Chapter 588: Sword Cultivator

After a slaughter, only the Rabbit and Horse of the "Twelve Owls" remained alive, having been captured.

All other core members were executed!

With this, the "Twelve Owls," this top-tier assassin team, was essentially wiped out, leaving only a few peripheral members responsible for intelligence.

The interrogation work was handled personally by Li Fei.

He was not a professional interrogator, but having mastered the "Gate of the Dream Realm," he could enter the "Dream Realm" and directly obtain information by probing others' subconscious minds.

Martial artists at the Qi Transformation realm had a massive gap in mental strength compared to Li Fei, and even if they occupied "home field," they could hardly resist Li Fei's probing.

As for the Rabbit and Horse at the Dao Foundation realm, Li Fei had already left them with immense psychological trauma!

In the hearts of these two, Li Fei was like an invincible demon king!

So when this demon king suddenly appeared in their subconscious, the two could hardly muster any will to resist, and were quickly broken by Li Fei, who took whatever he wanted!

Li Fei wanted to know the information about the employer behind them through these two, but even the leader, Dragon, was unaware of this, and the Rabbit and Horse were equally ignorant.

Regarding this, Li Fei did not find it surprising.

The person behind the scenes was bold enough to hire assassins to kill an imperial envoy; how could they be found out so easily?

However, through the Rabbit and Horse, Li Fei learned that the deposit for this mission had been paid through three different channels.

"Three parties want to kill me?"

Li Fei reacted quickly.

Following these three payment channels, one could probably find some clues, but obtaining definitive evidence was certainly impossible.

The person behind the scenes could not be stupid enough to leave behind any handle.

Li Fei could roughly guess which three parties wanted to kill him.

After confirming that no more information could be obtained from the Rabbit and Horse, Li Fei decisively killed them both.

Both of them had seen him use his "Blood Demon State," so he did not intend to leave them alive.

In any case, he did not count on using these people to testify against anyone, and since these people deserved to die, Li Fei did not want to let them live for even one more second!

It was past three in the morning before Li Fei finally had some free time.

At this moment, they suddenly received intelligence from the Grand Luo Sect:

The True Person who escaped might pass through Mingjia Town this morning!

"My lord, you have just gone through a great battle and there is no need to continue participating in combat. We have already performed a great service by wiping out the 'Twelve Owls.' Even if we don't intercept that Grand Luo Sect True Person, the imperial court will not blame us."

Upon learning the intelligence, Lu Wenxing immediately advised Li Fei.

The "Twelve Owls" were heinous and had committed numerous crimes, with arrest warrants in many provinces.

Li Fei leading a team to wipe out such an assassin team was definitely a great achievement!

So even if they failed to intercept that True Person, it would be enough to make up for it.

But Li Fei did not intend to respond so passively.

The appearance of the "Twelve Owls" made him realize that his enemies could no longer hold back.

Although he had made many contributions during this trip to the Grand Luo Sect, it was not 100% certain that he could reopen Shangguan Xiao's case.

Therefore, Li Fei was unwilling to let go of any opportunity to earn merit.

Moreover, facing a True Person was relatively much safer than facing a Martial Arts Master.

The Myriad Blood Bead could transfer all direct physical damage, but on the mental level, there were two situations:

Direct mental damage could be transferred.

Other mental influences, such as perception shielding caused by various Dao energies, hallucinations, hypnosis, sensory distortion, suppression, sealing, etc., could not be transferred by the Myriad Blood Bead.

But if these mental influences were caused by spells, then Li Fei could almost completely immunize himself against them with the Myriad Blood Bead!

When he first participated in the practical monthly exam at the Xingcheng Martial Arts Hall and encountered the hypnosis spell activated by that altar, he had resisted it with the Myriad Blood Bead.

Later, when he went alone to track the people of the Soul-Calming Sect, he also ignored the maze they left behind by relying on the Myriad Blood Bead.

In the battle early this morning, the "Cursed Grudge Array" activated by Xu Gou using the Blood Grudge Skeleton was likewise ignored by Li Fei.

As long as it was a spell targeting the mental level, whether it was a direct attack or not, the Myriad Blood Bead could resist it!

Previously, Li Fei could not figure out the difference, but now that he was a dual cultivator of magic and martial arts and had read Lin Tian's notes, he had some understanding:

With the manifestation of the virtual mind and the introversion of mental power, all effects caused by spells were direct erosion of others' spirits, which would more or less cause damage to others' spirits, so the Myriad Blood Bead could transfer this kind of damage.

To some extent, Li Fei, who possessed the Myriad Blood Bead, could be considered a "Spellcaster Killer"!

"I want to try to intercept that True Person."

Li Fei said to Lu Wenxing.

He had the Myriad Blood Bead to restrain the opponent, and since the opponent was already seriously injured, it was not impossible for him to fight.

Lu Wenxing sighed, knowing he could not persuade him.

