Chapter 539

The reason Li Fei had been obsessed with flying swords from the beginning was that he envied the coolness of flying swords.

He had also fantasized about being a peerless sword practitioner, shouting 'Sword, come!' when facing a strong enemy, then sweeping with one sword, and the enemy being reduced to ashes.

This scene, just thinking about it, felt very cool!

Now facing two peak experts, at the most critical moment, Li Fei had a breakthrough on the spot.

The timing, scene, and conditions were all very suitable.

Only the way of dealing with the enemy was a bit different from what he had imagined...

Using the fire of the heavenly tribulation to temper his own body, and using the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to strengthen the flying sword body.

This time, Li Fei's strengthening was different from the previous one; he removed the impurities in his body, greatly enhanced the purity of the flying sword body, and increased its strength, but the essence of life did not change significantly.

Or rather, when vitality was strong to such a degree, except for relying on the Ten Thousand Blood Bead to upgrade or breaking through a major realm, it was already very difficult for Li Fei to enhance his life essence.

So this time, strengthening the flying sword body did not increase the number of blood souls.

However, the flying sword body became purer, and its strength increased, which also enhanced Li Fei's defense and damage-bearing limit.

The limit of 【Blood Rage】 increased from 1800 blood souls to 2000, and his own strength increased from 800 blood rage power to 1000.

More importantly, the sword intent, sword energy, and sword momentum erupted from the flying sword body were all elevated by a notch!

If Li Fei was like a sword embryo that had not been fully formed before.

Then this strengthening was a quenching and sharpening, allowing a peerless divine sword to be completely formed!

This was why Ning Qingman was attracted to Li Fei at this moment.

When she heard this sword immortal shout her name, Li Fei rushed toward her without hesitation, preparing to join forces to fight the enemy.

By the time he was about to rush over, Ning Qingman's next sentence reached his ears:

"Lend me your sword!"

Li Fei was a bit confused: "Lend me your sword, how to lend it?"

Before he could react, a peerless Dao Rule power enveloped his body.

This was Ning Qingman's 【Sword Solution】; the moment it touched the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 on Li Fei's body, it was like the scorching sun meeting the first snow.

The 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 rapidly dissolved and deformed.

Li Fei suddenly realized something.

"Wait a minute..."

But Ning Qingman did not give him a chance to refuse.

Li Fei could certainly resist, but with a great enemy in front, it was impossible for him to 'infight' at this time.

So in the blink of an eye, the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】, which originally looked like battle armor, turned into a long sword—

The whole body was dark golden, with ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers, clouds, mist, and frost on the blade...

The hilt had a swimming dragon coiling around it, the dragon's mouth containing a pearl, connected to the blade, and the words 'Jing'an' were engraved on the end of the hilt.

The world-renowned Marquis of Jing'an had now transformed into a two-handed heavy sword one foot wide and seven feet long!

Since the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 could transform into battle armor, transforming into a sword was not a difficult task.

With Li Fei's control over his body, plus the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability, hiding himself in this sword was also not a difficult task.

It was just that Li Fei himself had not expected this kind of development at all...

Ning Qingman rarely showed excitement, holding the hilt with one hand.

The sword immortal holding the divine sword!

A thousand meters away, Li Ming's scalp went numb.

Ning Qingman without a sword already had peerless sword intent, killing him until he was in a sorry state.

At this moment, with a sword in hand, before she had even struck, she made the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered around Li Ming fluctuate unceasingly!

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Ming blasted his fists forward, and the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered frantically, turning into a ball of light as large as a mountain, instantly crossing the distance of a thousand meters and colliding with Ning Qingman.

Space twisted and collapsed accordingly!

At the same time, a Nether River descended from the sky, and the power of 【Forget River】 enveloped Ning Qingman.

Just now, Li Fei's sword intent broke through the 'Mind Tribulation' that was about to descend; under the traction of the energy, the remaining 'Mind Tribulation' also fell at this moment.

The ability of the two demons to grasp the timing was unquestionable.

