Breaking the Ocular Technique!

At the same time, the eyes of the three Void Refining Realm experts flared with an eerie crimson. Still undergoing her tribulation, Yun Jie shouted at the top of her lungs, "Watch out for their mental deterrence!!" Li Guanqi sneered. "Mental deterrence?" "Mayflies trying to shake a giant tree!" Boom!! Violent divine sense erupted in an instant as three mysterious shockwaves chopped toward Li Guanqi's sea of consciousness like mountain-cleaving greataxes. Though Li Guanqi's divine sense was not as monstrous as Gu Li's, it was still comparable to that of a Seventh Rank alchemist! The three men's attack arrived in a flash, yet Li Guanqi's face merely paled slightly; their assault did nothing more than jolt his sea of consciousness. Sensing something amiss, the three men's expressions changed drastically. Without time to think, they shot backward in rapid retreat! "Something's wrong!! There's a defensive magic treasure in his sea of consciousness!!" Just as the man spoke, the lead elder's face darkened drastically!! Before his eyes, the Li Guanqi standing ahead gradually faded away, and an icy voice suddenly rang beside the man's ear: "What magic treasure... did you say?" Boom!! Violent lightning instantly swallowed the man whole. The remaining men immediately grouped together, staring warily toward Li Guanqi! When the lightning cleared, Li Guanqi held a severed head, whispering, "One." With that, he dragged out the man's soul and casually shattered it to pieces!! The elder's eyes nearly split with rage. In a venomous voice, he snarled, "Brat!! Do you know who you are making an enemy of?!" Li Guanqi gave an amused smile. "I do. The Yu clan, isn't it?" The eyes of one of the men flickered, and heedless of his own life, he dashed straight for Meng Wanshu! "Capture that woman!!" Li Guanqi scoffed, not sparing them even a glance. "Courting death." Meng Wanshu's figure swayed, eerily interposing herself in front of Yun Jie. The bearded brute had seemed to be targeting Meng Wanshu, but in reality, he intended to snatch away Yun Jie beneath the heavenly tribulation!! Though Meng Wanshu did not understand why they were so persistent, she was not about to let them take her. With a wave of her hand, countless hundred-zhang-tall walls of ice rose into the void. The man slashed out several sword strikes in succession, yet he failed even to shatter the first layer of ice. Turning his head, he found Meng Wanshu right beside him. Terror in his eyes, he roared in a panic, "This woman is also in the Body Integration Realm!!!" Before his words faded, Meng Wanshu didn't even bother drawing her sword. She reached out and tapped a finger against the man's shoulder. In an instant, an ice sculpture plunged from the sky. Dozens of ice-blue sword qi crisscrossed around the ice sculpture. Countless ice shards drifted down from the air without a single trace of blood. With two Void Refining Realm cultivators dead in the blink of an eye, the elder was already gripped by the urge to retreat. Powerhouses of this caliber were no longer opponents they could deal with. Bang!! The elder crushed a teleportation scroll, and a silver spatial radiance enveloped the remaining two. Yu Cang's eyes glinted as he glared fixedly at Li Guanqi, his voice frigid. "The Yu clan will remember this debt today." "You will pay for everything you've done in the end!!" Hmph! With a cold snort, the figures of the elder and the man were on the verge of fading away. Yet just as the two were about to disappear, a large white radish suddenly burrowed out of the void. It leaped up and delivered two slaps across their faces, opening its mouth and swallowing the scroll's spatial fluctuations right into its belly. All the while, it cursed, "Strutting and blustering—who do you think you're talking to?" The old man was completely dazed by the slap. Seeing Li Guanqi already within ten zhang of them, his pupils abruptly turned entirely blood-red. In that instant, an illusion appeared before Li Guanqi's eyes. With heaven and earth inverted, the entire world was a swath of blood-red, a blood-soaked earth hanging upside down in the sky. Thick blood seeped from the soil