As the teal spirit glyph at the center of his forehead slowly burned away into oblivion, Ye Feng and the others clearly sensed a vast, boundless pressure suddenly descend!
That pressure felt as though it did not belong to the Spirit Realm!
The immense pressure forcefully held Li Guanqi back a hundred zhang away.
Liu Yunxuan's expression turned solemn and awe-struck. Cupping his hands with profound gravity, he bowed deeply and proclaimed in a resonant voice:
"Liu Yunxuan, a junior of the Liu clan, bearing the blood feud of our clan's extermination, humbly implores True Immortal Yushan to bestow divine power to slay my foe!"
The moment his words fell, a beam of teal spiritual light plunged abruptly from the heavens, tearing through the domain's void and seeking to merge into Liu Yunxuan's body.
Li Guanqi watched this coldly, suddenly sensing the sword spirit's fury within his heart.
Their minds were in unison. Without the slightest hesitation, Li Guanqi forced his way into the majestic pressure.
Letting the astral winds slice his body full of wounds, he slashed out with his sword directly toward the immortal power descending from the firmament!
"Apocalypse: Red Lotus Sky Dance!!"
In an instant, a sky full of sword rays enveloped the heavens for a thousand zhang around!
Seeing this, Liu Yunxuan sneered with a crazed look. "Hahahaha! It's useless! That is the power of a True Immortal of the Immortal Realm!"
Yet to his utter shock, the power descending from the True Immortal was hacked to pieces in that very moment!
Moreover, the shattered spiritual light was entirely sucked into Li Guanqi's glabella by an invisible force.
The sword spirit's voice sneered with disdain, "A True Immortal?"
The Sword Ruins hummed, and the immortal power was absorbed into the realm!
Instantly, the injuries within Li Guanqi's body mostly healed, and the realm he had forcefully broken through to stabilized slightly as well.
Though that pure immortal power differed from his origin, it was overwhelmingly pure and carried a trace of inexplicable, wondrous energy.
Liu Yunxuan was completely dumbfounded at the sight. That was the power of their Liu clan's ascended ancestor!
He had devotedly consecrated the spirit glyph for over a decade, yet the first time he used it, its power had actually been intercepted and stolen right out from under him?
As the pressure dispersed, Li Guanqi could no longer suppress the killing intent in his heart. Leaping forward, he shot violently toward Liu Yunxuan!
In his mind flashed scenes of his past with Yu Sui'an.
Though she had caused trouble at times, the little girl was kind-hearted by nature.
Now that she had suffered such torment, he could not even imagine how despairing she must have felt.
With a savage look on his face, Li Guanqi unleashed several consecutive sword strikes with a trembling blade!
Liu Yunxuan darted sideways, simultaneously slashing out several teal sword rays.
"Wind Fiend Sword: Clouds Arise!!"
With one slash, countless gusts of teal astral wind surged forth from the surrounding void, sweeping toward the sky.
The astral winds were like surging waves crashing against the shore from below, violent and tempestuous.
Li Guanqi's expression was calm. His eyes showed not the slightest ripple, only icy murderous intent.
In his mind, he suddenly recalled the scene when the sword spirit had unleashed that strike earlier.
Facing Liu Yunxuan's full-force sword strike, Ye Feng clenched his fists tight.
He had to admit that Liu Yunxuan was exceptionally strong.
Ye Feng knew that even if he unleashed the ghost hand's power, he wouldn't be able to withstand this strike!
All the hairs on Cao Yan's body stood on end as well, and the flames within him began to circulate on their own.
Yet when they saw Li Guanqi raise his sword to the sky, their faces turned pale with shock!
Light flashed beneath Xiao Chen's feet as he moved to assist with his spear.
"Boss, no!!"
They all thought Li Guanqi was about to execute that terrifying sword technique again!
The power of that previous strike had completely exceeded their comprehension.
