Spirit Ruin, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

Li Guanqi’s glare was knife-sharp. “Can you sense this immortal’s cultivation level? How powerful are they?”

“Very powerful!” Sword Spirit replied. “I can’t confirm who they are, but you must kill them!”

Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes. Cang Lu had definitely come searching for Sword Spirit, though he hadn’t sensed her presence yet.

Boom!

Cang Lu’s aura rose to the mid Illusory Refinement Realm. As though wary of something, his aura was not as strong or dominating as before.

Cang Lu smiled faintly, feeling immense power coursing through him. He sat down cross-legged, the guqin levitating above his knees.

Li Guanqi closed the gap in the barrier and charged without hesitation.

Afterimages trailed behind him as he swung his sword. Cang Lu plucked the strings with both hands, his expression solemn.

This time, silver light glinted off the sound blades. Nearing Li Guanqi’s sword light, they tore through space to bypass it entirely.

The moment Li Guanqi noticed this, he shifted several cun to the side.Pfft!

Two sound blades brushed past him, slicing off his left ear and a chunk of flesh from his shoulder. Moments later, a barrage of even faster and stronger blades shattered his sword light.

Cang Lu looked calm as ever.

Li Guanqi cracked his neck and activated the Dragon-Elephant Subduing Sutra. His blood surged, accompanied by the roar of dragons and the trumpeting of elephants. All his muscles swelled. When he swung his arms, the surrounding space twisted.

Cang Lu’s face turned pale. He rose slowly to his feet.

Li Guanqi was now as physically strong as a tier six demon.

Terrifying sword intent filled the air. Lightning vital force circulated through his body, and heavenly flames burned along the blade.

The Yanluo Sword trembled, letting out a bright cry.

With his physical strength and the Ten Thousand Jun ability after the Yanluo Sword’s Soul Dissolution, Li Guanqi could split a mountain with a gentle swing.

His primordial soul sat cross-legged in his dantian, unleashing a flood of devastating vital force.

Boom!

He moved, and the space beneath his feet exploded.

Cang Lu narrowed his eyes and raised his guqin horizontally to shield himself.

Crack!

The black blade swung horizontally at his neck. The golden patterns on the guqin glowed, yet they offered no defense against the blade’s deadly force. The guqin broke on impact, and the blade continued toward Cang Lu’s neck.

Cang Lu twisted the guqin to knock the blade from its course, but no matter how much strength he used, the sword’s path didn’t change. The guqin cracked audibly under the pressure.

Cang Lu saw sword light mixed with lightning and heavenly flames about to burst forth. He made a snap decision: abandon the guqin to save his life.

Boom!

Terrifying sword light exploded outward. The deafening blast shook all of Heavenly Cloud City.

The guqin exploded into countless pieces, all its strings snapping. The shockwaves alone blasted Cang Lu back like a cannonball.

He slammed against the barrier wall, and blood sprayed from his mouth, mixed with bits of flesh. The impact had shifted his internal organs.

Despite using a secret technique to invoke an immortal’s name, he still couldn’t withstand Li Guanqi’s attack.

Cang Lu felt like his entire skeleton had shattered, as if a massive ancient beast had rammed into him.

Li Guanqi gave him no chance to catch his breath. The space where he stood exploded, followed by an ear-piercing sonic boom.

Cang Lu squeezed the bangle on his wrist, shattering it.

Crack!

A golden barrier shimmered into existence, only to be sliced apart by the sword light. However, it held for a heartbeat—enough time for Cang Lu to take out a jet-black guqin. Even so, the black guqin wasn’t as good as the first.

Boom!

Li Guanqi watched Cang Lu get blasted back and appeared at his side in a flash. His powerful physique allowed him to move at astonishing speeds.

Cang Lu retreated rapidly, plucking the guqin’s strings as he went. He glared daggers at Li Guanqi. A strange aura and great power erupted from him.

“Chaos of the Demonic Melody!”

Strum strum strum!

An eerie melody rang out, but no sound blades emerged. When the music entered Li Guanqi’s ears, he felt his sea of consciousness being attacked. The platform in his sea of consciousness trembled. His mind grew fuzzy, and everything in his vision turned dreamlike.

But before the hallucinations could fully form, the world in his eyes shattered.

Li Guanqi looked at Cang Lu and scoffed. “I didn’t even have a heart demon tribulation. Do you think you can trap me with musical hallucinations? Dream on!”

Cang Lu’s eyes widened. He took great pride in his demonic music. He couldn’t believe it had no effect on Li Guanqi whatsoever.

Li Guanqi swung his sword three times, unleashing the three moves of the Heavenly Destruction Sword Sutra.

A blinding light shone from Cang Lu’s forehead, forming a spirit seal barrier before him. The terrifying sword light shattered every wall he tried to put up. Large swaths of space around them collapsed, making the space within the domain equivalent to the void.

Boom boom boom!

Heavenly Cloud City shook violently. Countless structures collapsed from the tremors. The bystanders turned pale with shock, and when they saw the three sword lights, they scattered in fright.

Li Changqing squinted at the attack and murmured, “That’s a Heaven-tier sword sutra.”

Meng Wanshu’s eyes lit up. The sword lights had interrupted her spiraling.

Within the domain, Li Guanqi heard the spirit seal crackle, about to shatter completely. He rushed into the explosion and clenched his right fist. A sword sheath made of lightning and fire formed around the blade.

With an eagle-like glare, he crouched slightly. His back muscles bulged, making him look like a man-eating beast.

When he sheathed the Yanluo Sword, lightning and fire twisted around it. With a furious roar, a ray of sword light mixed with lightning and flames burst forth.

“Sword-Unsheathing Technique!”

Boom!

A sword light more than three hundred zhang long shot out. Cang Lu’s eyes widened, and he erected dozens of vital force barriers as fast as he could.

But the barriers were useless. The sword light cut through them and drowned Cang Lu in brilliance.

As Cang Lu died, his gaze locked onto Li Guanqi, a chilling smirk spreading across his face.

The sword light broke through the barrier, slicing off one-tenth of Heavenly Cloud City’s levitating portion.

Li Guanqi landed on the ground and walked toward Cang Lu with a grim expression. A surge of energy wrapped around Cang Lu, and Li Guanqi used the Soul Search technique that Sword Spirit had taught him.

He pressed his five fingers into Cang Lu’s head, destroyed his divine consciousness, and roared, “Soul Capture!”

A few breaths later, Cang Lu’s body exploded.

Boom!

Not taking any chances, Li Guanqi lit up the whole domain with his heavenly flames. All the remaining pieces of Cang Lu’s divine soul burned to nothing.

With a distant look in his eyes, Li Guanqi murmured, “There was only a wisp of his primordial soul… This really was a clone.”

He retracted the domain barrier, and a person leaped into his arms like a gust of wind.