A Blind Swordsman's Sword Coffin

The revelation sent a shock through everyone present. Li Guanqi had not only denounced the immortal as a hypocrite, but also uncovered a living person hidden inside a demonic beast’s corpse. If he had not intervened, the victim would have been cast into the array alive and fully conscious.

No one had expected the offering to be a living human sacrifice.

Li Guanqi reached out and propped Xuan Lin upright. Xuan Lin’s awareness was slowly returning. His eyelids were so swollen that his eyes were reduced to narrow slits, but he strained to force them open. His tongue had been cut out, leaving him unable to make a single sound.

His blurred vision gradually sharpened. The moment he recognized the face before him, he froze for an instant, then his eyes reddened.

“Aaaaaah! Aaaaaaah!”

A trembling wail escaped Xuan Lin’s throat. He writhed helplessly, his limbs gone and his eyes filled with desperate pleading.

Li Guanqi could hardly bear the sight. The heaven-chosen prodigy who had once fought him as an equal had been reduced to a human stump, stuffed into a demonic beast’s belly as a living sacrifice. Never could he have imagined that they would meet again like this.

Li Guanqi channeled threads of pure vital force into Xuan Lin’s body to smooth out his chaotic meridians. Pan Yi’s group had needed to keep Xuan Lin’s cultivation intact, so they had only inflicted severe injuries and placed a powerful seal over his dantian.

Li Guanqi let out a cold snort. His divine consciousness roared outward like a wild beast and shattered the seal barrier inside Xuan Lin’s body.

Pan Yi watched from the side, his eyes narrowing as he spoke icily. “You’d better know what you’re doing! That offering was prepared for Venerable Cizhi. Aren’t you afraid of incurring the immortal’s wrath?!”

Li Guanqi whipped his head toward Pan Yi, his gaze razor-sharp.

In that instant, the sky above Qixia City changed. Dense black storm clouds gathered overhead as fierce winds tore through the air. Thunder rumbled without end, as though a heavenly tribulation were descending upon the world.

Cizhi narrowed his eyes, the corner of one eye twitching slightly. He hadn’t expected Li Guanqi’s aura alone to stir heaven and earth and produce such a phenomenon. A person like that had to be among the finest in the mortal world.

Boom!

Several lightning spears plummeted from the clouds above. They were spirit spells.

Cizhi’s eyes narrowed further. Without an incantation?His resonance with spells is incredibly strong!

Li Guanqi’s gaze locked onto Pan Yi in the distance. An overwhelming surge of spatial power sealed the space around the man in every direction.

Under the crushing pressure, Pan Yi couldn’t even fight back. His body and limbs slowly twisted out of shape. The sickening crunch of shattering bones made every watching cultivator take a sharp breath.

They had all heard stories of Li Guanqi’s methods. By his standards, merely breaking Pan Yi’s limbs was practically merciful.

Crack! Crack crack crack!

Pan Yi’s four limbs snapped. The falling lightning spears pierced through each limb, and his body was hurled backward into the stone wall surrounding the plaza, pinned in place and unable to move.

“Cough, cough... Do... do you have any idea who I am?! I am Pan Yi! How dare you... treat me like this! If you kill me today... the elders of my clan will never let you go!”

Li Guanqi frowned. Without a word, he condensed a thick lightning spear in one hand and hurled it at Pan Yi’s head.

The eight-chi spear trailed a streak of purple lightning across the sky and vanished in a flash.

Boom!

A piercing blast split the air. Though Li Guanqi and Pan Yi stood a hundred zhang apart, a long, pitch-black rift tore through the void between them.

Bang!

The spear punched through the thick stone wall, and Pan Yi’s head burst apart like a watermelon. His headless corpse went limp, though his limbs remained nailed to the wall, dangling uselessly.

Li Guanqi watched with a stony gaze and said plainly, “You talk too much.”

The enormous lightning spear protruded from the other side of the wall. Blood spattered the surrounding stone as gore and brain matter trickled slowly down its surface.

The Pan clan’s experts were shaken to their cores. Several crushed jade slips and sent out desperate messages. Others pulled out spatial teleportation scrolls, trying to flee.

Li Guanqi made no move to stop them. From the moment the Qixian Tower had opened, the immortal’s power had enveloped everything within a hundred li, separating the area from the outside world. In other words, the entire area was now the immortal’s territory.

“It’s no use! The messages won’t get out!”

“What do we do... Run!”

Li Guanqi stood with his back to them and pressed one hand downward.

Boom!

Thunder roared as countless lightning bolts condensed into spears and rained down from the sky. Each one snuffed out a cultivator’s life, the explosions and screams echoing across the heavens.

Through it all, Cizhi’s projection hovered above without the slightest flicker in his gaze, watching everything in silence, as though none of it had anything to do with him.

Seeing that look, Li Guanqi’s disgust only deepened.

It was a slaughter. In the span of a few breaths, every member of the Pan clan was reduced to pulp. Dark bloodstains were all that remained in the scorched craters across the ground.

Li Guanqi didn’t bother examining the other demonic beast corpses. There was no point. Everything the Pan clan had done was merely to conceal Xuan Lin’s existence.

Suddenly, Li Guanqi laughed. It was cold, mocking, and dripping with contempt.

“Heh...”

As his laughter rang out, Li Guanqi’s divine consciousness flooded outward in a wave, freezing every cultivator from Qixia Academy in place. Then, fragment by fragment, their filthy secrets poured into his mind.

Qixia Academy was Cizhi’s intermediary. They covered up secrets that could never be allowed to see the light of day and disposed of residents who died under mysterious circumstances. Scene after scene of cold-blooded cruelty flashed through Li Guanqi’s mind. With each one, his killing intent intensified.

Bang! Bang bang bang bang!

A rapid chain of explosions erupted as the senior members of Qixia Academy lost control of their bodies and detonated into clouds of blood mist, one after another.

A mist of blood and shredded flesh sprayed over everyone nearby. Some of the younger disciples, boys and girls who knew nothing of the truth, froze in horror. They stood rooted to the spot, trembling from head to toe, their faces deathly pale and their eyes vacant. Blood and gore spattered their faces, while scraps of flesh clung to their robes.