Chapter 617: Beautiful Woman! Special Connection! Found You!
Lady Hu drew a deep breath. The incense faith energy in the entire temple surged violently toward her.
Although the temple’s incense energy wasn’t particularly strong, in that instant, she absorbed it all, elevating her strength to an extremely formidable level!
“Swift!” Her voice was icy cold.
Twelve flying swords, formed from condensed incense energy, appeared around her. Each sword over a zhang long, they instantly tore through the Fox Immortal Lady Temple and slammed heavily toward Li Yanchu.
Li Yanchu’s Qi Shield acted like an invisible wall of absolute yang force.
Clang clang clang!
The sound of giant temple bells echoed endlessly through the heavens and earth, and massive shockwaves radiated outward. The main hall of the Fox Immortal Lady Temple collapsed with a deafening roar.
Amid the swirling dust, a figure was hurled into the air. It was Lady Hu, controlling the flying incense swords!
Clang!
A flash of sword light illuminated the sky, and a look of horror appeared on Lady Hu’s face. The tips of her incense-energy swords were cleaved apart.
She performed a divine technique, turning her head in shock. The sword light cut straight into the sky, splitting the air and carving a fissure dozens of zhang long.
“This young Daoist has some skill!” Lady Hu muttered, accelerating her magic.
Four more flying swords, each seven to eight zhang long, formed from condensed incense energy, shot toward Li Yanchu. Their energy connected, forming a special formation.
Li Yanchu’s eyes blazed with killing intent as he slashed. In an instant, the swords were cleaved in two!
“Too weak! You are not even worthy of being my opponent.”
Li Yanchu’s tone was icy as his figure vanished in an instant.
The Fox Immortal Lady’s face darkened with fury just as she was about to strike back. But suddenly, a sharp pain shot through her arm; one of her arms had been cut clean off, and blood spurt everywhere.
Li Yanchu had used Godspeed to appear beside her, slashing one of her arms off in a single stroke.
“Ah!” the Fox Immortal Lady screamed, wildly retreating backward.
Li Yanchu pressed the attack, wielding his blade again.
Swish!
He cleaved through both of her legs at the knees!
The Fox Immortal Lady howled in agony, collapsing heavily to the ground.
“I told you, you are not worthy of being my opponent.” Li Yanchu’s voice remained cold.
From above, a massive palm of condensed aura descended, trapping the Fox Immortal Lady in its grasp.
Her eyes widened in astonishment. “Without even reaching Yang Spirit realm, you can wield such overwhelming power, who exactly are you?!”
Li Yanchu didn’t bother to answer. The aura continued to crush her life force.
The constant pressure caused her body unbearable pain, forcing her to howl in agony. Yet Li Yanchu did not intend to kill her outright, and he slowly clenched the giant palm of aura in his grasp.
At the same time, he slowly closed his own hand. After refining the murderous energy from the Green Lion Crown Prince’s demon blade, Li Yanchu’s Qi Shield had become almost a divine technique; he was extremely formidable. So potent and yang in nature, it was especially effective against demons and monsters.
The Fox Immortal Lady screamed continuously, the sensation of her flesh being crushed and ground bringing extreme torment. She tried to use her escape technique to flee, but Li Yanchu’s giant hand shot out, pulling her back!
“Playing with hearts and minds? I will let you feel the taste of being burned alive!” Li Yanchu’s voice thundered like lightning.
From his palm erupted a domineering divine fire. Within his spirit was the imprint of the Fire Official’s Sacred Edict, and he also wielded the Fire Virtue True Lord Command Talisman.
With mastery over five legendary fire-based divine weapons, his control over flame was nearly perfect. Even without formally cultivating fire arts, he could command such powerful divine fire.
The divine flames relentlessly burned the Fox Immortal Lady’s body, causing her excruciating pain. It was even more intense than the agony she suffered under the grinding aura earlier by hundreds of times.
The flames kept scorching her, consuming her incense-faith energy, and gradually eroding her primordial spirit.
“Spare me, fellow Daoist! Spare me!” The Fox Immortal Lady begged frantically.
“Spare you!? Have you ever thought about sparing Tian Xiaoling’s life?” Li Yanchu’s voice thundered like an explosion, his heart as hard as iron, relentlessly refining the Fox Immortal Lady’s body.
She screamed and wailed in unbearable torment, so loud that all of Gaoling County could hear her shrieks.
Suddenly, a towering hand descended from the sky. The massive palm exuded terrifying energy, thick with profound magic.
Ming He looked up, astonished, at the enormous hand falling from above. Fear gripped her heart.
“Yang Spirit expert?”
The owner of this giant hand must be a third-tier realm expert!
Li Yanchu remained still, his aura and blood surging as crimson light enveloped the entire Fox Immortal Lady Temple. He struck with his palm as well. Though his palm was smaller than the giant hand, the immense blood and qi and virile aura gave it a force that was by no means inferior in presence.
Boom! Boom!
It was as if lightning had exploded across heaven and earth; immense detonations shook the surroundings, and the sheer shockwave alone made it hard to breathe. Nearby houses swayed violently and collapsed one after another. The ground fractured, twisting like the back of a buried dragon.
Above the swirling demonic clouds, a languid, beautiful woman reclined. Her features were like a painting, lightly adorned with makeup, draped in sheer silk that outlined an enticing figure.
“Please, fellow Daoist, show mercy... spare her.” The woman’s delicate, alluring expression carried a relaxed, almost seductive air as she spoke with a soft smile.
“Spare her?! A demon who harms and kills is beyond forgiveness! Moreover, she steals the true spirit of humans, scattering their souls! Such a crime cannot go unpunished!” Li Yanchu’s voice was deep and grave.
“I offer the lives of Gaoling County’s people in exchange for her, how about that?” The woman smiled faintly.
Around her, the demonic clouds took the shapes of terrifying beasts. It was clear she was an incredibly powerful Yang Spirit realm being. Her aura was even stronger than Immortal Jin Yu Li Yanchu had previously encountered.
Intermediate third-realm? Li Yanchu’s mind flickered with the thought.
A being of this level could easily annihilate all the people in Gaoling County!
“I never bargain with demons. If you seek death, come and die!” Li Yanchu’s voice thundered, unmoved.
The cold decisiveness in his tone caused the beautiful woman to pause slightly.
“Fellow Daoist, your decisiveness in battle... does not seem like that of a monk,” she said with a delicate laugh.
The sharp, iron-like killing intent in him felt familiar, yet also vaguely repulsive.
Li Yanchu’s palm surged with the overwhelming divine fire, ready to strike the Lady Hu before her very eyes.
But suddenly, his hand felt empty. The Lady Hu, burned by the fierce flames, had vanished. Li Yanchu noticed that she had been taken in the woman’s hand. Not only her, but the injured white fox on the ground had also been captured simultaneously.
Previously, in the rush, Ming He had not yet secured the white fox, and in an instant, it too disappeared.
“Fellow Daoist, do not be angered. I have a certain connection with these two, and I came here intentionally,” the beautiful woman said lightly, smiling.
Li Yanchu’s eyes flashed with killing intent.
Tonight, the white fox and the Lady Hu who had stolen a human’s true spirit were both below the Yang Spirit realm. But the beautiful woman’s presence and her power matched the Lady Hu described by Zhou Yushu.
“Thank you for saving us!” The Lady Hu and the white fox, who had both lost limbs at Li Yanchu’s hands, said in unison.
“Don’t mention it. I have finally found you,” The beautiful woman smiled knowingly.
But that smile caused the white fox and Lady Hu to pale, sensing an overwhelming, terrifying presence.
