Chapter 531: A Single Sword Cuts Off Twenty Years

"Sure enough, demonic martial artists are weaker than martial artists of the same realm."

Li Fei, who had wiped a blade across Li Ming's throat, looked at the other party's wound and thought to himself.

Back when he intended to cultivate the demonic path, Shi Caiming had solemnly warned him—

The demonic path seems to take a shortcut, but in reality, the foundation is unstable, the risk of breaking through is high, and even if one luckily cultivates the cultivation realm up, the strength is weaker than martial artists of the same realm.

He didn't expect this law to be applicable to Martial Saints as well!

After only two rounds of fighting, Li Fei clearly felt that Li Ming's strength in both offense and defense was a notch weaker than Qin Qin Mingli on the Baifeng Plain.

And Qin Qin Mingli had been suppressed and beaten by Wen Wen Ren Zheng from beginning to end!

That Buddha of the current age had even killed his way into the Imperial Palace alone, almost fighting one against two!

Not to mention that there was still a "Supreme" pressing above everyone.

"It seems that even among top experts, the gap between each other is quite large."

Li Fei had a realization.

"Seeking death—"

A thunderous voice exploded in Li Fei's mind.

It was Li Ming, whose throat had been slashed, erupting with intense killing intent and attacking Li Fei again!

The wound on his neck had healed instantly; this minor injury meant nothing to him, but for a dignified top expert to be injured by a Grandmaster, this was a great humiliation!

Boom—

Under the firmament, the Heaven and Earth Qi within three thousand meters boiled like it was being cooked.

The substantial Qi turned into thousands of crimson lightning bolts, intertwining in the void to form a thunder prison that kept collapsing!

Li Fei was trapped in this prison; with 【No Distance】 unusable, he could hardly even move around, and could only fight head-on with Li Ming in this "prison."

The two figures collided again, and Li Ming punched toward Li Fei's head.

His fist technique had also reached the Creation Realm; every punch was like hitting space into a funnel collapsing inward, thereby creating a powerful gravitational force, making it impossible for Li Fei to dodge and forcing him to collide with the fist energy.

Li Fei didn't block and let the other party punch his head; he held the broken blade with one hand and stabbed toward the other party's lower abdomen.

This blade was also like stabbing into an ocean of Qi, suffering greater resistance than before.

But the blade's edge slashed open the ocean again, making a clanging sound of metal and iron, piercing into flesh!

Snap—

At the same time, the dragon-head battle helmet on Li Fei's head, which had only been half-repaired, was completely blown up, and the fist energy left a purplish-blue patch on his forehead.

It was because he had actively reduced the power used for defense by the battle armor and the 【Jingan】 divine ability, stacking it onto the offense!

If any other Grandmaster dared to fight like this, they would have already been head-shot by a punch.

But Li Fei had the Myriad Blood Pearl; even if he completely let go of his defense, he wouldn't die for a while.

Li Ming was somewhat unable to understand what means Li Fei used to resist his attack, but he didn't believe Li Fei could hold on forever.

With his left hand, he grabbed Li Fei's wrist holding the blade, making it impossible for Li Fei to retract the stabbed blade.

Letting Li Fei twist the blade's edge and cut a larger wound on his lower abdomen, Li Ming's right fist continued to smash toward Li Fei's head!

He possessed the divine ability 【Blood Flesh Myriad Transformation】; all tissues in his body were fused into one, and he could change his own form as he pleased.

And he no longer had any fatal weaknesses; brain, heart, internal organs, etc., even if they were all shattered, it didn't matter.

As long as his spiritual will was not extinguished and the power of the divine ability was not exhausted, Li Ming was an immortal body!

So he didn't take the damage Li Fei caused him to heart at all.

In his view, Li Fei daring to trade injury for injury with him was purely seeking death!

Originally wary of Li Fei's status as an Imperial Court minister and worried that killing this person would invite the Imperial Court's crazy retaliation, Li Ming had deliberately held back.

But Li Fei was so frantically provoking him, seeking death, so Li Ming no longer had any scruples.

"With the current foundation of the Great Lan Dynasty, how many more top experts can they kill? With the Buddhist sect watching like a tiger, do they really dare to fight me to the death?"

Li Ming's eyes were cold and crazy, his killing intent was set!

After the two exchanged a move, Li Fei recognized the 【Blood Flesh Myriad Transformation】 divine ability.

