Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

Huff... huff...

The sky wind blew over, making the bloody skin on his four limbs flap in the wind, looking extremely bizarre. Just thinking about such pain was terrifying enough, let alone being Li Xuefu himself, the one suffering it?

Swoosh!

The next instant, Li Xuefu seemed unwilling to endure this endless torment any longer. They saw him force out one last breath, his entire figure suddenly dropping, and in the blink of an eye he fell into that place suspected to be where the Nangong Family’s Secret Treasure was hidden.

Swish swish swish...

Just as Li Xuefu’s body entered a certain range, streak after streak of familiar Golden Light erupted one after another, and in the blink of an eye, this Heavenly Slaughterer was riddled with holes.

The next moment, Li Xuefu’s entire body was shrouded by countless Golden Lights. When the light faded once more, his figure had already vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a smear of blood.

”That guy is actually pretty smart!”

Seeing that Li Xuefu had already disappeared, Yun Xiao gave a slight shake of his head, not taking it too much to heart, merely letting out a soft murmur to voice his own sigh.

Very clearly, Li Xuefu just now simply didn’t want to continue suffering like that, and in the end chose a different kind of self-termination. After all, with the bones and flesh of his four limbs gone, he couldn’t even move to kill himself.

It could be said that the Golden Light in that place suspected to be where the Nangong Family’s Secret Treasure was hidden had abruptly become the helping hand that granted Li Xuefu release. Compared to that previous kind of agony, perhaps dying outright wasn’t so hard to accept.

This scene also made the onlookers’ hearts jump wildly. They made up their minds that before they had absolute certainty, they definitely must not casually provoke that coarse-clothed youth.

This youth who looked harmless to man and beast was actually an extremely ruthless fellow. They must not be fooled by the smile on his face. Lou Liheng and Li Xuefu just now were the best cautionary examples.

By this moment, the three Heavenly Realm Late Stage powerhouses had all died because of Yun Xiao, so once the crowd got over their shock, they all shifted their gazes to that one battle still raging on.

This battle was naturally the fierce clash between Fei Qingchen, the Director of the Yongxiu City Emperor Palace, and the Nangong Family’s genius, Nangong Xiaofeng. And after such a stretch of fighting, Fei Qingchen had undoubtedly seized an absolute advantage.

Since Fei Qingchen held an overwhelming advantage, how could he possibly have failed to be sensing the great battle over there? Yet he still hadn’t broken away to flee at this moment, so he obviously had his reasons.

At first, when he saw Mu Qingyi blasted into serious injury by Yun Xiao’s overbearing strike and then engulfed by the Golden Light below, Fei Qingchen really had the same idea as Li Xuefu and Lou Liheng—force Nangong Xiaofeng back and then directly run for his life.

But the series of battle outcomes that followed made Fei Qingchen immediately give up that notion. He knew that with that coarse-clothed kid’s speed, even if he himself fled a great distance, there was no way he’d be safe.

At the very least, Fei Qingchen admitted that in terms of speed, he was in any case inferior to Li Xuefu. Since that was so, why bother doing something so pointless?

Fei Qingchen immediately changed his mind and locked his target onto Nangong Xiaofeng instead. Since escape was hopeless, then he’d take someone as a hostage. Judging from that coarse-clothed kid’s attitude, there was no way he would completely ignore Nangong Xiaofeng’s life, right?

It had to be said that after Fei Qingchen settled on this plan, he had been constantly laying out his moves to capture Nangong Xiaofeng. The successive deaths of Li Xuefu and Lou Liheng undoubtedly had bought him time for this setup.

Swoosh!

When everyone shifted their attention to this side of the battlefield, they saw that Director of the Yongxiu City Emperor Palace twist his figure, and for some reason suddenly appear behind Nangong Xiaofeng.

This sudden scene caught Nangong Xiaofeng, a fellow Heavenly Realm Middle Stage genius, completely off guard. After all, when it came to scheming and battle experience, he was far behind Fei Qingchen.

What’s more, this was a step-by-step guidance by Fei Qingchen over a dozen exchanges earlier, and he only erupted at this moment. By the time Nangong Xiaofeng reacted and wanted to make a move, it was already too late.

”Hahaha, Nangong brat, just give up and be captured!”

Seeing that Nangong Xiaofeng could no longer dodge, Fei Qingchen was quite pleased with himself. As he reached out his palm, about to clamp down on the latter’s nape, he was already laughing proudly.

”Fei Qingchen, stop right there for me!”

Yet right at this moment, just as Fei Qingchen was about to seize Nangong Xiaofeng as a hostage to use him to escape, a harsh shout suddenly rang out behind him. The voice actually sounded faintly familiar.

This shout not only startled the onlookers, it also made Fei Qingchen’s hand movements pause slightly, because he had already recognized that this voice actually belonged to Emperor Palace Inspector Lou Liheng.

”How is that possible?”

At this moment, no one knew how many times the onlookers had raised such a cry of shock in their hearts. Compared to Fei Qingchen, who hadn’t yet turned around, they could see even more clearly the figure behind him.

That figure was simply identical to Lou Liheng before his death, even the aura of a Heavenly Realm Late Stage hadn’t weakened in the slightest. This left everyone utterly baffled.

