togophonebook Chapter 89 Fierce Battle at Tianqing Gorge
Chapter 89 Fierce Battle at Tianqing Gorge
The violent sword energy poured down like the Milky Way from the heavens, transforming into hundreds of dragon-shaped sword lights that surged and roared, shaking the entire canyon.
The overwhelming sword intent momentarily halted Lu Zhenxuan's forward momentum.
Taking advantage of this brief respite, Li Qingyi's sword energy re-condensed and flowed around her body like water.
Without lingering in battle, he retreated swiftly, disappearing into the depths of Tianqing Gorge.
When Lu Zhenxuan saw him trying to escape, his eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty light.
He formed hand seals, about to unleash a spell to annihilate the enemy.
Unfortunately, halfway through his incantation, the excruciating pain, like ten thousand ghosts devouring his soul, swept over him, forcing him to abruptly stop the hand seals.
Upon seeing this, Li Qingyi's sword energy surged like a river and erupted with a roar.
The cultivation level of half-step Foundation Establishment caused the sword's power to surge, and hundreds of sword lights poured down like a torrential rain, turning the entire Tianqing Gorge upside down.
The dark valley floor was illuminated by the sword light as if it were daytime, and sword marks crisscrossed the rock walls, with pebbles falling like rain.
Although Lu Zhenxuan's eyes were already cloudy, he could still sense the overwhelming sword intent.
The sword energy surged like a dragon, instantly enveloping the hundred-foot-wide sky and earth.
His fighting instincts were astonishing. Seeing that he could not use magic, he immediately diverted most of his magic power to protect his soul, determined to kill Li Qingyi first and then find a way to deal with the trouble deep in his sea of consciousness.
Sword energy cascaded down like a waterfall. Lu Zhenxuan roared and unleashed his fists like thunderbolts, creating a sky full of fist shadows.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang! ! !
When fist and sword clashed, the sword energy shattered and turned into specks of starlight.
A few fish occasionally slipped through the net, but they only left shallow scratches on the hem of his clothes.
For some reason, Lu Zhenxuan felt a sense of familiarity with these sword energies.
He was certain that he had seen a similar swordsmanship tradition before, but at this moment his mind was in a state of confusion and he couldn't recall where he had seen it.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Qingyi immediately sped towards the depths of the canyon.
"Die!" Lu Zhenxuan roared and pursued like a madman.
With each step he took, the ground collapsed several feet, and rocks flew everywhere.
Li Qingyi's eyes twitched violently. "This Foundation Establishment cultivator is too shameless! He possesses such power with just his physical body!"
The difference in realms is like an insurmountable chasm; even a difference of just half a step is still as vast as the difference between heaven and earth.
He had thought that his attack would at least injure his opponent, but it only grazed the corner of the enemy's clothes.
Just as he was alarmed, Lu Zhenxuan had already closed in, the two of them only a few dozen feet apart.
"They caught up in just two or three breaths? They can be this fast just with their physical bodies! What kind of monster are Foundation Establishment cultivators?!"
Li Qingyi dared not be careless and poured all her sword energy into her protective sword aura.
Lu Zhenxuan's punch, filled with murderous intent, came crashing down.
The imagined scene of blood and gore did not materialize.
Li Qingyi's sword energy surged, and her protective sword aura transformed into a blooming sword lotus, steadily receiving the punch.
Lu Zhenxuan, as if possessed, rained down punches and kicks on the sword lotus, determined to break through the defense and kill Li Qingyi with his fists.
"Die! Die!!!!"
The sword lotus shone brightly, and Lu Zhenxuan's fists and feet were already a bloody mess.
This was all due to his relentless and frantic attacks.
These are all just superficial injuries and nothing serious.
Li Qingyi fought and retreated, continuously channeling the sword energy within her body into the sword lotus.
The violent force of the fists and the scattered sword energy raged through the canyon, causing sand and stones to fly and the sky to darken.
The Sky-Piercing Gorge collapsed layer by layer from top to bottom during their battle.