and dripped down. Across the world, countless figures of Yu Cang suddenly materialized. These figures gripped swords and charged at Li Guanqi!! Li Guanqi gave a cold sneer, only to suddenly discover that the power within his body was feeble, reduced to merely late Void Refining Realm strength. In just a single breath, the opponent left dozens of sword wounds upon his body. Li Guanqi, frozen in place, suddenly erupted with a spray of blood mist from his body, dozens of sword wounds appearing out of nowhere. Within the illusion, Li Guanqi also realized this was an illusory realm. Yet at this moment, he could not find the slightest way to break it. Li Guanqi's consciousness looked up at the dripping earth overhead, his eyes narrowing slightly. Confronted by the onslaught of dozens of elders, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Boom!!! A violent aura erupted from Li Guanqi's body, but immediately afterward, his expression stiffened. For he discovered that in this illusory realm, he could not draw upon the power of the sword coffin or Red Lotus at all. Reaching out his hand, he condensed a sword of lightning, unleashing the full might of the Sword Ruins. A terrifying embryonic form of Sword Heart Realm sword intent soared up, the sheer shockwave blowing back several of Yu Cang's clones. Pfft!! Li Guanqi violently coughed up a mouthful of blood, feeling as if a massive sledgehammer had slammed into his chest. Li Guanqi's eyes flickered, and he sheathed his sword. "Sword Draw: World Extinction!!!" Merging two peerless sword techniques, his figure flashed explosively the instant he sheathed his sword. Relying on his formidable physical power, his speed was blindingly fast. The scattering sword qi cut open the cheek of one of the afterimages, yet Li Guanqi's cheek was simultaneously sliced open! Li Guanqi was momentarily stunned. He hadn't expected that his own attack would be mirrored onto his own body!!! Li Guanqi looked up at the firmament. It seemed his previous line of thinking had been flawed... Heaven and earth inverted, and the wounds dealt by sword qi landed on himself. Yu Cang's voice echoed in his ears: "Hahahaha! Come and kill me!!" In that case... Li Guanqi drew his sword from its sheath. The elder's breath audibly hitched, and even the movements of his hands paused for an instant. He hadn't anticipated that even though Li Guanqi's cultivation realm in the illusion was clearly suppressed to the late Void Refining Realm, the power he displayed could still inspire dread in him. Furthermore, in here, a sword of primal energy had no way of releasing the Sword Ruins' abilities. Which meant... Even without his cultivation realm being suppressed, Li Guanqi's power was weakened by over thirty percent. Li Guanqi grinned ferociously, abruptly turning the sword's edge toward himself!!! Without the slightest hesitation, the razor-sharp blade slit his own throat!!! Spurt!! Blood sprayed, and Yu Cang's face changed drastically!!! Li Guanqi's vision gradually blurred as the earth suspended overhead began to crumble inch by inch. A cold, vivid sensation of death engulfed Li Guanqi's mind! The blade biting into his throat, the tearing of flesh, the draining of blood, the fading of life... Everything was terrifyingly real. In the outside world, Li Guanqi's forward momentum abruptly halted. His body suddenly burst with a spray of blood mist, and then his eyes snapped open. Opening his eyes, Li Guanqi shuddered from head to toe, seeing the distorted figures of Yu Cang and the remaining man about to vanish. Pengluo still wanted to give chase, but Li Guanqi stopped him. Looking at Li Guanqi drenched in cold sweat, Pengluo frowned and asked, "Master, were you caught in that old man's ocular technique just now?" The two had escaped. Li Guanqi frowned and asked, "How much time passed?" Pengluo said gravely, "Just an instant!" Li Guanqi took a deep breath, subconsciously touching his neck. Turning his head to look at Meng Wanshu, whose eyes were filled with worry, he softly comforted her, "I'm fine. Don't worry." With that, Li Guanqi took a deep look in the direction the two had fled, his eyes flickering with inscrutable thoughts.