Chapter 234: Myriad Beasts Dragon Blade!===GLOSSARY===

Then kill without mercy!

The cold, harsh sound of slaughter pierced through the arrow storm that filled the sky, descending upon the outside of the prison with a deep, resonant boom.

"Kill without mercy? Captain Xu, what a mighty presence, what a fierce killing aura!"

Qin Shuo let out a cold snort, and with just one step down, the tremendous roar had already drowned out the whistling of the sky-filling arrow rain.

Before the prison, the long street paved with blue stone shattered explosively under that single step,

Large clumps of mud and gravel were shaken loose from the ground,

Then, as Qin Shuo raised his hand and swept it downward, they shot out like cannonballs, dragging a howl more terrifying than the arrow storm, bursting toward the crossbowmen on the high wall.

And he himself, like an ancient war elephant, borrowed force to take a step forward, the Xuantie Changdao instantly leaving its sheath, wrapped in the momentum of wind and thunder exploding, condensing a blade aura a hundred zhang long,

He then slashed downward with a thunderous boom toward Xu Longsheng, whose face was as heavy as iron.

Clang!

The long blade rose, the two blades collided, and immense force erupted.

In just an instant, the area before the prison seemed to have suffered an earthquake, large sections of the blue stone pavement, as if wooden stakes struck by a heavy hammer, all sank several feet in unison, forming a deep pit.

Boom!

Xu Longsheng, clad in heavy armor, flew sideways like a cannonball, heavily smashing into the high wall outside the prison.

The sturdy wall of the West City Prison, forged to be solid, shattered like tofu upon impact, blasting out a human-shaped depression,

Sunk in more than one meter, nearly punched through.

"Famed name does not do justice to meeting in person—Captain Qin truly possesses astonishing combat power!"

Xu Longsheng shook both arms, sending all the debris falling from his body flying, then pulled himself out from the wall and landed back on the street.

His head of silver hair danced with the gang wind, his entire body suffused with crimson blood like fire, and behind him coalesced a massive phantom of a furnace,

Like a surging, violent volcano, capable at any moment of erupting with terrifying power to destroy heaven and earth.

Within that fiery red magma, one ferocious evil beast after another protruded its head,

As Xu Longsheng gazed, they all turned together to look at Qin Shuo on the long street.

Swish!

In just an instant, Qin Shuo seemed to be stared down by myriad primordial ferocious beasts.

Terrifying killing intent shot from those beast eyes, as if in the next moment they would burst forth from the True Gang Furnace, tearing him to pieces.

"Supreme absolute art, Myriad Beasts Dragon Blade?"

At the very moment the True Gang Furnace manifested,

Qin Shuo instantly recognized the martial art the opponent cultivated—it was precisely one of the nine supreme absolute arts recorded by the Demon Suppression Division,

Myriad Beasts Dragon Blade!

This is an extremely domineering saber art absolute learning!

Among the saber martial arts of the Demon Suppression Division,

It ranks only below the Blade Nurturing Technique personally created by the Martial King, which is, in other words, the Absolute Heaven Blade Intent derived from the Lei Hu Juedian Dao.

But what truly astonished him was not that Xu Longsheng, relying on this supreme saber art, had nurtured the Myriad Beasts True Intent, but……

That vast, boundless, terrifying blood qi, as immense as a great ocean.

Such blood and qi!

It bears not the slightest resemblance to what He Mingjing said—old age and physical decline, withered blood and qi.

Such flourishing blood and qi power is even more terrifying than Qin Shuo's own, despite being in his prime—where is there any sign of decline?

If not for blood and qi decline, how could such a near-Grandmaster-level expert be assigned to guard the prison?

Even if transferred to another prefecture to serve as a Division Master, he would have more than enough capability!

Yet the other party remained silent, willingly enduring hardship to guard this prison.

The underlying truth, Qin Shuo could guess seven or eight out of ten without much thought.

Ghost Mother Sect.

Myriad People Great Elixir!

One Myriad People Great Elixir can equal the total refined essence and qi of a Condensing Truth Realm martial artist who has gone sixty years without eating or drinking.

Only such a supreme great elixir could enable an aged soldier, riddled with hidden ailments and wounds, to return to his former peak.

It might even allow him to make a final leap, crossing the threshold into the Grandmaster realm, extending his lifespan.

For a martial artist who has enjoyed glory for most of his life, whose life is nearing its end,

There is nothing more appealing than returning to peak condition and prolonging life.

This Xu Longsheng likely defected for this very reason.

"Captain Qin truly has keen insight!"

Xu Longsheng casually brushed dust from his body, smoothed the flying silver hair on his head, and spoke with emotion:

"Earlier I heard Captain Qin's Blade Nurturing Technique was unmatched in Yunzhou, capable of emitting a blade aura a hundred zhang long—I didn't believe it.