Just now they had clearly seen Lou Liheng pierced through the heart by that Wooden Sword and die. How could he appear once more in the sky? This simply defied common sense.

”Look!”

Just as everyone was dumbfounded, one Cultivator at the Heavenly Realm Early Stage suddenly let out a loud shout, then stretched out his hand to point, directing everyone’s attention to a certain spot below.

”Huh?”

Following the direction of that person’s finger, the vast majority of people couldn’t help letting out a startled cry, because over there, there was actually another Lou Liheng with not the slightest trace of aura.

”Could it be...”

At this moment, some sharp-minded individuals clearly thought of a possibility, but the moment this possibility crossed their minds, the shock in their hearts undoubtedly deepened a few degrees.

”Lord Inspector?”

But as the person most involved, Fei Qingchen had clearly not reacted yet. As he turned his head in astonishment, he immediately saw that lifelike Lou Liheng and voiced his doubt.

”Not good!”

As a battle-hardened Fei Qingchen, after a brief daze, although he had no idea how all of this had happened, he still realized in an instant that something was very wrong.

It was just that reacting only now was undoubtedly a bit too late. When Fei Qingchen decisively turned around, wanting to seize Nangong Xiaofeng again as a hostage, that ”Lou Liheng” had already undergone a drastic transformation.

Whoosh!

Only to see the figure of Lou Liheng twisting in midair, and in the next moment it suddenly transformed into a Black Light Wooden Sword that everyone was not too unfamiliar with. Moreover, this Wooden Sword was now only a few feet away from Fei Qingchen.

”It’s Yun Xiao’s Wooden Sword!”

A cry of alarm rang out, leaving the onlookers with no more doubts. That thing which had transformed into Lou Liheng earlier was actually the strange Wooden Sword that had pierced him to death before.

No one knew why a seemingly ordinary Wooden Sword could turn into a lifelike Lou Liheng, but this turn of events undoubtedly rendered all of Fei Qingchen’s previous schemes completely useless.

It was obvious that, at that moment just now, Yun Xiao had already prepared in advance and cast the Second Form Illusion of the Dragon Taming Nine Swords. Precisely because of the reverence in Fei Qingchen’s heart toward Emperor Palace Inspector Lou Liheng, Nangong Xiaofeng did not fall into his hands at the first possible moment.

Although even if Nangong Xiaofeng were controlled by Fei Qingchen, Yun Xiao still had ways to rescue him, that would undoubtedly create a lot of needless trouble. And he had always hated trouble the most.

Slash!

At such close range, no matter how fast Fei Qingchen’s reaction was, he was still slower than the Dragon Taming Sword. With a soft sound, the Black Wood Sword light had already slashed across Fei Qingchen’s right shoulder, seemingly without anything special about it.

But in the next instant, everyone clearly saw Fei Qingchen’s right arm, which had been reaching toward Nangong Xiaofeng, come to an abrupt halt. Then it actually separated from his right shoulder and became a ”lonely soul” all on its own.

Obviously, with that single chop controlling the Dragon Taming Sword just now, Yun Xiao had forcibly hacked off Fei Qingchen’s entire arm, making it impossible for him to ever control Nangong Xiaofeng again.

”Ah!”

An arm severed, and with the Dragon Taming Sword incomparably sharp, it was only a moment later that Fei Qingchen realized his arm no longer belonged to him. A wave of searing pain assaulted him, and coupled with the terror of his arm being cut off, he couldn’t help but let out a piercing wail.

When the confidence in a person’s heart is completely shattered, what collapses along with it is that once-resilient state of mind. Fei Qingchen, who had once counted as a tough man, was now without a doubt in the most miserable of straits.

”Xiaofeng, he’s yours!”

Just as Nangong Xiaofeng was also stunned by this sudden turn of events, a voice suddenly sounded in his ear, making him jolt, and a trace of gratitude flashed in his eyes.

Originally, Nangong Xiaofeng’s heart had already darkened, because Fei Qingchen’s series of moves just now had driven him into a trap where he could only passively submit. He had once thought that he was about to be completely controlled.

Who would have thought that that brother Yun Xiao would pull off another unexpected move, actually turning the Wooden Sword into Lou Liheng, that Emperor Palace Inspector, thus making Fei Qingchen lose focus for an instant and even costing him his arm.

”Got it!”

Already hating the Emperor Canglong Palace to the bone, how could Nangong Xiaofeng harbor the slightest bit of mercy? Not to mention that on this entire journey they had been hunted by the Yongxiu City Emperor Palace so badly that there was almost no way to heaven and no door to earth. This moment was the perfect chance for revenge.

”You damn little bastard, go to hell with me!”

Seeing that this defeated underling actually dared to covet his life, Fei Qingchen’s rage was truly something else.

No one knew where he got the strength from. With a furious shout, his remaining left hand formed a blade from his palm and chopped toward Nangong Xiaofeng’s throat.

Slash!

Yet at this very moment, another soft sound rang out. Fei Qingchen then saw his left arm, which he had just swung out, suddenly separate and fly off just like his right arm had, looking as if he had thrown it away himself.