Sacred Qilin Gate!

Buzz!! A flash of silver light gleamed, and two figures stepped out from the void. Pengluo clapped his little hands and laughed. "This place really was hard to find." "Just how much dumb luck did Xuan Lin stumble into back then...?" Li Guanqi said nothing. He spread his divine sense out slightly. The void, which should have been pitch-black, was now a dazzling swirl of radiant colors. According to the spatial coordinates Xuan Lin had given him, this should be the place. Meng Wanshu narrowed her eyes, completely on guard as if facing a formidable foe. Drawing the Snow Shadow Sword and donning her soft armor, she spoke in a low, solemn voice. "The spatial tempest here is rather fierce... We'd best be careful." Li Guanqi nodded silently. The vital blood and qi within him began to circulate involuntarily, and using the power of a spirit incantation, he coated himself in a layer of lightning armor. Turning to survey his surroundings, he could not help but frown. Looking out across the surrounding thousand li, all that met his eyes were terrifying, chaotic tempests. The kaleidoscopic streams of light flashed endlessly, looking incomparably gorgeous, but in truth, the storms possessed horrifying ferocity. Even a seventh-rank body cultivator swept into them by mistake would be flayed alive if they didn't die outright. Pengluo huddled on Li Guanqi's shoulder with his arms curled tight. Grabbing Jiuxiao's head and tail, he tightened the little dragon around his own neck. Jiuxiao opened his eyes in annoyance and glared at Pengluo. Pengluo offered a fawning chuckle. "Heheh, wrapping you tight makes me feel safe." Jiuxiao ignored him, warily scanning their surroundings with draconic eyes before leaping onto Li Guanqi's wrist, coiling around it, and closing his eyes again. As Li Guanqi extended his divine sense further, the chaotic tempest spanning tens of li instantly showed signs of running wild. Startled, Li Guanqi hastily reeled his divine sense back in. Seeing this, Meng Wanshu said softly, "Why not check whether that jade seal Xuan Lin gave you shows any reaction?" Li Guanqi nodded, then retrieved the seal Xuan Lin had handed him. Channeling a wisp of primal energy into it, the fiery-red Qilin jade seal abruptly erupted with waves of profound, extraordinary pressure. The crimson seal drifted into midair, sending ripples of fiery halos spreading in all directions. In an instant, the void tempest throughout the surrounding thousand li went utterly berserk!! The shuddering void sent a tremor through everyone's hearts!! Pengluo clutched Li Guanqi's hair with both hands, his body trembling slightly. The force of this pressure was simply too immense... So terrifyingly powerful... that Pengluo even felt that if a Mahayana realm cultivator were to arrive, they would be obliterated by the chaotic storm sweeping across these thousand li!! Li Guanqi stood rigid where he was, pulling Meng Wanshu behind him to shield her. As the halos rippled outward, the chaotic qi within a thousand li surged toward the seal like a stampeding deluge! In the blink of an eye, the tempest soared over a thousand zhang straight into the heavens!!! The terrifying power caused the surrounding void to fracture, collapse, and disintegrate continuously... Even Li Guanqi and Meng Wanshu felt their hearts tremble at the sight. If either of them were swept into it, they would likely be annihilated in an instant! Gradually, a spark of fire appeared in the heart of the void, and immediately following that, the Qilin jade seal shattered with a boom!! The bursting seal transformed into strands of profound power that merged into the fiery light within the void. Rumble, rumble, rumble!!! A deafening roar echoed, so thunderous that even Li Guanqi instinctively covered his ears. A fiery-red stone gate a hundred zhang tall materialized out of nowhere, standing merely ten zhang before them!! The moment the stone gate emerged, Li Guanqi and Meng Wanshu could not help but take several steps back. Only then did they look it up and down to examine it. Flanking the left and right sides of the gate stood two hundred-zhang-tall, lifelike Qilin stone carvings. Their fiery-red scales were rendered with pristine clarity, burning with a coat of scorching flames. The Qilin bore draconic heads crowned with curved, stag-like antlers; their torsos were as robust as tigers', clad in fiery-red scales. Their four hooves resembled those of horses, tufted with fetlocks and treading on raging fire, their eyes wide in righteous fury, radiating immense majesty. The two fiery Qilins stared fixedly ahead of the gate, their golden eyes unfathomably deep. Legend had it that the Qilin was the embodiment of auspicious fortune. Under their gaze, the distracting thoughts in Li Guanqi's heart seemed to vanish entirely, leaving his mind as still as water. Meng Wanshu was also startled by the stone carvings, her delicate brows knitting slightly. Noticing her unease, Li Guanqi could not help asking, "What's wrong?" Meng Wanshu stared at the Qilins upon the gate and said, "I don't know. The fiery aura radiating from the Qilins makes me feel rather uncomfortable." Seeing the slight pallor on her cheeks, Li Guanqi said gently, "Why don't you wait for me here? There shouldn't be much danger inside." "After all, if even Xuan Lin could obtain the Qilin Soul, I shouldn't have any trouble either." Meng Wanshu frowned, looking at him with firm resolve. "I'm going with you. That way, we can look out for each other." On Li Guanqi's shoulder, Pengluo clutched his hair, looking up at the solemnly magnificent Qilin carvings while clicking his tongue in awe. Li Guanqi said no more. Drawing the Red Lotus Sword and holding it in his hand, he led the young woman forward to stand before the grand gate. A sharp gleam flared in the eyes of the Qilin carvings, and the massive gate slowly swung open on its own!! Beyond the parted gate lay a warped veil of light—evidently another hidden, isolated domain. Buzz!!! The veil rippled faintly. A strand of beast fur fell from Li Guanqi's foot, left behind outside the luminous portal!!! Buzz!!! A mysterious spatial tremor rippled through the expanse. Six figures were hurtling through the void when a burly man with a curly beard abruptly stiffened. Drawing out a cracked beast-bone jade slip, he said chillingly, "That person's spatial ripple has vanished." At those words, the white-haired elder leading them declared coldly, "Hmph! They shouldn't have noticed us. Hurry over and take a look; it's very likely they entered some isolated domain!" "Whatever happens, this will be our only chance!" His voice was laced with murderous intent and frigid to the core. Pan Yi was his most doted-upon grandson. Of all the descendants in this generation, Pan Yi was his favorite. Who would have thought that a mere Immortal-Receiving Ceremony would claim his life and bury him there! The Pan family had investigated Li Guanqi's background. When they saw the intelligence gathered on him, they had been left stunned and speechless for a long time. Yet after conferring behind closed doors, they still resolved to seek vengeance! However... Compared to their dead grandson, revenge was merely a righteous pretext. The divine sword in Li Guanqi's possession was a treasure of which there were likely only a handful in the entire Human Spirit Realm!! It was a sword capable of slaying an immortal's projection!! One had to realize that the projection power granted by an immortal blessing was only at the late Body Integration Realm. Why did powerful experts rarely intervene? Because they had no way to slay an immortal's projection, no matter how immense their cultivation realm might be. Yet a weapon possessing divine nature... made all the difference. Once an immortal's projection was slain with a weapon possessing divinity, the immortal's power could be completely absorbed!!! Not only that, but Li Guanqi also had a true dragon by his side, as well as a seventh-rank spirit creature. If they could get their hands on all of that... The Pan family could retreat into seclusion, relying on true dragon essence blood and the power of that spirit creature to forge a whole host of formidable experts!! Greed flashed within the eyes of all six men. As for the old leader's claim of avenging his grandson? Everyone understood the truth implicitly. Sometimes... having a justifiable cause was very necessary.