"Junior Brother!"
"Ah! Watch out for the Sword Qi!"
"I'm injured!"
The entire scene descended into chaos.
The people from Skygrass Pavilion who had surrounded Gu Jinlai were thrown into disorder by this counterattack of Formless Sword Qi.
Although Formless Sword Qi's lethality decreased somewhat when facing protective true qi, making it impossible to wipe out forty or fifty Qi Refining, Gang Condensing, and Core Forming cultivators, the psychological panic caused by these elusive attacks was even more potent than their actual killing power.
"Kill!"
Gu Jinlai swept his greatsword sideways. Combined with the length of his arm, its attack range exceeded two meters, allowing him to clear away every obstacle around him in one sweep.
Immediately afterward, he exerted force with his feet and leaped forward once more, still keeping his eyes fixed on that Core Forming cultivator whose Karma was as red as blood.
That Core Forming cultivator could be called a veteran of countless battles, and his movement skills were astonishing. Facing the figure that burst from the dense blood mist like an unparalleled Demonic Beast, he retreated again, bringing his advantage in speed into full play.
But this time...
Just as he was about to escape Gu Jinlai's attack range, the true qi and blood qi within Gu Jinlai's body circulated in a special manner. Like the sea accepting a hundred rivers, they poured entirely into the acupoints beneath his feet, finally transforming into a light yet berserk force that doubled his speed!
Crossing the World—Four Seas!
This sudden burst of speed left the Core Forming cultivator dumbfounded.
"This is bad."
In the next moment, he spun around and fled at top speed.
"Save me!"
Unfortunately, it was too late.
Gu Jinlai swept his greatsword sideways, shattering the two Sword Qi blades that came to intercept him. His body, moving at a terrifying speed of four hundred kilometers per hour and carrying a weight of two thousand jin, crashed into the man.
"Bang!"
A muffled thunderclap exploded.
It was accompanied by the sound of bones breaking.
The collision of flesh and steel left the Core Forming cultivator inhumanly mangled despite his protective true qi. He was sent flying more than ten meters, and before he even landed, the breath of life had already left him.
"Hahahaha!"
Gu Jinlai let out a long howl.
"I have slain a million soldiers south of the Yangtze, yet the treasured sword in my hand still reeks of blood!"
Refreshing!
Exhilarating!
This exhilaration of breaking the rules and disregarding them filled him with an unprecedented, unrestrained pleasure!
Although he had already charged out of the encirclement, Gu Jinlai did not flee. Instead, he turned around and charged at the two remaining people whose Karma was as red as blood.
"Rumble!"
The earth trembled!
Carrying a thousand-jin heavy armor and wielding a thousand-jin greatsword, he charged again.
With Crossing the World allowing him to move freely in every direction, he relied on absolute speed and absolute strength to crash through the dozens of people surrounding him!
"Elder Liu, watch out!"
"Monster!"
"You... you..."
Several Core Forming experts were enraged at the sight, their hair standing on end.
Arrogant!
Gu Jinlai's conduct was simply arrogant!
He treated the dozens of elders from Skygrass Pavilion as if they were nothing!
What they did not know was that Gu Jinlai had more than enough confidence to treat them as nothing.
"Continue!"
In his spiritual world, he once again poured the fresh clear light he had just obtained into the movement technique Crossing the World.
This time, however, his movement technique did not rise from Minor Mastery to Greater Mastery.
Clearly, the profound intricacies of this movement technique were such that even with his foundation and aptitude, he still could not cultivate it to Greater Mastery within ten years.
Although it had not reached Greater Mastery, Gu Jinlai's understanding and application of the movement technique had become even more effortless.
At this moment, in terms of charging speed alone, he had already surpassed everyone present.
Even the Core Forming experts proficient in movement techniques had been left behind.
Their specialty was nothing more than maneuvering within the narrow space of a few feet.
Realizing his advantage in speed, he moved swiftly through the battlefield and pounced straight at Elder Liu.
Even though Elder Liu had already formed a battle formation with several people beside him, Gu Jinlai still relied on his explosive speed to forcibly break through it.
"We can't stop him! We can't stop him! Hurry, hurry and summon the Grand Elder!"
