Chapter 1050 - 284: Helan Xue’s Blade Reflects True Loyalty, Jade Shadows and Cold Edges Bury the Netherworld (Part 5)

Shi Feiyang’s cape enveloped Guo Xiangyu completely, like an indestructible fortress.

He lowered his head to kiss the crown of her hair, whispering by her ear, "With me here, no matter how fierce the wind and snow, they won’t harm you in the slightest."

Guo Xiangyu only held him tighter, wanting to engrave this moment of warmth eternally in time.

On the eve of a fierce battle, Shi Feiyang and Guo Xiangyu were filled with affection, deeply in love, oblivious to the outside world.

"Soul Hooker" Li Qi, seeing this, was truly infuriated. Shi Feiyang and Guo Xiangyu were really too dismissive of them, weren’t they? He twisted his goatee and stepped forward, the evil spirit embossing on the iron badge at his waist glimmered ominously: "Such romance! Dare to cause trouble at Nine Banner Deer Field as if our seventy-two hidden stakes are blind?" His eagle eyes glanced at Guo Xiangyu’s blood-stained bamboo saber, suddenly shouting, "Kid, are you the helper invited by that old fool Lu Wen Tripod of Celestial Sword Tianshan?" Guo Xiangyu waved her wide sleeves, the bamboo saber in her palm radiated cold light: "What if I am? Your Nine Flags Gang forcefully occupied the deer field and bullied the people, are you really afraid of interference?" Her eyes revealed a concealed killing intent, precisely the "Cold Pool Reflecting Moon" stance, a secret technique from Medicine King Valley.

Li Qi sneered, and suddenly lashed out the iron whip: "Report your name! Don’t let the old man’s Soul Hooking Rope claim the life of an unknown ghost!" The barbed tips of the whip gleamed with bluish poison light, the force it stirred shook the accumulated snow on the ground, causing it to rise into the air.

"If I report my name, you better not be so scared you can’t stand." Guo Xiangyu sneered, the bamboo saber suddenly turned into thousands of cold stars, it was the "Hundred Victories Qimen Sancai Saber" taught by Shi Feiyang. As the blade light passed by, the air emitted an ear-piercing explosive sound, a burly man beside Li Qi hurriedly raised his saber to block, but heard a crisp "crack" as the steel saber shattered inch by inch, the momentum of the blade not lessened, carving three bone-deep blood marks on his chest.

Shi Feiyang’s sword-like eyebrows stood upright, his True Qi suddenly exploded, the dark cape billowing like a sail: "As long as Heroic Sakura Association stands here, rascals will not be allowed to cause trouble!"

The north wind howled at the cliff top, the whirling ice splinters collided with the jade-colored True Qi encircling Shi Feiyang, emitting a crisp sound like metal striking stone. His dark cape fluttering like a battle flag, the cold glint in his eyes echoed the eerie glow of the Celestial Frost Blade.

Facing the fierce Li Qi, Shi Feiyang’s lips curved into a cold and cruel arc, his aura suddenly surged, the snow beneath his feet instantly condensed into a web-like ice pattern.

"Such insignificant skill, dare to show off in front of me!" Shi Feiyang’s voice rang like a bell, causing everyone’s eardrums to ache. He did not rush to act, merely standing with hands behind his back, the True Qi around him surged like a tide, forming an invisible pressure that suffocated the bandits of Nine Flags Gang.

Although Li Qi was terrified inside, he still stubbornly swung the whip to attack, the poisonous mist stirred by the iron whip spread in the air, obscuring the sky.

As the poisonous mist was about to envelop Shi Feiyang, he finally moved.

Though his form didn’t move, the momentum overwhelmed Li Qi like an avalanche, the air emitted an ear-piercing explosive sound.

Everyone only felt their vision blur, Shi Feiyang already closed in ghost-like within three meters, his right hand slowly raising, his fingertips emitting a faint golden glow, like Buddha picking flowers, yet concealed with supreme killing intent. This was precisely the Shaolin ultimate skill Divine Dragon Claw, "Flying Finger Leaves Its Mark".

It’s said that once this move is unleashed, it can take the heads of enemies from three meters away, the wind of the fingers passing by like the Divine Dragon’s Claw, destroying all.

Li Qi’s pupils shrank suddenly, trying to evade, but found himself seemingly trapped by invisible shackles, completely immobile.

Shi Feiyang’s finger wind came slicing through the air like substance, where it passed, the air twisted and deformed, emitting a buzzing sound.

"Splosh" sounded, three strands of finger wind respectively struck Li Qi’s brow, throat, and chest, like three sharp swords piercing his body.

Li Qi’s eyes widened, his throat emitted a "he-he" sound, wanting to shout, yet could only spew large amounts of black blood. His body flew backwards like a cut-string kite, bursting into a cloud of blood mist in the air.

Upon landing, a vivid red fingerprint remained prominently on his brow, bleeding from all seven orifices, with blood streaming down the snow slope, dying the pristine snowfield into a menacing red plum pattern.

While the nearby burly man couldn’t escape either, shattered by the aftershock, he died with blood leaking from all his orifices, a scene unspeakably tragic.

