Chapter 91: One Sword to Kill a Celestial Being
“Rudimentary Blood and Qi Sanctuary.”
Li Qian’s eyes flickered with a strange divine light.
Just by looking at the name, one could tell that this divine ability was extraordinary, born only after the Immaculate Holy Body reached perfection.
However, the Blood and Qi Sanctuary was still in its rudimentary form. He still needed to continue absorbing the essence energy within the demon stones to allow this Blood and Qi Sanctuary to grow, transforming from its rudimentary form into a true Blood and Qi Sanctuary.
The function of the Blood and Qi Sanctuary was very peculiar. It could form an invisible blood and qi suppression on all living beings within the sanctuary.
As long as it was a creature with blood and qi, it would be affected.
Even martial arts experts, although the power they used was true qi and the like, and blood and qi was only the basic energy of the body, once affected within the Blood and Qi Sanctuary, the consequences would also be very serious.
Of course, Li Qian had not used it yet, so he did not know how much the specific impact would be.
Moreover, it was still only a rudimentary form now.
In addition, the Blood and Qi Sanctuary had a very useful function, which was to support him in flying in the air.
However, what was consumed during flight was blood and qi.
Not a Celestial Being, yet able to fly, one could only say that this Blood and Qi Sanctuary was quite peculiar.
Immediately, Li Qian’s figure moved, and he used his light body skill to fly towards the distance, preparing to return to the Divine Sword Sect.
He did not use the Blood and Qi Sanctuary to fly.
The consumption was too great.
There was simply no need for it.
In the dark night.
A figure was hurriedly flying, landing on a hillside. His body staggered, and he couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood.
The true qi in his body was almost exhausted.
He took out a pill bottle from his bosom, poured out the last pill, swallowed it, and began to adjust his breath. The surrounding heaven and earth yuan qi began to gather.
But suddenly, his expression changed slightly, and he quickly got up, spitting out another mouthful of blood.
He couldn’t help but look in the direction of the Divine Sword Sect.
It was less than a hundred miles away.
If he could escape to the Divine Sword Sect, coupled with Celestial Being Hua from the Hundred Flowers Palace who was recuperating from her injuries, as well as the sect’s favorable location, he might still have a glimmer of hope.
However, it was too late now.
He was almost completely exhausted and could no longer fly.
He had been injured before and had not fully recovered. In recent months, he had fought several battles and was besieged this time. Although he retreated all the way, the enemy was biting too tightly, obviously wanting to put him to death.
“Xiao Wendao, you really can run, worthy of the nickname Xiao the Runner. You almost escaped back to the Divine Sword Sect.”
A cold voice came from the night sky.
Immediately following, a figure shot over and landed on a treetop not far away, panting heavily, obviously also extremely tired.
He had never seen anyone who could run like this before.
He had been chasing him for a whole day and night, covering a distance of two to three thousand miles.
“Chen Ao, what benefits did Prince Luo give you to make you work so hard? I advise you to abandon the darkness and turn to the light sooner. It’s only a matter of time before Prince Luo and the others are defeated.”
Xiao Wendao asked in a deep voice.
“Xiao Wendao, you can’t even protect yourself now, so you don’t have to worry about me.”
The figure on the treetop was an elderly man who looked to be in his fifties or sixties. He had a horse face, gloomy eyes, and was filled with killing intent.
He was Chen Ao, the Celestial Being from the Mysterious Netherworld Sect.
If he could kill Xiao Wendao of the Divine Sword Sect, it would be a great achievement.
“Who said this old man can’t protect himself? This old man has already made arrangements, just waiting for you to walk into the trap.”
Xiao Wendao chuckled.
Chen Ao frowned slightly.
He knew that this old fellow was cunning and treacherous, and it was precisely because of this that he only followed and chased, without forcibly intercepting him.
After all, he was also worried that Xiao Wendao was hiding some terrifying trump card.
So he just needed to slowly wear Xiao Wendao down.
Suddenly, Xiao Wendao turned and entered the forest.
“Hmph, why struggle?”
Chen Ao snorted coldly.
Immediately, his figure moved, chasing after him.
But at this moment, a sharp sword light suddenly shot out from the forest.
It was Xiao Wendao, who had just entered the forest, attacking.
“Xiao Wendao, surrender.”
