Li Guanqi's sleeve burst apart, and every inch of flesh on his left arm dissolved into nothingness!
In that single instant, the total power within his body was drained. His origin spirit was emptied, his sea of consciousness exhausted, and his face aged at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Red Lotus emitted an overwhelmed, droning wail. The brilliant sword light dyed the void for ten li around in a sea of blood red.
The sword spirit's form slowly disintegrated into motes of spiritual light that melted into the longsword, and a profoundly wondrous sensation flooded through Li Guanqi's body.
The sword spirit's resonant, resolute voice rang out within Li Guanqi's mind:
"This time... let me be your blade!"
"Let's turn... heaven and earth... upside down!!"
*Rumble!*
The Red Lotus in his hand swung violently down toward the ancient bell in the distance!
"Red Lotus: World's End."
Hastening over from the Shenbao Domain, Meng Jiangchu snapped his head up to look into the distance.
A crimson sword light, a thousand zhang long, flashed across the sky!
In an instant, the entire void was torn asunder, carving open an unbroken fissure that stretched nearly ten thousand zhang!
The sword light that breached the void shattered the spirit treasure bell, and in that moment, the entire Liu clan domain ceased to exist.
Terrified to his very core, Liu Peiyuan unleashed his full power in an all-out sword strike, but it was obliterated before that sword light like brittle weeds before a tempest.
Even in death, he could not fathom how Li Guanqi could have unleashed a sword strike capable of cleaving the heavens.
"Ancestor!"
"The ancestor... is... dead..."
Covered in countless cuts left by sword winds, Liu Yunxuan stood rooted to the spot, his spirit shaken.
He had been scared out of his wits by that earth-shattering blow. That soft whisper of world's end, followed by the sword light flashing past him...
Their incomparably mighty ancestor had vanished into the sword light, his body and soul utterly destroyed!
The entire Liu clan descended into utter chaos. Everyone fled in terror in every direction.
Even several Liu clan elders wanted to escape.
Without Liu Peiyuan, the Liu clan had lost its leader, stripped of its backbone.
Yet how could Ye Feng and the others allow them to leave? Three heavenly flame barriers descended, once again locking down the domain.
Today, not a single member of the Liu clan would walk away!
Li Guanqi stood in place, withered like dead wood. Murky yellow patches suddenly marred his once purely white eyes.
The left half of his body was mangled flesh and blood. His once sturdy frame was now gaunt and shriveled, his skin devoid of luster.
His dark, lustrous hair was dried out like dead roots, turned an ashen white.
Watching Li Guanqi's feeble aura flicker like a lamp running out of oil, Ye Feng, Cao Yan, and the others burned with frantic worry.
None was more frantic than Pengluo!
Pengluo suddenly felt the spiritual light of their contract at its brow waver faintly. Panicked, it raced over at full tilt.
It shoved Xiao Chen and the others aside and, without the slightest hesitation, tore off one of the only two leaves left on its head.
Prying open Li Guanqi's mouth, it shoved the leaf inside, its eyes brimming with desperate anxiety.
Jiuxiao coughed up a mouthful of blood. Pressing a dragon claw against his chest, he thrust it in to extract a drop of his heart's blood!
Ye Feng's heart skipped a beat as he watched Jiuxiao and Pengluo. The two truly cared for Li Guanqi with their very lives.
Pengluo's leaves were its intrinsic life essence. The first time it had offered one was to Meng Wanshu; the second was for Li Guanqi.
"Master... you have to hang on!!"
By then, Li Guanqi's thoughts began to clear. He slowly raised his head to look at the numerous silhouettes standing in the distant void.
He reached out, took the arm Pengluo offered him, and shoved it into his mouth. A dense cluster of spirit stones materialized behind him, and an instant surge of primal energy shattered them to dust.
*Thump!*
Before those around him could react, the void cracked beneath Li Guanqi's feet, and his form shot forward!
Lightning flared beneath his tread, dispersing into hundreds and thousands of lightning spirit swords that blasted outward!
The sword light dazzled, and within the barrier, miserable shrieks began to rise one after another!
