"Red Lotus: Draw Sword: World Destruction!!"
Li Guanqi forcibly merged his two most powerful sword forms.
The sleeve of his robe over his left arm instantly blew apart, and a cloud of blood mist burst from his taut arm!
Red Lotus thrust out from its scabbard, and a resounding sword chime mingled with the hiss of thunder to echo through the heavens.
Everyone watched as Li Guanqi's scabbard erupted with an overwhelmingly dazzling purplish-red brilliance.
The light blazed radiant and blinding, like the morning sun rising on the horizon!
Crack!
Crack, crack, crack!!
Webs of fine fractures spread across the ice sculptures. Almost all the assassins were on the verge of shattering the ice and breaking free.
The void trembled. The fiery barrier formed by the four heavenly flames rippled violently, like a tranquil lake struck by a boulder.
Li Guanqi took advantage of the momentum to send Meng Wanshu beyond the reach of his sword momentum.
Suddenly!!
All the phenomena between heaven and earth vanished in an instant.
Even the glare of the sword light was drawn inward to the absolute extreme. Yet this abrupt suppression sent a violent jolt through everyone's heart!
Ye Feng and the others had their pupils shrink to pinpricks. Gu Li murmured, "The... the momentum of the restrained edge!!"
Goosebumps broke out over Cao Yan and the rest. The razor-sharp sword intent seemed to prickle their skin, making their hearts pound wildly in their chests.
Whoosh!!!
Li Guanqi's figure vanished, reappearing a thousand zhang away!
A subtle gleam of sword light flashed. Not a single person could even clearly see how Li Guanqi had moved.
Suddenly!!
Every frozen assassin shattered along with the ice into nail-sized fragments.
Not a drop of blood could be seen. In that single instant just now, Li Guanqi had struck at least a hundred times!
Moreover, with every strike, he had driven his strength to the absolute limit, unleashing all three abilities of his Sword Ruins in full.
One breath, a hundred strikes, twelve lives!
Twelve Wang-tier assassins!!
Pfft!!!
Li Guanqi coughed up a mouthful of blood, his aura plummeting by well over thirty percent!
A few other assassins had left behind limbs just to barely escape with their lives.
Meng Wanshu watched the scene with a racing heart. Never had she imagined Li Guanqi could compress all his strength so completely into the edge of his blade!!
In the past, Li Guanqi had always relied on the sheer intensity of swinging sword light when facing enemies.
Those clashes had been contests of whose sword intent was sharper, whose primal energy was thicker, and whose sword forms could unleash greater power.
Yet just now...
Li Guanqi had undergone a sudden awakening, driving all his power into the sword blade itself.
Only then could he unleash such a terrifying strike!!
Meng Wanshu was not the only one shaken; Gu Li saw it clearer than anyone.
With his potent divine sense, he had seen that at the very instant Li Guanqi drew his sword, six or seven formidable assassins had in fact already broken out of the ice.
Yet even they could not withstand the force in Li Guanqi's blade when bolstered by Lethality and Blade Break.
Without breaking a sweat, the longsword sheared through their weapons and carved through their flesh!
Gu Li swallowed hard. Gazing at the flaming spiritual mark flickering on Li Guanqi's brow, shock overwhelmed him.
He knew very well that the current Li Guanqi could at most muster seventy percent of his peak strength—certainly less than eighty percent...
Yet right now, Li Guanqi was as if enlightened.
First a breakthrough, then spirit comprehension, and now mastering how to restrain his edge, compressing his strength so not a shred was wasted when striking.
His combat power had jumped an entire tier!
Li Guanqi shattered tens of thousands of spirit stones, gulping down their energy like a whale swallowing the tide, then downed several pills.
A trace of color finally returned to his deathly pale face. Pengluo popped up on his shoulder, grabbed the items, and stuffed them into its mouth.
Pengluo was grinning from ear to ear; the stronger Li Guanqi grew, the happier it became.
"Whew!!"
A shrill whistle sounded from Li Guanqi's lips. Jiuxiao whipped its head around, tore through the void, and abruptly appeared beneath Li Guanqi's feet!!
His white robes snapping in the wind, Li Guanqi stared coldly at the remaining red-robed assassins.
He licked his chapped lips and muttered under his breath, "Kill!!!!"
Boom!!
Jiuxiao swung its dragon tail, charging straight toward the few surviving Wang-tier assassins!!
Eyeing the red-robed cultivator barely a hundred zhang away, a chill flashed in the depths of Li Guanqi's eyes. Primal energy roared within him as he engaged his movement technique and vanished on the spot!
Terror filled the eyes behind the cultivator's mask.
Forcing himself to steady his composure, the man let his wide sleeves drop, and boundless demonic qi surged forth.
Like a plunging cataract, it spread across hundreds of zhang in the blink of an eye!
Beneath the churning demonic qi, countless obscure talismanic runes glowed into view.
Moving at high speed, Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes as an aged voice echoed slowly.
"Nine Nether Heavenly Capital Grand Array!!!"
"Hahahahaha! Li Guanqi, die!!!"
In an instant, array light flared, and the weather shifted violently. The surrounding void across eight hundred zhang turned into a pitch-black abyss.
Vengeful souls seemed to wail and roar from within the abyss, shaking the heart.
Li Guanqi suddenly appeared to sense something, and the corners of his lips curved slightly upward.
Right after, Gu Li vanished from his spot, swapping places with Li Guanqi and stepping into the array in his stead.
With a flick of Gu Li's hand, the power of thousands upon thousands of inscribed talismans drifted out, forming a spatial boundary barely a zhang wide around him.
The golden boundary was only a cun thick, yet dense inscribed talisman runes flickered endlessly across its surface.
Though the barrier teetered precariously under the crushing weight of the grand array, not the slightest panic showed on Gu Li's face.
Boom!!!
The elder froze, suddenly realizing that Li Guanqi had appeared right behind him!!
Thoroughly shaken, the elder reacted with extreme speed, not even turning around.
His hands twitched beneath his wide sleeves, and the array light beneath his feet lunged toward Li Guanqi like a living thing!
Li Guanqi had not expected the man to react so quickly. With an upward slash, his sword tore through the dark demonic tide as he flew forward.
Moving so fast he blurred, he reached the elder and struck repeatedly. An endless eruption of sword light swallowed the elder whole!
Black demonic qi splattered in all directions. The defense before the elder was breached in barely a breath.
The elder seemed remarkably proficient in the dao of arrays, hurling out several array plates in rapid succession to intercept Li Guanqi.
These arrays were not exceptionally durable, but they regenerated with remarkable speed, making it arduous for Li Guanqi to break through his defenses quickly.
Li Guanqi's eyes flashed, and he roared, "Xi Yunhuai!! Work's here!!!"
Swish!!
An elderly figure rode a flash of silver light and arrived in an instant, winking at Li Guanqi.
Strangely...
Xi Yunhuai held a massive talisman-crafting brush in his hand!!
This brush was none other than Ji Yuchuan's Shenzha!!
"Could it be..."
Seeing this, even Li Guanqi was dumbfounded.
Thoughts raced through his mind...
*Gulp... Xi Yunhuai... is also one of Ji Yuchuan's clones?*
*Shenzha isn't a talisman-crafting brush at all—it's an array-drawing brush!!*
Chapter 926