Ning Qingman held the long sword, and peerless sword intent erupted—

Heaven and earth turned into an ink landscape painting again, black and white intertwined, and the power of 【Forget River】 turned into a large splash of ink, intending to dye the painting completely black.

The Mind Tribulation was like graffiti lines on the painting, intending to turn the painting into a mess.

A touch of green suddenly appeared in the center of the painting, and then rapidly spread to the surroundings.

Amidst the ink landscape, a green lotus bloomed, covering everything and taking away all the charm!

Whether it was the power of 【Forget River】 or the Mind Tribulation, they were all swept away by the sword intent.

Subsequently, a flash of sword light lit up; at first, it was just a point of brightness on the black curtain, and then heaven and earth turned white!

Li Ming's fist intent, fist momentum, and fist moves, blasted out with all his might, were pierced through by one sword.

The majestic spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered by the 【Swallowing Heaven】 Dao Rule disintegrated accordingly.

Storms, Nether Rivers, Dao Rules, heavenly tribulations—

All were broken by one sword!

Without any hesitation, Li Ming turned and ran.

While running, he activated 【Flesh Myriad Transformation】 and 【Demon Fetus Soul Seed】 with all his might, allowing himself to divide into hundreds of blood lights, flying in all directions.

He had used this move before at Mount Tiansha; if Wen Xuexian hadn't suddenly made a move to cut off the causal connection between him and his clones, Ning Qingman actually wouldn't have been able to keep him, and he wouldn't have been forced to borrow the soul seed to resurrect.

Just as the hundreds of blood lights scattered, Ning Qingman had already arrived.

Just now, when she broke the combined attack of the two demons, it was a vertical slash; this time, it was a horizontal sweep.

It seemed that the sword techniques of the world, in her hands, were nothing more than one horizontal and one vertical.

Space, under this sword, was like a pool of lake water, rippling and spreading to the surroundings.

All the blood lights were swept by the ripples, and then disintegrated one after another!

Previously, when Ning Qingman fought Li Ming, every time she used 【Sword Solution】 to break the opponent's 【Swallowing Heaven】 Dao Rule, she had no energy left to continue breaking the opponent's divine abilities.

So every time, she could only leave Li Ming injured but not dead, allowing him to recover with the 【Flesh Myriad Transformation】 and 【Regeneration】 divine abilities.

But now, with the divine sword in hand, Ning Qingman's sword cultivation immediately rose by a notch!

One sword thrust out, first breaking the Dao Rule, then breaking the divine ability!

All the blood lights dissipated, leaving only one mass of blood light, barely maintaining a human shape.

Ning Qingman chased after him with her sword.

"Old ghost!!!"

Li Ming roared.

But the Ancestor of the Nether River did not make a move to intercept Ning Qingman.

This sword immortal held the divine sword and thrust it toward the blood light transformed by Li Ming.

The dazzling sword light pierced through the blood light, and the demon was executed!

The soul seed that Li Ming had hidden in advance was a divine ability used beforehand; Ning Qingman could not yet use the 'Present Sword' to slash the 'Past Body', so Li Ming could still resurrect.

It was just that after resurrecting twice in a short period of time, Li Ming's realm would probably fall to the very bottom of the Martial Saint realm.

It would be very difficult to have a third chance to resurrect.

After solving Li Ming, Ning Qingman turned to look at Tancheng below.

She saw a dark blue meteor that had already broken through the ground and was flying toward the outside of the city.

In order to guide the heavenly tribulation into Tancheng, the true body of the Ancestor of the Nether River had been hiding somewhere underground in Tancheng.

Seeing that the situation was not right, he sold out his teammate without hesitation and chose to retreat.

Anyway, the heavenly tribulation had been completely endured, so he had gained and not lost.

Ning Qingman gritted her teeth and wanted to chase, but her aura was a bit unstable.

Breaking the combined attack of two peak experts with a few swords and forcefully killing one of them...

Ning Qingman looked light and airy, but in reality, it was not easy, and the consumption was huge.

At this moment, she felt a majestic force of qi and blood surging from the divine sword in her hand!

Not only that, there was also vast power from heaven and earth continuously gathering toward the sword body.