He no longer activated internal energy to destroy Li Ming's body but decisively activated 【Blood Evil】.

At this moment, the number of Blood Souls in the Myriad Blood Pearl was already below 30%, the "Blood Demon Extreme State" was activated, and all active Blood Soul skills were no longer restricted.

【Blood Evil】 (Extreme) could only convert a maximum of 10% of the total Blood Souls, which was 677 Blood Souls.

Now that the restriction was broken, Li Fei directly consumed 1,500 Blood Souls to convert into Blood Evil Qi!

The scarlet evil Qi rushed out from the broken blade's edge like a demonic creature with vitality, instantly devouring all the flesh, internal organs, and dantian in Li Ming's lower abdomen!

From the Martial Dao Master stage, the dantian was no longer a martial artist's fatal weakness; even if the Dao Foundation within the dantian was damaged, the condensed divine ability would not immediately disintegrate.

Top experts even directly turned the Dao Foundation into Dao rules; there wasn't even an implant in the dantian, so it couldn't be considered a weakness even more.

But the dantian was the "transfer point" for the internal energy of many martial arts; without a dantian, the flow of internal energy would become unsmooth.

Li Ming's Martial Saint body had long been tempered, and with 【Blood Flesh Myriad Transformation】 constantly optimizing it, protected by internal energy, it was like paper in front of this Blood Evil Qi!

Li Ming didn't expect the lethality of Li Fei's evil Qi to be so strong, and his internal energy couldn't be mobilized for a while, so he immediately activated the surging Heaven and Earth Qi to impact these evil Qi, trying to disperse them and drive them out of his body.

But the highly condensed Heaven and Earth Qi met this evil Qi like a wooden stake hitting an iron rod, and it was shattered at once!

The Blood Evil Qi was like a demonic dragon, flowing against the current, devouring Li Ming's flesh all the way, tearing toward the other party's heart!

After 【Blood Evil】 was enhanced twice, the more Blood Souls consumed, the higher the intensity of the Blood Evil Qi; it was no longer like before, only lethal to living organisms and easily dispersed by internal energy.

The Blood Evil Qi converted by Li Fei consuming 1,500 Blood Souls in the "Blood Demon Extreme State" was even far stronger than his own internal energy!

Li Ming activated internal energy and Heaven and Earth Qi to intercept while activating 【Blood Flesh Myriad Transformation】 to restore his body.

But the recovery speed couldn't keep up with the devouring speed of the Blood Evil Qi, and his heart was also completely devoured!

Li Ming had to let go of Li Fei's wrist, and another punch made Li Fei's head tilt back; the shadows of mountains, rivers, and cities shattered, and his body retreated.

The two separated again.

This time it was Li Fei's turn to take the initiative to charge forward, and he slashed another 【Not Knowing the Height of Heaven】 toward Li Ming!

Li Ming punched his own chest, creating a blood hole in his chest, only then dispersing the evil Qi in his body.

At the same time, he pushed out with one palm, and the surging Heaven and Earth Qi collided layer by layer with those thousands of phenomena, blocking the "firmament" that was collapsing.

This was the first time Li Ming had taken a defensive stance in front of Li Fei.

He stared coldly at the golden figure not far away, completely putting away his look of contempt.

He hadn't suffered such an injury for many years!

Being able to step onto the peak as a demonic martial artist was actually harder and less easy than the other top experts.

So Li Ming was definitely not an arrogant and brainless person.

After feeling the threat Li Fei brought him, he immediately corrected his mindset.

Whatever face or no face, nothing was as important as his own life!

Thus, Li Ming no longer took the initiative to fight Li Fei at close quarters and only entangled with Li Fei with majestic fist energy and nearly vast Heaven and Earth Qi.

The Blood Evil Qi converted from 1,500 Blood Souls hadn't been used up, but Li Fei was like a big ship in the middle of the ocean; although he could ride the wind and break the waves, it was very difficult to get close to Li Ming, so naturally, there was no opportunity to continue performing Blood Evil Qi.

His 【Hunyuan Sword World】 hadn't been able to absorb a single shred of Heaven and Earth Qi from the surroundings from the beginning until now.

If this continued, once his internal energy was exhausted, he would be unable to maintain the divine ability and the 【Hunyuan Sword World】, and his combat power would plummet immediately!

Li Fei felt somewhat helpless.

Li Ming was purely suppressing people with his cultivation realm.

