Boom!
A violent pressure erupted in an instant, and in practically the blink of an eye, the man's aura surged by a massive bound.
The pressure weighing down on Li Guanqi grew heavier by several degrees!
Judging by the feel of this oppressive aura, Li Guanqi guessed the man's cultivation realm had skyrocketed by at least two tiers!
A fourth-tier True Immortal!
Ye Lingyun's golden eyes now seemed ablaze with searing fire.
Boundless reddish-orange flames permeated the void, the horrifying heat violently twisting the fabric of space, which could scarcely endure such power.
The entire glacier boundary was already gradually collapsing following the Ice Phoenix's death.
Now, Ye Lingyun's fiery might scorched everything in sight, as though intent on burning heaven and earth to cinders.
The ice sheet across the vault of heaven began to melt madly at a pace visible to the naked eye.
Drip! Drip, drip!
The glacier turned to water, pouring down like a torrential rain.
A pair of flame wings roughly ten feet across flapped gently. Within the man's body, his skeleton took on that same reddish-orange hue.
Mysterious patterns spread across his bones, and that was the true cause of Ye Lingyun's soaring cultivation!
The Blazing Phoenix Bone and the Brilliant Flame Physique!
Li Guanqi licked his lips, his eyes flashing with frenzied greed.
His mind was entirely consumed by the urge to seize this man's innate supreme King Bone and King Physique.
Possessing the Spirit Devouring Dao Body, Li Guanqi had not encountered power that stirred his heart like this in a very long time.
If he could plunder all of the man's power, the boost to his own strength would be far from negligible.
Li Guanqi's eyes flickered. Devoid of fear, he raised his sword and lunged toward the man!
The threadlike blood tentacles on the Xue Ming Sword writhed frantically, as if it, too, yearned to devour the enemy's blood.
Beneath his mask, a silvery-white spiritual imprint shone at Li Guanqi's glabella.
He pushed the power of his Spirit Devouring Dao Body to its utmost limit.
Watching Li Guanqi charge toward him, Ye Lingyun curled his lips into a disdainful sneer.
Raising his hand, he slashed out several sword strikes in rapid succession!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Several beams of sword light followed bizarre trajectories, completely enveloping Li Guanqi!
Wherever the sword light passed, it tore through space by sheer force, shooting forth with utterly horrifying might.
Li Guanqi pushed his movement technique to its peak; he had already cultivated the Rushing Thunder Cloud Step Art to the Mahayana realm.
With a flick of his figure, he carried the momentum of earth-shaking thunder, moving at speeds invisible to the naked eye.
Li Guanqi slipped out almost grazing the narrow seams between the sword beams.
When he reappeared, utter disbelief filled Ye Lingyun's eyes.
Never had he expected the other man to evade the slashes he unleashed so effortlessly.
At the same time, he sensed a faint prick of threat within Li Guanqi's sword intent.
Ye Lingyun smiled faintly, his expression calm as he watched Li Guanqi swing his sword violently.
The Nirvana Wings behind him beat with sudden force!
Whoosh!
The sword in Li Guanqi's grip abruptly wheeled around, slashing violently toward his flank!
Boom!
"Immortal Slaying!"
The terrifying sword light actually cleaved space apart. The power unleashed by this blow was definitely comparable to that of a True Immortal cultivator.
The moment he saw the spatial fissure, Ye Lingyun's expression tightened, his eyes narrowing.
With a backhand swing, he slashed out his sword!
A sword beam wrapped in scorching fire instantly shot forth, and the two arcs of sword light collided head-on in midair.
Rumble!
Terrifying power detonated in the sky. Stray, chaotic sword qi crisscrossed, slashing fracture lines through the void.
Heaven and earth trembled, and the rate at which the glacier domain shattered accelerated sharply!
Amid the storm of sword qi in midair, two figures darted out violently!
Completely unharmed, Ye Lingyun looked solemn, cold murderous intent flashing in his eyes.
The robes he wore had blocked nearly all the stray force, though the gold-and-jade crown atop his head had burst, leaving his long hair tumbling down.
Li Guanqi, by contrast, had a charred, outward-gaping wound across his chest, his ribs hacked cleanly through.
Had his immortal primal energy not guarded his internal organs, that single strike likely would have left him grievously wounded.
Beneath the mask, blood seeped from the corner of Li Guanqi's mouth, his gaze exceedingly grave.
The gap in cultivation realm between them was simply too vast.
His opponent had wounded him this badly with nothing more than a casual strike, leaving behind residual power that not even Shiwu could refine.
Now, a mysterious force within the wound was actively impeding the regenerative power of the Demon King Physique.
Meanwhile, the murderous intent surging in Ye Lingyun's heart only deepened.
A cultivator whose true realm was merely fourth-tier Heavenly Immortal had managed, through various amplifications, to reach a level on par with an early True Immortal.
How could an insignificant nobody like this withstand a strike he had casually thrown out?
Li Guanqi's eyes flickered. He knew deep down that right now, he was no match for this man...
Ye Lingyun checked his momentum and took a sudden step forward!
Biting his left index finger, he dabbed the blood onto his glabella!
A smear of crimson marked the spot, and an even more violent power erupted from the young man's body in an instant!
"Today... you stay right here."
"Brilliant Flame Physique, Fire God's Blessing!"
Boom!
Terrifying flames swept across heaven and earth, engulfing the young man.
Immediately after, a large hand ripped the flames apart, and the young man stepped out slowly, his long hair transformed into raging fire.
A burning flame seal shone at Ye Lingyun's glabella, and his hair, turned to flame, soared straight toward the clouds!
His build had grown broader and more muscular, and he had even shot up by a head in height.
At this moment, Ye Lingyun's oppressive aura had reached an incomparable extreme.
Even the purple divine patterns upon Li Guanqi's mask showed faint signs of collapsing.
Pengluo could no longer bear such power; after all, Pengluo had not yet broken through to rank two.
The present pressure had already surpassed his limits.
Li Guanqi gritted his teeth, his eyes trembling. With hardly a moment's hesitation, he drew an inscribed talisman and slapped it onto his body!
Hum!
A terrifying spatial force washed over him, and Li Guanqi's figure was enveloped in silver radiance.
Ye Lingyun cast a glance and sneered, "Want to leave?"
"Did you ask me first?"
Forming a seal with one hand, he barked in a low, furious roar,
"Brilliant Flame Seal, Bound!"
Li Guanqi formed hand seals with both hands, boundless thunder and flame surging forth like a tidal wave!
The atmospheric pressure intensified drastically. Beneath his mask, Li Guanqi's expression shifted slightly as he bellowed,
"Immortal Incantation: Three Celestial Gates!"
Boom!
Three massive, hundred-zhang gates materialized out of thin air beside Li Guanqi.
Following Ye Lingyun's hand seal, three thick pillars of flame converged from three directions, surging toward Li Guanqi in a pincer formation.
The moment the three massive gates appeared, they shattered with a deafening crash.
"Pfft!"
Li Guanqi coughed up a mouthful of blood. The tentacles of his mask instantly absorbed it, the patterns across the mask glimmering faintly.
Yet precisely because of that split second of obstruction, Li Guanqi's figure vanished from the domain in an instant!
Ye Lingyun snorted coldly, raised his hand, and swung his sword with all his might.
The terrifying sword beam cleaved a hundred-zhang fissure straight through the domain before him.
The young man stepped into the fissure. With the wings behind him beating, his speed proved considerably faster than Li Guanqi's!
Whoosh!
Chapter 1759