Rescue, Wind Thunder Wings!

"Ahhh! What's happening?!" A broad-shouldered, thick-waisted woman actually let out such a delicate, dainty cry. Just as she was standing there bewildered, she turned her head and happened to catch sight of 'Li Pei' clad in snug fighting robes. As though finding her pillar of support, she sprinted toward him. Feeling the ground shudder beneath her thudding steps, Li Guanqi's expression turned exceedingly grim. Just as the woman spread her arms wide, prepared to pull him into a massive bear hug, Li Guanqi mustered all his strength and punched her flying! Behind him, Ye Feng could not hold back a snicker. "Boss, you sure have heavy tastes..." Li Guanqi paid him no mind, saying in a low voice, "Split up and search for anything that looks like a dungeon! Look toward the back courtyard!!" The three split up immediately, silently commencing their search. Li Guanqi checked many places that looked like dungeons, but found nothing. Recalling the relationship between Fang Yishan and Fang Zhongnan, Li Guanqi decided to start with Fang Yishan's private courtyard! When he arrived at the courtyard gate, he happened to see a patrol squad walking out from the back courtyard. Sensing something abnormal, Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes. Amidst the clamor of the crowd, he suddenly struck! Under his sword control technique, he slaughtered the three Foundation Establishment cultivators in the blink of an eye. Searching the leader's body, he found a key, and after turning through several corridors, he finally spotted a secret stone door inside an inconspicuous room! He pushed open the stone door, and a foul, metallic stench rushed over him! Li Guanqi frowned slightly. The odor smelled of blood mixed with rotting minced flesh, nauseating in the extreme. The tunnel's stone walls were drenched with moisture. Li Guanqi furrowed his brows and sent his divine sense sweeping outward! *Buzz!* Suddenly! Just as it extended a hundred zhang, Li Guanqi's entire body shuddered violently! He saw a naked man bound to a stone bench. His flesh was torn and mutilated all over, with barely a patch of intact skin remaining. His limbs had been broken, stark white bone jutting through his skin with clinging shreds of meat. Innumerable silver needles were driven beneath all ten of his fingernails, while his toenails had been forcefully ripped out. Several steel spikes were hammered into the soles of his feet, driving straight up into his thighs! The blood covering him had long dried. His head hung low, unknowable whether he was dead or alive. Li Guanqi shut his eyes, unable to bear the sight, a towering rage surging within his chest! After sending a message to Ye Feng and Cao Yan, he moved like the wind, instantly shooting into the depths! Just as he drew near, an old man's displeased voice came from within. "Didn't this old man tell you lot not to come in unless something happened?!" Yet no one answered him. What greeted him was only a bolt of thunderous sword light, fast as lightning! Li Guanqi's eyes were filled with murderous intent. Locking his gaze on the early Core Formation old man, he slashed his sword out! Before the old man could even react, Li Guanqi's ferocious, contorted face was already right in front of him. "Rushing Thunder!!" *Clang!* Red Lotus tore through the void with an ear-piercing ring. A flash of crimson light flared! The old man's body was sliced clean in two. Perhaps hearing the commotion, the bound man struggled to lift his head. Yet the moment he looked up, Li Guanqi's soul was shaken! The young man's eyes were merely two bloody hollows—they had been gouged out alive! Seeing this, blood rushed to Li Guanqi's head, his heart boiling with outrage and grief. From the tattered scraps of fabric clinging to the man, one could faintly recognize the sect robes of the Great Xia Sword Sect. Li Guanqi slowly walked up to him. The young man's Core Formation had already been destroyed. The young man kept his head hung, his voice drifting out in broken gasps. "Kill... kill me..." "I won't... say... anything..." Hearing those words, Li Guanqi stood frozen in agony, tilting his head back to keep the tears from falling. *Slash, slash, slash!* Several sword strikes shattered the chains in rapid succession. With a trembling yet solemn voice, he spoke: "Disciple of the Great Xia Sword Sect, Li Guanqi... has come to save you, Senior Brother." The utterly feeble Zhao Yang suddenly jerked his head up! Those dark, hollow sockets turned toward Li Guanqi, his voice trembling as he asked, "Is it... is it really... Junior Brother Li?" Li Guanqi helped him up and bound him securely to his back with rope, his voice heavy with murderous intent as he said in a deep voice, "It's me! My master is Li Nanting, and our sect master is Lu Kangnian!" "Tianlei Peak disciple, Li Guanqi..." "I... came too late..." Zhao Yang slumped limply across his back, feeling Li Guanqi's gentle care as he secured him behind him. Resilient as his character was, at this moment an overwhelming flood of emotions surged within him, wanting to weep yet having no tears left to shed. His shoulders quivered slightly, his voice choked with sobs: "I didn't say anything... I... didn't say a word..." Li Guanqi closed his eyes and replied solemnly, "I believe you! I know Senior Brother didn't say a single word!" "Sleep now. Junior Brother is taking you home!" *Boom!* Ye Feng's hurried voice came through the jade slip. "Not good! Boss, they seem to have noticed!" Shouts and battle cries mingled with his voice. Holding Red Lotus, Li Guanqi used his primal energy to lull Zhao Yang into a deep slumber. With an icy glint of killing intent flashing in his eyes, he muttered, "Then we kill." *Boom!* In an instant, Li Guanqi's aura erupted straight into the middle Core Formation realm! Under the surge of tremendous power, the secret passage's door blasted open, and Li Guanqi turned into a streak of light, rocketing out! Over a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators charged into the passage, but immediately afterward, wave upon wave of shrill screams echoed inside. The bloodcurdling shrieks rose without pause. A moment later, Li Guanqi slowly stepped out of the secret room, his robes drenched in blood. Behind him, he left behind a field of severed limbs. Arriving at the scene, Ye Feng frowned slightly when he saw this. A thick, suffocating malevolence hung around Li Guanqi! Cao Yan also flashed over to the courtyard. Sensing the crowds rapidly closing in from all around, Li Guanqi forcibly suppressed the killing intent in his chest and said in a low voice, "Go!" "Leave the rest for the sect to handle!" The two nodded. Before the others could converge on them, the three shot into the sky and sped away! Yet right at that moment, Li Guanqi suddenly sensed something and snapped his head back! He noticed the rumbling from the back mountain was gradually dying down, and an ominous feeling gripped him! "Hurry! The fight over there is over!!" *Swish, swish, swish!* The three pushed their movement techniques to the limit, fleeing into the distance. Suddenly! A piercing shriek of tearing wind assaulted their ears! Looking back, they saw a black dot approaching rapidly from the distance! The newcomer's aura was terrifying. Judging by the sheer pressure, he was at least in the late Core Formation realm, and definitely not a newcomer to the stage! Bathed in blood, Fang Yishan glared at the three with wide, furious eyes. On his back was a pair of massive wings! Thunder rumbled across those wings, with purple bolts of lightning occasionally crackling across them like the feathers of a roc. Cao Yan's pupils constricted abruptly, and he cried out, "Wind Thunder Wings!" Fang Yishan moved with blinding speed. His bloodshot eyes bulged as he roared with a contorted face, "You bastard dogs, I finally caught you! You think you can run?!" Bolstered by the Wind Thunder Wings, Fang Yishan was extraordinarily swift. Thoughts raced through Li Guanqi's mind, and he made an instant decision. "Meet the enemy!!!"