Chapter 1043 - 283: Cold Blade Bids Farewell on a Distant Path; Faded Crimson Weeps Blood as the Moon’s Soul Wanes (Part 3)

Three hundred soft whips simultaneously lashed out, forming a gigantic scorpion tail phantom in mid-air, which smashed down fiercely towards the crowd.

Shi Feiyang shouted loudly, "Good timing!" The Celestial Frost Blade was raised high above his head, executing a deadly strike from the Hundred Victories Saber Technique, "Red Dust Slash"!

A gigantic golden saber light soared into the sky with the force of creation, slicing straight towards the scorpion tail phantom. Upon collision, the heavens and earth trembled. In the massive explosion, the scorpion tail phantom shattered inch by inch, and the Red Scorpion Sect’s followers were so shaken by the immense Qi force that they spat blood and fell to the ground.

The Red-clothed Elder saw the array being broken, a hint of fear flashed in his eyes, and he turned to flee.

How could Shi Feiyang give him the chance? He executed the Supreme Lightness Technique, "The Thousand Miles Without Leaving a Trace," instantly catching up and slashing down violently with the Celestial Frost Blade!

A piercing scream tore through the night sky, the Red-clothed Elder was cut in two.

The Qingyi elder of the Red Scorpion Sect sneered like a night owl, forming nine mysterious hand seals with both hands, as black Qi surged from his palms like living creatures, burrowing into the earth.

Instantly, countless scarlet vines burst from the ground, their surfaces covered with tiny flesh thorns, wrapping around the ankles of the Salt Gang disciples like venomous snakes flicking their tongues.

The moment they touched, skin and flesh rotted away, revealing white bone, and the horrifying screams mixed with the sizzling sound of decaying flesh echoed through the sky.

Seeing this, Shi Feiyang’s body was enveloped in swirling white mist, operating the Bright Jade Technique to the eighth and a half level — "Supreme Forgetting Emotions Ice Soul Cold Prison."

He slashed horizontally with the Celestial Frost Blade, launching "Heaven and Earth With The Same Longevity!" An ice dragon phantom roared out, and wherever the blade’s aura passed, the vines severed inch by inch, and the frozen poisonous blood burst out like buckshot, creating dense craters on the salt piles.

However, the Red Scorpion Sect members were fearless in the face of death, shouting in unison "Scorpions Traverse the World," three hundred soft whips simultaneously flung out, weaving into a dark purple death net in the air. The tails of the whips hooked like scorpion stingers, glowing with phosphorescent blue flames, casting the sky into a bizarre blue-purple hue.

"How dare you, youngster!" Shi Feiyang roared, unleashing both the Celestial Frost Blade and Divine Dragon Claw, executing the ultimate killer move "Heaven and Earth in Silence."

The golden saber light and the azure dragon shadow collided with a thunderous roar, releasing a blast of energy like a hurricane passing through. The crisp sound of breaking whips mixed with the screams of followers, and the bodies thrown by the Qi force crashed into the salt mountain, splattering red and white matter everywhere, turning the white salt grains into a dazzling array of colors.

The Gray-clothed Elder, seeing the situation going awry, sneered while pulling out an Ebony Poison Fog Bomb and throwing it into the crowd. Shi Feiyang executed the Mysterious Lightness Technique, "Deep Concealment of Body and Name," his figure ghostly as he leapt into the air, the Celestial Frost Blade slicing out a dense curtain of blades, shattering the poison fog into countless fragments.

The poison fog met the salt grains, instantly raising billowing white smoke, emitting a nauseating stench of rotting corpses, and within a circle of ten zhang, all vegetation withered instantly.

At this moment, Ke Gu, the Red Scorpion Sect’s elder, in a crimson robe rustling in the wind, laughed coldly like something from the Nine Netherworld beneath his mask.

His fingers extended three inches longer, the dark purple hooks shone with eerie cold light, and with a twist of his palms, a scarlet mist rose suddenly between heaven and earth.

The ground churned like a boiling cauldron, countless scorpion-shaped bulges writhed and broke through the soil, turning the salt piles into bubbling poison marshes, sizzling with green smoke. Xue Hong Mountain roared, heavily thrusting his iron staff into the ground, and executed the "Shadow-Clapping Technique."

His palms moved in rhythm, unleashing countless tiny shadowed handprints like a swarm of bees smashing into the ground, each blow creating ripples in the poison marsh, turning the emerging poisonous scorpions into a bloody mess.

Yet, Ke Gu’s figure flickered, employing "Scorpion Shadow Phantom Body" to disappear from his original spot, reappearing immediately behind Xue Hong Mountain, his venomous claws striking for the back of his heart!

At that critical moment, Xue Hong Mountain executed "Flying Shadow Step," swiftly dodging sideways, counterattacking with both palms.

Instantly, countless sizable handprints, as large as washbasins, pressed towards Ke Gu like a wall.

Ke Gu’s robe tore open in several places, revealing skin covered in scorpion scales, dissipating all the handprints: "Hmph! Trivial tricks! In the eyes of this one, Shadow-Clapping Technique is nothing but childish play!" With that, he released nine hand strikes, summoning nine gigantic scorpion tail phantoms from the earth, their stinger dripping black-green poison rapidly eroding the salt piles into unfathomably deep pits.

Xue Hong Mountain’s eyes widened with rage, mustering all his power to unleash a storm of hand shadows.

Gigantic as millstones, the hand shadows collided fiercely with the scorpion tail phantoms, blending poison mist and palm winds in a tumult.

Ke Gu, about to counterattack, was caught off guard when Xue Hong Mountain suddenly changed moves, launching countless tiny hand shadows like a downpour, with three of them striking directly into his chest!

With a muffled "puh" sound, Ke Gu spat blood madly, his heart and lungs like shattered glass, faltering several times before collapsing backward, his crimson robe gradually soaking into black-purple in the poison marsh.

A sharp cry like tearing silk suddenly rang out, and three black shadows in the northwest sky shot down like meteors. The three Protectors of the Red Scorpion Sect swiftly treaded through the salt grains, approaching rapidly.

The scorpion tail hooks broke the air like the clash of gold and iron, causing the air to explode like splashing snow in hot oil, stirring layers of twisting Qi waves.

Shi Feiyang’s roar was deafening: "Good timing! Just need you to sacrifice the blade!" With a tap of his toe on the salt pile, his figure turned into a swimming dragon in urgent retreat, the Celestial Frost Blade executing "Heaven and Earth With The Same Longevity" from the Hundred Victories Saber Technique.

Where the icy blade aura passed, the ground instantly froze into ice crystals a zhang thick, forcibly halting the trio’s assault three zhang away. The gray-robed elder in the center chuckled eerily like a night owl, his palms turning to unleash dark purple poison mist spiraling forth, resembling ghostly fire from the underworld.

This poison mist was the Red Scorpion Sect’s secret refining, the "Bone-Eroding Profound Yin Miasma," corrosive upon touch, sealing meridians upon inhalation.

Shi Feiyang’s pupils contracted sharply, transforming the Celestial Frost Blade into a spinning silver wheel, forming a Eight Trigrams Barrier with the blade’s aura. When the poison mist collided with the blade’s aura, it emitted a hissing sound like venomous snakes, and the ancient runes on the Celestial Frost Blade darkened, dimming like a dying flame.