Killing and Settling the Score!

Seeing that the remaining three had not moved a muscle, Meng Wanshu curled her lips into a faint smile. Taking a slow step forward, she murmured, "Since you won't make a move, I shall." The few men still standing beside Cao Zhennan were all well-acquainted with one another. Though misgivings churned in their hearts, matters had come to this pass, and they had no choice but to bite the bullet and fight! A lecherous-looking man had been staring at Meng Wanshu for quite some time. He had a bulbous nose, triangular eyes, gaunt cheeks, and high cheekbones. Even dressed in a python robe woven with gold thread, he could not conceal the sleazy air about him. "Heh heh, don't kill this little lady. She has such tender, fair skin—I'll have to enjoy her later." "Even with a veil, she can't hide beauty that could topple cities. Truly a rare find..." Meng Wanshu's gaze grew progressively colder. As she lowered her eyes, an icy killing intent spilled forth. The look she cast upon the man was as if she were looking at an ant that could be crushed underfoot at any moment. Hearing his words, the other two men also smirked, exchanging glances that betrayed their own twisted greed. The lecherous man's words had barely left his mouth when the youth whose half-face was veiled in grim ghostly energy materialized abruptly before him. Without a single word, he raised his hand and slashed! That sword ray was blindingly fast—even though the man saw it coming, he could not dodge it at all! The man leaped backward in a frantic retreat, the sword slash across his front tearing from his shoulder all the way down to his chest. Ye Feng said with a chilling countenance, "Insulting my sister-in-law? You deserve death!!" Yet before Ye Feng could strike again, Jiang Ting, his face dark and sullen, chopped a saber toward his back! Ye Feng had no choice but to spin around to parry, and the two clashed once more in fierce combat. Far off in the deep crater among the mountains, a fiery crimson figure also soared into the sky. Both battlegrounds released their respective domain spaces, isolating their clashes. The bulbous-nosed man steadied his footing. His chest heaved violently, and his eyes trembled—he was visibly shaken. If his reaction had been just a hair slower, he would have perished on the spot! Only now did he realize that Jiang Ting, who had been arrogant and loud at first, had fallen noticeably quiet at some point. Moreover, if he had not misjudged just now, that blond youth did not have a single wound on him. Instead, Jiang Ting had two fresh sword gashes across his neck and chest! *Gulp...* Li Guanqi said softly, "Wanshu, leave this one to me." Meng Wanshu looked back at Li Guanqi's tranquil gaze and gave a gentle nod. Immediately after, she lightly tapped the ground with her toe. In an instant, frost spread, engulfing the other two men in a flash. The silhouettes of all three vanished from midair. The domain spaces of the Void Refining Realm shrank like specks of dust, hiding away into the void; no one knew what was unfolding within. Yet everyone understood that within each domain space, the battle was to the death! Countless spectators tensely watched the three remaining in midair, wondering how their battle would unfold. At this moment, Cao Zhennan kept a death grip on Cao Yan with one hand, terrified that letting go would rob him of his protective talisman. Li Guanqi's icy gaze swept over the triangular-eyed man. Goosebumps instantly prickled across the man's skin, every hair on his body standing on end. That feeling... it was as though he, frail and utterly powerless, was being glared at by an immense primordial monster! Li Guanqi merely tapped his foot against the void, and in an instant, the rain cascading from the heavens became saturated with lightning! Innumerable terrifying bolts of thunderous rain poured down in a torrent. Immediately after, both the man's figure and Li Guanqi's vanished from midair. When the man opened his eyes again, he found himself standing in a purgatory of thunder and lightning. Horrified, he raised his hand and slashed out several rays of sword light in rapid succession! In Li Guanqi's left hand, the Red Lotus bloomed, its crimson luminescence flaring ablaze. Li Guanqi murmured softly, "Red lotus dances... all creation perishes..." "Heaven Breaker: Demon Subduer!" *Boom!!!!* Just as Cao Zhennan was searching for the boundary of Li Guanqi's domain, an extraordinarily terrifying sword light of thunder erupted right behind him! *Boom!!!* Where the sword light passed, space was torn apart, and the mountains and rivers along its path were instantly cleaved in two. *Buzz!!* The moment everyone felt the sheer weight of this sword ray, a suffocating dread of impending death enveloped them. Cao Zhennan instantly raised his hand and unleashed nine consecutive sword slashes, his body forced back a good thousand zhang before he barely managed to steady himself. The space where the sword light had detonated warped slightly, and right after, everyone saw Li Guanqi stride out. His white robe was splashed with blood, blooming like bizarre crimson plum blossoms. The youth, holding his sword in his left hand, showed not the slightest ripple of emotion on his face, yet in his right hand he dangled a dripping, bloody head! The five fingers of Li Guanqi's right hand dug into the man's cranium like eagle claws, and with a slow exertion of force, he crushed the skull to powder. Looking up at Cao Zhennan in the distance, he said softly, "Now, it is time for us to settle the score." Cao Zhennan's face was pale, a glimmer of terror flashing in his eyes. Three breaths!! In just three breaths, he had killed him! Utterly crushing, an absolute one-hit kill of overwhelming power! Vile as the man's character had been, he was still a bona fide grandmaster of the middle Void Refining Realm! A figure at the patriarch level capable of founding a sect anywhere in the Six Domains had been unable to even flee from his hands... Heaven and earth fell silent; only the sound of the torrential rain beating relentlessly upon the earth remained distinctly audible. Seeing this, everyone felt a chill seep into their marrow, their legs trembling uncontrollably. Some even held their breath, the skin on their faces twitching. Suddenly, they realized that this spectacle was not something they truly needed to watch... In an instant, many spectators scattered and fled in all directions, terrified that the ensuing battle might catch them in the crossfire. Some powerful figures lurking in the shadows could not help but suck in a sharp breath at the sight. They asked themselves: facing a fellow grandmaster of the Void Refining Realm, even with a minor subrealm's difference, killing them was by no means an easy feat. Which cultivator capable of cultivating to this level was not an old fox? Perhaps their destructive power varied, but their life-saving tricks were endless. Thus, the adage that the higher one's realm, the harder one was to kill was grounded in truth! Yet the blind swordsman before them had slaughtered his opponent beneath his blood sword in a mere three breaths... His strength was terrifying beyond belief! Having crushed the skull, Li Guanqi looked calmly at Cao Zhennan in the distance. At this moment, the Southern Heavenly King was nothing more than a colossal joke in everyone's eyes. From the moment Li Guanqi and his party of four had appeared, they had displayed overwhelming, unrivaled strength that crushed the entire field. With a single word, "Break the realm," the blond youth had slashed out a sword that cleaved open the domain realm. Cao Zhennan's full-force sword strike was as feeble as a child's before the veiled woman, who turned the terrifying sword light to ashes with a mere flick of her hand. The spear-wielding youth who had kept a low profile was also fiercely savage, hoisting Cao Zhennan into the air within ten moves like a dead dog. The four's identities were an enigma, yet everyone knew this: No matter what happened today, word of what transpired here would spread across the entire Xuanmen Domain before the night was out! Li Guanqi looked coldly at Cao Zhennan and said softly: "Now, let us properly settle our debts!"