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"You!?"

Wang Dongyu stared at Su Nanxing, who had crashed through the wall and lay amid a cloud of dust and debris, screaming, "Ow, ow, that hurts!" He trembled with rage.

"Gu Jinlai, you think you can frame me with such a despicable trick? Everyone's eyes are sharp. I'm going to report you to the Town Guard!"

He shouted fiercely and hurried toward the exit of the Falling Star Guards.

"I'll add one more charge: fleeing the scene!"

With that, Gu Jinlai leveled his sword and stepped forward.

"Get out of the way! I don't have time to waste my breath on you!"

Wang Dongyu thrust out a hand and fired a burst of Gang Qi, trying to knock the heavy sword aside.

"How dare you resist? You're courting death!"

The heavy sword in Gu Jinlai's hand shuddered. In the next moment, it came down on Wang Dongyu with a violent force, the friction between blade and air whipping up a shrill howl throughout the hall.

The sight made Wang Dongyu's expression change drastically. "Gu Jinlai, you're attacking your own colleagues? You've really gone insane!?"

He retreated explosively while shouting furiously, "Obey my command! Ancient Guard Gu has succumbed to his demonic nature! To prevent him from harming the innocent, everyone attack and take him down!"

Zhao Fan and the other Falling Star Guards were still hesitating, but the two Core Forming cultivators, the Gang Condensing experts, and the Qi Refining disciples of the Wang Family attacked at the same time, joining forces to kill Gu Jinlai.

Blades flashed and swords gleamed. Gang Qi and Sword Qi howled and crisscrossed through the hall.

"Hahahaha!"

Gu Jinlai threw back his head and laughed. "Good! Good! Good! Come, all of you, resist me! The more fiercely you resist, the happier I am."

The force beneath his feet suddenly erupted.

As tremendous strength surged upward, the charging figure's speed soared. The thousand-kilogram heavy sword in his hand moved as lightly as nothing, sweeping horizontally and blasting apart the Gang Qi of the two fastest attackers. Then, relying on his advantage in speed, he charged straight to the front of a Wang Family Gang Condensing expert whose Karma was as red as blood and smashed down with the giant sword!

The thousand-kilogram weight, mixed with the eruption of true qi, was unstoppable. Even though the Gang Condensing expert raised his sword to block, he was still crushed to death on the spot, man and sword together.

"Gu Jinlai!?"

Seeing a Wang Family disciple die, Wang Dongyu let out an enraged roar. "You forced me into this! Wang Family disciples, heed my command—kill him!"

At the same time, he turned toward Zhao Fan and the other Falling Star Guards. "What are you waiting for? Gu Jinlai clearly came here to kill people! Once he exposes what you've done, do you think you'll be able to escape?"

Zhao Fan and the others' expressions changed when they heard this. After hesitating for a moment, they drew their swords one after another.

"Good! You dare draw your swords against your superior? Are you trying to rebel?"

Gu Jinlai's voice echoed through the hall. "Gu Chaoyang, bring people to close the doors and guard the exits. Su Nanxing, hold off one Core Forming cultivator. Don't let them form a formation."

"Yes."

Gu Chaoyang and the others answered in unison.

Su Nanxing, meanwhile, crawled out of the bricks and dust in one breath and said, "Master, although I'm vomiting blood and my injuries are severe, dealing with Core Forming cultivators who aren't from a top-tier sect is no problem. I can still fight two at once."

"Good."

Gu Jinlai immediately assigned him Light Red Name Zhao Fan and an old man who had come to reinforce them.

As for himself, he charged straight into the Wang Family and the Falling Star Guards rushing forward. Looking at the crimson Karma glowing all around him, he used a strand of clear light without hesitation.

"Buzz!"

The clear light poured into him, and he invested it in the Great Sun Demon God Body-Tempering Method.

But his main purpose was to use the clear light's profound properties to push his brain into an overclocked state.

"Those who defy their superiors and plot rebellion shall be executed!"

In the next moment, his true qi boiled. A Blood Lotus manifested behind Gu Jinlai and bloomed. Then, it was as though the battle at the Sky Herb Pavilion had been recreated.

The blooming Blood Lotus evolved into dozens of visible and invisible Sword Qi, sweeping violently and wantonly in every direction.

Myriad Phenomena Sword Qi!

"Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!"

The sound of bodies being pierced resounded throughout the hall.

Within a radius of dozens of meters around Gu Jinlai, it was as if a comb had passed through the area. Crimson blood sprayed from nearly everyone at the same time.

Countless streams of blood intertwined into one, dispersing into a bloody mist shaped like a red lotus and presenting a breathtaking, desolate beauty.

Along with it came wave after wave of shrill screams.

