vstars Chapter 37 Reaching the Rank 7, Dominating All Sides
Chapter 37 Reaching the Rank 7, Dominating All Sides
"You... brat, you're asking for it!"
Upon seeing the body with its entire chest caved in not far away, Lin Sandao took a step forward, the blade of his long sword flashing, and pointed it at Li Xiuyuan.
"Get him! Cripple this brat!"
Just as Lin Sandao coldly opened his mouth, Li Xiuyuan moved even faster, his five fingers grabbing in mid-air, and the long sword that had fallen to the ground flew into his hand with a "whoosh".
Then he took a step forward.
The sword light flashed suddenly, like a storm, arriving in an instant. In the blink of an eye, seven or eight of the dozen or so people had their chests, throats, and brows pierced by a single sword.
A large area collapsed with a crash.
"What?"
Upon seeing the scene before him, Lin Sandao's eyes trembled.
"You damned bastard, stop right there!"
He brought more than a dozen people this time, including four eighth-rank soldiers, and they were not even a match for him.
*Pfft!*
Just as Li Xiuyuan pierced the chest of an eighth-rank martial artist with his sword and grabbed the man's neck to absorb his internal energy to replenish it,
A terrifying, icy blade aura slashed down at him from behind.
Ok?
You couldn't hold back anymore?
Li Xiuyuan turned around, without dodging, and directly used the eighth-rank martial artist who had been drained of his energy to block in front of him.
"Pfft..."
The fierce blade energy tore through the eighth-rank martial artist from the Li family who was blocking Li Xiuyuan's way.
Amidst the splatter of blood, Li Xiuyuan's longsword, like a serpent's thrust, swiftly reached Lin Sandao's chest.
"Pfft..."
"grass!"
Lin Sandao felt a sharp pain in his chest, and immediately used all his energy to lock onto the sword that had penetrated his chest.
Immediately, he slashed down with his broadsword at Li Xiuyuan's right hand, where Li Xiuyuan was holding the sword.
In the blink of an eye, Li Xiuyuan had no time to dodge the attack, but he hadn't intended to dodge it in the first place.
The hand gripping the longsword loosened.
He ignored the blade aimed at his arm, then channeled all his inner strength and slammed his palm onto the hilt of the sword.
"Pfft!"
Ah!
"Bang"
Several voices rang out almost simultaneously.
The sword, which was held captive by the force of the energy, was struck by Li Xiuyuan's full-force palm strike on the hilt, and at that moment, a violent palm wind pierced through the sword.
It pierced straight through Lin Sandao's chest.
The excruciating pain from the pierced chest affected the force of Lin Sandao's downward strike, but the momentum of the blade did not stop, still carrying a violent blade aura as it slashed at Li Xiuyuan's right arm.
But under the full power of the Iron Shirt technique, the knife, while tearing open Li Xiuyuan's arm and clothes, only left a shallow cut.
A trace of blood seeped out, but as Li Xiuyuan took a deep breath, the blood and qi were completely locked in.
Li Xiuyuan suddenly leaned forward, drawing upon the power of the Iron Shirt armor that covered his entire body like silver-white armor.
It slammed into the hilt of the sword again with all its might.
"Hiss... Pfft... Ah!"
This time, the icy longsword, which had already pierced half of the blade, was completely pierced through, with even the hilt penetrating into his chest.
Blood spurted out with Lin Sandao's scream.
"What the hell are you all doing? Stop him!"
The moment Lin Sandao was knocked away, he forced himself to take a breath and quickly retreated.
At the same time, he shouted loudly.
The remaining few immediately frowned, gritted their teeth, and stepped forward.
"Pfft pfft pfft..."
With each flicker of the sword's edge, the group was almost instantly killed.
One of the eighth-rank soldiers had his head seized by Li Xiuyuan, who then absorbed his still-intact, pure internal energy from his recent death.
"You... Li Xiuyuan, how could you be so strong? You're only an eighth-rank cultivator. Even if you were at the peak of the eighth rank, you couldn't possibly withstand my blade."
Lin Sandao stood up shakily, his long sword covered in blood, but it was all his own.
"Stop right there, don't come any closer..."
Li Xiuyuan, however, gave the person in front of him no chance at all. He figured that either the Lin family or the Shangguan family would be lying in wait here to ambush him.
Li Xiuyuan naturally knew that no matter which party it was, they couldn't reason with him.
Since that's the case, then we have no choice but to kill them!
