Chapter 444

The might of a single sword strike—over a thousand martial artists beside the Hall of True Warrior, including experts like the Sword Demon, all perished.

Guiguzi gathered his whole body's true essence, barely managing to resist.

Unfortunately, this sword strike had gathered the heaven and earth's primal force within a hundred li of Mount Wudang.

To duel this sword strike was to duel the heaven and earth within a hundred li of Mount Wudang.

Without the augmentation of heaven and earth's primal force, how could Guiguzi possibly resist?

What's more, because the one who executed this sword strike had actually been influenced by Ximen Wudi before comprehending it.

So much so that this sword strike carried a trace of Ximen Wudi's divine charm within it.

Guiguzi saw nothing else—only that sliver of divine charm.

His face drained of color, and he went mad in an instant.

"Don't, don't kill me…"

But sadly, this sword strike was nearly like the majestic might of heaven itself.

Guiguzi's fighting spirit was shattered by his inner demons, and he perished directly beneath this sword strike.

In an instant, of the vast thousand-plus people, only that masked man survived—no one knew why.

"Fifth Dragon Head…"

Yan Shisan and Ye Gucheng were overjoyed.

Although the person had not yet arrived, the might of this sword strike let the two of them know exactly who had come.

"You two really are useless, aren't you? Not only did these trash wound you, you lost quite a few men too?"

At some unknown moment, Li Taibai had already taken a gourd of wine and appeared before the Hall of True Warrior.

He raised his head and took a sip of wine.

With a casual toss, several pills flew out and landed with unerring precision in the hands of Yan Shisan, Ye Gucheng, and the Wu Dangqixia.

"Yayu, it's been so long! This…"

Seeing Sheng Yayu, Li Taibai's eyes lit up, and he immediately wanted to step forward and greet her.

"With matters here concluded, I'll leave the cleanup to you."

Sheng Yayu merely smiled faintly, patted her wheelchair again, and vanished on the spot.

"Who the hell are you, daring to provoke our Qinglong Society?"

After distributing the pills, Li Taibai looked at the masked man with bleary, drunken eyes.

A single move had directly blasted a thousand martial artists to death—among them sword-path experts like the Sword Demon at the Land God level.

This display utterly broke the masked man.

He knew the Seven Dragon Heads were strong, but he hadn't expected them to be this strong!

Where was that bastard who had promised him that as long as Qinglong Society's experts showed up, he would appear?

Come out already!

The Fifth Dragon Head is so scary, I'm so scared!

"Not talking?"

Li Taibai took another sip of wine and turned his head.

"Hey, I heard your Tianmen has plenty of tricks, good at extracting confessions?"

Di Shitian revealed his form and bent at the waist ingratiatingly.

"Fifth Dragon Head, rest assured—leave this fellow to me. I can make him spill every secret of his eighteen generations of ancestors."

Having gotten a chance to show off, Di Shitian was overjoyed.

With a grasp in empty air, the masked man was utterly powerless to resist and was instantly lifted to Di Shitian's side.

"How unlucky—what's happened to Lao Qi's sect?"

It was Li Taibai himself who had originally come to recruit Zhang Sanfeng into the society.

He also held some feelings for Wu Dangpai.

"Fifth Dragon Head…"

Ye Gucheng immediately stepped forward and quietly reported that Ximen Wudi was no longer at Qinglong Summit.

"So that's how it is. I was wondering how these fleas dared to make a move."

Li Taibai couldn't help but glance at the heavens—the gate to the Sword Realm was naturally nowhere to be seen.

"Damnable… how can Li Taibai's strength be this terrifying…"

Long Xiang Seng stood atop another mountain peak, taking in everything here.

Clearly Li Taibai's cultivation was only barely half a step into the Mythical Realm.

Yet the methods he displayed simply refused to follow reason.

Even Guiguzi, who had stepped into the early Mythical Realm, had been slain in a single move without any resistance.

The other thousand martial artists, among them no few experts, had all been wiped out in a single strike.

How terrifying were such methods.

"Master, should we send the Twenty-Four Monks to surround and kill Li Taibai?"

Si Hanfei asked.

This time, the hidden instigator behind the Great Yuan had only wanted to force Qinglong Society to act, not to expose itself.

Bringing these Twenty-Four Monks was just a precaution.

But if they moved now, it would openly reveal that the Great Yuan was the one stirring things behind the scenes.

Even without Ximen Wudi, with Qinglong Society's current strength, they could still make the Great Yuan suffer greatly.

"Forget it! This time we've at least probed out a bit of Qinglong Society's strength."

"We should still hurry to the Deyue Tower and cooperate with the Living Buddha to find that Lin Shiyin."

Long Xiang Seng thought it over for a moment, then finally gave up,

"Besides, this time we've stirred the Great Ming upside down, and the Qinglong Society has also suffered considerable losses."

"If they want to pacify the Great Ming, they'll have to invest more."

"But Great Qin and Great Tang are also making moves."

"There's no need for us to stick our necks out."

"Good!"

Si Hanfei actually thought the same, so the two of them led these twenty-four red-robed monks and withdrew without a trace.

……

"Bad luck…"

Di Shitian used secret arts to torture the masked man nearly to death, and also employed the Sacred Heart Art to sift through his memories.

But it was all useless.

Apart from learning some personal information about this person, all he knew was that the mastermind behind the destruction of the Wu Dangpai this time,

was the same group of people who had been stirring up the storm in the Great Ming behind the scenes.

But who these people were, Di Shitian couldn't find out.

Then the masked man breathed his last.

"A trivial matter."

Li Taibai didn't blame him,

"Think about it — which forces in this world both envy and hate our Qinglong?"

"The Three Great Dynasties, and the Zhoutianxia Society."

Di Shitian said.

"Now we probably should also add the Yunzhou You Dongying Xuanhua Hao…"

Ye Gucheng chimed in promptly.

"What Xuanhua Hao?"

Di Shitian was puzzled — when Xuanhua Hao's Fourth Master Hai Laocang was exposed by the Heavenly Dao Golden List,

Li Taibai, Di Shitian, and Senior Xiaoyaozi were in the War God Hall at a critical moment.

Because the War God Hall was a blessed grotto-heaven, they couldn't know the latest contents of the Heavenly Dao Golden List.

High above the void, the Heavenly Dao Hundred Flowers List once again bloomed with countless rays of light.