The north wind carrying ice shards howled sharply in the air, suddenly two black shadows tore through the night like sinister ghosts descending from the sky.

The leading figure wielded an Asura Battle Saber, blood beads collected on the blade hadn’t yet dripped, where it passed a fishy wind infused the air, the skeletal imprints on the blade glowed ominously, as if alive, opening and closing with a hiss; behind him, a silver-haired elder’s waist-long sword emitted cold glints, the bronze taotie-patterned sword tassel wafted of its own accord, as his eagle eyes swept over the Nine Flags Gang corpses strewn about, suddenly bursting forth with crimson blood glints, resembling Hell Asura treading snow.

"Clang!" A dragon’s roar split the sky, the elder’s long sword unsheathed three inches, the biting sword Qi shredded the surrounding snow into ice blades, vegetation within ten meters covered in frost. "Nine Banner Deer Field settles its blood debts today! Since you killed my Celestial Sword disciples, bring your lives to fill the gap!" His voice like cold iron, causing everyone’s eardrums to ache.

His toes lightly touched the cliffside ancient pine, form transforming into a phantom, the sword veering straight for Shi Feiyang’s throat, the move concealing the long-lost "Lonely Swan Over Snow Mountain" body technique of Celestial Mountain Sect, each stroke brimming with determined killing intent.

The north wind swept ice splinters like arrows whistling, Guo Xiangyu’s red plum hairpin at her temples trembled in the snow wind, sensing the impending explosion of killing intent.

Her face changed suddenly, she placed the bamboo saber horizontally in front of her chest, the silver bell at her wrist didn’t jingle lightly as usual—now covered in thin frost, as the Inner Strength circulated emitting a subtle humming. The shadow wielding the Asura Battle Saber sneered, the skeletal markings on the blade glowed ominously, suddenly unleashing the "Blood Slaughter Eight Styles" secret from the Western Regions. The first style "Blood Python Emerges", amidst the air-splitting screech of the blade, seven blood-red saber shadows like evil pythons emerged, leveraging force to sweep Guo Xiangyu’s vital acupoints, wherever the saber Qi passed, the snow instantly transformed into purple-black poisonous water.

Shi Feiyang called out in a clear voice: "Wait! There might be a misunderstanding..."

Before the sound fell, Lu Wen Tripod’s sword momentum unfolded, cold glints transformed into seven snow ribbons, like the Milky Way pouring, sealing all of Shi Feiyang’s retreat.

Shi Feiyang spun and stepped sideways, displaying the "Deep Concealment of Body and Name" Mysterious Lightness Technique, the dark cape fluttering in the sword rain, feet barely touching the ground yet stirring a sky filled with snow mist, the snow mist vaguely revealing the Beidou Seven Stars trajectory, resembling an Immortal treading the stars.

Against the wildly aggressive rush of the opponent with the Asura Battle Saber, Guo Xiangyu narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly, the bamboo saber suddenly drew out three blossoms of cold light, it was the starting move "Cangsong Welcoming Guest" of Shi Feiyang’s integrated "Qimen Sancai Saber".

The move resonates with the principles of Heaven, Earth, and Human, the saber moves in arcs, seemingly gentle yet hidden with skillful force.

In these months, she integrated the Inner Strength from the "Heart Shattering Palm" within Shi Feiyang’s taught "Nine Yin Scripture" into the saber technique, at this moment exerting force to wield the saber, the blade emitted faint vapor, the trajectory drawn in the air vaguely revealed the shadow of Bagua.

Facing the attacking blood python saber shadows, Guo Xiangyu sidestepped and spun, the bamboo saber in her hand like a fish tail, accurately targeting each shadow’s weak point, the sound of metal clashes like popping beans resounded. The shadow roared, the Asura Battle Saber transformed into a curtain of blades, the poison blood condensed on the blade spurted forth as blood mist—the Western Regions’ exceedingly sinister "Netherworld Blood Evil Technique".

Amidst the spreading blood mist, Guo Xiangyu lightly tapped her toes, exhibiting the "Celestial Spirit Roaming Dragon Step" taught by Shi Feiyang, her form weaving through like a phantom.

Guo Xiangyu flicked her bamboo saber, deploying the "Hundred Victories Qimen Sancai Saber" ’s "Three Clouds Breaking Style": first style "Cloud Breaks with Heavenly Shock", saber momentum fierce like thunder splitting the blood mist; second style "Clouds Parting to Reveal the Sun", the saber moved obliquely, cunningly slashing into the opponent’s defensive gap; third style "Clouds Disperse and Wind Clears", saber light flashed consecutively, forming a circular Qi Blade that shredded the remains of the blood mist.

Within a ten-meter radius, the accumulated snow all turned dark red, the silhouettes of the two interlaced amid the blood mist, the clashes between bamboo and battle saber sounded like dense rain on banana leaves, causing spectators far away to wince from the sound. Guo Xiangyu suddenly let out a tender shout, the bamboo saber shook violently, utilizing the "Borrowing Force to Strike" technique within the "Hundred Victories Qimen Sancai Saber", smoothly sliding along the slash trajectory of the Asura Battle Saber, unexpectedly pushing it half an inch away.