Ultimately, the best and fastest way to solve this problem is to address the issue on the side that created it.
"You, you can't kill me! I'm an elder of the Lin family. If you spare me, there's still room for reconciliation regarding your killing of Lin Shuang, but if you kill me..."
Lin Sandao gripped his long sword tightly.
As soon as he used his internal energy, he almost lost his balance, and a large amount of blood spurted out of his chest.
But now, facing Li Xiuyuan who was walking towards him step by step, Lin Sandao gritted his teeth and forcefully swung his knife at Li Xiuyuan.
"Bang!"
The knife landed on Li Xiuyuan's shoulder, tearing his night clothes open with the force of the blade, revealing his still somewhat thin body.
But only a scratch was left on his shoulder; not even a bone was broken.
"you……"
But he only managed to utter one word before everything went black.
A powerful and domineering force suddenly landed on his face.
His next words turned into sounds of bones shattering and blood splattering, like "plop" and "crash."
One palm strike, two palm strikes, three palm strikes!
The moment the third palm struck, half of the Li family elder's head exploded, just like a watermelon.
His body slowly fell to the ground.
Standing there, Li Xiuyuan struck down with his palm again, the violent palm wind piercing through Lin Sandao's body, sending him flying several meters away, crashing heavily into the wall, turning him into a pool of bloody flesh.
He sensed the violent palm wind that had just been unleashed from his palm.
He began to carefully perceive the changes around him.
The dantian expanded once more, and at this moment, the meridians throughout the body, along with the vortex of pure internal energy in the dantian, seemed to be like a crying infant waiting to be fed.
This is……
This is a kind of "hunger" originating from the meridians.
Li Xiuyuan immediately stepped forward, squatted down, and placed his hand on the dantian of the Lin family elder he had just killed with a palm strike.
Suddenly, a stream of pure internal energy flowed into Li Xiuyuan's body.
Soon, Li Xiuyuan absorbed all the people he had just killed.
He swallowed several more Qi and Blood Pills before he felt a little better.
He raised his hand and struck the door in front of him.
With a loud "bang," the palm strike shattered the door.
Internal strength is released externally.
Just now, Li Xiuyuan broke through the barrier that was blocking him during actual combat and successfully entered the seventh rank!
Several more palm strikes were unleashed, shattering the door and surrounding furnishings into pieces.
He used his Absorption Technique to grab the longsword that had fallen to the ground not far away, and it flew into his hand instantly.
He channeled his inner energy and pierced through the wall in front of him with a single sword strike.
"Thud..."
The wall was pierced through by the sword, and spiderweb-like cracks spread outwards from the hole!
Looking at his masterpiece, Li Xiuyuan was very satisfied.
He immediately turned around and moved quickly, soon finding everything of value to him in the Li Family's Mysterious Treasure Pavilion.
Silver notes, elixirs, and cultivation techniques.
As for the others, Li Xiuyuan simply couldn't be bothered to take them.
But just as Li Xiuyuan packed all his things and carried them on his shoulder...
His ears twitched slightly, and his eyes suddenly narrowed.
Turn around.
With a loud "bang," the door of the Li Family's Xuanzhen Pavilion was blasted open by a powerful force.
Several figures rushed in immediately.
With a slight sense of perception, Li Xiuyuan could detect at least a dozen eighth-rank martial artists rapidly approaching him.
"Haha... Li Xiuyuan, you really are here. Not bad, not bad... I didn't expect you to kill the Lin family in such a short time."
They do have some skill!
Looking at the middle-aged man dressed in black and holding a long sword, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but frown slightly.
"People from the Shangguan family?"
The man in black fixed his gaze on Li Xiuyuan and said with a calm smile:
"Let me introduce myself. I am Shangguan Hongtao, the Ninth Elder of the Shangguan Family."
"Li Xiuyuan, come back to the Shangguan family with me!"
As he spoke, Shangguan Hongtao did not hesitate at all. With a wave of his hand, more than a dozen eighth-rank and more than twenty ninth-rank martial artists stepped forward.
Li Xiuyuan's gaze swept over the Ninth Elder of the Shangguan family in front of him. The aura emanating from this person was one that he had never sensed before, and it was obvious that he had surpassed the seventh rank!
I couldn't help but be shocked.
It seems the Shangguan family is determined to take me back.
This "Absorption Technique" is absolutely crucial for the Shangguan family.
