Chapter 1028 - Will You Bare Your Neck and Accept Death, or Shall I Kill You Myself

Tu Zhongqiu and the others sprang into action. Without a word, Ling Daoyan pointed the Divine Slaying Crossbow toward Duantai Yiting and fired.

A cold smile touched Li Guanqi’s lips. Power roared through him like a primordial beast waking from its slumber.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Li Guanqi’s aura surged to the late Combined Body Realm. Dragon scales spread over his hand. He snapped the old man’s sword in two, and boundless lightning erupted into an inferno, trapping Duantai Yiting in place.

With a savage expression, Li Guanqi gripped the jagged blade and thrust it deep into the old man’s neck, pushing it in inch by inch.

Li Guanqi tilted his head, locking eyes with Duantai Yiting. His voice sounded like a demon whispering from the depths of the underworld. “I’ve been waiting for you to make your move.”

His left hand closed around Duantai Yiting’s throat like an eagle’s talons. Violent lightning swallowed the old man. Nothing remained of his body, and even his divine soul was obliterated.

Li Guanqi turned toward Yu Hua, whose attacks had noticeably weakened. “Why should I believe you?”

A cold glint flashed in Yu Hua’s eyes. Her sword entered its Soul Dissolution state. Reversing the blade, she cut the man beside her in half at the waist. Sword qi burst outward, shredding his body and annihilating his divine soul.

Zhao Pei stared in shock. “Yu Hua, have you gone mad?! Do you know what you’re doing?!”

Ignoring the attacks around her, Yu Hua charged into the Daxia Sword Sect’s grounds. Xi Yunhuai narrowed his eyes and inscribed array runes with one hand. Four enormous array barriers, each over thirty zhang in size, sprang up around her. The barriers flared with light, but Yu Hua stood still and shouted, “Li Guanqi! Help me!”

Black threads began spreading beneath her skin from the center of her brow.

Li Guanqi teleported over, had Xi Yunhuai open a barrier, and stepped inside. He frowned at the encroaching black threads. His divine consciousness surged out, revealing where the demonic worm lay hidden within her.

“Open your mind completely,” Li Guanqi said. “Whatever happens, don’t resist.”

Yu Hua nodded. Li Guanqi clamped a hand over her head, scaring her half to death. Still, she chose to trust him and kept her mind open.

“Blood Art, Soul Extraction,” he murmured.

Buzz!

Whoosh!

Yu Hua’s primordial soul was pulled from her body. Inside its translucent form, a bloated black worm gnawed desperately at her divine soul.

Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes, extended both hands, and drew a deep breath. With his divine consciousness, he suppressed the worm’s power and confined it to her brow. Then he brought his fingers together like a blade and sliced away a palm-sized piece from her divine soul.

He drew the demonic worm into his hand and trapped it within a lightning barrier, leaving it alive. Yu Hua’s primordial soul returned to her body. When she opened her eyes, her face was deathly pale, but she could no longer feel demonic qi within her. She let out a long breath of relief, paying no mind to the strands of lightning still lingering around her dantian and divine soul.

Yu Hua made no attempt to resist as Li Guanqi sealed her power and Xi Yunhuai hastily reinforced the surrounding barriers.

Boom!

Li Guanqi’s eyes narrowed. Fortunately, the barrier also blocked some of their auras. Otherwise, what he had just done would have alerted Sha.

Boom! Crack!

Having lasted less than half an hour, the sect’s barrier shattered with a deafening crash.

Li Guanqi made no attempt to stop the people behind him from charging out. The disciples could not always rely on someone else to protect them. When invaders came, they had to fight. These dangers would remain even if he were gone one day. Even if they eventually ascended to the Immortal World, the conflicts between sects would likely be even more brutal.

It had been far too long since the Daxia Sword Sect had fought a battle like this. Its disciples had held themselves back for too long. With powerful enemies invading the sect and Li Nanting dead, even Li Guanqi could barely contain his killing intent.

Fragments of the shattered barrier rained down around him. Holding the Heavenly Lightning Peak Sword, Li Guanqi stood alone in the sky before the enemy.

“Sword Prison!” Li Guanqi shouted icily.

Boom!

The heavens and earth seemed to turn. Li Guanqi crushed the vital force domains of Zhao Pei and Liu Ye. Lightning swept across the battlefield, killing hundreds of low-level cultivators in a single breath. Blood mist burst through the air.

The Daxia Sword Sect’s disciples surged into the sky, their battle cries seeming to shake the heavens. Clad in white brocade robes, they charged forward with fierce expressions. Ling Daoyan and Qin Xian flew out to join the slaughter.

Li Guanqi barely moved. Sword in hand, he drove the Divine Punishment Technique through his body with reckless intensity.

A chill crept into Zhao Pei’s heart. Both men were in the Combined Body Realm, and Zhao Pei’s cultivation was slightly higher. However, the pressure Li Guanqi exerted was no weaker than that of someone half a step into the Mahayana Realm.

“No wonder he managed to destroy a Mahayana Realm cultivator’s clone,” Zhao Pei murmured.

Li Guanqi slowly raised his sword to eye level. “Did you really think I couldn’t wield a blade just because I’d lost my strength?”

His voice gradually rose, growing more savage. “Did you think I, Li Guanqi, couldn’t kill anymore?”

Boom!

Though his sword had not yet undergone Soul Dissolution, terrifying lightning sword light surged along its blade. As Li Guanqi roared, Zhao Pei retreated several hundred zhang with demonic qi swirling around him.

Killing intent condensed around Zhao Pei as the blood-red crescent blades in his hands lengthened. They now resembled full moons, terrifyingly sharp and wreathed in blood-red light. Zhao Pei held them in reverse grips. His ominous aura suggested an exceptionally high-tier technique.

“Liu Ye, I’ll take the lead! Cover me! Once we capture Li Guanqi, we retreat!”

Liu Ye was scared out of his wits. Yu Hua had betrayed them and killed Wang Zhaozhong in an instant. Of the original four, only he and Zhao Pei remained.

A vicious glint entered Liu Ye’s eyes as he opened his mouth to speak, but several streaks of sword light hurtled toward him. He raised his sword to defend himself, but the blows blasted him several hundred zhang back.

His vital force barriers shattered one after another. Lightning wrapped around him, numbing his body. He spun through the air, leaving afterimages as he dodged bolts coming from every direction, then twisted his wrist and thrust his longsword behind him.

Li Guanqi’s sword struck Liu Ye’s blade aside. With a turn of his wrist, he sent a sharp streak of sword light sweeping out. The sword in his left hand followed too quickly to leave an afterimage, punching through Liu Ye’s protective vital force. Blood erupted all over Liu Ye’s body.

The gap in strength was overwhelming. Li Guanqi’s vast vital force and physical power allowed him to crush nearly anyone in his cultivation realm. With rage burning in his heart and killing intent surging through him, Li Guanqi’s fighting spirit soared. He gave Liu Ye no chance to fight back, severing both his arms and striking him several more times until his body went limp.

Li Guanqi grabbed Liu Ye by the head, hoisting him up like a dead dog. Blood splattered across Li Guanqi’s face.

Still gripping Liu Ye, he turned toward Zhao Pei, who was gathering power in the distance.

“Will you bare your neck and accept death, or shall I kill you myself?” Li Guanqi asked, his gaze cold.