Chapter 7: The Sword Pill Leaves Its Sheath

Li Li Boyang had always been a man of action, and this time would be no exception.

As Li Li Boyang's consciousness sank into his dantian and sea of awareness, the sword pill within his body began to stir restlessly.

This was the first time Li Li Boyang attempted to drive the sword pill out of his body; he was unsure of the consequences, but he knew he could not stand by and watch Xi Luo die.

Hum!

It seemed like the sound of a sword, or perhaps just an illusion.

In the instant Li Li Boyang's consciousness sank into the sword pill, his perspective peeled away from his physical body.

Normal senses were lost, replaced by a mysterious sword-pill perspective akin to a sixth sense.

Li Li Boyang was very familiar with this perspective.

For during his embryonic period, he had used such a perspective to observe the movements of the outside world.

Hum!

In the blink of an eye, the golden sword pill shifted from void to solid and flew out from the dantian.

During this process, Li Li Boyang did not feel his consciousness severed from his body; rather, it felt as though his soul had been split in two.

One part of the soul remained within the body, while the greater portion merged completely with the golden sword pill.

With a mere thought, the golden sword pill adjusted its state and shot forth; describing it as being as responsive as an arm or hand, with intent following the heart, was perfectly apt.

Whoosh!

By the time the sound of breaking the air arose,

the golden sword pill had already flown through the door crack and shot toward the battlefield more than ten kilometers away.

However, what Li Li Boyang failed to notice was that at the very instant the sword pill shot out,

a little girl who appeared to be only six or seven years old was standing not far outside the door, staring in shock at everything unfolding.

In this era where food was generally scarce and malnutrition common,

the little girl's actual age should have been somewhat greater than her appearance suggested.

Even so, watching the golden light shoot out from within the house, the little girl remained frozen in place, unable to come to her senses for a long time.

"The Mountain... the Mountain God... has manifested!"

Only after that golden light completely vanished from her sight did the little girl, who could barely speak clearly, stammer out these words.

Whoosh!

The golden light tore through the air and slashed across the long sky.

Traveling at supersonic speeds, the sword pill appeared near the battlefield not long after.

The golden sword pill arrived in the blink of an eye, and only then did a sonic boom echo in the sky.

Because its speed was truly too fast, even Ruo Fu, who was fighting, did not have time to react before one of its heads was severed by a sword strike.

"Ah!"

Accompanied by a terrible wail,

Ruo Fu, now left with only one head, suddenly spat out even more ferocious flames.

Seizing this opportunity, the Red Leopard stepped upon fire clouds, crossed through the flames, and with a speed nearly ghostlike, fiercely bit down on that remaining dragon head.

Who would have thought that Ruo Fu's head would react at the very last moment.

"Damn mountain ghost! You are asking for death!"

Overwhelmed by grief and rage, Ruo Fu endured the excruciating pain and turned back; surging evil qi swept through the flames, turning them into something substantial.

Whoosh!

Just then, the golden sword pill, which had already flown far away, suddenly turned back.

Before Ruo Fu could achieve mutual destruction with Xi Luo,

the golden sword pill broke through the layers of evil qi and flames, successfully severing Ruo Fu's second head.

The entire process was smooth and seamless, accomplished in one breath.

Ruo Fu was as fragile as cattle or sheep awaiting slaughter, leaving Xi Luo, who had already resolved to die, staring in utter shock.

As for Li Li Boyang, the one who started it all?

He was still immersed in the exhilarating feeling between the flashing blades and sword lights.

Fully immersed within the golden sword pill, Li Li Boyang experienced a subtle sensation different from that of the physical body.

Speed breaking the sound barrier, killing without blood staining...

Under the command of Li Li Boyang's will, the golden sword pill possessed power far surpassing the physical body in terms of speed, lethality, and agility.

Unknowingly, some fragmented memories were awakened.

These were the memories of when Li Li Boyang arrived in this world and was refined into a sword pill by the strange old man.

At that time, Li Li Boyang's heart was filled with anger and killing intent, and using that anger and killing intent as a medium, he broke free from the constraints of the furnace and attacked the strange old man.

The battle between the two sides spanned thousands of kilometers, until the strange old man was slain near Flying Peak.

【Is this the memory I lost?】

Without the constraints of the physical body, Li Li Boyang in sword pill form appeared exceptionally calm.

No, using the word "calm" to describe Li Li Boyang at this moment was actually not very accurate.

More accurately, without the stimulation of various biological hormones, Li Li Boyang in this state was closer to being heartless and cold.

— Without emotion or desire, and without knowledge or perception.

Li Li Boyang instinctively knew that if he allowed this state to continue, he would once again become that cold sword pill from before.

Li Li Boyang, having lived two lives, clearly had no intention of severing emotions and desires to become a cold weapon of killing.

Therefore, without the slightest hesitation.

After the golden sword pill traced a graceful arc across the sky, it flew back toward the direction from which it came without looking back.

Whoosh!

Just as it had arrived, the golden sword pill abruptly vanished once more.

Only Xi Luo was left, lost in thought, gazing at the direction where the sword pill had disappeared, unable to snap out of it for a long time.

Boom, boom, boom...

Not until Ruifu's body plummeted from the sky, kicking up a cloud of dust in the mountain forest.

Only then did Xi Luo come to her senses, her expression rather strange as she reverted to her initial form as a civet cat.

And just at this moment, faint malevolent qi surged from Ruifu's corpse and flowed along the earth veins toward Li Li Boyang's position.

"Ruifu, the two-headed white-winged one, is a dragon; its body dies by malevolent qi."

Seeing this scene, Xi Luo hesitated for a moment, but in the end could only shake her head in regret.

For she knew she was powerless to stop the flow of that malevolent qi.

Ruifu was a ghost-spirit born of heaven and earth, nurtured by malevolent qi, a dragon-bird of the dragon kind.

Any creature that kills Ruifu is inevitably cursed by Ruifu and possessed by malevolent qi.

This was also a major reason why the Valkyrie from a thousand years ago, though fully capable of killing Ruifu, ultimately chose only to seal it.

When the golden sword pill severed Ruifu's first head, Xi Luo knew things had become troublesome.

She had originally intended to bite through Ruifu's second skull before Li Li Boyang could, killing the opponent herself first.

What Xi Luo did not expect was that the golden sword pill would turn its blade around so quickly and swiftly sever Ruifu's second head.

"That fellow is far too reckless; he truly knows no fear because he knows nothing!"

Mumbling indistinctly, Xi Luo began to summon clouds and rain, sending down sweet dew to extinguish the remaining ice-fire malevolent qi.

This was a divine ability of Xi Luo as the mountain god of this region.

She must resolve the lingering effects of Ruifu's death as quickly as possible before she could go visit Li Li Boyang again.

"Even dead, it still leaves behind so much trouble..."

"As my sister said, you really are a calamity star."

Looking at Ruifu's mangled corpse, Xi Luo hesitated for a moment, but in the end chose to drag them back to the nearby Mountain God Temple.

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