Apocalypse: Red Lotus Sky Dance

This sensation of having his life and death arbitrarily controlled by another stoked a nameless fury within him! Could he truly do nothing when facing the strong? All his cultivation to this day was so he could boldly draw his sword against the strong. Even against a Void Refinement powerhouse, he, Li Guanqi, dared to draw his blade. But what if it was the Body Integration Realm? In Li Guanqi's mind, the Nether King's silhouette seemed like an immortal striding between heaven and earth. All living beings under heaven could only grovel on the ground like him, bowing their heads in subjugation. *Weng—!* The suppressed Red Lotus suddenly let out a resounding, piercing sword hum! *Clang!* The blade of Red Lotus instantly lengthened to four chi! The lotus petals at the hilt instantly folded inward, and then brand-new petals emerged. Sixty-six lotus petals bloomed open, and the red radiance on both edges of the blade turned blindingly harsh. The hilt lengthened considerably as crimson blood runes crept wildly across the blade! The broken sword within his spirit ruins emanated an eerie red glow. *Boom!* *Sizzle!* A flash of cold light crossed the Nether King's eyes, replaced by a flicker of astonishment as he murmured, "Apocalypse!" *Boom!* Li Guanqi's pure white eyes were suddenly shot with blood, his face flushed crimson. With his mind falling into an inexplicable madness, Li Guanqi held only a single thought in his head. And that was... to slaughter this avatar of the Nether King! And to slaughter Ming Xiao right before his eyes! Didn't he want to use Ming Xiao? Then he would kill Ming Xiao just to show him! An avatar? Even an avatar would be slaughtered! Right at that moment, however, the Nether King gave a cold snort and forcefully interrupted Li Guanqi's awakening of the Red Lotus's Apocalypse! *Pfft!* Li Guanqi violently spat a mouthful of blood, and the blood runes along the Red Lotus began to recede. Pengluo panicked upon seeing this. "Damn it!!" "If he can't awaken the Apocalypse now, he might never get another chance..." "What to do... What do we do?!" It whipped around to look at the woman who had yet to awaken and shouted loudly, "Smelly woman, wake up already! Help him!" The sword spirit's eyelashes fluttered slightly, yet her eyes remained shut. Yet the icy killing intent within the space nearly condensed into substance around her! Pengluo could also tell that her fluttering eyelids showed it wasn't that she didn't want to wake, but that she simply could not. Killing intent surged in the Nether King's eyes as he spoke chillingly: "A mere ant dares defy this King?" A terrifying aura overwhelmed heaven and earth, blowing the three main peaks apart with a deafening blast! The surrounding Soul Formation Realm cultivators tumbled to the ground one after another, temporarily stripped of their ability to fly! This was a powerhouse spanning major realms—before him, mere presence alone was enough to crush everyone. Closest to the Nether King, Li Guanqi's chest caved inward slightly as his ribs shattered, several piercing straight into his lungs. *Spurt!* Yet Li Guanqi burst into sudden, wild laughter. "Hahaha! An ant?!" "Does an ant have to lower its head and let itself be butchered?!" "Fuck! Your! Mother!" *Weng—!* Perhaps feeling Li Guanqi's fierce resolve, the fading blood runes blazed with crimson brilliance once again and surged wildly along the Red Lotus! A clear look of astonishment crossed the Nether King's gaze as he weighed whether to risk destroying this avatar to kill Li Guanqi. Quickly, he made up his mind. "This boy cannot be allowed to live!" *Boom!* The Nether King slowly raised his hand, conjuring a pitch-black sword into his grip. Meanwhile, Li Guanqi was pinned in place by his aura, unable to budge. An icy aura of death gathered relentlessly within the dark blade. The cold bite of the edge brushing against his neck made his heart pound wildly as the stench of death swallowed him whole. The Nether King's posture was like someone preparing to behead Li Guanqi for all to see. Li Guanqi's heart hammered uncontrollably, his blood surging and roaring in his veins as though boiling. The indignation and fury in his chest reached an absolute peak at this moment. Suddenly! The sword spirit's body shuddered, her eyelashes fluttering before she snapped one eye open to stare into the void above. Her lovely eye was heavily bloodshot, and a profound, miraculous ripple abruptly radiated outward! *Boom!