However, Li Xiuyuan was not going to surrender without a fight.
Moreover, he knew that if he were caught by the Shangguan family, he would definitely be dead!
Since this "Absorption Technique" was brought from the Shangguan family by my mother, perhaps someone in the Shangguan family also practices this technique, and perhaps has already mastered it.
They'll drain you dry, leaving you like fish on a chopping board.
Therefore, Li Xiuyuan immediately reached out and grabbed.
The long sword embedded in the wall behind him began to emit a buzzing sound.
The longsword flew into Li Xiuyuan's hand with a "whoosh".
"Crack crack crack... Boom!"
The moment the longsword embedded in the wall was pulled out, the previously spiderweb-like wall began to crack.
It grew denser and denser, then collapsed with a roar!
And at the very moment that wall collapsed, Li Xiuyuan's figure vanished from the spot.
"Pfft!"
"what!"
"Pfft pfft pfft pfft..."
Fast, too fast.
Without uttering any further words, Li Xiuyuan swiftly slayed all the eighth and ninth-rank martial artists before him with his longsword.
Although he had only just entered the seventh rank, with his maxed-out swordsmanship, Li Xiuyuan's cold longsword was several times more powerful with each strike than before.
*Pfft!*
Another eighth-rank martial artist was pierced through by a sword. Li Xiuyuan reached out and grabbed the eighth-rank martial artist, absorbing his internal energy to quickly recover.
Looking up, a system notification appeared before my eyes:
[Level cap requirements met; "Lightning Strike" is currently at max level...]
In an instant, Li Xiuyuan's figure flashed rapidly, putting distance between himself and the group of people in front of him.
Numerous memories and transformations related to the Flowing Light Instant Strike technique instantly merged into his body.
If Li Xiuyuan previously relied solely on movement techniques such as Lightning Speed Step and Eight Steps to Catch the Cicada to unleash the Flowing Light Instant Thrust...
At that moment, after integrating his full-level insights, Li Xiuyuan gained a new understanding of the Instant Kill Sword!
As Li Xiuyuan watched the Shangguan family warriors approach step by step, a cold glint flashed in his eyes.
With a swift movement of his foot, the longsword in his hand silently pierced through the head of a martial artist.
In the blink of an eye, they were already more than three zhang away.
"Pfft pfft pfft..."
Several heads flew off one after another, and amidst the splattering of blood, Li Xiuyuan quickly broke through the encirclement and rushed towards the broken gate of the Li Clan's Xuanzhen Pavilion!
He kept his attention on Shangguan Hongtao, who was holding a long sword; the man gave Li Xiuyuan an extremely dangerous feeling.
Moreover, I have lingered here for too long and must leave as soon as possible, otherwise I will attract more experts and then it will be difficult for me to get away!
So, seizing the opportunity, Li Xiuyuan rushed towards the door without hesitation...
"Trying to escape?"
Shangguan Hongtao stood there, watching Li Xiuyuan kill half of the men he had brought in just a few breaths.
While he was shocked, he also realized one thing.
That means Li Xiuyuan has definitely cultivated the mysterious and heaven-defying technique that Shangguan Xiuhong obtained back then!
That martial art originally belonged to the Shangguan family.
This child must be taken back to the family today…
Seeing Li Xiuyuan rushing towards the door, Shangguan Hongtao's face turned cold, and he was already in front of Li Xiuyuan in just one step.
The moment the long sword in his hand was drawn from its sheath.
A sword aura seemed to lock onto Li Xiuyuan's right arm, slashing down from mid-air.
Its terrifying aura caused Li Xiuyuan, who was moving forward at high speed, to suddenly stop.
"This is……"
Faced with this sword strike, Li Xiuyuan immediately sensed a deadly danger.
Without time to think, facing this sword strike that he couldn't dodge, he quickly activated his maxed-out Iron Shirt skill to its maximum, instantly covering his body with a layer of silver-white armor.
Even so, Li Xiuyuan could only use his broad chest to withstand the sword strike!
"Pfft..."
As the sword energy descended, Li Xiuyuan felt as if his chest had been torn open by a terrifyingly sharp force.
As blood splattered, Li Xiuyuan also sensed a terrifying sword aura rushing into his body.
Fortunately, Li Xiuyuan was frantically activating the Absorption Technique at this moment, and turned around to grit his teeth and unleash several sword energies in a lightning-fast series of strikes behind him.
