If the World Has No Judge, I Shall Draw My Sword and Become Yanluo!

Li Guanqi stood rooted in place, seemingly choked by the bizarre power within his body. Seeing this, Chen Zhi burst into arrogant laughter. "Hahahaha, laughable!!" "I admit you're strong, but you keep blathering about avenging her." "Who do you think you are? To judge me? Hahahaha, on what grounds?!" Li Guanqi stood suspended midair, a mere hundred zhang from Chen Zhi. Yet this distance was what Chen Zhi believed to be a safe perimeter. A violent, raging murderous intent suddenly surfaced across Li Guanqi's dark expression!! He whispered in a chillingly cold voice. "On what grounds..." "On what grounds?!" Boom, boom, boom!!! With each question, the power gathering in the scabbard in Li Guanqi's hand grew heavier by a fraction. Looking at the completely unrepentant Chen Zhi before him, the fury in Li Guanqi's heart blazed like a scorching inferno, roaring within his chest!!! Scenes of Ning Xiu dying in his arms gradually surfaced in his mind. Li Guanqi crouched low, his eyes tightly shut. Across his anguished face, two streams of bloody tears flowed from his eyes! When he opened them, the originally pure white eyes were now riddled with bloodshot veins, looking exceptionally ferocious. Li Guanqi whispered softly, "I don't know why, but ever since I stepped into the cultivation world, it feels like everyone around me is evil." "Everyone is cynical about the world, yet everyone wallows in the same filth." Chen Zhi sneered as he watched Li Guanqi, observing the flames gradually extinguishing on his body, his brow alight with delight. He could even feel the flame seed of the Purple Dragon Thunder Flame gradually forming inside him. He naively believed the youth before him was already thoroughly controlled by his Yinming Profound Flame. "Tsk, tsk, I really wonder how you managed to cultivate to where you are today." "The cultivation world has always been like this—might makes right!!!" "Sympathy, pity, familial warmth—they're all illusions!" "Only immortality, only standing at the pinnacle looking down upon the world, is the sole unshakeable truth!" Chen Zhi leaned forward, looking down at Li Guanqi, and sneered. "The weak deserve to be killed. No reason is needed at all." The fury in Li Guanqi's heart surged ever more violently. He understood that everything Chen Zhi described was the true face of the cultivation world. Yet he still could not accept innocent people dying because they were implicated by him. He cultivated the Dao to pursue the Great Dao and tread beyond the nine heavens!! He wished to wield his sword and ascend the azure skies, to see the heavenly immortals with his own eyes! Yet he also valued bonds of affection, wishing to rely on his own strength to protect those around him. He did not want a day to come when he reached the apex of the Great Dao, only to have not a single soul beside him to share the joy. That was why Ye Feng and Cao Yan existed in his life. Li Guanqi allowed Chen Zhi to continue devouring the flame origin within his body. In his mind flashed the images of Yu Sui'an, Li Nanting, Lu Kangnian, Qin Xian, Ling Daoyan, Ye Feng, Cao Yan... Finally, all their faces vanished, leaving behind only the pale face of a woman. Ning Xiu. A roar brimming with murderous intent slowly reverberated across the sky!! "Deserve to die?" "Hahahahahaha! What a 'deserve to die'!!" The Yinming Profound Flame that had been binding Li Guanqi was abruptly shattered and dispersed!! His left hand twitched slightly. As the power of his vital blood roared, five dragons and five elephants instantly erupted!!! As his five fingers snapped together, the surrounding space was violently torn into multiple ripples, like pulled velvet fabric!! Chen Zhi discovered to his terror that his body was rendered completely immobile beneath this power. The terrifying pressure and sword momentum acted like seals formed of multiple towering mountains, utterly locking down the surrounding space!! Immediately after, Li Guanqi's murderous, bone-chilling voice sounded in Chen Zhi's ears once more. "Since that's the case..." "If the world has no judge, I shall draw my sword and become Yanluo!!!" "Sword Draw Stance!" Boom!!! Chen Zhi's eyes could not even catch when Li Guanqi's hand had moved. All he