Chapter 179 – Bloody Battle

Boom! Crack crack crack!

Shards of the barrier fell like broken porcelain. But the shield wasn’t all the eight arrows destroyed—along with it crumbled the last shred of confidence in the Purple Sun Pavilion disciples’ hearts.

The sword box on Li Guanqi’s back sprang open, and the crimson Red Lotus Sword shot into his hand. His bloodshot eyes gleamed with fury as he looked down and snarled, “Kill!”

Boom!

A deafening roar rose as the Daxia Sword Sect disciples erupted into battle cries. Blades and spears flashed in all directions.

Moments before, they teetered on the brink of collapse, but the barrier’s shattering ignited a furious bloodlust in the Daxia Sword Sect disciples. Many bit through the red pills sewn into their collars, crushing them between their teeth.

Outnumbered as they were, their auras surged. In a blink, many broke through to higher cultivation levels, their drained dantians rapidly refilling.

Purple-robed corpses began to rain from the skies. Fear rooted itself in the hearts of the Purple Sun Pavilion disciples. Many began to flee toward the main pavilion.

With the barrier down, the Daxia Sword Sect stormed the enemy’s grounds.

Many began looting the spirit stones scattered across the ground, stuffing them into their pouches. Some even made off with the trays from the spirit-gathering arrays.

𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Han Tiange’s heart sank at the sight of the eight arrows, but Ling Daoyan prevented him from intervening, clinging to him like a blood-sucking leech.

Lu Kangnian laughed coldly. “Han Tiange, I’d like to see how you recover from this!”

Han Tiange suddenly laughed. While dodging Ling Daoyan’s strikes, he said icily, “In that case, don’t blame me for what comes next. Come out!”

Boom!

Several massive transport arrays appeared inside the sect grounds. From them surged endless waves of reinforcements.

Ye Shaozhen stepped forward in his bright purple robes with an icy glare. He was the sect master of the Seven Strings Sect. More than a hundred disciples followed behind him. “Han Tiange, you’d better keep your word!”

Disciples from the Azure Dragon Island and Purple Cloud Sword Sects flooded in from the other two transport arrays. While not their entire forces, the three sects had dispatched a combined one hundred fifty Golden Core Realm disciples and fifteen Nascent Soul Realm elders.

A force like that was enough to overturn the battlefield.

Han Tiange’s voice was cold. “You’ll get everything I promised. Not a sliver less. But where is the Myriad Immortal Sword Sect?”

The sect master of Azure Dragon Island Sect, Yu He, said with a mocking smirk, “They’re not coming. They’re scared. The three of our sects will be enough!”

Lu Kangnian’s expression darkened as he fought the four people in front of him. He turned his head and shouted, “You all are born to be spineless dogs! You’d better think twice before you pick your side! Don’t regret the losses you’ll suffer!”

Yu He snickered. “Lu Kangnian, worry about saving your own skin first! Attention, all disciples! Attack! Leave no one from the Daxia Sword Sect alive!”

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The disciples and elders of the three sects immediately surrounded the Daxia Sword Sect.

Lu Kangnian barked urgently, “Retreat! Form teams of three! Stand back-to-back!”

Boom!

Li Guanqi struck his opponent’s spear with such force that the Red Lotus Sword buried itself into the shaft. The youth’s face twisted in panic as Li Guanqi broke the handle, then swung again.

The youth’s head flew through the air. Even in death, he couldn’t accept that Li Guanqi still had strength left after drawing that massive bow.

Li Guanqi panted like an exhausted bull, both arms trembling violently. Defeating that spear-wielder had been grueling.

He turned his head to a fierce battle three hundred zhang away. Swords clashed violently, and Xu Zhengjie was losing ground.

Li Guanqi sprinted toward Xu Zhengjie without hesitation. Then, he sensed it. A faint aura was creeping toward Xu Zhengjie’s back.

“Elder Xu! Behind you!” he roared, his voice amplified by vital force and soaring across hundreds of zhang.

Before his voice reached Xu Zhengjie, Li Guanqi saw the space three zhang away from Xu Zhengjie’s back twist slightly.

An Invisibility Talisman!

Whoosh!

Li Guanqi skidded to a halt, inhaled sharply, and flipped his grip on the Red Lotus Sword like a javelin. Blood surged through him. He stepped forward, twisted his waist like a bowstring drawn to its limit, then hurled the sword with all his might.

“Haargh!”

The air warped. Purple lightning danced along the blade, which gleamed with a menacing red as it shot out like a javelin.

Whoosh!

The Red Lotus Sword let out an ear-piercing cry, leaving an arc of purple light in its wake.

Xu Zhengjie heard the shout and the sword’s scream.

At the same moment, a cold glint flashed from the warped space behind him, heading straight for the back of his skull. Xu Zhengjie instinctively dodged to the side.

The Red Lotus Sword brushed his cheek, striking the hidden attacker a dozen zhang away.

Pfft!

“Ahhhh!”

Li Guanqi was still a hundred zhang away when, to his horror, he sensed another hidden presence lurking in the direction Xu Zhengjie had dodged toward.

“Careful! There’s another one!” Li Guanqi screamed hoarsely, his eyes widening with rage.

But it was too late.

A figure emerged and drove a sword straight into Xu Zhengjie’s heart.

“No!

No!

I’ll kill you all!” Li Guanqi shouted.

But Xu Zhengjie didn’t flinch. Before his enemies could destroy his body, he unleashed a final surge of energy, seizing the two nearest enemies with both arms and locking his legs around the one in front. He looked toward Li Guanqi, pride shining in his eyes, as if entrusting him with the words he could no longer speak.

Boom!

The explosion sent Li Guanqi flying tens of zhang backward. The enemies caught in the blast were torn to bloody scraps.

In his last moments, Xu Zhengjie had chosen to self-detonate his golden core, dragging his killers into the grave with him.

Li Guanqi screamed at the heavens.

“Ahhhh!”

His eyes turned blood red, and everything he saw with his heart’s eye turned red.

The Red Lotus Sword returned to his hand. He charged like a beast unchained, straight into the ranks of the Seven Strings Sect and Azure Dragon Island Sect disciples.