Another Core Forming elder screamed miserably.
His tone carried unmistakable terror.
Even with dozens of experts surrounding him, he still felt not the slightest sense of safety.
"Bang!"
Elder Liu's formation was shattered, and Gu Jinlai pounced directly onto the elder's body. His force erupted as the greatsword cleaved down.
"Ah!"
The elder roared toward the heavens. It seemed he had used a forbidden art to push the true qi in his dantian to its limit, making it blaze like a scorching flame.
But even so, he still could not withstand the strike formed from the physique of a mid-tier Demonic Beast, a thousand-jin greatsword, and the eruption of true qi from the same realm.
"Rumble!"
A wave of qi exploded outward, mixed with blood mist so dense it seemed impossible to disperse.
As Gu Jinlai swept past, the elder's entire upper body had vanished.
Gu Jinlai, moving freely across the battlefield, slammed into the ground like a cannonball. But immediately afterward, force erupted from his feet once more, and he continued charging toward another person.
"Again!"
At the same time, a strand of his spirit guided the clear light he had divided out into the "Crossing the World" light sphere.
He had always firmly believed that resources only became good resources once they were used.
Especially now, while he was engaged in fierce combat, if he became trapped and his speed was suppressed by dozens of Qi Refining, Gang Condensing, and Core Forming experts, he would be facing certain death nine times out of ten.
"Buzz, buzz!"
The clear light enveloped it, and the movement-technique light sphere, which had accumulated insights from the previous epiphany, shimmered brilliantly.
Once the radiance faded, it rose directly into an entirely new domain.
Crossing the World: Minor Mastery → Greater Mastery.
At the same time, he also grasped in advance another secret turning technique used during charges: Eight Directions Desolation.
The final person whose red Karma had caught Gu Jinlai's attention fled in terror, attempting to hide within the crowd and reform the battle formation.
As Gu Jinlai charged forward, his body moving freely in every direction, he suddenly accelerated just as he was about to enter the formation.
Waves of air scattered in all directions.
He swept up a cloud of dust that rushed toward their faces, vaulted over the three battle swords coming to intercept him, and descended in a flying leap. With the force of Mount Tai pressing down upon the top of his head, he crushed the final Core Forming expert to death.
As he killed the Core Forming expert, the battle formation's second wave of attacks struck his body.
Flames burst outward.
Amid the distinctive radiance of a high-grade treasured sword, his battle armor finally completed its mission and split open with a massive crack.
This sight seemed to give the originally terrified true disciples and guardian elders hope of defeating this monster. One after another, they quickly regained their morale.
"It's cracked! His armor is cracked!"
"Without the armor, he won't dare to withstand our attacks head-on!"
"Dozens of Qi Refining and Gang Condensing cultivators, along with several Core Forming elders, can't even surround and kill a... a Core Forming cultivator relying on the advantage of weapons and armor! If we let him swagger away, our lifelong reputations will be ruined! From now on, Skygrass Pavilion's prestige will also vanish completely!"
The leading Core Forming elders rallied everyone's morale and directed them to form a battle formation. The guardian elders and disciples who had originally hesitated in fear and dared not advance also surrounded him once more.
Gu Jinlai swept his eyes over the crowd and twisted his neck. "A bunch of clay chickens and pottery dogs."
With that, he strode forward.
The Core Forming cultivator at the very front paled dramatically. With the fate of the previous Core Forming elders before his eyes, he instinctively withdrew and retreated explosively.
"Hahahaha!"
This sight made Gu Jinlai burst into booming laughter.
The moment that Core Forming cultivator retreated, Gu Jinlai strode forward like a shooting star and charged straight out of the encirclement formed by dozens of Qi Refining, Gang Condensing, and Core Forming cultivators.
Some Qi Refining disciples also attempted to block him along the way, but Gu Jinlai did not even look at them. He simply slammed into them.
These disciples, who had not even refined astral qi, had limited killing power. As long as he was not struck directly on a crack in his treasured armor, he could ignore their attacks.
Gu Jinlai, on the other hand, killed them upon contact and injured them with the slightest touch.
With Greater Mastery-level Crossing the World, he had plunged into the night in the blink of an eye and vanished without a trace.
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