Fortunately, Li Fei was not the kind of leader who let his subordinates rush into danger, so Lu Wenxing was not that worried about his own safety.

He was just worried that the powerful figure he had finally decided to rely on would accidentally fall here.

At dawn, there were many villagers on the road riding ox carts and mule carts, preparing to go to Mingjia Town for the early market.

Beep—

A car horn suddenly sounded from afar.

The villagers on the road hurriedly dodged to the left and right.

Soon, a black sedan drove past these villagers.

Sitting in the passenger seat of the car was an old man wearing a gray robe.

The old man was resting with his eyes closed in his seat, looking quite extraordinary.

He was the Peak Master of the Grand Luo Sect's Tiandu Peak—True Person Qingyu!

When True Monarch Qingxu acted, he was left in the Grand Luo Sect to be responsible for the operation of some restrictions, used to suppress those who opposed True Monarch Qingxu.

Later, True Monarch Qingxu failed, and the Grand Luo Sect's restrictions backfired, causing him to be severely injured as well, after which he fled the Grand Luo Sect immediately.

His natal magic treasure was a flying sword, which allowed him to fly, so he was not caught up by the pursuers behind him in a short time.

But the consumption of flying was too great, and it was too easy to leave traces for others to track him down, so after flying for a distance, True Person Qingyu landed and chose to flee by vehicle.

At this time, the owner of the car he was riding in had fallen under his illusion, carrying him over a hundred kilometers.

True Person Qingyu knew that the final landing point of his flight would surely be discovered by the Grand Luo Sect soon, and the other party should be able to judge his possible escape route based on his landing point, thereby sending people to intercept him in advance.

The key was how powerful the people the Grand Luo Sect and the imperial court could send to intercept him in a short time?

Being able to become a Peak Master of the Twelve Peaks of Grand Luo, True Person Qingyu's strength was naturally not weak, and as a sword cultivator with the strongest killing power, even if his injuries had not healed, he was confident that he could kill his way out of the encirclement!

The car soon arrived at Mingjia Town, and a checkpoint had been set up on the road ahead.

True Person Qingyu opened his eyes and looked at the checkpoint ahead.

Two Dao Foundation realm martial artists, and more than a dozen Qi Transformation realm martial artists.

This lineup made True Person Qingyu relax a lot.

"One sword is enough."

He thought to himself.

At this time, the car was still more than three hundred meters away from the checkpoint ahead, and just as he intended to sacrifice his natal flying sword, three figures suddenly rushed out of the woods on the right side of the road.

These three people looked exactly the same and rushed toward the car with knives at high speed.

True Person Qingyu was startled; when had he been exposed?

He had hidden very well along the way, restrained his spell aura, and covered his heavenly secrets; even if the other party wanted to find him, shouldn't they have stopped the car for inspection first and then acted after noticing something wrong?

How did these people confirm that he was in this car?

There was no time to think, and True Person Qingyu sacrificed his natal flying sword.

When the three people rushing from the roadside were seven or eight meters away from the car, a blue sword light flew out from the car window, and then with a flash of the sword light, these three people were almost simultaneously cut in half at the waist!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The three people exploded into three clusters of bloody baleful energy.

The person who attacked was naturally Li Fei.

Through the "Dream Realm," he had seen a blurry shadow moving toward this side from afar.

The shadow was blurry, indicating that the person had used some kind of concealment method, but in the "Dream Realm," concealment could not be made indistinguishable from ordinary people.

At this time, a powerhouse who deliberately hid himself suddenly appeared, and Li Fei easily guessed that this was True Person Qingyu.

So he condensed clones in advance, ambushed them by the roadside, and then took the initiative to attack.

When the three clones were blown up, Li Fei's main body jumped out from the field on the left, rushed onto the road, and swung his knife at the car True Person Qingyu was riding in.

In fact, this interception mission by Li Fei and the others did not require them to actually stop True Person Qingyu; that was simply unrealistic.

They only needed to be able to destroy True Person Qingyu's vehicle, delay the opponent's time, and consume the opponent's true energy to complete the mission.

The golden blade light slashed by Li Fei was shattered by that blue sword light just as it was about to touch the car door.

He did not stop his feet and continued to rush forward.

True Person Qingyu glanced at Li Fei, and a virtual thought turned into a spell, instantly hitting Li Fei.

He was using the Grand Luo Sect's "Heavenly Seal Art," where the virtual thought turned into a seal, like acting on behalf of heaven to punish, sealing a person's thoughts.

With True Person Qingyu's cultivation, even a martial artist at the peak of the Dao Foundation realm would be affected by this spell, and as long as Li Fei's thinking stagnated for a moment, he could take his head with his flying sword!

Almost at the same time the spell hit Li Fei, that blue sword light arrived in front of Li Fei.

Li Fei did not stagnate at all, as if he had foreseen it, raising the Ghost-Slaying Blade in front of him in advance, while simultaneously activating "Tyrant Body," his body beginning to expand.

