This was the first time Li Guanqi realized his physical strength was this formidable.
Even when he took their attacks head-on, he barely felt an itch.
This overwhelming dominance gave him the momentary illusion that these people were simply far too weak.
Boom!!!
With a single sword strike, Li Guanqi blasted three of them away. Then he raised a hand and hammered a brutal punch straight into the back of one of the men!!
Boom!! Thud!!
The blow landed squarely against the man's back, and that thunderous punch smashed a gaping hole clean through his abdomen!!
The force bent his body backward like a bow as he plummeted, trailing a dark blur through the air before violently slamming into the ground.
Thud!!!
The earth trembled as the ground caved in by a zhang at a rate visible to the naked eye, abruptly forming a massive crater a hundred zhang across.
Spitting blood inside the crater, the man looked down at the wound that had nearly severed him at the waist, utter terror in his eyes!!
He looked up at the sky where thunderous booms continued to erupt from the battlefield. Gripped by overwhelming fright, he pulled out a teleportation scroll and crushed it violently!
Bang!
The scroll shattered. As silver light flickered, excitement flashed in the man's eyes.
He was terrified. That person was an absolute monster.
He even felt that the lot of them were like mayflies trying to topple a giant tree!!
The other man's strength... was simply beyond anything they could withstand!
A monster... He's a monster!
Silver radiance shimmered, gathering before the man as space twisted violently, on the verge of tearing open a teleportation rift.
Suddenly!!
A bolt of lightning, three feet thick, came crashing down with a roar!!
Bang!!!
The silver light shattered, and the spatial fluctuations vanished in an instant.
The rift, which had already opened a foot wide, snapped shut immediately!!
Deathly pale, the man looked up, only to be met by the cold indifference in Li Guanqi's eyes.
The moment he saw that look, his heart turned to ash. His gaze went hollow, and the blood drained completely from his face.
His pale lips trembled faintly as he muttered beneath his breath,
"He... he never intended... to let us leave..."
Realizing this, the man proved ruthless as well, carving away the charred flesh around his wound without hesitation!
Reaching into his storage ring, he pulled out a glowing, clay-like substance and pressed it over his wound!
Strangely, the clay squirmed just like living flesh, and under its writhing, a bit of color returned to his face.
Without hesitation, the man took out a shimmering suit of soft armor and threw it on.
Meanwhile, up in the sky, madness overtook the expressions of the other cultivators.
More and more charred wounds covered their bodies, while terrifying lightning energy surged wildly through their systems.
Their meridians were scorched and torn apart, making their bodies twitch uncontrollably.
Boom!!
A man wearing golden knuckle dusters threw a vicious punch straight at Li Guanqi's arm!!
"Die!!"
Li Guanqi pivoted, his right hand clenching into a fist. As his vitality roared and lightning coiled around his arm, what sounded like the trumpeting of dragons and elephants resonated in everyone's ears!
Their fists collided midair...
Thud!!
An ear-splitting boom rang out, and the man suddenly felt his shoulder go completely numb.
Immediately after, a cloud of blood erupted and splattered across his face, and the void behind his flank collapsed instantly!!
He strained to turn his eyes toward his side—half of his body had vanished...
The man's vision blurred, and his body tumbled helplessly from the sky...
Swish, swish!!
A face abruptly appeared before his eyes—Li Guanqi had teleported right beside his falling body.
Next came several flashes of sword light, and the man could only feel his body being sliced apart.
Blood sprayed, followed by an immense impact that sent him flying horizontally.
He slammed into the wall beside the plaque of the Xiao clan grand hall, where several spirit swords of lightning pierced through him in rapid succession, pinning him firmly to the doors!!
Thump, thump, thump!!
The purplish-black lightning swords embedded themselves into the beam with dull thuds.
The terrifying spirit swords thoroughly sealed the primal energy in his dantian, rendering all his struggles futile.
Li Guanqi said softly, "One."
Seeing this, the man in the crater grew even firmer in his conviction and bellowed,
"Give it everything you have!! He has no intention of letting us leave today!!"
"Hold anything back and we're dead!!"
Boom!!
As the words left his mouth, the man's sword intent surged majestically into the sky, yet it barely reached the Sword Gall Realm—Ye Feng was countless times stronger than him.
Even so, the man's aura was not weak in the slightest; it was thirty percent stronger than before he had been injured.
Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes, noticing the man's bobbing throat. It seemed he had swallowed some special pill.
Pills similar to the Spirit Burst Pill carried immense side effects.
Ding Gengyang and the woman exchanged a glance, both seeing raw terror in the other's eyes.
If they did not use their trump cards now, they would never get another chance!
The triangle-eyed Ding Gengyang whipped out an azure talisman, opened his mouth, and stuffed it right inside!
Boom!!
The man's aura surged violently—clearly another special technique.
Then, a translucent white bone die suddenly appeared in his hand!
A pang of heartache flashed in Ding Gengyang's eyes, yet he still tossed the die high into the air!
"The Purple Spirit Bone Die!"
The woman cried out in alarm, seemingly very surprised.
Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes and immediately noticed that among the six faces of the die, only two patterns remained.
The designs depicted ferocious beast patterns he had never seen before.
Li Guanqi teleported beside the man and unleashed several rapid slashes!!
The sword light swept across, but struck only empty air. Distant peaks shattered, and several deep trenches were carved into the ground.
Boom, boom, boom!!
Ding Gengyang had prepared for this beforehand. He flashed several hundred zhang away and hurled the die violently into the sky.
The moment the die came to a halt, a ferocious, grotesque beast bounded out from within it!!
The colossal beast was nearly thirty zhang long, purplish-black from head to tail, resembling a massive black leopard.
Its terrifying aura was hardly weaker than that of any middle Void Refining Realm cultivator.
Ding Gengyang laughed maniacally. "Hahaha! It's actually the ancient Shadow Demon Leopard!! You're dead!!"
"It is—"
Li Guanqi watched the scene calmly, merely finding such methods somewhat unusual.
Before Ding Gengyang could finish speaking, Li Guanqi raised his wrist as Jiuxiao gradually stirred awake.
Then, amid a collective sharp intake of breath, a massive purple dragon over seventy zhang long revealed its true form!
"A dragon... A true dragon..."
Without needing Li Guanqi to say a word, Jiuxiao's cold dragon eyes locked onto the ancient black leopard.
The moment the black leopard felt Jiuxiao's dragon might, a whimpering whine escaped its throat.
Its eyes remained fixed on Jiuxiao, its entire body taut as a bowstring.
Jiuxiao cared for none of that; sensing a potent essence blood within the black leopard, it wanted to devour it!
Li Guanqi gave a cold sneer. Standing in place, he looked at the group and murmured, "Is that all you've got?"
The woman snorted coldly and flicked her wrists, sending several array plates flying out. But abrupt bolts of lightning pierced straight through them in an instant!!
Li Guanqi was not foolish enough to wait for them to finish setting everything up before making a move.
If not for being unable to prevent Ding Gengyang's action in time, he never would have let him bring out that die in the first place.
Chapter 618