* Inside Li Guanqi's body, a spiritual rune suddenly blazed with blinding brilliance! In an instant, countless pitch-black rifts spanning hundreds of zhang tore through the entire secret realm space! An unimaginably terrifying saber intent surged forth! The instant this saber intent appeared, the Nether King's solitary eye twitched violently. His pupil shrank to a pinpoint, overflowing with sheer terror! No longer caring about Li Guanqi beneath him, he shot backward several thousand zhang in a flash, unleashing his greatest power without regard for the damage to his foundation! Yet before that saber intent, such power was as brittle as rotten wood. *Bang! Bang! Bang!* Successive detonations rang out, and the Nether King stared at Li Guanqi with sheer terror on his face. "Who are you?! What is your connection to that man?!" Having already climbed to his feet, Li Guanqi could hear nothing at all. His hands locked onto Red Lotus! Gazing at the Nether King's avatar with bloodshot eyes, he roared: "Apocalypse: Red Lotus Sky Dance!" *Boom!* The crimson patterns across the blade snapped into full form as the red lotus blossomed. Li Guanqi gathered thunder and heavenly flames in his right hand, shaping them into a four-chi scabbard. His mangled, bloody face was drenched in murderous intent as he sheathed the sword, the void around him fracturing into countless hairline cracks! At this moment, Li Guanqi could also clearly perceive the true strength of the Nether King's avatar—early Void Refinement! It was only because this avatar could borrow the aura of the true body that it had seemed so insurmountable. The Nether King was gripped by panic; the saber intent clinging to Li Guanqi was growing stronger and stronger, seemingly on the verge of an uncontrollable eruption. Thoughts spun wildly through his mind. *Which domain's super-sect is he a saint son of?* *No... isn't he just a disciple from some petty sword sect on the Qingyun Continent?* *How could he know that person?! And even receive a wisp of saber intent to protect him?!* Realizing things had gone terribly wrong, the Nether King flashed forward without hesitation to grab Ming Xiao! His primary objective here was keeping Ming Xiao alive; now he would take Ming Xiao and leave directly! He crushed a mysterious silver scroll in his hand, and a silver gate of light manifested behind Ming Xiao. *Thump!* Everyone was startled to see the void collapse a zhang beneath Li Guanqi's feet as his body shot forward like a cannonball! Midair, the Nether King's pupil contracted, releasing his aura once more in a desperate bid to pin Li Guanqi down. Yet shielded by the saber intent, Li Guanqi felt no fear whatsoever. He drew his blade in a ferocious motion! "Sword Draw Stance!" *Weng—!* Carrying the full brunt of Li Guanqi's strength, this strike churned the void, its surging force dragging the silver gate toward the brink of collapse. Cold glinting in his eye, the Nether King shoved his hands forcefully against the sky and roared: "Gate of the Nether Realm!" *Rumble!* A pitch-black gate a hundred zhang tall shot up before him! Yet the very moment that gate radiating yin-nether power appeared, a hundred-zhang sword beam burst into existence! Though this terrifying sword light was an amalgam of thunder and flame, it gleamed with an eerie, piercing crimson hue. Solid as steel, the sword beam carried the terrifying sword intent of the Sword Gall Realm as it flashed forward. Everywhere it passed, it cleaved the surrounding space into a pitch-black rift. The Nether King cried out in horror, "How could he possibly control such terrifying power?!" *Boom!* A thunderous blast echoed. The pitch-black gate was sheared clean in two by the sword beam! And the Nether King's avatar behind it was blown apart along with it! Lightning flashed under Li Guanqi's feet. With his blood churning, he shattered the silver gate with a single punch. Looking at the crumbling Nether King, Li Guanqi expressionlessly drew his sword and rested it against Ming Xiao's neck. Ming Xiao smiled. With breath faint as thread, Ming Xiao gathered every ounce of strength to lift his head. Looking at Li Guanqi with a profoundly complex gaze, he spoke in a mellow tone: "Thank you." The Nether King, his body shattering and on the verge of fading away, roared: "No!" "You little bastard, you dare?!" "If you kill him, the moment the ruins open will be the day you die!" At those words, Li Guanqi turned a ferocious glare toward the Nether King and ground out word by word: "I hate being threatened most of all." "Lord of Mingchuan? Who the fuck do you think you are?" A flash of sword light, and Li Guanqi cleaved off Ming Xiao's head! *Spurt!* With only his head left unvanished, the Nether King's eye went wide at the soaring head, and he bellowed in fury: "I will kill you! I will tear you to pieces!" "Just you wait!"