Li Guanqi clenched his right hand into a fist and drove a punch toward Lu Wuhen.
Lu Wuhen raised an arm to block before his chest, parried Red Lotus away with the sword in his right hand, and formed a hand seal with his left.
"Spirit Incantation 76: Three-Elephant Jinling Gate!!"
At the same time, the moment he deflected Red Lotus, he twisted his wrist and slashed an ultimate sword strike upward toward Li Guanqi from below!
"Dengxian: Shatter All Dharmas!!"
With this strike, Lu Wuhen unleashed the full power of the sword spirit fragment with everything he had!
His blade let out an overwhelmed wail, faint sounds of fracturing beginning to spread through it.
How could a mere mortal blade ever withstand the tip of a true sword spirit?
A massive hundred-zhang gate suddenly rose before Li Guanqi, carved with intricate patterns and guarded by three coiled, tortoise-shelled vicious beasts.
Right after, a palpitation-inducing power surged from behind the stone gate!
Just a fraction of that power made Li Guanqi's heart leap into his throat.
The sword spirit spoke at lightning speed: "Dodge! You can't take this strike!"
Yet at that very instant, Red Lotus released a resounding ring, and violent sword intent pressure soared straight into the clouds!
It was the sword in Guanqi's hands—how could it ever display cowardice or admit inferiority before an enemy?
The moment he felt Red Lotus's resolve, Li Guanqi paid no mind to Yanluo, which had been flung away.
His knuckles turned white around the grip. Exhaling a breath of turbid air, he opened his eyes and unleashed strikes in rapid succession!
"Killing Power! Blade Break! Illusory Form!!"
First strike: Sword Wuji!
This was the strike he had comprehended after annihilating the ancient Liu clan, once his heart was freed from the shackles of worldly perception.
Second strike: Blood Asura!
The terrifying sword light followed right behind the first.
Bloodlight permeated the thunderous sword ray, conjuring phantom mountains of corpses and seas of blood; this was a bloodthirsty strike born from wiping out clan after clan.
Third strike: Draw Sword: World Destruction!
Sheathing the blade into the thunder scabbard, mingled with the heavenly tribulation's blood lightning he had not yet had time to refine, he slashed it out with world-destroying might!
The stone gate shattered. Amid golden sword light, Lu Wuhen's figure surged toward Li Guanqi along with the ray.
The first two sword rays shattered one after another, but from within the third sword ray, Lu Wuhen actually charged through drenched in blood!
The power at the sword tip was utterly peerless, as if capable of cleaving through everything in existence!
Clang!
Bang!
Two crisp explosions rang out. Lu Wuhen's body was severed at the waist by a sword strike!
And Li Guanqi was also stabbed through the chest, the shards of the Dengxian Sword bursting inside his body.
Countless blade fragments shot outward from inside Li Guanqi.
Had his reflexes been any slower, his dantian would likely have been shredded.
Yet right now, Li Guanqi's heart ached beyond measure...
Red Lotus... was broken...
Lu Wuhen's sword tip had struck the middle of the four-foot blade; the moment the red light flashed, Red Lotus snapped.
Li Guanqi grabbed Lu Wuhen by the hair and lifted his upper torso.
Dangling entrails swayed beneath the severed half, dripping with blood.
His lower half plummeted into the void, shredded into pieces by thunder sword qi.
Lu Hengtian looked as grim as could be, yet never spoke to concede defeat.
Li Guanqi put away Red Lotus with tears in his eyes, sealing the primal energy in Lu Wuhen's dantian with a single palm strike.
Li Guanqi, his expression ferocious, crushed Lu Wuhen's jaw with one hand and forcibly ripped out his tongue.
Rip!
"Mmph!"
Li Guanqi dug his fingers into Lu Wuhen's skull, hauling his head up to face him.
"Did you think you were strong? So strong that I couldn't kill you?"
Terror flooded Lu Wuhen's eyes. He wanted to concede via divine sense transmission, but could not.
He shook his head frantically, having never imagined that Li Guanqi, once in the Body Integration Realm, would possess such terrifying might...
Facing him felt like standing before some old Body Integration monster.
That feeling of powerlessness... Li Guanqi hadn't even considered using those final sword strikes before breaking through to Body Integration!