Yet all those people had merely had their movements restricted.
Li Guanqi's aura surged with terrifying majesty. Moving like a wolf among a flock of sheep, any cultivator who crossed his path fell to a single slash of his blade!
The crimson sword slowly cut across an elder's neck. The sound of the blade cleaving flesh and bone sent a cold shiver down the spine!
Li Guanqi looked like an evil spirit, his hair wildly disheveled as his turbid eyes looked up toward Liu Yunxuan.
Reaching out, he snatched one person and obliterated them on the spot!
The horrifying sight drew sharp intakes of breath from many. Someone could not help but shout, "Li Guanqi! You've already killed hundreds of Liu clan juniors, as well as innocent men, women, young, and old! Is that still not enough?!"
A twisted sneer contorted Li Guanqi's face as he muttered,
"Enough?"
"It's not enough..."
"I told you, I want your entire Liu clan buried with her!"
Before the words faded, Li Guanqi's figure vanished from where he stood, his blade already resting against the speaker's throat!
Bone-chilling killing intent engulfed the person. Before they could react, the blade drove straight through their dantian!
Terrifying lightning erupted, instantly charring their internal organs to cinders.
The remnant soul fled, only to be cast into the lightning pagoda by Li Guanqi with clean, ruthless efficiency!
Even Liu Yunxuan felt a chill rise from the soles of his feet...
The other cultivators tangled in battle with Xiao Chen and the rest swallowed hard at the sight.
At last, a middle-aged woman parried Cao Yan with a sweep of her sword and cried out in a near-pleading voice,
"We were wrong! I beg you, please spare us! I'll do anything you want!"
"She was just a girl in the Nascent Soul realm! Was it worth wiping out our entire Liu clan over her?!"
"You've already killed over four hundred of us! Isn't that enough?!"
At her words, a fierce light blazed in Cao Yan's eyes. Flames engulfed both his fists as he lunged forward with explosive force!
Facing the woman's fierce counterattack, he pressed on instead of retreating. When her blade thrust toward his face, Cao Yan merely tilted his head slightly.
A bloody wound deep enough to expose bone split across his cheek, but his fist slammed straight into her face!
*Crash!*
Li Guanqi looked at the bloodied woman. His eyes were cold, his head slightly tilted as his voice dropped to a freezing chill.
"What do you mean... she was just a girl?"
*Boom!*
With a twitch of his fingers, dozens of lightning sword lights impaled her body.
The cold blade rested against her neck, and Li Guanqi's chilling voice rang in her ears.
"To all of you, she was just a girl. But to me, she was my sister!!"
*Slash!*
Sword light flashed, and blood sprayed into the air!
Li Guanqi flashed across the field, unleashing an outright slaughter!
As for Liu Yunxuan, who was besieged by Ye Feng and Xiao Chen, Li Guanqi would not grant him an easy death.
Kill!
The entire Liu clan was painted red with blood.
The sickening stench of gore was stifling.
Countless souls were bound within the lightning pagoda.
A full half an hour passed before the entire Liu clan fell dead silent. In the whole world, only Liu Yunxuan remained alive...
Liu Yunxuan's face was deathly pale, his eyes brimming with unadulterated terror as he stared at Li Guanqi.
"Madman... you're a madman!"
He screamed himself hoarse, roaring at the top of his lungs.
Looking at Li Guanqi, who resembled a withered, dying old man, his soul shook with profound dread.
*Drip! Drip!*
Li Guanqi's white robes had long since turned a dark crimson. His tattered clothes exposed a body crisscrossed with scars.
Even Cao Yan, standing nearby, found it hard to look upon him now.
The entire Liu clan... nearly three thousand people, and not a single survivor...
Men, women, young, old, cultivators and mortals alike...
Every last one had fallen to his blade. A dense sea of severed heads floated behind Li Guanqi, blotting out the sky.
Disheveled hair veiled most of his face. Slowly, the dripping blade pointed toward Liu Yunxuan, and a raspy voice spoke:
"You dog bastard. It's your turn."
Chapter 640