Li Qiankun's All-Out Strike

As the Snake Beauty stepped back, Li Qiankun laughed out loud, "You've taken the bait!"

With that, the Snake Beauty immediately swung her massive sabre, and instantly a dozen dao qi thrusts closed in on the Snake Beauty. How could the Snake Beauty possibly parry them? She immediately sent her white snake forward to meet the attack.

To her astonishment, the quality of the opponent's treasured sabre was also exceptionally high. As the dao qi surged forth, the Snake Beauty's white snake brushed past it, only to find that the dao qi had actually sheared off several of its scales!

This put the Snake Beauty on high alert, but as she widened the distance, the opponent's dao qi began bombarding her continuously like a machine gun.

On the other side, Xie Wuji and the others were also trading blows evenly with Li Lunhui.

"Why aren't they here yet, those disciples!" Li Lunhui roared furiously. Although every single enemy Li Lunhui faced was weaker than his own cultivation level, there were simply too many of them, preventing him from completely suppressing them all at once. He had no choice but to stay entangled with them for the time being.

"Wuji!" With a wave of her hand, the Snake Beauty tossed out twenty or thirty spiritual swords. Xie Wuji looked at her in surprise.

The Snake Beauty urged, "Quickly use your grand formation. Suppress this fellow in advance if you can. There are more and more enemies outside now; if we wait until Li Qianjun arrives, every single one of us here will be doomed!"

Seeing the earnestness in the Snake Beauty's tone, Xie Wuji did not stand on ceremony and accepted all of the spiritual swords.

While the Immortal Sky Sword Formation possessed formidable might, its fatal flaw was its exorbitant consumption. Xie Wuji had already expended thirty-six swords previously, and now another thirty-six were added. Such a rate of consumption would drain even a mountain of gold and silver clean.

"We'll create an opening for you!" declared the other Snake Island disciples, among whom were several Snake Island elders. These elders formed the backbone of their strength, and seeing how deeply the Snake Beauty trusted Xie Wuji, they had no reason to raise any objections.

A crowd of them surged toward Li Lunhui, keeping him tightly pinned down.

Seizing the opportune moment, Xie Wuji feinted a move and immediately unleashed the entire thirty-six minor sword formation in one sweeping motion.

While Li Lunhui was still occupied with dealing with the others, how could he have anticipated that Xie Wuji, who had remained quiet until now, would suddenly launch such a massive, lethal strike?

The thirty-six minor sword formation descended overwhelmingly like a rain of meteors. Li Lunhui raised his twin swords to his chest, attempting to defend himself, but unexpectedly, the thirty-six minor sword formation pierced toward him from all directions simultaneously.

As the weakest among the three brothers, Li Lunhui was utterly incapable of withstanding an attack of this magnitude.

"Ah!!"

Li Lunhui let out a miserable scream as his body was instantly pierced full of holes. The elders swarmed forward, and the Beauty raised her palm, striking down toward Li Lunhui.

"Crack!"

His pristine skull was instantly smashed into a bloody pulp, and his body was left riddled with wounds and torn to shreds.

The tragic death of Li Lunhui left Li Qiankun utterly aghast: "Third Brother!"

"Your opponent is me!" the Snake Beauty declared. At that moment, the Abyss Serpent suddenly surged upward from beneath Li Qiankun's body, clamping its jaws firmly around his lower half!

"Big Brother!" Li Yadi rushed in from the side, thrusting his spear toward the Abyss Serpent beneath Li Qiankun. In response, the serpent's massive tail lashed out like a giant iron whip.

Crash!

Amidst the violent lashing, the Dragon-Imprisoning Pavilion could finally no longer support the intensity of the battle and began to collapse.

Xie Wuji looked up and saw ceiling boards crashing down one after another. Just then, Song Xiaoyu was standing right beneath a wobbling, crumbling ceiling panel. Gritting his teeth, Xie Wuji lunged forward in a single bound, pulling Song Xiaoyu into his embrace and sparing her from the disaster.

However, this brought Xie Wuji extremely close to Li Yadi, who laughed heartily, "An opening!"

With a jerk of his spear, Li Yadi whipped a lizard that was entwined around the shaft, shooting it directly at Xie Wuji.

"The thirty-six minor sword formation wasn't completely exhausted earlier; I'll gift the remaining eighteen swords to you. Take them and don't mention it!" With a wave of his hand, Xie Wuji sent eighteen streams of dao qi hurtling toward Li Yadi.

The lizard on Li Yadi's spear was instantly pulverized into nothingness. Although he managed to tilt his head and dodge the main thrust, two Snake Island elders had already closed in behind him.