Lu Wuhen's pupils shrank to needlepoints, trembling wildly as if losing all focus.
For this battle, Jiuxiao and Pengluo had risked certain death to aid him.
Cao Yan, Xiao Chen, and Zhou Shiyu and Ye Feng, who carried such heavy burdens...
Li Guanqi had endured until now precisely to deliver a certain kill once he broke through!
Had it not been so, with Lu Wuhen's cautious nature, he would never have fully exposed his Sword Ruins ability!
But the price... was far, far too great...
Red Lotus had fought alongside him for over a decade through countless battles; before this, it had only been damaged.
And even for that, he had been willing to pay an immense price—three masterless spirits and the Moonlock Sword.
But now, Red Lotus was broken...
Blood trickled slowly down Li Guanqi's fingers. Lu Wuhen was truly terrified.
He had considered that he might lose, but he had never imagined he wouldn't even get the chance to cry out his surrender.
He rolled his eyes frantically toward Lu Hengtian, but Lu Hengtian's expression was as dark as could be.
The Lu clan had lost.
That meant the foundation passed down through ten thousand years in the Lu clan would all be handed over to someone else today!
Resist? Renege on the bet?
Never mind whether Nangong Xuandu would permit it; the neighboring Zhu clan and the other ancient clan factions would never agree either!
Because their own interests were at stake. Just because the Lu clan didn't win didn't mean they wouldn't win!
Li Guanqi glanced toward the Lu clan, bringing his face close to Lu Wuhen's.
Like a demon, he whispered in his ear, "Look. You're nothing more than a pawn—an abandoned pawn at that!"
"So what if you used my hands to kill Lu Xingyuan and Lu Xiuzhong?"
"Once you're dead, the entire Lu clan will blame you. It was all because of you that everything was lost!"
"In the end, you'll pay the price for your arrogance and conceit. If you had taken the field yourself in Ye Feng's match, everything would have been different."
Looking at Li Guanqi, Lu Wuhen suddenly felt the person before him was terrifying beyond words.
He thought he had been in control of everything, never realizing that Li Guanqi had seen through it all long ago and bided his time until now!
Li Guanqi had no wish to say more. At the thought of Cao Yan, Xiao Chen, and the others fighting covered in blood, the fury in his heart could no longer be contained.
Shink!
Beneath Lu Wuhen's terrified, almost pleading gaze, head and body parted...
But Li Guanqi did something unexpected.
With a flick of his sleeve, Li Guanqi stowed Lu Wuhen's corpse away—and it appeared directly within the sword coffin space!
With a solemn expression, the sword spirit enveloped the corpse in a shroud of bloodlight.
Nangong Xuandu smiled faintly at Li Guanqi, who was covered in wounds, and announced in a clear voice, "Fifth battle: Li Guanqi of the Great Xia Sword Sect wins!"
"The wager takes effect! All resources of the Lu clan now belong to the Great Xia Sword Sect!"
"From this moment forth, the Lu Clan Domain is sealed! No one is permitted to remove any clan property!"
"Violators shall face clan extermination."
Boom! Uproar erupted in the surroundings!
The cultivators of the Six Domains raised their arms and cheered!
"We won! We won! The Six Domains won!"
"Hahahaha! Damn, that feels good! We won!!"
"Yanluo Sword Venerable!"
"Yanluo Sword Venerable!"
Lu Kangnian wept with excitement. Looking upon the brilliant youth, his heart was filled with pride and relief.
Everyone in the Great Xia Sword Sect embraced in excitement and leapt for joy; none of them had anticipated such an outcome.
Lu Hengtian's face was dark enough to drip water. He let out a cold snort and spoke with an exceedingly grim expression:
"The Lu clan... concedes the wager."
Having said that, he turned and left, taking all the Lu clan cultivators with him.
Nangong Xuandu had already placed seals upon the Lu Clan Domain.
Li Guanqi did not exchange a word with anyone, vanishing on the spot with a teleportation!
Leaving behind the pensive ancient clan cultivators, and the Six Domains cultivators cheering with wild abandon.
Today's battle also fully raised the curtain on the conflict between the sects of the Six Domains and the ancient clans.
Moreover, Li Guanqi had become the youngest Body Integration realm mighty cultivator in the history of the Great Xia Sword Sect.
The entire sect rejoiced!
Chapter 819