Sha Makes His Move! Li Guanqi Disappears!

Li Guanqi stood atop the altar of the Abyss Demon fissure, where the barrier of the formation had long since been stained pitch-black. The moment he reached the edge of the altar, he felt the surrounding temperature plummet!! Meng Wanshu's voice drifted through the wall of thunder. "Don't push yourself alone." Li Guanqi broke into a grin and said softly, "Don't worry..." Hoo... Standing on the altar, Li Guanqi took a deep breath, raised his hand, and tied up his long hair. Scenes of all kinds flashed through his mind, and he muttered under his breath, "Found you..." Weng! Ji Yuchuan looked at the Tianji Chart in his hands; over the map of the Taiqing Domain flickered a bright black flame!! Immediately after, the rest of the Eight Generals received these spatial coordinates. Chankongzi stared in astonishment at the jade slip in his hand and swallowed hard. "A transmission from Yushan?? Good grief... that's rare!" Of the Eight Generals, only Long Hou was absent, leaving Second Sister Hong Zhi in command. Of the eight thrones, four now stood vacant. The seats belonging to Yushan and Long Hou, along with those of Xiang Huaizhi and Nangong Xuandu! Hong Zhi's sharp gaze swept over the gathered figures as she said coldly, "Let us go. By oral decree of the Domain Lord: wipe this organization out!" Li Guanqi inhaled deeply and looked up to find three massive heavenly tribulation thunderclouds gathering overhead!! The corners of his lips curved slightly upward, and he murmured softly, "Brothers, break through well." Weng! Li Guanqi raised his foot and stomped hard against the fissure beneath him. Dong!! Waves of spatial ripples spread out. In that moment, Li Guanqi felt as though he were standing face-to-face with that very person. A figure across the chessboard? No... The man was merely one of that mastermind's more important chess pieces! The storage ring on Li Guanqi's hand slowly slipped off; any person or item upon him had nowhere to hide. It was as if anything he attempted to bring along would be blocked. Li Guanqi shed his robe and took off the ring. At the edge of the thunder pool, Pengluo snapped his eyes open, his gaze flickering intensely!! Weng! Li Guanqi's figure sank slowly down, like sinking into the mire of an abyss. Sha was gambling—gambling that he would come because of Tang Ru! The icy demonic qi seemed poised to drown Li Guanqi completely, cold as an icy cavern in the depths of winter. Bone-chilling demonic qi mingled with an inexplicable, indefinable aura. Roar! Hiss! One Abyss Demon after another appeared around Li Guanqi, snarling wildly at him. With demonic shrieks piercing his ears, Li Guanqi frowned. Annoyed, he erupted with primal energy!! Within a radius of a thousand zhang, the void instantly turned into a boundless purgatory of lightning!! Countless Abyss Demons were blasted through by bolts of lightning, dissolving into rolling demonic qi that melted back into their surroundings. Yet these fallen Abyss Demons unexpectedly dissolved into motes of spiritual light, and a profound ripple of spatial fluctuation instantly washed over!! Qiang! Li Guanqi gripped the Red Lotus sword tightly, his eyes sharp as an eagle's as he warily surveyed the surroundings. Immediately afterward, a screen of light manifested within the pitch-black abyss fissure. Looking at the portal of light forming in the distance, Li Guanqi's heart pounded wildly. Within the Great Xia Sword Sect, Ye Xuan, who had been sitting with his eyes closed in meditation, slowly rose to his feet, gripping his sword tightly. He was waiting! Weng! Li Guanqi walked step by step toward the light screen. Suddenly! A pair of fair, pale palms reached out from the portal of light. Ye Xuan snapped his sword half an inch from its sheath!! That hand paused slightly, clutching the edge of the light portal and shifting. Then, another hand slowly emerged, dangling a dying Tang Ru!! Boom! The moment Li Guanqi saw this scene clearly, his eyes nearly tore at the corners, his entire body trembling slightly. The tricolor flame mark on his