saw was a flash of purple light before him!! Boom!!! A terrifying sword light flashed between heaven and earth, then vanished in an instant! Immediately afterward, more than ten connected towering peaks across the entire Yinming Valley were sheared in two!! The dense nether energy spanning thousands of zhang along its path was wiped clean in a single breath. Rumble, rumble, rumble!! Only then did a succession of deafening explosions detonate!! Chen Zhi stood frozen in place as a thin line of blood suddenly split down his forehead from the center of his brow. "What... what a fast... sword..." "Yan... luo..." Li Guanqi sheathed his sword and stood upright, violently coughing up a mouthful of fresh blood. Even bathed in blood, he remained proudly erect, his posture straight as a blade. Crossing the hundred zhang in a single step, he arrived before Chen Zhi. He raised his hand, pressed it against Chen Zhi's head, and wrenched violently!!! In an instant, an illusory soul was dragged forth. He brutally extracted its memories, searching out the Nine Heavens Flame Devouring Art. With just a single glance, the circulation of primal energy within Li Guanqi's body transformed instantaneously. He did not understand why either, but the Nine Heavens Flame Devouring Art seemed remarkably simple in his eyes. So simple... that he learned it at a mere glance. Forming a hand seal, he pressed it down hard onto Chen Zhi's mangled corpse, reclaiming all the power of the Purple Dragon Thunder Flame. Glancing at the Yinming Profound Flame scattered across heaven and earth, he absorbed that into his body as well. Looking down at Chen Zhi's trembling remnant soul, Li Guanqi let out a cold laugh. With a calm gaze, he said, "Rest assured, I won't let you die so easily." With that, he actually forged a cage using the Yinming Profound Flame! The exterior of the cage was reinforced with the Purple Dragon Thunder Flame, and with a flick of his wrist, he hurled Chen Zhi's soul inside. Instantly, agonized wails from the soul pierced the sky. The torment of having one's soul scorched by two heavenly flames was something probably only Chen Zhi in all the world knew the taste of. Having done all this, Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes and scanned his surroundings. Immediately after, three incomparably powerful ghost cultivators stepped slowly out from the void. The three glanced at one another, then actually bowed respectfully toward Li Guanqi. Seeing not a shred of murderous intent on them, Li Guanqi merely gave them a deep look, then turned and departed. It was precisely because of this that the words Li Guanqi spoke today—'If the world has no judge, I shall draw my sword and become Yanluo'—spread throughout the Six Domains! *** Far away within a mysterious grand hall, an old man listened to the report from a golden-armored man and slapped his thigh hard! His eyes shone with extraordinary brilliance as he rose and laughed uproariously. "Hahahaha, good, good, good!!!" "What a line—'If the world has no judge, I shall draw my sword and become Yanluo'!!" "As expected of my grandson, Su Xuan's boy!" "Damn it, this won't do... Long Hou, have those four pavilion masters recovered for the most part?" Behind him, Long Hou nodded with a touch of helplessness. "It is the Tianji Pavilion, after all. Injuries of that degree won't take long to mend." Su Xuan puffed on his dry tobacco pipe, tilted his head back to gulp a mouthful of liquor, and cursed. "Those old bastards. Go pound them again for me, this time beat them seven-tenths to death." "Hmm... right, give them a subtle warning that no one is to harbor any crooked thoughts about Li Guanqi." "Bastards, daring to scheme against my grandson." "If this shit happens one more time, I'll tear down their Tianji Pavilion myself." Long Hou nodded silently, growing increasingly curious about the youth he had never met. When the Domain Lord returned this time, he had claimed he suddenly had a precious grandson. Yet Long Hou, who had gathered intelligence on Li Guanqi, was thoroughly perplexed, having no idea what the Domain Lord was thinking... *Mm... ending up with a grandfather like this must be quite a headache. The boy could clearly swagger unchecked across the Six Domains, yet he still has to endure all these hardships.*