The Final Sword

After a series of fierce battles, Li Fan was in such poor condition, and then suddenly ran into a large group of people. He was a little scared.

However, after three seconds, Li Fan felt confident again.

Although six more people suddenly rushed at him, twice as many as in the previous close combat, they all had to use one hand to perform a water-avoidance spell.

This way, Li Fan was no longer afraid. However, just to be on the safe side, he pretended to use a water-avoidance spell to escape. As expected, the six cultivators behind him fell for the trick and chased after him to surround him. Seven streams of water flowed through the lake bottom. After circling around twice, Li Fan had already tested the level of the others.

The water control is so slow, it's rubbish.

Of course, "Avoiding Water" and "Controlling Water" are common names. According to the naming rules of this world, it is usually written as "Mysterious Dark Underworld Body-Invincible Divine Skill". It means that you can make a hand seal at any time, and the Profound Nether True Qi will surround your body like a celestial body. It is like an ellipsoidal aura that you can control at will, which is somewhat similar to the technique of flying with a sword.

Because it was a very basic technique of controlling qi, Profound Heaven Sword Intent had already casually taught it to him. However, he felt that such basic techniques only required more practice and there was no need to say more. Li Fan didn't pay much attention to it either; as long as he learned it, that was enough. He didn't practice it seriously at all.

However, after the sword duel, Li Fan gained a clearer understanding of many spells and techniques. Recalling the transmission of the Profound Heaven Sword Intent, he also began to realize that the so-called "body-harming divine skill" was not an exaggeration.

The Water-Avoiding Technique is actually just a side effect. For example, when entering the water, the Profound Nether True Qi will automatically gather the surrounding water vapor, preventing the water from getting close and instead causing it to swirl around the cultivator, forming a kind of air sac-like cavity around their body. In this way, a person in the water is as if they are on land, able to move freely and breathe freely. Other Five Elements Body-Unharming Cultivation Method have similar properties, so this Five Elements Body-Unharming Divine Technique can be used to control Qi and avoid the adverse effects of excessive spiritual energy in the environment on the Dao body.

But as the saying goes, any spell, when mastered to a high level, becomes incredibly powerful. Theoretically, if you refine and deeply cultivate the Five Elements Escape Method, and calculate accurately and quickly enough, then no matter what Five Elements Daoist technique comes your way, you can easily use a self-defense divine skill to control it, achieving an effect of immunity to damage, much like shifting a field or using an energy shield. Therefore, this is indeed a genuine Five Elements Self-Defense Divine Skill.

However, cultivating 'avoidance' to the point of 'not harming the body' is not so simple. This requires an extremely high level of mastery of the escape technique and a high level of magical power. Few people usually practice such basic techniques, so True Cultivator who can achieve this level of precise control are extremely rare.

Moreover, according to Li Fan's understanding, it's like the Water Avoidance Technique constantly consuming a large amount of system resources, which is actually quite similar in nature to the Qiongqi Transformation Technique. In order to control such a single Dao Qi, you have to keep the incantation in place and control the Qi, and you have to pay attention to adjusting the trajectory of the true Qi according to changes in the environment. You can only control one Dao Qi at a time. Without a distraction-free method like the Five Luo Sword Ghosts, it is indeed not very suitable for use in fast-paced sword fighting.

When Profound Heaven Sword Intent taught this Qi Control Technique, he also mentioned that elite disciples of the Xuan Sect could use a Gold-Avoiding Technique to interfere with the sword path of a flying sword. The more skilled ones could even let the sword pellets jump around them without harming them in the slightest. However, Li Fan took it as mere boasting. The Beichen Sword Sect was used to exaggerating, so he didn't pay much attention.

Looking back now, if he had mastered the Indestructible Body Divine Skill earlier, he wouldn't have been beaten to a pulp by the wind, thunder, and fire, wasting his Daoist robe...

But now things are much better. Everyone is underwater, so they can naturally use their hands to cast a water-repelling spell before fighting. Besides, they have about ten people surrounding the unfortunate guy who fell into the water, so they shouldn't have the strength to fight in front and then use magic to support from behind.

Seeing that there were even more cultivators in front of him than before, and considering that only six people were chasing Li Fan and he could actually fight them, he wasn't afraid anymore.

After fleeing for a while, Li Fan was gradually caught up by those behind him. After all, his Water Avoidance Technique wasn't very refined—cough cough cough! It was more like he was deliberately letting his guard down!

In short, because water manipulation was relatively slow, it gave these cultivators the illusion that they could catch up and surround him at any time, and no one used ranged spells or magic weapons to launch a sneak attack. Someone caught up first, using one hand to manipulate water while thrusting a spear straight at Li Fan's back.