forehead flashed with blinding brilliance, and three inscribed talismans on his chest instantly ignited into flames. "Fatty!!!" "Tang Ru!! Wake up!!!" Looking at Tang Ru's gruesome state, Li Guanqi stopped breathing altogether, his chest feeling crushed under an immense weight. Fair fingers dug straight into Tang Ru's skull to lift him up; his flesh festered all over, Tang Ru hung like a puppet at the mercy of his captor. Yet blood and tears seemed to stream from those empty eye sockets. His face twisted in agonizing pain, tinged with humiliating despair. He was willing to die, but he did not want to become a tool used by Sha. Tang Ru wriggled his body with all his might, his expression twisted in fury, trying to end his own life then and there. The figure within the light portal remained veiled in darkness, yet his mocking laughter rang excruciatingly harsh in Li Guanqi's ears. The hand holding Tang Ru shook him with greater force, banging him against the edge of the light portal with dull thumps. Yet even as he did this, he simultaneously nourished Tang Ru with the purest demonic qi!! Standing beneath the heavenly tribulation, Ye Feng witnessed this through Pengluo's power and his eyes nearly split with fury. Pengluo grabbed Ye Feng by the collar and hissed, "Don't go out!! Leave everything to Master!!" Having awakened, Ye Feng's primal energy surged, his battle intent billowing. His right eye turned scarlet as his gaze locked onto the phantom figure inside the light portal. After a long silence, Ye Feng's eyes showed an unreadable look. He looked down at his pitch-black arm and muttered softly, "I hope we can kill Sha this time." "If not... he will become the enemy that keeps Boss on edge the most!" Slowly closing his eyes, Ye Feng said softly, "Radish, go check on Third and Fourth Brother. Don't worry about me; I know what I'm doing." Pengluo didn't argue, only counting on his fingers as he said, "Don't worry, Cao Yan and Xiao Chen also have splits of my body with them." "Cross your tribulation first!" At that moment, Ye Xuan stood on the altar by the Great Xia Sword Sect's abyss fissure, his expression somber as a storm. Lu Kangnian stomped his foot and said with an ugly grimace, "The formation on the altar has been tampered with. I can't sense Guanqi's aura at all anymore." Ye Xuan closed his eyes and murmured softly, "No matter. I can still perceive a little. It all depends on when the kid is ready to make his move." Li Guanqi stared fixedly at the light portal, gritting his teeth as he said coldly, "Release Tang Ru, and I will go with you." The man inside the light portal smiled eerily, and a faintly discernible white mask emerged into view. He extended a finger and crooked it toward Li Guanqi. In an instant, countless black hands materialized from the void around Li Guanqi and bound him fast!! An irresistible force swept over Li Guanqi's entire body, dragging him uncontrollably toward the figure!! What was more, this power sealed Li Guanqi's divine soul and the primal energy in his dantian in a single breath!!!! Now Li Guanqi could not channel a speck of primal energy to activate the talismans on his body, and his divine sense was imprisoned, preventing him from even summoning Pengluo. This was an outcome he had never anticipated under any circumstances!! Boom! One after the other, two terrifying azure sword rays instantly split an entire mountain peak of the Great Xia Sword Sect in two!! Nangong Xuandu and Ye Xuan, who had remained hidden in the shadows, plunged into the abyss fissure in a flash. Azure light filled the void, and countless Abyss Demons were shredded to pieces by sword qi, but Li Guanqi was nowhere to be seen. Nangong Xuandu swept his gaze around, his face grim to the extreme. "The space here has been swapped out... Right now, Li Guanqi might not even be in the Great Xia Domain anymore." At these words, everyone's heart rose into their throat. A pale-faced Gu Li flashed into view, wringing his hands with a troubled expression. Looking at Meng Wanshu, he said in a deep voice, "No response?? That's impossible..."