Just like facing the 【Ten Thousand Lights Returning to Buddha】 of the Buddha-Eye Heavenly King back then, even the Myriad Blood Pearl couldn't take effect; Li Fei could only watch helplessly as his internal energy, divine abilities, and even his Martial Dao Domain were slowly "converted" and turned into the other party's power.

Now facing Li Ming's swallowing and spitting with the 【Swallowing Heaven】 Dao rule, manipulating Heaven and Earth Qi, he was also completely cut off from the "supply" of the outside world.

Without becoming a Dao rule, there was no way to compete with the other party at all; without being able to replenish even a shred of Heaven and Earth Qi, his internal energy would eventually be exhausted.

"How is it over there?"

Li Fei slashed through the surging ocean of Qi while paying attention to Ying Hua Jie's situation.

He had never hoped to defeat Li Ming; he was just trying his best to buy time for the others.

At this time, more than a dozen Grandmasters surrounded Ying Hua Jie, using various methods to try to cut off the connection between the power on Ying Hua Jie and Li Ming.

It wasn't until more than a dozen Grandmasters simultaneously unfolded their own Martial Dao Domains and wrapped Ying Hua Jie in them together that they finally achieved this point.

Boom—

Heaven and earth resonated, and the ocean of Qi raged!

Li Ming decisively abandoned Li Fei and rushed toward Ying Hua Jie.

Both fists drove the monstrous Qi, and the demonic flames turned into a pitch-black star, crashing toward the Martial Dao Domain where more than a dozen Grandmasters were stacked together.

Boom!!!!

A storm rose on the sea, and the "seawater" condensed from Qi was stirred up into a wall of Qi a hundred feet high, spreading in all directions layer by layer.

Layers of Martial Dao Domains were like eggshells being broken layer by layer, constantly shattering!

Li Fei took advantage of the decrease in the concentration of Heaven and Earth Qi around him and activated 【No Distance】 to chase after him.

But after entering the other party's five-hundred-meter range, the concentration of Qi in the spatial layers was too high, and 【No Distance】 could no longer be used.

Li Fei tore through the air and chased with all his might.

The golden figure tore through the sky!

When he was still a hundred meters away from Li Ming, Li Ming had already completely broken the dozen Martial Dao Domains wrapping Ying Hua Jie.

If the dozen Grandmasters were willing to go all out and make a move to block at any cost, they could still buy some more time.

But these Grandmasters were all focused on self-preservation; after their Martial Dao Domains were broken, they all chose to scatter and dodge.

No one stood in front of Li Ming anymore.

This demon's eyes had become completely crazy!

His expression was ferocious; he stretched out his right hand, aimed his palm at Ying Hua Jie in front, and performed the final traction.

Divine ability—【Demonic Fetus Soul Seed】!

The "seed" that had been secretly laid out fifteen years ago and carefully planted was now at the time of blooming and bearing fruit!

Although Ying Hua Jie's aura was interrupted for a moment, it had already recovered to its peak when he fought Li Fei earlier.

At this moment, under the traction of Li Ming's divine ability, Ying Hua Jie's aura climbed further, about to break through a certain critical point.

The next instant, a streak of sword light pierced through heaven and earth!

A streak of green rainbow suddenly appeared between Li Ming and Ying Hua Jie.

The whole world seemed to stand still at this moment.

Whether it was Li Fei or the other Grandmasters, everyone seemed to be in an ink wash painting, watching a paintbrush suddenly leave a heavy stroke at the very top of the scroll!

Thus, the world of only black and white had an extra touch of green.

This color was so bright, vivid, and intoxicating.

A stunning shadow, heaven and earth were all dyed!

When everyone came back to their senses, the black flames on Ying Hua Jie had completely extinguished, and his aura also began to fall uncontrollably.

Li Fei immediately turned his gaze to Li Ming.

He saw this demon who shook the world, from his left eye to his lower abdomen, appear with a sword mark, and then using the sword mark as a boundary, the left half of his body was directly annihilated by sword Qi!

At the same time, the remaining half of Li Ming's body turned into a ball of blood light and flew away into the distance.

Just as the blood light left, a figure appeared in the air.

The newcomer wore green clothes and a cloak, covering his face, holding an ordinary iron sword.

Compared to Li Ming's monstrous appearance earlier, this person was like the most inconspicuous ordinary swordsman in the Jianghu.

She looked in the direction where the blood light fled and drew a line forward with the iron sword in her hand.

