a shield and pulled on soft armor; the booms came without end, and a moment later a figure burst out of the dust. It was Xiahou Cang — drenched in blood, his face hideous, his jade crown blown apart and his hair stained red, his aura fluctuating violently. In midair, Lou Fuchang and the other two encircled Xiahou Cang in a closing ring. Zhao Mu sneered. "Xiahou Cang, didn't expect this, did you? Even you have a day like this!" Xiahou Cang clutched his arm, his face like frost, his gaze sweeping coldly over their faces. "I, Xiahou Cang, should never have trusted the character of that old dog Huyan!!" Behind Xiahou Cang now, the Nirvana Spirit Feathers were dim and lusterless, unable even to hold the shape of wings. It was already too late to hold out until Chu Yuan and Chen Ce came to the rescue... But just as Li Guanqi cut down one of the black-robed men, Li Guanqi's eyes suddenly narrowed!! With his back to the four in the air, he crushed a jade slip! A sudden turn of events!!!! Xiahou Cang's throat moved slightly, and in one instant his internal injuries healed completely, as though he had never been hurt. Huyan Lie, whose aura had been faint and unsteady until now, showed a flash of keen light in his eyes and erupted on the spot!!! The giant axe in his hand swung high, an inscribed talisman on it flickering with silver light. Li Guanqi's figure abruptly appeared behind Lou Fuchang, his aura menacing!! The Xue Ming Sword in his hand trembled faintly with the mighty power it contained. Among the ruins of the Castellan Manor, a teleportation array hidden in a secret chamber flickered with light. Chu Yuan and Chen Ce, who had been a hundred li away, appeared out of thin air in midair!!! In that instant, Li Guanqi's aura soared to its peak. "Xue Ming: Dao Fall Sword!" "Heaven-Splitting Axe!!" "Frenzied Dragon Sword Slash!!" With Li Guanqi at the center, Huyan Lie and Xiahou Cang erupted at once. Chu Yuan and Chen Ce arrived right behind them. The situation on the field reversed in an instant!! What had been three men joining forces to kill Xiahou Cang suddenly became a five-against-two hunt!!! Chu Yuan and Chen Ce understood the situation at once. Almost the instant they appeared, they unleashed their full power. BOOM!! The vault of heaven cracked into countless pitch-black rifts, and the terrifying attacks burst out in an instant. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!!! Blades of light and arcs of sword energy interwove in midair, whipping past one another madly, converging and exploding together. The terrifying force set off wave after wave of aftershocks that spread outward. The ripples of that power swallowed the entire Castellan Manor almost instantly; smoke and dust filled the sky, and every building and wall was reduced to ruins!! The ripples spread nearly ten thousand zhang, and every structure along the way collapsed in an instant. Several figures shot out of the dust-choked aftershock. Li Guanqi was drenched in blood, his upper body a mangled mass of flesh, half an arm blown clean off. The others had not fared much better. The instant that force blasted Li Guanqi away, his divine sense swept wildly out, and he forcibly gathered all his strength and hurled the Xue Ming Sword!!! SPLURT!!! The smoke and dust slowly dispersed, and everyone fixed their eyes on the hundred-zhang crater in the ground. An utterly mutilated corpse — and a man with a sword buried in his throat. No matter what, Lou Fuchang had never imagined that Huyan Lie of Beizha City really was a traitor!!! Every part of the plan... Had come to ruin from the moment he let Huyan Lie through the gate. Zhao Mu was dead; there was no way Lou Fuchang would live. Sure enough, seeing this, Chu Yuan instantly cut loose with several sword strikes in succession!! In an instant Lou Fuchang did not even have time to get out a dying word before his body died and his Dao was extinguished!!