Marching Alone on an Ancient Clan, Sword in Hand!

Ye Feng closed his eyes in agony, unable to imagine what torture and hatred Li Guanqi was enduring right now. Just thinking of the images transmitted through the jade slip earlier made him feel as if a knife were twisting in his heart... Silence. Everything seemed like the calm before the storm. Cao Yan was likewise fighting with everything he had to stabilize his realm, the killing intent in his heart spilling out uncontrollably. Far away in the void beyond the Shenbao Domain—a space situated between the Shenbao Domain and the Xuanmen Domain. In the pitch-black void, a figure suddenly materialized, wreathed in an eerie, blood-red light. Within the bizarre arcs of lightning, a bloody hue seemed to have bled through, chilling onlookers to the bone. With bloodshot eyes, Li Guanqi's hands beneath his white robes trembled faintly. His thin, pale lips quivered, and his clenched fists turned white at the knuckles. He gritted his teeth so hard they felt as though they would shatter! Scenes from the shadow-casting stone flashed frantically across his mind, the killing intent in his heart threatening to consume every shred of his sanity! Inside the storage ring on his left hand, dozens of steamer baskets filled with buns still sat packed to the brim. Though he had not traveled to many places over the years, he had never forgotten his promise to that little girl. Whenever he passed through a town, even if he did not go buy them in person, he would use his abilities to take some buns and leave broken silver for the vendors. Because he knew Yu Sui'an loved them, and what he had promised, he would always fulfill. But now... "The Liu clan..." After an unknown passage of time, Li Guanqi, carrying the sword coffin on his back alone, slowly arrived at a desolate stretch of void. In the void, an eerie scarlet beam of light hung suspended in midair. This was precisely the location of the Liu clan that Meng Jiangchu had given him. *Boom!* The sword coffin snapped wide open! The Red Lotus sword flew into his grip, and as the Sword Ruins hummed, a terrifying power bloomed in an instant! This surge of power even startled the sword spirit, who had been resting her eyes and focusing her mind within the coffin's space! The woman opened her cool, aloof eyes and looked up, narrowing them slightly. Gazing gravely at Li Guanqi, she murmured under her breath, "What... what happened to him...?" "This killing intent... it has almost materialized into substance!" "Just what kind of... obsession is this?" With her eyes partially closed, the scarlet broken sword inside the Sword Ruins radiated a demonic red luminescence. In an instant, an unprecedentedly brilliant halo erupted from Red Lotus's blade! Li Guanqi took a slight step forward, and the void beneath his feet shattered instantly! In the world outside, above a mountain range, the void across a ten-li radius suddenly caved in! Mountains and earth trembled violently in that instant, billowing sand and tumbling stones swept up by roaring gales into the upper sky. Holding Red Lotus, Li Guanqi's aura climbed to its peak as he slashed out with a strike of Immortal Slayer! *Boom!* A thunderous roar rang out, and in the shuddering void, a condensed beam of sword light nearly a hundred zhang across flashed through the air! Within the surging sword intent lay endless killing intent. *Boom!* In the blink of an eye, the sword light crashed onto that demonic red array light. Amidst the violent upheaval of the earth and mountains, the entire realm of the Liu clan was forcefully torn open by that peerlessly mighty sword light! Liu Peiyuan, who had just been inside the hall, suddenly appeared in midair. Confronted by that raging sword light, the old man had no time to think; he violently raised his hand, conjuring a massive palm to grasp forward! "Hmph!" The sword light collided with the palm of coalesced spiritual light, detonating with an earth-shattering explosion. The palm print shattered, and the sword light vanished. The old man's posture remained as straight as a sword, without taking even half a step backward. Yet Liu Peiyuan's expression was exceedingly grim. He looked down at his bleeding palm, his eyes filled with disbelief. He could not believe that a mere middle Void Refining Realm sword cultivator could actually wound him! He was an entire major realm higher than his opponent! By all reason, a sword strike from the other shouldn't have been able to pierce even his protective primal energy! Feeling the lingering power in his palm, the old man looked extraordinarily solemn. "The power of the Sword Ruins...? What terrifying lethal force, what surging killing intent." *Crash!* Countless disciples of the Liu clan looked up in succession at the rift in the sky. The edges of that rift were collapsing inch by inch like shattered porcelain. Slender, jade-white fingers slowly reached out from within. The void gripped in that hand was crushed outright. Immediately afterward, a handsome young man with a ferocious, contorted expression strode through, clutching a four-foot-long sword of solid scarlet! Beside Liu Peiyuan, dozens of figures appeared one after another. Liu Yunxuan and his father were among them! Nearly everyone who could stand here knew what kind of plight the Liu clan was facing... Having voluntarily exposed Liu Yunxuan's filthy deeds, the ancient Liu clan's reputation was thoroughly ruined. In other words... The Liu clan no longer cared about saving face. Family honor, what others thought... None of it mattered anymore. And having been cast as a whetstone, they had no choice but to accept their fate. At that moment, an elder swept his cold gaze over Li Guanqi and muttered in a chilling voice: "Since someone wants to use our Liu clan as a whetstone..." "I wonder if this blade... is harder than the stone!" Facing the family before him—a dense assembly of over thirty Void Refining Realm powerhouses—Li Guanqi felt not the slightest stir or ripple in his heart. He merely cast a glance at Liu Peiyuan standing at the very front, sensing his aura. Then, his eyes instantly locked onto the Liu Yunxuan from the images! *Boom!* Boundless lightning surged out from his body. At that moment, an elder of the Liu clan could bear it no longer and struck first! "Die!" *Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!* Several figures abruptly teleported right beside Li Guanqi. In an instant, the flashes of blades and swords engulfed him completely! Expressionless, Li Guanqi tightened his grip on his sword. In an instant, Red Lotus's sword light traced multiple afterimages, striking out in all directions! *Splatter! Splatter!* "Ah! Save me!" "Run! Get back, quickly!" *Cough! Cough...* In just a single breath, the bodies of three early Void Refining Realm elders were cleaved into countless fragments! The moment the scarlet sword light flashed, boundless power of thunder pierced the three men's bodies. Under spatial binding, they could not teleport at all. Relying solely on their movement techniques, they still could not evade his blade. Fast... Far too fast. Even for them, all they felt was a blur before their eyes. They hadn't even clearly seen Li Guanqi's arm move before searing agony tore through them... Severed limbs fell from the sky, blood spraying across Li Guanqi's face and splattering into his eyes. Even so, Li Guanqi did not blink once, his gaze remaining fixed unblinkingly on Liu Yunxuan. *Slash!* With a horizontal sweep of his sword, three radiant weapons instantly shattered into countless shards.