The explosive blast knocked Li Guanqi's body back over four hundred zhang in an instant!
The terrifying force in midair had blasted a gaping hole nearly a hundred zhang across in the firmament!
Though the shattered void was restored in the blink of an eye, the spectacle was already shocking enough.
A somewhat disheveled figure tumbled backward through the air.
His hair in disarray, Ye Lingyun's eyes were somewhat dazed.
Blood trickled slowly down his cheek...
The scalding-hot blood brought waves of piercing pain.
Gazing at the distant, fleeing figure of Li Guanqi, he momentarily forgot to give chase.
He looked down at his torn robe, which could barely mend itself.
With a trembling left hand, he touched his cheek.
The instant his fingertips brushed the mangled, exposed flesh, he jerked his hand back like lightning.
Lightning arcs still lingered over the charred wound on his chest, and this power was ravenously devouring his flesh and immortal primal energy.
A shredded robe, agonizing pain piercing his heart!
Ye Lingyun, who had previously maintained an indifferent expression, suddenly twisted his face into a savage sneer!
His blood surged with fury, and more blood seeped from his wounds.
"An ant like you dares to wound me?!"
"You're courting death!"
Suddenly!
Ye Lingyun halted, narrowing his eyes as he raised a hand to draw in a wisp of lingering lightning.
His golden eyes flickered with the faint glint of flame. Staring at the immortal primal energy before him, he murmured, "The power of heavenly flame?"
"A flame of the Spirit Realm underwent spirit ascension?"
Crushing the immortal primal energy in his grasp, Ye Lingyun licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, the metallic sweetness filling his palate.
"Tastes good... quite a nourishing tonic!"
A glint of greed flashed across his golden eyes.
This time... he not only wanted the Cold Soul Jade Glaze; he wanted the heavenly flame within Li Guanqi as well!
Possessing both a King Physique and King Bone, Ye Lingyun suffered from an imbalance of yin and yang, his yang qi overwhelmingly dominant.
Thus, he had been constantly searching for natural spiritual treasures suited to him.
Having learned about Dixiu Bay from the Castellan of Lanyang City in Quping Prefecture, he had hurried over.
He had never expected Li Guanqi to beat him to the Cold Soul Jade Glaze.
Whoosh!
Flapping his flame wings, Ye Lingyun shot forward in an instant!
By now, thousands of onlookers had gathered outside Dixiu Bay.
With such a massive commotion in Dixiu Bay, those outside had learned of it long ago.
Many cultivators, upon hearing what was happening here, had even abandoned watching the slaughter inside the beast colosseum.
When they saw the barrier protecting the six cities raised and the cities reduced to dilapidated ruins, they instantly sensed that something was amiss.
Cultivators all around leaped onto high mountains, and many even ventured over to the shattered mountain peaks of the realm.
When they sensed the lingering aura, their faces paled in shock.
Anyone could feel that extraordinarily powerful, terrifying chill!
"This aura... there's definitely a supreme treasure!"
"Tsk, this chill is actually leaking from that shattered realm."
"It seems the upheaval across the six cities of Dixiu Bay must have something to do with this!"
A plain, grey-robed elder murmured with a furrowed brow.
Then he turned his gaze into the six-city barrier.
Two figures had turned into streaks of light, racing frantically one after the other.
Behind him, Ye Lingyun made no attempt to conceal his form, swinging his sword incessantly at Li Guanqi!
Li Guanqi could only parry with all his might or dodge desperately.
Boom!
Li Guanqi leapt, dodged, and pivoted, swinging his sword back to unleash several beams of sword light.
Yet by now, the immortal primal energy in Li Guanqi's body was severely depleted.
That strike of Dao Fall, unleashed earlier using the sword tip of Red Lotus's sword spirit true body, had drained nearly forty percent of his immortal primal energy!
Were it not for that, he wouldn't have been able to injure his foe at all.
Now with scarcely any immortal primal energy left, even shattering immortal crystals and swallowing Heavenly Origin Pills couldn't keep pace with his consumption.
A casual strike from his opponent required everything he had just to block.
Slash!
The sword light breached Li Guanqi's defense and struck his back.
This blow shattered Li Guanqi's right scapula, causing him to cough up a mouthful of blood.
Yet the blood was vaporized in an instant.
A tremendous amount of fire power had accumulated inside Li Guanqi's body.