A green wave suddenly appeared in the firmament in the distance, blocking the path of the blood light, surging over and covering the sky!

The blood light immediately turned and changed direction, but new waves appeared in front.

In the blink of an eye, four waves emerged.

The newcomer seemed to use the three-foot green blade in her hand as a paintbrush, painting on the ten-thousand-mile blue sky, drawing a "well" character!

Li Ming became the person trapped in the "well," forced to sit in the well and look at the sky.

This was a premeditated Creation-level sword technique, with sword Qi from all directions long since laid out silently to seal heaven and earth!

"Ning Ning Qingman!!!"

Li Ming's roar resounded through heaven and earth.

Hearing this name, Li Fei couldn't help but pause.

"Sword Immortal" Ning Ning Qingman?

One of the Seven Martial Saints, the only loose cultivator among the top experts in the world!

"Did she happen to pass by here, or was she waiting for a rabbit?"

Li Fei didn't think there was such a coincidence; a Mount Mount Tiansha could attract two top experts at the same time.

"Was it premeditated? Does she have a grudge against Li Ming?"

Li Fei stopped chasing and looked at the figure a hundred meters away.

Including this one, except for the Pavilion Master of the Red Dust Pavilion, he had already seen six of the Seven Martial Saints.

The sword Qi waves came from far to near, and the "well" character in the air kept shrinking.

Li Ming, trapped inside, fully activated his divine ability to restore his body.

The most ruthless part of Ning Ning Qingman's sword strike just now was not the direct damage to his body, but that at the critical moment when he was about to succeed, she struck to completely cut off his connection with Ying Hua Jie, thereby causing him to suffer backlash!

Being able to strike the vital point like this at the most critical moment showed that the other party had long been targeting him.

"When did you find out?"

Li Ming asked unwillingly.

For the sake of today, he had secretly laid out his pieces on the grassland, preparing for a full twenty years!

Only then did he silently replace the first warrior of the Sakaze Temple, Huyan Hetai.

In order to get rid of Ning Ning Qingman's interference, he had also set up a false array before launching, leading the other party to the depths of the grassland.

Ning Ning Qingman was indeed led away and had even made a move in the grassland before, which was seen by people of the Grassland Royal Court. (See Chapter 78, Volume 4 for details)

As a result, the other party appeared here today.

This meant that even if Li Fei hadn't come out to stir up trouble, he would have found it difficult to succeed today.

Twenty years of plotting, cut off by a single sword!

Li Ming, in addition to his fury, also felt a chill in his heart.

How did Ning Ning Qingman see through his layout?

If he couldn't figure this out, even if he escaped alive today, he would live in fear in the future.

Ning Ning Qingman didn't answer Li Ming; she held her long sword upside down and walked toward the other party with a leisurely pace.

Boom—

A sea tide rose in the "well"!

Seeing that the surging Heaven and Earth Qi was about to break through this "well," Ning Ning Qingman struck another sword.

This sword was high and mighty, just pointing at the very center of the "well" character.

The sword light flashed and disappeared, not as magnificent as before.

But the surging Heaven and Earth Qi suddenly calmed down, slowly overflowing from the "well" mouth.

Li Ming lost his control over Heaven and Earth Qi for a time, and 【Swallowing Heaven】 was broken just like that!

Li Ming was not surprised at all by this.

He had fought Ning Ning Qingman for so many years and was already familiar with the other party's Dao rule.

The Dao rule of "Sword Immortal" Ning Ning Qingman was named—【Sword Solution】.

All martial arts in the world can be broken with one sword.

The power of the Great Dao can be solved with one sword.

This was a Dao rule specifically for breaking others' Dao rules!

Just in terms of killing power, even Wen Wen Ren Zheng was not as good as this female sword immortal!

So Li Ming was extremely wary of Ning Ning Qingman and didn't want to confront her head-on at all.

After a round of fighting, the "well" mouth had shrunk to the extreme, and the green sword tide squeezed toward Li Ming from all directions.

Boom—

The blood light transformed by Li Ming was submerged by the tide of sword Qi!

But the next second, hundreds of more subtle blood lights exploded from the sword Qi tide and flew in all directions.

The ear-piercing sonic booms were continuous!

This was Li Ming fully activating 【Blood Flesh Myriad Transformation】, actively decomposing himself into hundreds of pieces of flesh and blood, and then scattering to escape.

