A command rang out, and the worldly heavens were instantly filled with an intensely sharp intent to kill.
Great Master Yuan's hair immediately stood on end, a surge of terror rising within him. Cursing his bad luck inwardly, he immediately shouted in a stern voice, "I am a Quasi-Saint! How dare mere power at the cosmic level defy saintly might?"
With that shout, he immediately lashed out with a horsetail whisk, intending to lock down Li Qingyun's Taiqing identity phantom and strike first!
Yet the moment the whisk lashed out, Great Master Yuan let out a bizarre shriek, changing direction halfway and hurriedly turning to meet the sky above his head.
Hum!
In the vast sky, an intensely sharp, purple-green cold light seemed to materialize out of thin air, instantly transforming into a saint-slaying ribbon that charged fiercely straight for Great Master Yuan's head!
"Impossible! How could there be any power at the cosmic level capable of harming me..."
With his whisk still raised in midair, Great Master Yuan cried out in shock and panic. The massive sword light ribbon swept across, and a head of graying white hair instantly flew off its neck, bringing with it a massive spray of grayish-black "Quasi-Saint blood"!
A single sword stroke, and his head was taken!
This was the first time the Immortal Slaying Sword had been drawn since its forging, yet its imposing sharpness completely lived up to its reputation as the foremost of the four swords. Once the sword was unsheathed, the enemy's head was already severed!
Even though the target was a genuine, flesh-and-blood Quasi-Saint.
Of course, the might of Li Qingyun's Immortal-Slaying strike was not merely the power of a single Immortal Slaying Sword, but rather the blessing of the entire Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, executed with a thunderous