Chen Ao’s palm trembled, and heaven and earth yuan qi gathered, transforming into a cold palm print, striking the sword light.
Immediately, the sword light shattered.
But the next moment, he felt a sharp pain in his palm.
He quickly retracted his palm and saw that his palm had been pierced by a hidden weapon like an embroidery needle.
His palm was wearing a pair of divinely forged gloves.
It was actually still pierced.
What a terrifying hidden weapon.
Fortunately, he was cautious enough, and almost fell for the trick.
In his rage, his other palm struck out. The ground shook violently, and all the trees within a hundred meters were razed to the ground by the palm force.
Puff!
A figure flew backwards, falling to the ground, spitting out several mouthfuls of blood.
It was Xiao Wendao of the Divine Sword Sect.
“It’s a pity that the Wheat Awns Divine Sword didn’t hit his vital point. It seems that I, Xiao Wendao, will die here today.”
He looked at the sky, a sigh escaping his lips.
It was nothing for him to die.
But he couldn’t let go of the Divine Sword Sect.
Could the Divine Sword Sect overcome this difficulty?
“Xiao Wendao, is this your last trump card? You almost tricked me.”
Chen Ao, the Celestial Being of the Mysterious Netherworld Sect, stepped into the air and came to Xiao Wendao, holding the small sword as thin as an embroidery needle in his hand.
It was indeed a sword.
It had the complete outline of a sword.
It was just a little too small.
“However, now it’s you who will die.”
Chen Ao raised his palm, wanting to completely end Xiao Wendao’s life.
He had basically determined that Xiao Wendao had basically lost his fighting ability.
Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat, as if he was being targeted by something terrifying.
The next moment, a strange sword light shot out from the forest on one side.
Along with the sword light, a terrifying True Image Level Sword Intent swept over.
He was horrified.
There was another Celestial Being?
He had been using his spiritual perception to sense the surroundings, and hadn’t discovered anything at all.
Where was this person hiding?
Could it be that Xiao Wendao wasn’t lying just now, and there really was an ambush?
He quickly dodged to the side, using his own martial intent to resist the opponent’s sword intent, while releasing his ice-cold true qi, constructing a Mysterious Nether Armor on his body.
But just as the sword light approached him within a zhang, a strange light bloomed, and an invisible wave swept over his body.
In an instant.
He felt his blood and qi go berserk, and his body felt out of control, which in turn affected his control of true qi.
At the same time, a terrifying bell sound rang in his mind.
Not only did he lose control of his body, but even his spiritual consciousness seemed to fall into a momentary blank state.
In a daze, he saw a sword light pierce his body.
Puchi!
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Crash!
Chen Ao’s body was directly split in two in the air.
Blood and internal organ fragments splattered.
Then, the two halves of the corpse fell to the ground with a thud, their eyes still wide open, dead beyond death.
Whoosh!
Li Qian, dressed in a black cloak, landed on the ground.
He secretly let out a sigh of relief.
This sword strike.
He had gone all out, using all of his strength.
After all, he was dealing with a Celestial Being.
He didn’t dare to have any thoughts of holding back.
Moreover, he didn’t expect such a coincidence.
His Immaculate Holy Body had just broken through, and he had just come out of the forest when he encountered the scene of Celestial Being Xiao of the Divine Sword Sect being hunted down.
Faced with this situation, he had no choice but to take action.
After all, he couldn’t just stand by and watch Celestial Being Xiao be killed.
Moreover, his Immaculate Holy Body had just broken through, giving birth to the divine ability ━ Rudimentary Blood and Qi Sanctuary, which gave him some confidence when facing a Celestial Being.
At the same time, he also had the urge to try it out in actual combat.
How strong was he exactly?
This sword strike.
Basically represented his true strength.
Although the opponent was caught off guard and ambushed by him,
the success of the ambush itself also represented that his strength was already enough to fight against an ordinary Celestial Being.
Xiao Wendao, lying on the ground, had been waiting to die.
After all, in his last attack, he had used his trump card, squeezing out the last bit of true qi in his body.
Even an ordinary Postnatal martial artist could kill him now.
But he didn’t expect someone to suddenly rush out and split Chen Ao, the Celestial Being of the Mysterious Netherworld Sect, in half with one sword strike.
That’s right.
It was split in half with one sword strike.
He was completely dumbfounded.
Where did this Celestial Being come from?