Clang—

The tip of the sword happened to pierce the blade of the Ghost-Slaying Blade, and the huge impact force forced Li Fei back, while a sword energy like a torrent surged out from the sword, shattering Li Fei's Hunyuan Star Armor and impacting his body!

The white martial robe Li Fei was wearing was torn by the sword energy, revealing the Cloud Dream Gold-Threaded Garment underneath.

Even after the triple damage reduction from the Primordial Star Armor, the Cloud Dream Gold-Threaded Robe, and the Tyrant Body, this sword strike still caused Li Fei to lose 47 Blood Souls!

In terms of defensive power, Li Fei was actually already stronger than many peak Dao Foundation realm martial artists; if it had been a peak Dao Foundation realm martial artist not skilled in defense, they would have been severely wounded by this strike.

This is the killing power of a sword cultivator!

"Hmm?"

True Person Qingyu was surprised that Li Fei could actually block this strike of his.

At the same time, two Dao Foundation realm martial artists not far away rushed toward this side, launching long-range energy attacks at the car.

The car continued to drive forward as a jade ruyi flew out of the car window, hovering above the roof to form a pale cyan light barrier that enveloped the entire vehicle.

Although he was a sword cultivator, True Person Qingyu had also refined other magic treasures.

The flying sword was for primary offense, while this jade ruyi was for primary defense.

The pale cyan light barrier blocked the energy attacks of the two Dao Foundation realm martial artists, while the deep blue flying sword transformed into dozens of blades, stabbing toward Li Fei from all directions!

Li Fei was completely unaffected by the illusion; he turned around in advance, once again predicting the true path of the flying sword as if he had foreknowledge, and swung his blade to strike the real flying sword.

Clang!!!

The concrete ground beneath his feet sank and shattered as if it were tofu, and his entire body was pressed downward by the immense force.

A torrent of sword Qi washed over him, piercing hundreds of tiny holes into the ground!

True Person Qingyu furrowed his brows.

That the first sword strike failed to kill Li Fei was an accident.

He had become serious for the second sword strike, yet it was still blocked by Li Fei?

True Person Qingyu pinched a sword seal with one hand.

The flying sword above Li Fei's head suddenly emitted a roar, like the sound of muffled thunder before a rainstorm.

The surrounding air suddenly became humid, filled with a large amount of water vapor.

Immediately following, a torrential downpour descended, covering a three-meter radius around Li Fei!

This torrential rain was not an illusion formed by mental projections, but real rainwater formed by True Person Qingyu condensing water vapor with his own true power.

These raindrops were not only mixed with a large amount of sword Qi, but also contained a chill capable of freezing a person's soul.

Even if one could withstand the impact of the sword Qi, their spirit would gradually be frozen.

This was the unique divine ability of True Person Qingyu's natal flying sword—Ice God!

From a magic treasure to a natal magic treasure, the biggest difference is the addition of a unique divine ability.

Before the downpour fell, a ten-meter-tall crimson Golden Body manifestation emerged from the dirt pit on the ground.

Dao Energy—【Crimson Sound Fire Golden Body Manifestation】!

As soon as this Golden Body manifestation appeared, the flames on its body were extinguished by the rain, and its body was riddled with holes by the sword Qi.

Having persisted in the torrential sword Qi for less than three seconds, the Golden Body manifestation was completely destroyed!

The dirt pit where Li Fei was located also became deeper and deeper, burying his entire person.

Just as True Person Qingyu poured all his killing power onto Li Fei, ten more people rushed out from the woods nearby.

Lu Wenxing and two other Dao Foundation realm officials, along with Li Fei's seven clones, attacked together!

These ten people joined forces with the two Dao Foundation realm officials rushing from the front to attack the pale cyan light barrier outside the car.

True Person Qingyu inside the car was about to manipulate his flying sword to attack these people as well, when an invisible force like a heavy hammer suddenly slammed heavily into his flying sword!

In the dirt pit, Li Fei consumed 69 Blood Souls to execute 【Blood Might】; this was the current upper limit of his 【Blood Might】.

Then, he mixed in his own heart-will power to execute 【Blood Might God】, attacking the flying sword in the air.

If it were merely a spell attack, True Person Qingyu's flying sword could have easily blocked it.

But because this move was a fusion of magic and martial arts, it produced a miraculous effect!

The flying sword was affected and failed to attack Lu Wenxing and the others in the first instance.

The five Dao Foundation realm martial artists plus the seven clones hit the pale cyan light barrier together.

The seven clones were all condensed by Li Fei secretly consuming 25 Blood Souls under the 'Blood Demon State' to execute 【Blood Rage】, supplemented by the Vajra Seal·Dragon Elephant, so their power was astonishing!

Crack—

The light barrier shattered!

Several energy strikes subsequently hit the car.

The steel car body was as fragile as thin paper under these high-level energy strikes, instantly deforming and rupturing.

"You are courting death!!!"

True Person Qingyu's furious voice came from inside the car.

(End of chapter)