Without pausing for a moment, he leaped forward, unleashing the full potential of the max-level "Lightning Speed Step".
Suddenly, it transformed into a beam of white light and vanished from everyone's sight in the blink of an eye.
"Um?"
After Shangguan Hongtao swung his sword, he quickly used his movement technique to catch up.
To his surprise, his sword strike was actually blocked.
Not only that, but what surprised him even more was that although Li Xiuyuan was seriously injured, he still had to use all his lightness skills to catch up with the movement technique that Li Xiuyuan used in an instant.
But just as Shangguan Hongtao was chasing after Li Xiuyuan, a deadly danger suddenly enveloped him.
In that instant, he had a feeling that if he continued to chase after them, he would die!
Suddenly stopping, Shangguan Hongtao realized that a layer of cold sweat had appeared on his forehead.
Turning my head, I was startled to see a monk standing on a rooftop not far away, bathed in the cold moonlight.
Although the monk was also looking in the direction where Li Xiuyuan had disappeared not far away, Shangguan Hongtao did not glance at him.
But he dared not take another step forward!
"Ninth Elder..."
Just then, several figures quickly landed beside Shangguan Hongtao.
In the blink of an eye, when Shangguan Hongtao looked at the rooftop not far away again, the monk who had just stood against the wind had already disappeared.
It was as if it had never existed.
Standing on the deserted street.
Shangguan Hongtao was horrified and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
"Ninth Elder, what should we do now?"
They glanced at the dozen or so people who had followed, and their faces were all very grim.
He sighed and said:
"Burn down the Li family's Xuanzhen Pavilion."
Then they spread the news that Li Xiuyuan had looted and killed everyone in the Li Clan's Xuanzhen Pavilion.
After saying that, Shangguan Hongtao's figure flashed and disappeared into the thick darkness of the night.
What was the purpose of that mysterious monk who suddenly appeared?
Is it related to Li Xiuyuan?
The person was standing there, and even across the street, he exuded a deadly danger, as if he could kill him instantly. He couldn't afford to provoke such a person.
He must immediately tell the head of the household everything that has just happened!
……
"puff!"
In a secluded alley in Yunzhou City, Li Xiuyuan had just stopped when he spat out a mouthful of blood.
He looked around, then ran all the way from East Street to the city gate, and then circled around to West Street.
Sensing that no one was following him, he walked through the residential area for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before finally finding a very secluded alley.
He sat cross-legged, his body trembling.
He hurriedly took out healing pills and qi-boosting pills from his baggage and fed them into his mouth all at once.
As Li Xiuyuan became more proficient in using the Absorption Technique, he gradually discovered that the technique seemed to have some mysterious changes on his body.
Take, for example, the absorption of medicinal power when swallowing pills.
Li Xiuyuan then discovered that he had swallowed several kinds of pills, especially more than a dozen healing pills.
However, the medicine was quickly absorbed.
Li Xiuyuan could even see that the gruesome sword wound on his chest had stopped bleeding and was even beginning to scab over.
Of course, this is also related to Li Xiuyuan's constant and frantic use of Iron Shirt.
Moreover, after reaching the seventh rank, the defensive power that Li Xiuyuan could unleash with Iron Shirt was much stronger than when he was at the eighth rank.
Even so, it couldn't stop the sword strike from Shangguan Hongtao, the ninth elder of the Shangguan family.
Li Xiuyuan knew in his heart that it must have been a sword strike infused with true energy.
Its power is incomparable to the sword energy unleashed by internal force.
If he hadn't been far away and hadn't fully activated his Iron Shirt technique to take the blow with a larger area of his chest, that sword strike could have severed his arm!
Under the cold moonlight, he looked at the hideous and conspicuous wound on his chest, feeling the waves of intense pain emanating from the sword energy that had not yet been fully refined and integrated into his true qi.
Li Xiuyuan's eyes were filled with coldness.
"Shangguan Hongtao, I will repay you for this sword strike sooner or later!"
Just as Li Xiuyuan stood up to return to the inn, he suddenly heard a commotion coming from the street not far away.
He immediately tensed up, instantly unleashing his maxed-out Golden Goose Skill, and his figure leaped into the air, standing on the rooftop in the blink of an eye.
At a glance, a dazzling flame rose in the distance, and that direction was the end of East Street.
At this moment, a large number of city guards appeared in the city...
The once quiet city of Yunzhou was suddenly transformed into a bustling, noisy, and chaotic place by the towering fire!