"This is..."

Ning Qingman was stunned and quickly reacted.

This was Li Fei using his divine ability.

He first used 【Blood Rage】, then used 【Dragon Elephant】!

So Ning Qingman stepped forward to chase the fleeing Ancestor of the Nether River.

A flash of green rainbow cut through the sky, chasing the dark blue meteor ahead.

Amidst the lightning speed, Ning Qingman felt a force of heaven and earth pushing her forward, as if in the dark, the surrounding heaven and earth were helping her.

"Is this the 【Jing'an】 divine ability? Truly miraculous."

Ning Qingman praised secretly in her heart and soon caught up with the Ancestor of the Nether River ahead.

She dragged the heavy sword with one hand and suddenly threw it forward!

Whoosh—

The sword light turned into a golden river!

A black hole appeared in front, and then a dark blue Nether River carrying hundreds of thousands of vengeful spirits whistled out, colliding with the golden river.

Boom!!!

The two rivers collided, stirring up thousand-foot waves.

Immediately after, the Nether River disintegrated, and the vengeful spirits were completely purified by the sword intent, no longer able to resurrect within the Nether King Palace.

For these vengeful spirits, it was undoubtedly a relief.

The Ancestor of the Nether River's 【Forget River】 was good at strong control but not at strong attacks, so this collision fell completely into a disadvantage, having his Nether River defeated by the river of sword energy in one fell swoop, and charging into his Nether King Palace!

An ear-piercing wail sounded between heaven and earth, and the meteor ahead suddenly erupted, flying away at a faster speed and disappearing into the horizon.

It was the Ancestor of the Nether River who did not know what kind of secret technique he had used to forcibly accelerate his escape!

Ning Qingman did not chase anymore, falling from the sky onto a hillside.

Immediately after, the long sword in her hand turned into light, and Li Fei reappeared in front of her, his expression a bit strange.

Just now, transforming into a divine sword and being held in Ning Qingman's hand made him feel as if he had also become a sword immortal, controlling the power of Dao Rules!

He lent his power to Ning Qingman without reservation, and then unified it with 【Sword Solution】 to control it; this was the reason Ning Qingman's combat power had soared.

"Ning..."

"Pfft—"

Before Li Fei could finish speaking, Ning Qingman suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood!

Li Fei was startled and hurriedly took a step forward.

"I'm fine."

Ning Qingman waved her hand.

She had fought one against two and was already injured.

Then forcefully erupting, first killing Li Ming, then injuring the Ancestor of the Nether River, naturally she had to pay a price.

"The two of them will only be more serious than me!"

Ning Qingman wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth indifferently.

Her green shirt was soaked with blood, her dark hair was like a flowing spring spilling into the galaxy, flying in the air amidst the surging sword energy.

The sword intent around her body was like a cold pool and a lonely moon, reflecting the blade's edge, possessing a unique aesthetic.

Such a sword immortal was something Li Fei had never seen before.

"Li Fei, great kindness needs no thanks."

Ning Qingman looked at Li Fei and said solemnly.

This time, Li Fei turning back to participate in the battle was not only a life-saving grace for her, but also a grace of protecting her Dao!

Li Ming had racked his brains to set up this heart-questioning trap for Ning Qingman; although dangerous, after passing it, Ning Qingman's sword heart would have no flaws!

Besides that, just now holding the sword in hand and defeating the two great demons also gave Ning Qingman more insights into the sword Dao.

She could almost conclude that after her injuries healed this time, her cultivation would be able to advance further!

At her realm, every small step of improvement was harder than breaking through a major realm before, and the harvest was greater!

So Li Fei's actions today were an unadulterated great kindness to Ning Qingman.

Li Fei looked into Ning Qingman's eyes and smiled:

"As a high-ranking official of the imperial court, I have the responsibility to defend the land and protect the people; how can I allow demons to be rampant? Sword Immortal Ning does not need to thank me; it should be me thanking you for saving tens of thousands of commoners of my Great Lan Dynasty."

Ning Qingman looked blankly at Li Fei, making him feel a bit flustered.

