A Blind Swordsman's Sword Coffin

No one noticed a subtle snowflake blooming at the corner where the boundary wall had cracked. The black-robed men held nothing back, activating Soul Dissolution in all four weapons at once.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A devastating aura spread through the space. Sweat broke out on Li Guanqi’s forehead. These guys have spirit voids...

Boom!

The four assassins hid within the void, flickering and moving in different directions. For a moment, Li Guanqi couldn’t even distinguish their auras from one another.

Cold glints flashed around him as they launched a storm of attacks. The void trembled, and the space within the sword prison collapsed. Li Guanqi struggled against the barrage of knife and sword strikes. He slashed at maximum speed, but countless attacks still landed on him.

Far away, Ye Feng saw Li Guanqi being beaten back and roared, “Boss! I’ll help you!”

He unleashed devastating flames, slashing several times to drive his enemies back. With a determined look in his eyes, Li Guanqi roared back, “Take care of yourself first!”

Boom!

The Red Lotus Sword let out an angry cry and shone with blinding red light. Li Guanqi twisted at the waist and flipped backward, retreating a hundred zhang. The void beneath his feet exploded as he shot forward at unbelievable speed.

Boom!

“Heavenly Destruction Sword Slash! Crouching Demon! Immortal-Slaying Slash!”

Three consecutive rays of sword light burst forth, distorting and sealing all space within five hundred zhang, forcing the black-robed men out of the void. Their eyes widened, and they unleashed their full strength.

“Ahhh! Ahh!!!”

Pfft! Pfft!

Two of them were consumed by the sword light as the spatial domain shattered.

Li Guanqi gained many new wounds. Blood trickled down his forehead into his eyes, yet he continued to stand tall, gripping his sword with both hands as he watched the two men kneeling and wailing in pain.

He had unleashed three slashes to kill two men.

Inwardly, Li Guanqi was far from calm. He had exhausted a huge portion of his primordial soul’s strength, and all types of energies were swimming haphazardly through his meridians. He was purely relying on his powerful vital force to suppress them.

A mysterious force erupted in the two men’s bodies. Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes. After he destroyed their illusory bodies, they started using a mysterious technique to gather strength from the shattered pieces, ignoring the fact that they hadn’t reached the peak of their cultivation realms.

Li Guanqi stepped forward. His divine consciousness poured out like a tidal wave.

“Soul Capture!”

Boom!

Two opposing forces collided. An invisible explosion sent shockwaves in all directions. Every Divine Transformation Realm cultivator immediately started bleeding from their eyes, nose, and ears. They clutched their heads and collapsed in the void, screaming in pain. Even Ye Feng and the others stopped fighting, faces pale.

Li Guanqi was also bleeding from his eyes, nose, and ears, yet he glared at them with fury, his eyes completely bloodshot. He had to stop those two from collecting the broken pieces of their illusory bodies. The moment they absorbed that energy, he wouldn’t be able to defeat them.

These people are insane. They have to be death warriors of the Dark Raven Order.

The two men silently worked together to withstand Li Guanqi’s attack. The pieces of their divine souls appeared as both sides pulled on them, becoming visible under the strain. Then a strange black flame ignited, annihilating the wisps.

Li Guanqi laughed. “Good one, Brother Ye!”

The destruction of the divine soul fragments left the two men severely injured. Li Guanqi slowly sheathed the Red Lotus Sword into a lightning sheath at his waist. Power gathered within the sheath.

The sword prison spread quickly, enveloping the two men, who felt a strong force pressing down on them. Li Guanqi seemed to swell in their eyes, and his powerful aura made them mistake him for a mid Illusory Refinement Realm cultivator.

Boom!

Both men erupted with all the strength they could muster. One held a sword, the other a knife. A strange pulling force erupted, accompanied by a burst of light.

Li Guanqi exhaled, putting all his strength into the sword sheath.

“Sword-Unsheathing Technique, Enemy-Slaying Strike!”

Boom!

A ray of lightning sword light wreathed in flames burst forth. The void trembled, and the whole world seemed to dim. The sword light was so condensed with power that it extended only several hundred zhang, but that was enough. It effortlessly sliced through the strange sucking force. The lightning’s destructive force was on full display. Despite the sucking force trying to drain its power, the lightning sword light still destroyed it.

The shining sword light was a death sentence, cleaving through all vital force storms in its path. Once it passed, everything returned to calm.

The sword light engulfed the two Heaven-tier[1] assassins, killing them instantly.

Li Guanqi felt dizzy. He stabbed both swords into the void to stabilize himself. Only thirty percent of his strength remained in his Heavenly Lightning Orb. He scanned his surroundings with divine consciousness, then turned that consciousness into a sword. With a sweep of his hand, it shot out. A terrifying aura radiated across the battlefield, and then a black-robed man’s head exploded.

The guards from the Divine Treasure Territory were stunned, but they recognized Li Guanqi’s work. They flew back outside the sword prison and stood in a ring around Meng Wanshu’s room.

Li Guanqi sighed in relief. Meanwhile, Ye Feng and Xiao Chen’s battles had reached a crescendo.

Li Guanqi shattered dozens of high-grade spirit stones in his hand and quickly refined the spirit qi. He was about to help Ye Feng and the others when a powerful force of icy qi sealed the entire domain behind him.

Boom!

The domain’s boundaries exploded and shattered. The aftershock blasted a layer of skin off Li Guanqi’s back. The shockwaves sealed the surrounding Divine Transformation Realm cultivators in ice, while Li Guanqi himself was blasted more than a thousand zhang away.

He noticed that the icy qi within Meng Wanshu’s body was being drawn toward this mysterious force, pouring out of her in copious amounts.

Meng Wanshu groaned in pain. The force extended a thousand zhang across space and was still strengthening. The icy qi formed a hundred-zhang-wide storm in the void.

Li Guanqi panicked and immediately used his vital force to break the ice. Ignoring his own injuries, he shot toward the storm.

“Wanshu!”

1. There’s no clear ranking for the Dark Raven Order’s assassins yet. If it follows the same order as techniques, it should be Black → Earth → Heaven. ☜