As his words fell, Cizhi stood in the firmament with his hands behind his back. Looking down at Li Guanqi with cold eyes, he said chillingly, "Since you court death, ant, I shall grant it to you!"
The wind blew desolate; thunder rumbled across the sky in rolling waves.
A luminous white figure had been clutching Xuan Lin's body all along, keeping him out of Cizhi's grasp.
Pengluo clutched Xuan Lin's head desperately with both hands, its body trembling faintly, eyes brimming with terror.
Yet its hands stubbornly refused to let go, head bowed, not daring to meet the gaze of the figure above the firmament.
Suddenly!
Cizhi's gaze shifted to Pengluo. His eyes flickered ceaselessly, brows furrowed as if searching his memory.
After two full breaths, Cizhi's eyes suddenly lit up and he burst into wild laughter!
"Hahahaha! So it's you!!"
"You little dog bastard, your life is tenacious indeed... You didn't even die after getting swept into the storm between the two realms, and you actually managed to flee all the way to the Human Spirit Realm.
"Tsk, tsk. Then again, if you had fled to the Lower Monster Realm, you probably would have been torn to shreds without a whole corpse left. You really are blessed with extraordinary luck..."
As Cizhi's voice drifted down, Pengluo's entire body trembled violently with fear.
Pengluo felt numb all over, as though... it had lost control of its own body to pure terror.
Its hands still gripped Xuan Lin's body, but its limbs felt as if poured full of lead, unable to move even an inch.
Li Guanqi could clearly sense just how terrified Pengluo was right now.
Pengluo, who had always feared nothing under heaven or earth, was now red-eyed, tears of terror welling up.
Its pupils contracted and dilated in trembling panic, head lowered, gaze saturated with dread.
Li Guanqi gritted his teeth. Though he did not know what had happened to Pengluo in the past, he certainly knew it had descended from the Upper Realm. He had never expected this immortal's projection to actually recognize Pengluo.
Cizhi's words dripped with mockery, and by the looks of it, Pengluo had very likely escaped from the Seven Treasures Pavilion itself!
*Swoosh!*
Cizhi extended a single finger, and a ray of golden light shot violently toward Pengluo!
A chill seized Pengluo's spine as an ominous aura of death enveloped its entire body.
Yet right now, it did not even have the courage to take a step, watching helplessly as that golden beam shot toward it!
*Roar!*
Ferocity flashed in Jiuxiao's draconic eyes!
With a whip of his dragon tail, his massive form instantly interceded before Pengluo, blotting out more than half the sky.
Opening his maw wide, he unleashed a violent blast of lightning dragon breath.
The dragon breath collided with the golden light in a deafening roar.
Yet Jiuxiao's dragon breath held out for barely a single breath before shattering completely.
The golden beam instantly pierced Jiuxiao's body and tore forward unabated!
The golden light grew clearer and clearer in Pengluo's vision. In that moment, Pengluo suddenly relaxed its posture, summoning its strength to shove Xuan Lin's body into Li Guanqi's sword coffin space.
It chose that place because Pengluo knew that no matter what, the opponent would never be able to breach that particular space.
Suddenly!
A white-robed figure appeared before it in an instant.
Reining every shred of violent power into the blade's edge, Li Guanqi's eyes surged with killing intent as he slashed horizontally with his sword!
A purplish-red sword light flashed across the air!
"Heaven Breaker: Demon Subduer Slash!!!"
*Boom!*
The horrifying shockwave blasted Li Guanqi, Jiuxiao, and the others backward over a thousand zhang!
Just before being hurled back, Pengluo, who had been paralyzed by fear, suddenly snapped its head up.
Grabbing Li Guanqi's collar with one hand, it glared up at Cizhi and roared, "Han Cizhi! I'll fuck your mother to death!!"
"Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck!!"
Pengluo bellowed at the top of its lungs, its face flushed bright red from the surge of blood.
Li Guanqi was thrown backward. The earth trembled, and all structures in Qixia City within a three-thousand-zhang radius of Qixian Pagoda were completely obliterated!
Three deep chasms cracked open across the ground.
Li Guanqi slowly pushed himself up from the ground. The web of his left thumb was split open, and blood dripped slowly down Red Lotus to stain the earth.
"Hahahahaha, now that's more like you!!"
Pengluo grinned, the green leaves atop its head standing straight up, the purple patterns across its skin blazing with dazzling radiance.
Having expanded to the height of a grown man, Pengluo showed not the slightest trace of fear in its eyes!
The scales over Jiuxiao's chest were shattered, revealing mangled flesh.
Yet Jiuxiao surged into the air with a violent lurch, circling beside Li Guanqi to bear him upward as they charged forward!
Killing intent flared in Li Guanqi's eyes, and an icy-blue silhouette soared up, sword in hand!
Meng Wanshu unleashed the full extent of her power, fragmented memories flashing incessantly through her mind.
Suddenly!
An icy blue flashed through Meng Wanshu's beautiful eyes, and she cried out sharply,
"Chaotic Frost Realm: Phoenix Terrace!"
In an instant, snowflakes fluttered between heaven and earth as blue-and-white frost power swept across all of Qixia City!
Tens of thousands of ice blossoms condensed around Meng Wanshu, and the void beneath her feet began to freeze solid.
A potent aura of a great monster erupted violently, followed by a hundred-zhang frost rift tearing open in the void.
Li Guanqi was thoroughly shaken by the sight, while Jiuxiao's draconic eyes trembled, clearly sensing some extraordinary presence.
Yet this was no time to daze off; Jiuxiao whipped his dragon tail, accelerating even further!
A gigantic ice phoenix over a hundred zhang long suddenly vaulted out from the void!
Wherever the glacial chill passed, the space took on a deep azure coat of frost, trembling before shattering like broken porcelain.
Jiuxiao's dragon roar rose high and fierce as his terrifying claws slashed savagely toward Han Cizhi!
The man's gaze toward Pengluo turned arctic cold, and the phantom veiled in golden light actually began to solidify!
With a lift of his hand, he condensed a golden longsword, looking down at Li Guanqi and Meng Wanshu below with an amused expression.
*Boom!*
"Jade Terrace: Gathering of the Eight Immortals!"
Han Cizhi's eyes were as sharp as blades. Spreading his arms slowly, the spirit sword shot straight toward Li Guanqi's skull.
Treading with profound, elusive steps, he drifted down a thousand zhang, arms spreading outward at his sides.
As those pale hands opened, a vast, boundless momentum surged abruptly into being!
Rosy clouds filled the heavens. Amid the flashing golden light, Li Guanqi discovered that the solidified Han Cizhi was not as overwhelmingly strong as he had imagined.
Even so, this immortal art...
Clouds of rosy light blanketed the world as eight phantom figures of immortals suddenly materialized atop celestial blossoms.
The breath Jiuxiao had been gathering blasted forth in an instant. Backed by the formidable physical power of his dragon form, his claws tore into the phantoms while his thick tail whipped around with crushing force!
Seeing the void shattered by Jiuxiao, a sudden flash of gravity crossed Han Cizhi's eyes. Clearly, he had never expected a true dragon to exist in this Human Spirit Realm.
The physical might of the Dragon race was undeniably at the absolute pinnacle!
Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes. That spirit sword moved with terrifying speed—so fast that he could only rely on pure instinct to meet the strike head-on!
Chapter 952