Li Fan immediately turned around to meet the attack, parrying the spear thrust with his sword, but missed.

It turned out that the man behind him was also just showing off his skills. He didn't expect to finish the job with one shot. He just wanted to stop Li Fan. He made a feint and then turned around, intending to entangle with Li Fan so that the others could catch up and attack from behind.

So Li Fan didn't hold back. He dispelled the water-avoiding spell he had been pretending to hold, and suddenly accelerated, wielding his sword with both hands! With a swift movement, he counterattacked, beheading the unsuspecting cultivator!

Another swordfish-like thrust, a lightning-fast counterattack! It stabbed straight at the second person behind it, and before the opponent could react, the sword pierced between their eyes, killing another one!

Then, Li Fan stepped on the corpse and kicked backward, spinning around to rip the skull off the demon. Using the momentum of his sword, he shot towards the third person like a spinning top torpedo! He was so fast that even though the third person had turned to run away, he still caught up with him and slashed off half of his body with a whirlwind sword!

Indeed, this is the <Dark Underworld Inner Breath Circulation>! This method is fundamentally different from the Water Avoidance Technique!

Since the purpose of the Dark Underworld Invincible Body is to control and avoid water, the deeper the water is, the greater the impact and obstacle that water pressure and current have on controlling the water-avoidance technique.

But the Dark Underworld Inner Breath Circulation is like swimming and diving! To put it bluntly, it's similar to a body-refining technique, that's right! This is the legendary swimming Cultivation Method!

"Don't go into the water if you can't swim!" Li Fan shouted arrogantly, weaving back and forth like an eel, circling around the three cultivators who couldn't dodge in time. Seizing the opportunity, he would stab and tug, and in a short while, he would cut the three into bloody gourds.

Honestly, he could easily turn the tables on three opponents in a land battle, let alone those who were less mobile underwater and each had one hand to spare. Moreover, the three cultivators who lagged behind using water manipulation were even less skilled in naval combat. Forget about counterattacking; once their water manipulation techniques were dispelled and their faces were covered by water, they couldn't even open their eyes. At this moment, they were completely panicked and couldn't remember any spells. They couldn't withstand more than three or five moves before their heads were cut off by the sword, Li Fan held in his hand, staining the lake bottom a bright red.

'Current mood limit: 3200'

Li Fan laughed loudly! Like a shark smelling blood, he charged towards the dozen or so rogue cultivators in the distance!

The people there were truly surprised. To be honest, there weren't many people in this Li Country mountain village who knew how to control water. Seeing that Li Fan could stay underwater without using hand seals, and that his movements were as fast as lightning, even more agile and unpredictable than when he was on land, they were all immediately filled with fear.

These people were just there to take advantage of the chaos, not to actually fight. Several of them immediately turned and ran, wanting to break through the water and get ashore first. Only four were still stubborn enough to throw their magical weapons at Li Fan at the same time.

A jade knife and a stone axe came rushing towards him, aimed directly at his head. Behind him, a Golden hairpin and a thunder seal emitted golden light and lightning, piercing straight for his brow.

Although it's garbage, it has to be said that it's really bad garbage.

Li Fan brandished the demon-slaying sword, deflecting axes and knives with his left hand and lightning with his right. Taking advantage of his freedom of movement in the water, he leaped and dodged, trying to entangle the enemy for a while. Then, Golden hairpin light shone from the hairpin, and he immediately felt a sting in his right eye, and everything went black! Then the stone axe fell down. Luckily, he shrank his neck, otherwise he would have been chopped in the head. He was so terrified that he covered his head and ran away.

I've been wasting my time, I can't beat them, I can't beat them, I can't beat them...

Just as Li Fan was being chased by the four magical treasures and was about to be beaten to death, the light at the bottom of the lake suddenly disappeared.

The magical artifact that had just illuminated the water as bright as day was taken away, and the person who had been blocking the way with a dozen or so rogue cultivators below also made his move while Li Fan had drawn the attention of a large group of people!

And it really was just a simple action.

Li Fan turned his head and saw a white shadow flash by at the bottom of the lake, flash by, flash by, flash by, flash by four times, and then it ripped off the heads of the four cultivators who were ganging up on Li Fan with their bare hands!

The four magical treasures immediately lost control and stopped in the water, where Li Fan quickly collected them all.

The group of people who had been frightened by Li Fan thought the situation was going well and paused for a moment. But when the situation reversed again, they dared not linger and rushed straight to the lake to try to escape.