Before the countless falling boulders could even reach the two of them, they were pulverized by the aftershocks of the battle.
The area within a radius of a hundred feet instantly turned into a vacuum zone.
Finally, with Lu Zhenxuan's powerful punch that could split mountains and shatter rocks, a crisp "crack" was heard, and cracks appeared all over the sword lotus.
Li Qingyi's pupils suddenly contracted.
"broken!"
Upon seeing this, a hint of joy flashed in Lu Zhenxuan's dazed eyes.
He concentrated all his physical strength into this punch and unleashed it with tremendous force!
The sword lotus shattered instantly, and the terrifying shockwave sent Li Qingyi flying hundreds of feet away.
He bounced and rolled on the ground like a stone skipping across water, only managing to regain his balance when he was hundreds of feet away.
Before he could even get up, he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, staining the ground in front of him crimson.
However, the moment the sword lotus shattered, Lu Zhenxuan's face turned pale.
The sudden surge of immense force aggravated his old wound, sending a tearing pain through him and halting his pursuit.
He stumbled and knelt on one knee, clutching his chest, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
"The old injury has flared up again! We must finish this quickly!"
Not only that, the black aura around him grew even thicker, and the translucent arms wrapped around his body became even clearer.
Although he used his own magic to slow down the rate at which his soul was being devoured, the fierce battle just now caused his old injuries to flare up again.
Lu Zhenxuan barely managed to suppress his injuries, but the excruciating pain of being devoured by ten thousand ghosts made his eyes widen in agony.
His eyes widened, and he let out a deafening roar:
"Aaaaaah!!!"
Lu Zhenxuan's roar echoed throughout the entire Tianqing Gorge, causing the cracked rock walls to collapse with a crash.
He never imagined that a cultivator who had relied on external forces to advance to the half-step Foundation Establishment stage could fight him for so long.
Li Qingyi's tenacity and decisiveness far exceeded his expectations.
What Lu Zhenxuan couldn't understand even more was that this was clearly their first meeting.
Why would Li Qingyi harbor such a murderous intent towards him, as if they had some deep-seated blood feud?
Li Qingyi, who was in the distance, was bleeding profusely from her mouth and nose.
He never expected that one punch, just one punch—
That one punch almost sent him to reincarnation again.
His chest was deeply sunken and completely deformed.
Li Qingyi gritted her teeth, enduring the excruciating pain, and retrieved the spoils of war she had previously captured from her storage ring—
Five small ceramic bottles of different shapes.
This was what he had seized when he killed the assassin who had come to kill him.
Knowing that Lu Zhenxuan wouldn't give her time to heal, Li Qingyi stuffed all five small ceramic bottles into her mouth without saying a word.
Although they didn't know what kind of medicine was inside, there was no time to identify it for him.
He chewed up the bottle and the pills inside and swallowed them whole.
In an instant, the power of various medicines circulated in his body, and a faint green light emanated from his body, while his sunken chest slowly recovered.
Li Qingyi took a deep breath, and the surrounding spiritual energy surged into her body, instantly being refined into a powerful sword aura.
At this moment, Lu Zhenxuan's roar came from afar. By the faint light of day, Li Qingyi saw Lu Zhenxuan kneeling on the ground, trying to heal his injuries by circulating his internal energy.
Without hesitation, he unleashed all his sword energy.
The sword energy instantly transformed into a hundred-foot-long dragon, rushing straight towards Lu Zhenxuan.
Lu Zhenxuan, who was trying to recover from his injuries, was caught off guard and was immediately thrown hundreds of meters away.
Li Qingyi reassembled her sword energy and rushed away.
This is a life-or-death struggle; he will absolutely not give the other side a chance to breathe.
Li Qingyi knew that all she needed to do now was wear down her opponent, and that would be victory.
A look of confusion flashed in Lu Zhenxuan's eyes as he flew backwards in mid-air.
As their fight deepened, he increasingly felt a strange sense of familiarity with the sword energy used by Li Qingyi.