And Li Guanqi had paid a steep price for it, losing thousands of years of lifespan and vitality.
Red Lotus trembled slightly in Li Guanqi's hand, releasing a resonant sword chime.
Crimson sword light surged several tens of zhang out, looking as if it would pierce through the firmament!
Li Guanqi roared with a ferocious expression, and the sword in his hand slashed violently downward!
"Red Lotus: World's End!!"
Boom!
Purplish-black lightning carrying destructive power crashed down with a deafening rumble.
An eerie red gleam flickered faintly, and a massive, concentrated sword beam nearly two hundred zhang long almost emptied the primal energy in Li Guanqi's dantian!
The astral winds shattered, and wherever the sword beam passed, several layers of sealing barriers were utterly obliterated.
Spurt!
From the chest down, half of Liu Yunxuan's body was sliced clean off in an instant.
The sword in his hand burst apart with a bang.
The sword coffin opened, and the half-step spirit treasure longsword named Wind Fiend was drawn inside in an instant.
As Liu Yunxuan felt his vitality draining away, the fear in his heart reached its absolute zenith!
"Boss! Boss, are you all right?!"
"Transfer primal energy to Boss first!"
"Brother Luo, your arm!!"
Yet Li Guanqi paused in place for only a breath before suddenly appearing behind Liu Yunxuan.
Gripping Liu Yunxuan's head with one hand, an immensely powerful force instantly sealed and imprisoned his origin soul!
Immediately after, Li Guanqi used his primal energy to graft Liu Yunxuan's lower body back on!
Just as Liu Yunxuan let out a breath of relief, looking bewildered, his immobilized body was slowly turned around.
Li Guanqi's right hand slowly drew near his eyes, and Liu Yunxuan seemed to realize what was coming.
His body trembled frantically. His contracted pupils stared fixedly at Li Guanqi as he cried out hoarsely,
"What... what are you going to do?! Kill me!!"
Li Guanqi's fingers pressed slowly against his eye sockets, his voice frigid and bone-chilling.
As he spoke, his fingers dug slowly inside.
"Kill you?"
"No... that would be letting you off too lightly..."
"I can't bear to let you die..."
"I am going to repay everything you did a hundredfold, a thousandfold!!"
Squirt!
Blood splattered as two spherical eyeballs were forcibly gouged and ripped out!
"Aaaagh!"
"Li Guanqi! You'll die a miserable death! Kill me!!"
"If you have the guts, kill me!!"
Li Guanqi murmured coldly, "So noisy..."
Smack!
A palm struck his lower jaw, caving the entire jawbone in at once.
He could only gape with a wide-open mouth, unable to make a sound.
Li Guanqi shoved the fingers of his right hand into the man's mouth, gripped his tongue, and yanked violently!
Rip!
The fleshy strip of tongue was torn right out.
"Mmph!!"
An invisible force suspended Liu Yunxuan in midair.
Looking down at the man's lower body, Li Guanqi lashed out with a vicious kick!
Fresh blood instantly dyed his garments red...
Liu Yunxuan's eye sockets were now dark, gaping hollows, his chin drenched in blood.
Blue veins bulged across his neck, and his entire face was flushed a purplish red.
"Mmph! Mmph!"
Li Guanqi's fingers hooked slightly, and Liu Yunxuan's body was splayed out in the shape of a spread-eagle, arms flung wide.
The blade of Red Lotus lightly dragged across Liu Yunxuan's fingers, extending all the way to the skin of his face.
The icy touch and piercing pain made him shiver violently from head to toe, and a foul stench wafted from beneath him.
Where the blade traced, a long line of blood quickly welled up.
Then came a second line.
Li Guanqi gripped his fingers and pried off his fingernails one by one, speaking in a calm voice:
"You won't die..."
A strip of skin no wider than a pinky finger was peeled away bit by bit.
"As long as I live, you will not die."
"None of you from the Liu clan will die."
Chapter 642