With that single sword strike, more than half of the Wang Family disciples and Falling Star Guards in the hall were already dead or wounded.

"What kind of swordsmanship is this!? What kind of swordsmanship is this!?"

"How could this be..."

"No!"

The terrifying scene instantly stunned Wang Dongyu and the Wang Family's other Core Forming cultivator.

They had believed that with four Core Forming cultivators, more than a dozen Gang Condensing experts, and over thirty Qi Refining disciples, their combined assault could at least contend with a genuine Spirit Refining cultivator.

Gu Jinlai had already fallen from the Spirit Refining realm and was now at the same Core Forming level as them. No matter how formidable he was, he could not possibly be strong enough to rival Spirit Refining.

But now...

Once the battle truly began, their proud advantage in numbers had suffered more than half its casualties under a single move from Gu Jinlai!?

"Boom!"

The earth shook!

Amid flying dust, Gu Jinlai seemed wrapped in a layer of blood mist. Like an unparalleled Demonic Beast, he charged over with killing intent soaring to the heavens.

Before the sword even reached him, that overwhelming stench of blood and suffocating pressure made the old man feel as though he had been forced to face a savage bear back when he had first undergone Blood Changing.

"Not good!"

The old man roared as true qi erupted from his body. "Nine Forms of the Turning Wheel! Bane-Breaker!"

Gang Qi trembled, and sword light shot into the heavens, as if it could dispel every trace of gloom in the sky.

Yet just as the sword was about to intercept Gu Jinlai's body, the charging Gu Jinlai suddenly swayed.

His figure changed direction, actually avoiding the sword light as it flashed past his side.

Conquering the World—Eight Wastelands!

His body shifted and skimmed past the sword light, yet his momentum did not weaken in the slightest. The heavy sword in his hand carried the tremendous force of thunder and struck the old man's body from the side.

Although the sword had not hit him head-on, the violent kinetic force still tore apart his protective true qi like rotten wood swept away by a gale.

"Bang!"

Half the old man's body exploded into fragments as though it had been struck by a sniper rifle bullet.

"Sixth Uncle!"

Wang Dongyu let out an enraged and horrified roar.

There was a trace of fear hidden in his voice.

After killing the old man, Gu Jinlai's body did not slow in the slightest. He bent his knees slightly, then straightened them in the next instant.

True qi erupted!

This time, he moved even faster than before!

His might was even greater than that of the previous strike!

"Attack! All of you, attack! Stop him! Stop him!"

Wang Dongyu shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Bang!"

A Gang Condensing expert had only just begun to move and had not even had time to unleash his Gang Qi when Gu Jinlai's thunderous strike arrived.

After killing the Gang Condensing expert, Gu Jinlai was no longer satisfied with executing only the principal culprit, Wang Dongyu. He turned and charged into the crowd, like a cat stalking mice, singling out a few people and killing them.

Wherever the thousand-kilogram heavy sword pointed, its pure physical force easily blasted the targets he had selected into clouds of blood.

Not even a complete corpse remained!

Especially after he had killed more than a dozen people and was drenched in blood from head to toe, his eyes were still filled with...

Joy and satisfaction!

It seemed that killing was the most wonderful pleasure in the world to him.

That gaze, combined with the blood on his face, formed an unparalleled visual impact.

Cruel! Cold! Merciless! Insane!

The remaining Falling Star Guards and Wang Family disciples were filled with uncontrollable fear.

Watching the people beside them fall one after another, corpses and blood covering the floor, a Falling Star Guard finally broke down under the pressure.

"Demon! Demon! He's a demon!"

His collapse seemed to trigger a chain reaction. The remaining people cried out in terror at the same time.

"Spare us, Town Guard! Please spare us! We know we were wrong!"

"Please, let us live..."

"We surrender! Town Guard, we surrender!"

In the blink of an eye, apart from a few Wang Family disciples who were still resisting, everyone else abandoned their blades and swords and hid around the edges of the hall.

Even Zhao Fan, who had been fighting Su Nanxing, retreated to the side, intending to cut all ties with Wang Dongyu.

"This is what you were counting on?"

Gu Jinlai shook the sword in his hand and looked toward Wang Dongyu.

"I..."

Wang Dongyu's lips trembled.

How could this have happened!?

There were so many of them...

How had they been defeated so miserably?

"Ancient Guard Gu, please listen to me..."

"Bang!"

True qi erupted.

Gu Jinlai stamped against the ground and flew out from among the blood and corpses. The battle sword in his hand came crashing down toward Wang Dongyu's head.

"Spare me..."

Wang Dongyu raised his sword in despair to block.

But the result was the same as for those Gang Condensing experts. He was smashed into a cloud of blood, man and sword together.

"I don't want to hear it."