He always felt that there was a bit of inexplicable covetousness in this gaze, but it was also different from the gazes of those wealthy young ladies looking at him.

"It's a pity that I still couldn't kill a demon."

Li Fei forcibly changed the subject.

Ning Qingman came back to her senses and looked away with a guilty conscience:

"Where are peak experts so easy to kill?"

As peak experts, who didn't have a few life-saving trump cards?

The three peak experts who had died in the last hundred years:

One was Qingxu, who wanted to establish a Daoist state; he would rather die than fail, and never thought about escaping.

One was Qiming, who was also seeking death and did not intend to escape again.

One was Xiang Yunshu, who took the initiative to fight with his life; let alone escaping, he didn't intend to live at all!

Changing to other peak experts, as long as they didn't seek death, they were very hard to kill.

"It's just that although the Ancestor of the Nether River ran away and the heavenly tribulation was blocked, tens of thousands of commoners in Tancheng were contaminated by vengeful spirits after all, so they still need to be carefully checked to avoid leaving any sequelae."

Ning Qingman said worriedly.

She had saved these commoners in the city with such difficulty, and she did not want the final result to be a bitter fruit, leaving regrets.

It was just that this was not what she was good at, and treating tens of thousands of people involved too much workload, which was not something she could do with one person and one sword.

"Sword Immortal Ning does not need to worry about this; I have already arranged it."

Li Fei said composedly.

"Oh?"

Ning Qingman looked at him in surprise.

The other party had clearly just been held in her hand, so how could he have arranged it?

"Sword Immortal Ning has roamed the Jianghu for many years; do you know what is most important in roaming the Jianghu?"

Li Fei asked with a smile.

Ning Qingman: "Strength?"

Li Fei: "Background."

Ning Qingman: "..."

Li Fei pointed in the direction of the Ding'an Fucheng:

"Before I took Nie Susu away, I also went to the Fucheng and contacted the Garrison Commander of Ding'an Prefecture and the local Lan Xun Pavilion, asking them to send a message to the Dongping Provincial City and Dongping University in my name, gathering the troops of the entire province and the warlocks of the entire province, as well as the power of Dongping University, to rush to Tancheng immediately!"

The straight-line distance between Tancheng and Ding'an City was more than two hundred kilometers.

Li Fei utilized 【No Distance】 with all his might, and at his fastest, he could move eight thousand meters in one second.

So he could control the round trip from Tancheng to Ding'an Fucheng within one minute!

It was just that such high intensity, continuously utilizing 【No Distance】, was a huge consumption.

Li Fei had to use the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to convert a large number of blood souls into mental power and the source power required for the implant, only then could he maintain the consumption.

Hearing Li Fei say this, Ning Qingman immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

She was used to being alone, having long been accustomed to solving all problems with one person and one sword, but she had forgotten that there was still a big figure of the imperial court by her side.

Dongping Province had previously been a firm 'Crown Prince Party', and now it was naturally a firm 'Emperor Party'.

So with one word from Li Fei, the entire Dongping Province moved accordingly!

Now all parties were rushing to Tancheng.

Next, Ning Qingman returned to Tancheng, while Li Fei went to find Nie Susu and brought her back.

On the flight, he finally had time to carefully study the harvest after the Ten Thousand Blood Bead upgraded.

Previously, when the Ten Thousand Blood Bead unlocked new abilities, it was all unlocked when the number of blood souls exceeded a certain amount.

This time, it was unlocked because the level reached level 50.

What was unlocked was not a new soul skill or transformation skill, but something brand new—

Blood Crystal!

Li Fei extended his right hand, and there was a small blood-colored chip in his palm.

The patterns in this chip seemed to contain the ultimate principles of heaven and earth, making people forget themselves upon seeing it, and their minds could not help but be invested in it.

"Dao Rule Fragment!"

Li Fei revealed a look of surprise.

After the Ten Thousand Blood Bead upgraded to level 50, the blood crystal condensed was a Dao Rule fragment!

Every divine ability could be regarded as a Dao Rule fragment, and deep within the blood crystal in Li Fei's hand were two characters—Blood Rage.