He had the 【Demonic Fetus Soul Seed】 divine ability, which could divide his spiritual will into "seeds" and hide them in the flesh and blood body.

There was also the 【Regeneration】 divine ability, which could allow limbs to grow and recover rapidly.

Combined with several divine abilities, plus the dual enhancement of the Martial Dao Domain and Dao rule power, even if only a piece of flesh and blood the size of a fist remained, Li Ming could slowly recover a complete body!

Compared to Qin Qin Mingli's level-nine True Dragon body, Li Ming was only inferior in the speed of physical recovery, but in terms of survival ability, he was not inferior at all, and even had more.

【Demonic Fetus Soul Seed】 allowed Li Ming to restore a complete "soul" at any time, so as long as one of these hundreds of pieces of flesh and blood could escape, he could rely on the unparalleled Heaven and Earth Qi swallowing speed of 【Swallowing Heaven】 to recover quickly.

From the very beginning, Li Ming had formulated such an escape plan and never thought about fighting Ning Ning Qingman.

Although Ning Ning Qingman's killing power was strong, it was only strong in one-on-one combat.

Means like movement, tracking, group damage, etc., were only considered "average" among top experts.

Li Ming was counting on this point, so he would rather be severely injured again than use this method to escape.

Just as hundreds of blood lights flew to escape in all directions, the deafening roar echoed in heaven and earth once again.

The Qi storm reappeared, and the eye of the storm was exactly the position where Ning Ning Qingman was!

Ning Ning Qingman still just stabbed out a sword lightly.

Heaven and earth hung with a green rainbow, and the firmament was dyed green!

The Qi storm was broken, but after such a delay, those blood lights had already flown a distance.

Ning Ning Qingman struck with her sword rapidly, and most of the blood lights were swept away by the sword Qi from a distance.

Li Fei decisively activated 【No Distance】 to chase in the direction the other party couldn't take care of, and then used 【No Distance】 to continuously strike out sword Qi from a distance to attack those blood lights!

"Li Fei! If you don't stop, I will definitely kill everyone you care about in the future!!"

Li Ming's roar exploded in Li Fei's mind.

Li Fei's expression remained unchanged, and the sword Qi continued.

If Ning Ning Qingman hadn't appeared, he wouldn't have had the heart to kill Li Ming.

But since this female sword immortal had already crippled Li Ming, how could he hesitate?

It was a pity that his sword Qi attack from a distance was still a bit weak, unable to directly break Li Ming's divided blood lights, and could only slightly hinder these blood lights from escaping.

The remaining Grandmasters, only a few made a move to intercept the blood lights, and the others didn't move. They had also received Li Ming's death threat and were afraid of the consequences, so they weren't that decisive.

The green sword Qi arrived shortly after, sweeping away another part of the blood lights.

But the remaining few groups of blood lights actually divided into even more subtle blood lights, a total of seventeen blood lights continuing to escape in different directions!

"This is too damn hard to kill..."

Li Fei felt somewhat helpless.

These blood lights were extremely fast and scattered to escape; even if Li Fei's speed was faster, it was very difficult to catch them all in one net.

Main peak of Mount Mount Tiansha, on the mountain terrace.

When "Sword Immortal" Ning Ning Qingman suddenly appeared, the Minghuang Sword in Shen Tuyue's hand trembled slightly.

Shen Tuyue was startled, but she remained calm and stood silently in the crowd, looking up at the battle.

Until Li Ming turned into a sky full of blood lights and scattered to escape, and Ning Ning Qingman and Li Fei and others still couldn't intercept them all, the Minghuang Sword in Shen Tuyue's hand finally could no longer be controlled.

Clang—

The divine weapon was unsheathed!

It was unclear whether it was sword light or blade light; a streak of extremely gorgeous crimson flashed across the firmament.

The experts present clearly didn't sense any earth-shattering power from it, but their minds couldn't help but sway.

The stronger the person, the more intense the sensation.

Li Fei's mind was trance-like; in the dark, he felt as if something had been cut off.

When he came back to his senses, he saw that of the seventeen blood lights that were escaping rapidly, sixteen had suddenly slowed down and fallen from the sky!

Ning Ning Qingman chased after the only blood light that was still escaping without hesitation.

Li Fei was even closer to this blood light; he also reacted and immediately activated 【No Distance】 to chase after it!

"Wen Wen Xuexian! It really is you—"

Li Ming's voice, full of resentment, resounded through heaven and earth.

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