Come Out and Die!

*Boom!* Li Guanqi's chest heaved slightly, and he abruptly roared at the top of his lungs, "Leader of the Crane Alliance, come out and die!!" Casting aside his disguise, Li Guanqi let his chilling voice echo endlessly across the mountain peak. The moment the shout rang out, every elder and disciple of the Crane Alliance was jolted with shock. Someone actually dared to barge straight into the Crane Alliance and utter such brazen boasts! Over a dozen figures radiating formidable auras, all dressed in white robes patterned with cranes, took to the air one after another. Li Guanqi showed little emotion upon seeing them, his expression as calm as still water. Other white-robed disciples took flight as well, shouting in fury. "Hmph! Who are you?! How dare you speak such arrogant nonsense?!" "You dare come run wild in our Crane Alliance?!" "Hmph! Bring him down!!" Li Guanqi indifferently swept his gaze over the crowd. A dense ring of well over a hundred people hovered in the air, encircling him. "Hmph!" Along with a cold snort, a terrifyingly immense pressure erupted from Li Guanqi. Under this dreadful pressure, every disciple of the Crane Alliance below the Nascent Soul realm plummeted straight out of the sky! Below Nascent Soul, flight was forbidden! Such was the pressure of the Nascent Soul realm. Figures rained down from the sky like dumplings dropped into boiling water. Even the faces of the dozen-plus Nascent Soul elders hovering in the air abruptly changed. Under that horrific pressure, even they felt as if an entire mountain had crashed down upon them, making it excruciatingly hard to breathe. A few elderly men in the early Nascent Soul stage even turned deathly pale, bean-sized beads of sweat rolling down their foreheads. Li Guanqi indifferently swept his eyes over the crowd, and a flash of light flared in his hand. A headless corpse was hurled down from midair. Seeing this, the disciples and elders of the Crane Alliance trembled to the core of their beings! Because the clothing and aura of that headless corpse... were unmistakably their Third Elder, Lin Jian!! A late Nascent Soul grandmaster had been tossed down like a piece of trash. *Thud!* The corpse slammed onto the green flagstones. What should have been a faint dull thud struck their ears like deafening thunder! Witnessing this, many elders found their palms slick with cold sweat as they gripped their swords. Lin Jian's strength had been among the top three in the entire Crane Alliance, even counting their Alliance Leader. Yet such a prominent figure had vanished for merely two days, only to be slain and tossed right back into their sect. Right then, many people recognized Li Guanqi's identity! If there was one matter running wild across the entire Great Xia Domain recently, it was the bounty and kill order issued by the Eastern Domain's Mo Family. The astronomical bounty had driven countless people mad with greed. Rumor had it that many old monsters had even emerged from seclusion just to kill Li Guanqi. They hoped to take his head, collect the reward, and gamble with those resources for a breakthrough. Yet at that exact moment, countless chains of lightning abruptly materialized behind Li Guanqi! Trailing behind each chain was a mangled, battered corpse! The pupils of every Crane Alliance disciple constricted violently at the sight! The Nascent Soul elders encircling Li Guanqi shuddered with terror in their eyes. The disciples might not yet grasp what those corpses represented. But the elders could clearly sense the powerful lingering emanations coming from them. *Gulp...* "Th-these corpses... are all... all Nascent Soul cultivators!!!" a slightly hunched elder rasped in a dry, hoarse voice. Another elder with greying temples narrowed his eyes at Li Guanqi and said in a heavy voice, "Just how many... people has he killed?!" *Why was Lin Jian killed?* At this thought, the elder's face shifted repeatedly as a horrifying possibility dawned on him. "Could it be..." *Buzz!* Space warped slightly. A cold sneer slowly drifted from the void. "Heh. An insolent whelp actually dares come seeking death at my door? Then I shall grant your wish!" From within a pitch-black rift, a white-haired elder slowly stepped forth. Primal energy surged wildly around the old man, and a terrifying pressure erupted! In mere moments, it crushed Li Guanqi's pressure to pieces. Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes, murmuring inwardly, *Soul Formation realm, as expected.* *Boom!* The elder wore a white robe embroidered with a black-and-white crane whose crimson eyes glimmered faintly. From the moment he appeared, he fixed a deathly stare on Li Guanqi, a glint of greed flashing in the depths of his eyes. He did not spare so much as a glance at the corpse on the ground. From Tianji Pavilion's intelligence, Li Guanqi knew the elder before him was named Wei Xian, with a Dao age of eight hundred and ninety-three years, an early Soul Formation cultivator. It was precisely him who, lured by the Mo Family bounty, had dispatched Lin Jian to secretly hunt him down. Li Guanqi wasted no words, instantly contracting the curtain of fire to within five hundred zhang! The thunder pool of the Sword Prison space shifted with it, transforming the space within five hundred zhang into a sealed barrier. The old man looked up at the surrounding void, gravity flickering through his gaze. Truth be told, even though he had broken through to the Soul Formation realm, the domain power he had comprehended was vastly inferior to Li Guanqi's. Then the old man snorted coldly and slowly raised a hand. In an instant, a simple, archaic green sword from atop the mountain peak flew into his grasp. The three-foot blade rang clear and crisp as he raised it, pointed it at Li Guanqi, and barked, "Kill him!!!" The dozen or so Nascent Soul elders around hesitated for only an instant before violently bursting into action one after another! Li Guanqi's expression did not change; he had anticipated this all along. Slowly raising his right hand, the entire Sword Prison thunder pool instantly went berserk! The sky full of lightning condensed into countless purple thunder swords—a dense horde of over a thousand blades! This was the absolute limit to the number of swords Li Guanqi could control. Wei Xian's eyes widened abruptly at the world-enveloping divine sense; even he was shaken by such terrifying power. Parting his lips, Li Guanqi uttered in a chilling voice, "Moonstep: Sword Control Technique!!" *Boom!* Lightning exploded, and fire erupted furiously across the thunder swords! Empowered by the Purple Dragon Thunder Flame, the might of every thunder sword surged to an unbelievable degree in an instant. In a flash, the entire thunder pool Sword Prison was completely submerged in a boundless sea of thunder swords! The dozen-plus figures were swallowed up in an instant by countless thunder swords wreathed in the blazing heavenly flame. Agonized shrieks rang out one after another. With a calm expression, Li Guanqi tore away his white robe, exposing the dense mass of wounds covering his body. Primal energy roared frantically within him, and as his vitality surged, it was as if dragons roared and elephants trumpeted! Terrifying power accumulated with abandon. Wei Xian stared at Li Guanqi with utmost solemnity. And with every step Li Guanqi took, several charred corpses plunged from the sky. Looking calmly at the old man in the distance, Li Guanqi said softly, "You... should not have provoked me." *Boom!*