Seeing Li Qingyi approaching, he forcibly suppressed his distracting thoughts, chanted the Mind-Clearing Mantra, and intended to take advantage of the moment of clarity to kill Li Qingyi.
Seeing that his eyes were gradually regaining their clarity, Li Qingyi took a step forward and suddenly stopped.
At the same time, his hands didn't stop moving as he manipulated the newly condensed sword energy to attack Lu Zhenxuan.
Lu Zhenxuan took action to deal with the sky full of sword energy.
Now that his soul has been devoured and his old injuries have affected his entire body, he is unable to exert his full physical strength.
As the battle intensified, Lu Zhenxuan was certain that he had seen a swordsmanship lineage that shared the same origin as Li Qingyi's.
However, his soul was disturbed by 300,000 vengeful spirits, and the constant whispers echoing in his mind made it impossible for him to concentrate and recall where he had seen them before.
He angrily shouted:
"If it weren't for my lingering old wounds, I would have already killed you here! What right do you, a mere half-step Foundation Establishment cultivator, have to swagger around here!"
Li Qingyi sneered, "If I were at the Foundation Establishment stage, you would have died a million times over!"
The sword light flashed like starlight, illuminating the dark valley floor, but vanished in an instant.
Li Qingyi controlled the distance, using her sword energy to delay Lu Zhenxuan's pace, giving him no chance to catch his breath.
However, as time went on, he became increasingly shocked.
Despite the fierce battle, Lu Zhenxuan had only suffered minor injuries! Li Qingyi couldn't break through his physical defenses at all.
If Lu Zhenxuan hadn't been consumed by resentment, his mind clouded, and harbored a murderous intent towards Li Qingyi, he wouldn't have been able to keep her alive.
"Damn it! How can such a short distance feel like an inescapable snail's bite?!"
Li Qingyi was extremely anxious.
When he discovered that his sword energy could only leave shallow marks on the opponent's body surface and could not harm the root of the problem.
He couldn't wait to pull out the Netherworld God-Slaying Talisman to defeat the enemy.
Just as he was about to take out the talisman, a subtle movement by Lu Zhenxuan caught his eye—
As he blocked a tricky sword strike, the opponent instinctively used his elbow to protect his chest.
"His chest! He has an old wound there!"
With this thought in mind, Li Qingyi manipulated her sword energy to attack his heart.
Lu Zhenxuan desperately protected his chest, dispersing all the dragon-like sword energy.
He gazed at the increasingly dense black aura surrounding him, the ever-growing vengeful spirits threatening to drag him into the abyss, and his increasingly confused mental state.
I know that things will not end well today.
His gaze locked onto Li Qingyi in the distance, a mixture of frenzied hatred and resolute determination, before he hardened his heart.
"Since that's the case, then I'll drag you down with me! Having such a genius as my companion in the underworld is worth it!"
Thinking of this, a hint of madness flashed in his eyes, and he completely abandoned his defense, his magical power beginning to flow in reverse regardless of everything.
A chilling aura of destruction suddenly erupted!
Li Qingyi was shocked. Without saying a word, she reassembled the scattered sword energy back onto her body and fled frantically towards the other side of Tianqing Gorge.
"How can he still have such strength!" Li Qingyi couldn't understand it.
He felt that Foundation Establishment and Half-Step Foundation Establishment were beings on completely different levels.
If Lu Zhenxuan hadn't been suffering from old injuries, and if the resentment of 300,000 people hadn't eroded his soul, preventing him from using magic and forcing him to fight with his bare hands, he would never have been able to hold out for so long.
Li Qingyi estimated in her heart that if she were to fight Lu Zhenxuan in his prime, she would probably be killed in a single exchange.
'A 50% chance of winning? Where did that 50% come from?'
In an instant, Li Qingyi felt that she had been tricked by Qin Xiyue.
Desperate, Lu Zhenxuan endured the excruciating pain of being devoured by the soul and slowly formed hand seals.
His aura surged even more fiercely, and his violent power shook the heavens and the earth.