Now I see, indeed, under great fame there are no empty names!

Captain Qin's Blade Nurturing Technique has long since, I fear, caught up to the leader of the Divine Blade Guard under the Martial King in the capital.

Only regrettable……"

The silver-haired, armored old man gave a light sigh, slowly exhaling three words:

"Still not enough!"

Boom!

Bowing his body, stepping forward, his form shifted and turned.

The surrounding gang wind was drawn by his form, swirling around his body, and as he moved, it transformed into a long dragon of gang wind.

Hah!

As his body rotated, the snow-bright long blade in his hand also began to emanate a ferocious glow.

Screech!

The blade light, like a bolt of silk, rent the airflow, vomiting forth blade radiance as substantial as solid matter.

In an instant, beyond the great prison, blades stood like a forest.

One after another, substantial blade radiance condensed from gang qi appeared, floating up around Xu Longsheng's entire body.

These seemingly substantial blade radiances rang out crisp and clear, rapidly forming a giant claw covered in scales, then a fully scaled, lifelike ferocious blade dragon.

Roar—!

The colossal blade dragon formed from blade radiance surveyed all directions, looked down upon the world, its dragon maw slightly opening, and it let out a terrifying dragon roar that echoed through half the city.

Accompanying its sound, on the long street, gang winds surged like tides.

These gang winds crisscrossed and intertwined, transforming into an ocean of blade light,

wherever it passed, everything visible to the naked eye on the long street was rent, shattered, and sliced into minuscule dust so fine the eye could scarcely perceive it.

"Slash!"

As if a heavenly deity judging all living beings.

The magnitude of this angry shout seemed to come from the ninth heaven above, carrying boundless terror and formidable might.

Blade Light Transforms into Dragon!

This is already a strike that can only be unleashed by cultivating true gang to an extremely high realm.

Following Xu Longsheng's low roar, the ferocious blade dragon, tens of zhang in length, amidst the exploding surging gang wind, lunged to slaughter Qin Shuo, who was striding forward from the end of the long street.

This blade contained Xu Longsheng's lifelong Martial Dao Will and true qi cultivation.

After this strike, his originally somewhat ruddy cheeks seemed to have been drained, rapidly withering and turning deathly pale, like a corpse's.

He was confident that even if a Grandmaster personally arrived, they would not dare to lightly pluck his cap's tassel!

That Qin-surnamed one, even if possessing Buddhist Supernatural Power, would certainly be unable to withstand it.

However, what happened next caused Xu Longsheng to nearly pop his eyeballs out.

Bow!

Step!

Punch!

Not a single superfluous movement.

But in Xu Longsheng's eyes, Qin Shuo's aura suddenly shifted; behind him, the void seemed to have transformed into a boundless ocean.

A terrifying Xuan Whale of unknown length, perhaps hundreds of thousands of li, emerged from that ocean, only slightly opening its mouth to inhale,

In an instant, the boundless ocean seemed to fall into its maw.

Even the light between heaven and earth could not escape that suction, collapsing inward to form a terrifying black hole.

Whale Swallowing the Four Seas!

This thought just flashed through his mind.

With a "Dang!" sound,

In the midst of the metal-on-metal ringing loud enough to pierce eardrums,

Xu Longsheng saw that the white, bare fist of the black-clad youth steadily blocked his ferocious blade dragon, which contained his full-powered strike.

The stalemate between fist and blade lasted only a breath.

The next instant, pure and terrifying power erupted accordingly.

Like a ferocious volcano that had been suppressed for ten thousand years, erupting in an instant.

Boom!

Xu Longsheng's body shook violently.

The ferocious blade dragon bearing his lifelong cultivation and will, under a force that could not be resisted, like a boundless ocean, exploded apart, shattered, and scattered in flying spray.

Bang!

Like a muffled winter thunder suddenly detonating.

Amidst the exploding blade gang and raging airflow, Xu Longsheng, like a black cannonball, was blasted a hundred zhang away, directly smashing through the great prison's enclosing wall and landing in the courtyard.

Viscous blood sprayed in midair, the heavy iron armor also shattered explosively under this punch, iron fragments flying sideways.

This punch broke gang, broke armor, broke horizontal training!

It actually directly struck a Furnace-ignited Quasi-Grandmaster until he had no power to retaliate.

Clang!

Like thunderbolt ripping the long sky apart.

After shattering the blade dragon with one punch, he, relying on Meta-Magnetic Golden Body, stubbornly resisted the rebounding violent force, and amidst the raging airflow, heavily stepped forward one pace.

In an instant, mud and sand shot skyward, shattered stone flew in spray.

A hundred zhang of blade light, like the Milky Way pouring earthward, seemed like the Heavenly River falling to the human world, entwined with the momentum of wind and thunder shaking and swaying, it chopped straight down!