This strength was too terrifying.
Even if Chen Ao was greatly exhausted,
and caught off guard,
as a veteran Celestial Being, his combat experience was so rich that he shouldn’t have been killed by one sword strike.
However, this person was dressed in a black cloak, making it impossible to see his appearance.
The only thing that could be identified was probably that terrifying True Image Level Sword Intent.
Li Qian walked to the corpse, searched it, found an intact cloth bag, and took off a pair of gloves from the corpse’s hand.
One of the gloves had a hole in it.
With his spiritual perception, this pair of gloves should be a divinely forged weapon.
He picked up the small sword that looked like an embroidery needle.
Such a small divine sword was really peculiar.
So he directly threw it to Celestial Being Xiao and turned to leave.
“Wait. Benefactor, please leave your name. Xiao will definitely repay you in the future.”
Xiao Wendao held the Wheat Awns Divine Sword and quickly said.
But Li Qian didn’t stop at all. He rose into the air and disappeared into the night like a night owl.
“Is it the person I met last time?”
Xiao Wendao muttered to himself, looking in the direction the person had left.
This place was less than a hundred miles away from the Divine Sword Sect, which could be said to be near the Divine Sword Sect. Last time, he had encountered a person with True Image Level Sword Intent at the edge of the Divine Sword Sect.
He highly suspected it was the same person.
“Who is it? If it’s a Celestial Being from our Divine Sword Sect, why have I never heard of it?”
Xiao Wendao was completely confused.
But if it wasn’t someone from the Divine Sword Sect, then what was the identity of this Celestial Being, and why did he appear near the Divine Sword Sect repeatedly?
This time, he even saved his life.
He struggled to get up and walked to Chen Ao’s corpse.
Split in half with one sword strike.
Chen Ao’s death was truly tragic.
“Old Chen, if there’s a next life, don’t talk so much.”
Xiao Wendao sighed faintly.
If Chen Ao had said a few words less, perhaps he would have already become a corpse.
He picked up his sword, dug a hole on the spot, and buried Chen Ao’s corpse in it.
After all, Chen Ao was also a renowned Celestial Being, so he couldn’t just leave his corpse exposed in the wilderness, to be eaten by wild animals, right?
After burying him, Xiao Wendao adjusted his breath on the spot, recovered a bit of true qi, and then walked towards the Divine Sword Sect with difficulty.
He was injured last time and seriously injured again this time. He could feel that his natal yuan qi was severely depleted, and he was not young anymore.
He knew that he probably wouldn’t be able to hold on for a few more years.
Time Bell Pavilion.
Li Qian took off his black cloak and put it into the black iron ring on his finger.
At this moment, his heart was still excited.
After all, he had just killed a Celestial Being with one sword strike.
This was a Celestial Being.
“I shouldn’t be afraid of ordinary Celestial Beings anymore. Next, I just need to work hard to improve my cultivation level. Once I step into the true Celestial Being realm, perhaps within this Great Chang, I should have the basic ability to protect myself.”
Li Qian sat cross-legged in the wooden house, pondering.
He didn’t become arrogant just because he killed a Celestial Being.
That Celestial Being should have been an ordinary Celestial Being.
He had also fought a battle with Celestial Being Xiao, so he must have been greatly exhausted, and his strength was definitely not at its peak.
Moreover, he was ambushed.
If it was a head-on confrontation, the situation might be different.
So he still had to be steady and low-key, and absolutely not get carried away.
Thinking of this, Li Qian took a deep breath and began to circulate the Heartless Sword Manual cultivation method, attempting to cultivate for the first time after the Immaculate Holy Body reached perfection.
Rolling heaven and earth yuan qi gathered.
He was holding a yuan stone in his hand, which also provided him with pure yuan qi.
After circulating the cultivation method for a great heavenly cycle, Li Qian opened his eyes and let out a breath.
Suddenly, his heart stirred, and he quickly summoned the system interface to check the latest information.
The next moment, a look of surprise appeared on his face.
“The efficiency is so high.”
He had just completed a great heavenly cycle of cultivation, but his cultivation progress had increased by a point.
He clearly remembered that it had only increased by a point two days ago.
In other words, his current cultivation efficiency had at least increased to the level of one point every two days.
The perfected Immaculate Holy Body, terrifying as it is!
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Nice kill