Spirit Ruin, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

Demonic qi surged to the heavens. Ye Feng had completely lost his senses; he no longer even knew what he was doing.

Li Guanqi’s expression was grim beyond measure. His chest rose and fell as his raging divine consciousness erupted.

Infusing his voice with spiritual force, he shouted, “Wake up!”

Boom!

An invisible shockwave spread out from Li Guanqi and shot straight toward Ye Feng’s sea of consciousness.

But Ye Feng’s Ghost Arm seemed to sense the danger. The overwhelming demonic qi, thick and viscous as black water, moved as though it possessed a will of its own. It became a surging tide and engulfed Ye Feng’s head.

Bang!

The congealed black water of demonic qi burst apart, and only a weakened remnant of Li Guanqi’s divine consciousness struck Ye Feng’s sea of consciousness.

Ye Feng’s head snapped back at an unnatural angle, and his face turned deathly white. At the same time, the blood-red glow in his eyes receded slightly.

Li Guanqi shot forward. Gu Li and Cao Yan had their own mental assaults ready. He flew level with Ye Feng, no more than three chi away.A trace of clarity returned to Ye Feng’s eyes as unfamiliar memories flooded his mind. He whipped his head toward Xiao Chen, his eyes filling with pain at the sight of the severed arm.

“Second Brother!” Xiao Chen roared. “Wake up!”

Cao Yan and Gu Li closed in from either side, their immense mind power crashing toward him like a tidal wave.

Ye Feng gritted his teeth. His eyes flashed with determination as he turned to stare at his own arm, and a ruthless light rose in his gaze.

“Big Brother! Cut it off! I can’t control it anymore!”

As soon as his voice fell, Ye Feng forcefully sealed his dantian and tightly gripped his right wrist with his left hand.

Li Guanqi did not hesitate. The Red Lotus Sword flashed with icy light as he raised it and slashed down at Ye Feng’s right arm.

Whoosh!

Clang!

The wrist flew into the air, and blood-red light began to spread through Ye Feng’s eyes again.

Li Guanqi was blasted dozens of zhang backward. The force split the webbing between his thumb and forefinger, and his entire arm trembled violently.

Ye Feng’s wrist had been severed, yet his right arm erupted with incomparable might. Its aura now rivaled that of the late Combined Body Realm.

With a pained and sorrowful expression, Ye Feng said coldly, “Kill me! I’d rather die than let it take my body!”

Li Guanqi looked incredibly conflicted. Even he could not tell what was happening to Ye Feng.

“Spirit Pardon!”

Boom!

Countless red silk threads exploded outward in an instant. Sword Spirit did not manifest, but she poured out her full power to help Li Guanqi.

In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of threads surged forward toward Ye Feng like a torrential downpour.

Another mental assault crashed down on Ye Feng, but the Abyssal Demon within the Ghost Arm was ready this time.

Rampaging demonic qi blotted out the sky. The Abyssal Demon’s power far surpassed that of ordinary Abyssal Demons.

Even with Gu Li and Cao Yan attacking at full strength, their combined mind power only shattered the demonic qi filling the air.

Buzz!

The Wrathful Slaughter Sword erupted with brilliant golden sword light. Ye Feng’s sweeping strikes formed an airtight sword barrier. The crimson threads were severed one after another, preventing the power of Spirit Pardon from reaching Ye Feng.

Li Guanqi looked at the broken red threads in his hand, and his eyes filled with horror. “The power of Spirit Pardon… severed…”

Sword Spirit’s grave voice sounded in his mind. “No… the power in Ye Feng’s Ghost Arm was never part of the spiritual realm in the first place! The force inside his arm has to be a demonic spirit of extremely high rank. And there’s more than one!”

Li Guanqi’s brows furrowed tightly. “What do you mean?”

Sword Spirit’s eyes narrowed, and she explained quickly. “The demonic spirit Spirit Pardon caught at the very beginning, the one bound to Ye Feng by contract, is one entity. The one eroding his divine soul now is another! What a masterful sleight of hand!”

Li Guanqi’s mind reeled. From the very beginning, there had been two demonic spirits inside Ye Feng’s arm.

He took a deep breath, and a ruthless glint flashed through his eyes. He turned and transmitted his voice. “Move. We have to destroy Second Brother’s Ghost Arm.”

Cao Yan and the others exchanged conflicted looks.

Boom!

Raging demonic qi rained down from the sky.

Buzz!

The power of all four heavenly fires began to converge on Ye Feng.

Cao Yan and Xiao Chen’s expressions changed. “This is bad. We’re losing control of our heavenly fires!”

Lightning flared under Li Guanqi’s feet, and he shot forward. “Sever the connection! Whatever you do, don’t let that demonic spirit take hold of your flames!”

Cao Yan and Xiao Chen shot back thousands of zhang, their vital force surging as they steadied their minds and cut their connection to the heavenly fires.

Ye Feng had learned the Flame-Devouring Sutra too, and he was using it to devour the power of their heavenly fires. He could not command the Five Yang Ghost Flame, but if he completely absorbed the Lightning Dragon Flame and the Brilliant Sunset Flame, the consequences would be beyond imagining.

Bang!

Clang!

Clad in Lightning Armor formed by his spirit spell, Li Guanqi raised the Red Lotus Sword to meet the Wrathful Slaughter Sword. A violent shockwave erupted between them.

Ye Feng stared at Li Guanqi with blood-red eyes, a strange smile curling at the corners of his mouth. Dense demonic qi surged up, covering half of his face. His lips moved, and an eerie hissing laugh slowly echoed out.

“Heh… finally… I’ve been waiting for this day… heh heh heh!”

Li Guanqi clenched his right fist and smashed it straight toward Ye Feng’s face.

Boom!

The fist came down hard. Ye Feng, his severed hand already restored, turned his palm and caught it. Fist met sword, and violent power burst out between them.

Piercing metal qi and violent lightning intertwined and surged toward the sky, forming two towering pillars of purple and gold light.

Li Guanqi’s blood and qi surged. A terrifying blood-red sword light erupted.

Boom! Rumble!

The explosion tore through the air, blasting Li Guanqi and Ye Feng backward.

But at that very moment, Meng Wanshu appeared behind Ye Feng. Her Snow Phantom Sword traced a profound arc as she struck.

Her gaze was sharp, her eyes glimmering with icy blue light.

The surrounding temperature plummeted. Snowflakes drifted through the air as wave after wave of brilliant blue frost sword light erupted.

“Domain of Ultimate Frost! Dancing Snowfall!”

An ice-blue phantom appeared behind Meng Wanshu. Though this was only the embryonic form of the Sword Heart Realm, its power could not be underestimated.

However, Ye Feng’s aura was already approaching the late-stage Combined Body Realm. It was even more powerful than Li Guanqi’s.

The mottled bloodstains on the Wrathful Slaughter Sword gleamed crimson. Half of Ye Feng’s face twisted into a hideous demonic visage as he lunged at her. Golden sword light mixed with multiple heavenly fires, demonic qi churning through it.

Meng Wanshu’s sword light shattered, and Ye Feng’s sword light continued straight toward her heart.

“Heh heh heh! Die!”