This was the Dao Rule fragment corresponding to the blood soul skill 【Blood Rage】.

With this blood crystal, from now on, Li Fei would not need to consume blood souls to use 【Blood Rage】!

All along, the blood soul skills bestowed by the Ten Thousand Blood Bead were part of Li Fei's combat power, and they were very important, making him equivalent to having several more divine abilities.

But in reality, these blood soul skills could not be considered true divine abilities.

One was that in terms of 'priority', they were not as good as divine abilities, and blood soul skills could be restrained by martial arts.

The second was that performing these blood soul skills required consuming blood souls, which was consuming Li Fei's own life.

So every time Li Fei fought across realms, more than half of his health bar was actually consumed by himself, and he did not truly exert his advantage of having thick blood.

But now it was different!

With the blood crystal, Li Fei could perform blood soul skills without consuming blood souls, but like performing divine abilities, he could perform them by consuming his own power.

It was even more effortless than divine abilities, because divine abilities also required mental power, force, qi and blood, and the power of the implant to be consumed together.

And blood soul skills with blood crystals only needed to consume the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to be performed!

Li Fei put away the blood crystal and began to look forward to it.

This blood crystal corresponded to 【Blood Rage】; the Ten Thousand Blood Bead would continue to upgrade, and there should be new blood crystals condensed, at which time he would be able to 'liberate' more blood soul skills.

"Sword Immortal Ning said before that everyone can only possess one kind of Dao Rule. Even if Lin Tianyi combined law and martial arts, he only condensed one kind of Dao Rule."

Li Fei suddenly thought of one point:

"When I break through the realm in the future and step onto the peak, I will be able to possess one kind of Dao Rule. And this Ten Thousand Blood Bead continuously upgrades, condensing more blood crystals; when these blood crystals turn into Dao Rule fragments and combine together in the future, they should also be able to form a kind of Dao Rule."

"In this way, wouldn't it be contrary to the Great Dao of heaven and earth?"

"Or is it that I have the possibility of breaking this restriction and possessing two kinds of Dao Rules, unprecedented?"

Thinking of this, Li Fei's heartbeat began to accelerate.

Even with his current composure, it was hard to avoid being a bit excited!

"A Dao Rule is composed of at most seven fragments, and my blood soul skills plus transformation skills total six."

"In that case, the Ten Thousand Blood Bead can condense at least five more blood crystals, and at most six more blood crystals?"

Li Fei had new associations.

"It took level 50 to condense the first blood crystal; if it takes 10 levels to condense one blood crystal next, to condense seven blood crystals, wouldn't I have to upgrade the Ten Thousand Blood Bead to level 110?!"

Thinking of this, Li Fei immediately calmed down.

Upgrading the Ten Thousand Blood Bead to level 50 was already very difficult; to upgrade to level 110, when would that be?

When he calmed his state of mind, he suddenly discovered a point different from the past.

After refining the Ghost Slaying Blade into a 'sword scabbard', by relying on 【Refining Gold with Fire】, he was performing self-harm every moment, thereby letting the Ten Thousand Blood Bead absorb energy.

And he suddenly discovered that the speed at which the Ten Thousand Blood Bead's energy value increased was actually faster than before!

One must know that every time the Ten Thousand Blood Bead upgraded one level, the required energy value would be much higher than the previous level.

Previously, when Li Fei possessed 【Refining Gold with Fire】, the Ten Thousand Blood Bead was only level 47.

Now it had upgraded 3 levels, already reaching level 50.

The speed of energy value increase should be much slower than before.

"Is it because the Ten Thousand Blood Bead condensed blood crystals, so the demand for energy has become less?"

Such a guess flashed through Li Fei's heart.

The blood crystal was the only variable, so this guess was highly likely to be true.

"In this way, I don't have to worry that it might take decades to upgrade the Ten Thousand Blood Bead's level."

A smile appeared on Li Fei's face.

The harvest from dealing with the two great demons this time far exceeded his imagination!

He suddenly looked forward to meeting these two people again.

Seeking monthly tickets.

(End of chapter)