Annihilating the Blood Blade Sect!

When Li Guanqi saw the scene in the images, a chill ran straight through his heart! What was shown in the memory was unmistakably someone using the Illusory Spirit Sect to poison the spiritual plants! Moreover, this had surely been going on for a long time, yet the Great Xia Sword Sect had remained completely oblivious. From the memory fragments of Kong Yunchang, Li Guanqi also spotted a crucial figure: an elder of the Illusory Spirit Sect. That mysterious person had initially approached that elder, and only through the old man did they reach Kong Yunchang. Li Guanqi stood in place with narrowed eyes, an icy chill glinting within them. While Kong Yunchang might have had no choice from his own perspective, that was no excuse to forgive his actions. His sea of consciousness hummed as a terrifying tide of divine sense surged forth, blotting out heaven and earth! Within the reach of his divine sense, a gray-haired elder was hiding inside a secret chamber, eyes brimming with terror. Li Guanqi raised his hand and released Red Lotus! *Buzz!* Red Lotus trembled slightly, then shot through the void with a piercing whistle! In the span of a single breath, the blade returned stained with blood. Li Guanqi had no intention of slaughtering the rest of the Illusory Spirit Sect. After all, they were oblivious to what Kong Yunchang had done. Yet everyone tied to this affair—Li Guanqi spared not a single soul! Regardless of whether they were man or woman, all were put to death! With a wave of his hand, he retracted his sword domain, and the thunder filling the sky finally dissipated. The disciples let out a collective sigh of relief, still unaware that their own sect master had already died at Li Guanqi's hands. Li Guanqi snorted coldly and stepped forward, vanishing from the spot. He was not heading back to his sect just yet. He still had a reckoning to settle with the Blood Blade Sect! Half an hour later. When Li Guanqi stood once again atop the towering peaks of the Blood Blade Sect, he did not conceal his presence as he had done before. In an instant, his white robes fluttered as boundless thunder erupted all around him! After the time it takes an incense stick to burn. Inside the Blood Blade Sect's main hall, blood ran like a river, the air thick with a heavy stench of gore. Viscous crimson seeped through the cracks beneath the doors. Countless disciples stared at the sight in sheer terror, yet not one dared step forward to shout a rebuke. Paralyzed with fright, everyone froze in place, not daring to twitch. Pale-faced disciples watched with trembling legs as Li Guanqi strode away without a word, without an explanation. He had arrived by smashing straight through the mountain gate barrier, sealed the space to kill, and then sheathed his sword and departed. On his way back, Li Guanqi's brow remained tightly furrowed. He still did not know what effect the poison actually had. Yet he discovered that neither Qin Xian nor the sect master had replied to his messages, and even his master and the others had given no response. This calm felt more like the calm before the storm, leaving him uneasy. Arcs of lightning flashed beneath his feet, his movement technique pushing his speed to its utmost limit. Jumbled thoughts swirled in his mind, and his heart involuntarily began to race. The Dao platform within his sea of consciousness hummed, forcibly suppressing the chaotic emotions, and Li Guanqi tore through the void like a rampaging behemoth. *Buzz!* The heavens tore open, and a figure shot out from within a pitch-black rift. Li Guanqi stared blankly at the already activated sect-protecting grand formation, thinking to himself that things looked grim. The jade slip at his waist gave off a soft luminescence, yet the grand formation did not react. Li Guanqi frowned. "Is someone actively controlling the formation?" At the same time, the elder controlling the formation sensed the fluctuations of Li Guanqi's elder jade slip. "Quick, open the barrier! Guanqi is back!" *Buzz!* A gap opened in the barrier, and Li Guanqi flew inside in a flash. Looking down, hardly a soul was visible across the Great Xia Sword Sect; anyone in sight was speeding past in great haste. A tense, suffocating atmosphere permeated the entire sect. According to his perception, almost all the senior elders of the Great Xia Sword Sect were currently gathered inside the main hall. The disciples had assembled in the main halls of the seven peaks, bewilderment etched onto their faces, unaware of what was happening. However, they could clearly see the anxious expressions on the elders' faces, throwing everyone into a state of unease. The figure of an elderly man teleported over. Seeing Li Guanqi, he hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Elder Li, the sect master and the others are waiting for you in the main hall." Li Guanqi gave a slight nod and said in a heavy voice, "Old Zhou, I'll head over right away. Please arrange for the consecrated elders to calm the disciples." The old man nodded in assent, and with a flash of light beneath his feet, Li Guanqi vanished from the spot. Li Guanqi had no time to appease the disciples' anxiety; in a flash, he appeared right before the doors of the sect's main hall. *Creak!* The hall's heavy, red-lacquered wooden doors were pushed open. The hall was packed to the brim—nearly all the masters of the seven peaks, along with every elder and consecrated elder currently in the sect, numbering close to a hundred people. The moment the doors swung open, everyone turned their eyes toward the entrance. When they clearly saw that it was Li Guanqi, for reasons they could scarcely explain, everyone seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, the gloom weighing on their hearts lifting a little. Even Lu Kangnian, seated upon the high dais, had a gentler look in his eyes. Clad in his bloodstained white robes, Li Guanqi stepped forward with a solemn expression, bowed, and declared in a resonant voice: "Kong Yunchang, Sect Master of the Illusory Spirit Sect, and the Master of the Blood Blade Sect have both been slain by my hand." "Everyone within the two sects who knew of this matter has been eliminated." At those words, many drew in a sharp breath of cold air. Yet no one felt that Li Guanqi had acted improperly. Now that someone had dared to conspire against the Great Xia Sword Sect, they had to be crushed with thunderous force! Lu Kangnian narrowed his eyes, a sharp light flickering within them. Regarding such a minor matter, he merely gave a slight nod. Then he spoke in a low voice, "Guanqi, up to now, we have examined the bodies of many disciples and found no anomalies whatsoever." "The sect's alchemists haven't discovered anything wrong either." "Did you find anything on their end?" Li Guanqi frowned. He had not expected that even the sect master could see nothing amiss, let alone that the sect's alchemists had failed to detect any issue. Li Guanqi turned to look at an old man lost in deep thought, cupping his hands slightly. "Elder Yu, I have a scene depicting when they administered the poison. Take a look." Startled from his reverie, the old man looked up and said hurriedly, "Good, good, good, let me see! I've racked my brains for so long and still can't identify what poison it could be!" Li Guanqi raised his hand and conjured the illusory images from Kong Yunchang's mind. Everyone shifted their gaze toward it, but the image was too indistinct; one could only make out figures clad in black scattering a dark-green powder. The elder surnamed Yu also frowned deeply as he watched. After closing his eyes and pondering for a long time, he let out a sigh. With a look of utter vexation, he struck the table with his hand and lamented, "This old man... cannot recognize this poison..." "Alas..." At his words, everyone's heart clenched. Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes. After pondering for a moment, he flipped his hand and retrieved a remarkably ornate and distinctive jade slip!