The hands of both elders began to transform, turning into four emerald-green giant snakes that immediately coiled around Li Yadi. Pulling him backward abruptly, they forced Li Yadi to absorb the full force of all the sword qi head-on!

Li Yadi had no time to scream; his bones were crushed to pieces by the constricting serpents, and a gaping hole was blown straight through his chest.

Noticing that one stream of sword qi still remained, Xie Wuji directed it straight toward Li Qiankun.

As the sword qi twisted in mid-air, it unexpectedly darted toward Li Qiankun's rear.

Swish!

A crisp sound echoed, but instead of showing an expression of pain, Li Qiankun assumed an intensely intoxicated look. He opened his mouth, moving it back and forth as if he were about to cry out.

"Disgusting!" The Snake Beauty let out a muffled snort and suddenly whipped her strike toward Li Qiankun.

Assailed from both front and rear, Li Qiankun crashed heavily to the ground.

At that moment, Xie Wuji noticed something falling from the sky. It turned out to be a silver-white longsword of a very unusual appearance, its blade seemingly pieced together from individual fragments.

The longsword possessed a heavy base, and when Xie Wuji grabbed it, he immediately felt a sensation of bloodline resonance.

Lifting the weapon with his hand, he intended to grasp it with both hands, only to find that his left hand had inadvertently grabbed something soft. Unsure of what it was, Xie Wuji looked down and realized that Song Xiaoyu was still in his arms—having rescued her just moments before, she had not yet pulled away.

"Xie, Big Brother Xie... Could we perhaps discuss these matters after..." Song Xiaoyu's delicate face flushed crimson, radiant and alluring, unable to meet his gaze.

Xie Wuji also realized that his hand was resting on a rather awkward spot and quickly retracted it, though the delightful sensation lingered in his palm.

He grasped the sword with both hands, yet he found himself unable to pull the base out from its position.

In the distance, having lost both of his brothers, Li Qiankun began to retreat in defeat, pursued relentlessly by the Snake Beauty.

The once-grand Dragon-Imprisoning Pavilion had been reduced to a pile of ruins. As the dust and smoke cleared, Xie Wuji noticed that the surrounding disciples were all fast asleep on the ground, one by one.

"Weren't you..." Xie Wuji looked toward Ximen.

Ximen chuckled sheepishly, "I just remembered—I didn't bring the 'Spring Breeze Nineteen Strokes'. What I used just now was a prototype, 'Spring Breeze Twenty Strokes'. Though it seems 'Spring Breeze Twenty Strokes' failed to live up to the theme of 'spring breeze' and turned out to be a heavy-drowsiness-inducing drug instead."

Xie Wuji was overjoyed, "This is brilliant! Large-scale mass unconsciousness—this contraption of yours is far better than the nineteenth stroke! From now on, just use this 'Spring Breeze'!"

"Really?" Receiving Xie Wuji's affirmation, Ximen beamed with delight.

Glancing at the vast expanse of unconscious disciples around him, Li Qiankun gritted his teeth in fury. He looked utterly disheveled; after being ambushed by Xie Wuji and suffering dozens of subsequent attacks, his robes were in tatters, making him look like a pitiful beggar in his wretched state.

"Darn it all, you lot are truly despicable and craftier than foxes, using such base methods to snatch victory! Bastards!"

"Hahaha! All's fair in war; any method that secures victory is a good one!" retorted the Snake Beauty.

Li Qiankun clenched his fists tightly, "If this old man possessed the sect-guarding divine beast of the Supreme Immortal Sect... if only I possessed it, none of you would be a match for me, not a single one!"

Driven to the brink of desperation, Li Qiankun was losing his composure.

The Snake Beauty narrowed her eyes and stepped closer, saying, "Let me put an end to your suffering..."

Just as the Snake Beauty closed in, Li Qiankun suddenly burst into wild laughter, "If I am to fall, none of you shall live either!"

The moment the words left his mouth, Li Qiankun drove his treasured sabre straight into his own abdomen in an act of ritual disembowelment. Instantly, an overwhelming torrent of energy surged out, exploding outward toward the Snake Beauty.

A gigantic phantom blade qi, thick as a lightning bolt and radiating a brilliant golden light, erupted from Li Qiankun's chest cavity and slashed fiercely toward the Snake Beauty.

Having firmly secured the upper hand, how could the Snake Beauty have anticipated that Li Qiankun would resort to such a desperate ultimate technique? She was struck squarely by the colossal wave of blade qi!