Iron-Blooded Methods!

Without Ding Gengyang, the Ding clan was nothing more than a loose heap of sand. The only cultivator of note left was an ancestor who had barely broken through to the early Void Refining Realm. With hair and beard completely white, seeing these two gods of slaughter arrive, the old man chose not to fight; instead, he tried every possible means to flee! Even though the people the two were slaughtering were all his own descendants. Yet the terror-stricken old man could hardly care about that anymore. He crushed one teleportation scroll after another, but all to no avail... Suddenly! Li Guanqi's frigid voice rang in his ear: "Are you... trying to run away?" Whoosh! The instant the old man heard that voice, a plume of blood mist abruptly erupted from his body! The sudden surge of power broke free from Li Guanqi's spatial seal, and he retreated over a thousand zhang in a flash! Yet with a single teleportation, Li Guanqi closed in on him once more. "It has nothing to do with me! I had no part in this!" Li Guanqi sneered. How could an affair of this scale have nothing to do with him? Besides, the old man's state of mind was unstable as he spoke, his eyes darting frantically. Li Guanqi raised his hand and slashed out a sword ray straight at him! "Heaven Breaker: Demon Subduer!" Watching that fierce sword glow, the old man felt his heart leap into his throat. The dread of death enveloped his entire being, leaving his hands and feet icy cold. In his panic, he executed an Earth-rank sword art, retreating while slashing out several earthen-yellow sword rays. Yet before Li Guanqi, the heavy sword rays folded like paper. In desperation, the old man seized a middle-aged woman. Under her terrified, uncomprehending gaze, he pumped terrifying primal energy into her body, driving her origin spirit into a violent frenzy. "Ah! Ancestor, what are you doing?!" The woman's body began to swell, and a horrifying aura rippled through the void. Bang! The origin spirit in the woman's dantian detonated, its terrifying power sweeping across heaven and earth—yet it still failed to stop the incoming sword ray. The sight terrified everyone, especially the elders of the Ding clan. "The ancestor... what is he doing...?" "He's mad... The ancestor has gone mad..." By now, the old man's eyes were filled with madness. Wielding his formidable cultivation, he displaced the surrounding cultivators in front of him. Before they could react, he struck their dantians with a palm, seized them, and hurled them toward Li Guanqi's sword rays. "Ah! Ding Kui! You'll die a miserable death!" "Great-grandfather... what are you doing?! I don't want to die... Old bastard, you deserve to die!" Bang! Bang, bang! Several more explosions rang out in succession. The terrifying self-destructions drove the ambient spiritual energy into a frenzy. Yet even these blasts failed to tear open Li Guanqi's spatial seal. Finally, the old man swallowed a medicinal pill and poured all his strength into slashing out more than a dozen profound sword rays. Boom! The sword rays shattered, and the old man panted heavily. Yet before he could catch his breath, Li Guanqi's figure abruptly appeared behind him. Immediately after, thunderous chains formed from a spirit incantation bound him firmly in place. Terrifying lightning locked down the space within a hundred zhang in an instant, transforming into the spatial boundary of a sword domain. Within this domain, thousands of lightning bolts raged. The meridians in the old man's body were instantly paralyzed, rendering his origin spirit completely powerless. The icy sensation against his neck made the old man turn as pale as ash. As the blade sliced through skin and sank into his neck, Li Guanqi's cold voice sounded from behind him: "To do what you just did... you truly are a beast." Spurt! A large head flew high into the air. Li Guanqi glanced at the old man's origin spirit within the body. His terrifying divine sense enveloped it in an instant, followed by purple-black lightning piercing through the old man's body! Beneath thousands of lightning strikes, the corpse was reduced to a mound of charred, mangled flesh in the blink of an eye. Meanwhile, ten thousand li away inside a mountain cave, the body of an old man clad in Daoist robes was suddenly engulfed by endless lightning. His three ethereal and seven corporeal souls began to dissolve. The old man's eyes went wide, as though unable to accept reality. "I... have actually died..." "Hahahahaha! I'm not even me!" "Hahaha! I am not I! Dao is emptiness, and emptiness is Dao..." "To think... I pursued the Great Dao all my life, yet only in death am I truly myself." His sorrowful self-mockery gradually faded, and his three ethereal and seven corporeal souls vanished into nothingness. In another sect, a man engaged in an intimate exchange with a female disciple suddenly stiffened. Bizarrely, his body was likewise engulfed in endless lightning... This scene played out in other places as well. When it came to people with multiple burrows like cunning hares, Li Guanqi refused to leave behind any lingering threats. It had been the same with the earlier people; only after tracking down and slaying every last one of their Void Returning avatars did he rest. The three ethereal and seven corporeal souls divided in Void Returning were all subject to the true body; if the true body died, the avatars would perish as well. However, it was also possible for someone to possess special methods to transfer all consciousness into an avatar upon the death of the true body. Much like Li Guanqi himself... When the domain opened, Li Guanqi tossed the old man's head behind him, bringing the count of severed heads to seven. Sweeping out his divine sense, Li Guanqi raised his sword and charged forward once more. Without a Void Refining realm powerhouse in their way, the battle became a one-sided slaughter. Half an incense stick later. The entire Ding clan domain was filled with ruins and rubble, its collapsed buildings stripped of their past glory. The thick stench of blood was nauseating, and the air itself was veiled in a bloody haze. Blood flowed down from the mountain peak, ultimately staining the stream at the foot of the mountain blood-red. Mangled corpses piled into a small hill. The surviving Ding clan disciples looked at the two blood-soaked figures with utter terror in their eyes. Standing atop the small hill of corpses like fiends from hell, the two coldly swept their gazes across the survivors. Filled with dread, everyone knelt with heads bowed. Even as their bodies trembled violently from terror, they kept kowtowing, begging not to be killed. In just half an incense stick's time... a clan that once had a name in the Shenbao Domain had nearly half its members slaughtered! Even Xiao Chen stood dazed, staring at the corpses piled into a mountain at his feet. He could hardly believe he had killed so many people today. Yet Li Guanqi's voice slowly rang out: "From this day forth, the Ding clan gets the hell out of the Central Domain." With that, he raised a hand and ripped the Ding clan's three spiritual veins right out of the mountain peaks! The spiritual veins, each fully a hundred zhang long, floated in midair. Next, the void was torn open by a fissure of lightning, and the veins were taken away. With a sweep of his divine sense, he forced open the Ding clan's treasury and looted every single thing inside. Just then, a youth glared venomously at the two of them. Perhaps in his heart, the two standing before him were the true demons! Xiao Chen saw the youth's gaze as well. He parted his lips, about to say something, but a lightning sword ray condensed in an instant, piercing through the youth's head in a flash. Immediately after, dozens more thunder swords formed. With a crook of Li Guanqi's finger, dozens more corpses were added to the crowd in an instant! The vast square was deathly silent; not even the sound of breathing could be heard... Everyone knelt on the ground, pressing their foreheads against the blood-stained earth, their pupils trembling, their faces as pale as paper, their lips quivering uncontrollably. Their hands and feet felt as though filled with lead, unable to move even if they tried. Li Guanqi's calm voice slowly rang out: "Who else wants revenge?" Seeing that no one spoke, Li Guanqi raised his hand and lifted his brush to trace out a teleportation array screen, then slowly turned and stepped into it. Xiao Chen followed right behind him. When the silver glow vanished, several men glared with venomous eyes toward the spot where the two had disappeared. Suddenly! Yet another thunder sword blasted out from the void, slaying those men in an instant!