His opponent's immortal primal energy gathered inside him like maggots clinging to bone.
Li Guanqi felt an unbearable burning heat all over, as if a raging fire was scorching his internal organs!
If he did not suppress the power within his body, the residual force would sooner or later burn his internal organs to ash!
Gritting his teeth, Li Guanqi looked back at the young man behind him, his gaze heavy with gravity.
The ground shattered beneath his feet. Relying purely on physical strength, Li Guanqi leapt into the air, barely dodging another sword strike.
Yet the aftershocks of the blast turned up all the dragon scales across his back, leaving his flesh bloody and mangled.
Li Guanqi's eyes were bloodshot. Even with the aid of Blood Replenishing Pills, the blood essence in his body was running critically low.
He could only continuously swallow dried radish.
"M-Master... I... I can't hold on..."
Thud!
Pengluo's power receded in an instant, and a shriveled radish appeared out of thin air.
Li Guanqi grabbed Pengluo and shoved it directly into the sword coffin's space.
Li Guanqi's aura instantly plummeted to around the ninth tier of the Heavenly Immortal realm, and he could barely even stabilize that level.
Looking down upon Li Guanqi's fleeing figure, Ye Lingyun's eyes lit up.
"The Divine-Patterned Sky Radish clan! No wonder..."
"Heh, an ant is an ant after all, having to rely on such petty tricks to bolster himself."
"Given enough time, all the flaws are laid bare."
With that, Ye Lingyun sneered as he looked toward the six-city barrier not far ahead.
"In that case, you might as well die here in Dixiu Bay!"
Li Guanqi sped forward. When he was still over three hundred zhang from the barrier, he suddenly spun around!
Six jade pendants abruptly appeared in his hand!
Channeling immortal primal energy into them, a massive gap instantly tore open in the thick barrier behind him!
As an inscribed talisman burned, Li Guanqi's figure vanished on the spot!
When his aura reappeared, he was already at the entrance of the beast colosseum!
Witnessing this, Ye Lingyun roared in exasperation, "Damn rat! Still running?!"
"Hmph! I'd like to see where you can run!"
Several hundred li away, Li Guanqi's sudden appearance at the beast colosseum's entrance drew a crowd of dozens of onlookers.
Many were even holding water mirrors showing Ye Lingyun's furious rampage in Donglin City.
Glancing sideways, Li Guanqi saw the man who had previously delivered a message to him standing not far away, glaring at him with a hostile expression.
"You... shouldn't have brought him here."
By now, many people were growing restless, their fidgeting figures and greedy, cold eyes fixed on Li Guanqi.
Li Guanqi's throat bobbed slightly as he forced down the blood in his mouth and walked straight toward the man.
The man frowned slightly, only to see Li Guanqi bite the tip of his tongue and spit out a mouthful of blood essence!
Watching the line of fire speeding toward them in the distance, rapidly closing in, Li Guanqi spoke in a calm voice, "Your contract—how can it be broken?"
The man's breath caught, his pupils shrinking as he stared at Li Guanqi.
At the same time, he took out a jade slip to consult the person behind him.
In a study on the first basement floor of the beast colosseum.
A grey-haired elder held the jade slip, his brow furrowing slightly, his eyes filled with astonishment as though he could not believe what he was hearing.
The message sent back through the jade slip was simple, containing only two words:
'Protect him!'
The elder narrowed his eyes and sent a voice transmission upward.
The elder's voice reached the ear of the man outside the colosseum.
His eyes narrowed slightly, and looking at Li Guanqi, he said rapidly in a low voice, "There is: win a hundred battles!"
"Win all one hundred fights, destroy the contract, and regain your freedom!"
Li Guanqi took a deep breath and said, "Do you dare sign me?"
As his words fell, an elder slowly stepped down from the sky, looking at Li Guanqi through narrowed eyes, and said in a deep voice, "Once signed, no one can regret it. Have you made up your mind?"
Watching Ye Lingyun, who was now within two thousand zhang, Li Guanqi raised his blood essence high and said softly, "Save me first, then we'll talk."
Boom!
"Dog bastard, die!"
Ye Lingyun's sword, carrying the might to cleave the heavens, slashed straight down at Li Guanqi's head!
The biting sword light ripped through the void as it fell, barely three chi from Li Guanqi's head.
Yet the grey-haired elder merely raised a hand casually and crushed the sword ray bare-handed!
Chapter 1761