But once they stopped, they couldn't move. The white figure below unleashed ten bolts of white lightning from the tips of its ten fingers, blasting them into large chunks of blood! The lake surface was instantly stained crimson!

I'm mowing the lawn...

Although the white lightning didn't come towards Li Fan, the residual energy from its outflow still traveled through the water, causing his legs to go numb from the electric shock.

Are these losers out of their minds? Why do they always pick on such tough guys to gang up on? They've gotten wiped out again.

This guy was a real expert from the start, and Li Fan didn't dare to go and risk his life. He wanted to turn around and run away.

But after swimming for a while, he found that the bottom of the lake was still pitch black and there was no movement in the water. After thinking for a moment, he tried to scan with his Divine Sense and found a pile of dead flesh floating in the water. The person who had just used his great move was also floating at the bottom of the lake. He didn't seem to be faking it. It seemed that he had drowned due to exhaustion.

Can Golden Core cultivator really drown? Li Fan frowned, hesitated for a moment, and decided that now was not the time to conduct an experiment. So he turned around and swam back to the man, picked him up in the dark, and brought him to the surface.

In the moonlight, you can see that it's a woman.

Dressed in white, with disheveled hair like Zhenzi, and a erratic pulse, he was probably seriously injured in a sword fight and then surrounded and beaten by these rogue cultivators, which is why he was trapped at the bottom of the lake.

Li Fan moved the person to the shore and felt that this Zhenzi was quite something. However, given that she could easily rip people's heads off and had killed more than ten people with a single move, she was really ruthless. He didn't dare to do any artificial respiration, so he put her on his lap and patted her back for a while, telling her to vomit the water out herself.

"Cough cough cough cough!"

"Fellow Daoist, are you alright? Well then. We've met by chance, and it's fate that we've shared this ordeal. Please don't try to take my head off just because I touched you, thank you."

Li Fan stood up and stepped aside from Zhenzi, leaving himself an escape route in case she turned hostile and killed him; he would immediately jump into the water to escape.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Zhenzi didn't make a move. She was also at the Golden Core Stage, but seeing her coughing up blood, her injuries were clearly much more serious than Li Fan's. She lay on the ground, trembling and spitting blood.

It's impossible for those dozen or so people to have injured Zhenzi badly. They must have fought her with swords on the Imperial City. Looking at the golden light above the Imperial City now, it seems that quite a few people have died in this short time. Perhaps the battle is about to be decided.

Li Fan watched from the side, taking out some fried rice pills and chewing on them to catch his breath. He looked in the mirror and found a pool of blood in his right eye, probably from being injured by the Golden hairpin, with some messy Daoist energy remaining in his eye, which wouldn't heal for a while.

Fortunately, he had a solid foundation in Daoism and profound skills, so the hairpin only injured his eyes. If his skills had been weaker, the Golden hairpin would probably have pierced through his eyeballs.

"Cough, cough cough..." Zhenzi looked up at Li Fan.

"What? Oh, you want some? Don't be shy." So Li Fan poured some Nine Revolutions Mysterious Purple Gold Pill for her. It wasn't enough for Golden Core Stage cultivator; it was just enough to catch her breath, better than nothing. He'd have to ask the Abbot for some better ones.

Zhenzi, however, was startled as she stared at the poured-out pill. It seemed that a nine-turn pill was indeed rare. She first bowed to Li Fan and coughed, as if to express her gratitude, before swallowing it and sitting down to meditate and regulate her breathing.

Li Fan didn't pay much attention. He wrapped a cloth around Li You's eyes, pulled him out of his sleeve to check, and found he was still alive! "You're amazing!" he thought, then stuffed the cloth back into his sleeve...

Then it started to rain.

Li Fan glanced at the sky. The West Market was alright, but the area towards the Imperial City was experiencing torrential rain. It was obvious that someone was using magic to draw water from the moat to extinguish the fires. The fact that they had the leisure to extinguish the fires meant that the rebellious forces had been largely suppressed. Moreover, they were extinguishing the fires rather than continuing to set them on fire, which meant that the Li Country had won.

This is quite obvious. Although the Divine Cult has caused such a commotion, the key Blood Lord has been eliminated, the Altar Master has been assassinated, and Lu Qi has probably been sent away. How long can the leaderless rebels cause trouble? Once the fire in the Imperial City is extinguished, the Imperial Guards protecting the capital will probably enter the city to quell the rebellion.

Li Fan calculated that it was almost dawn, and if he didn't start the time-limited side quest soon, he probably wouldn't be able to complete it.

So Li Fan took out his Si Nan to check the direction. The spoon pointed directly east. He then cupped his hands in a gesture of respect to Zhenzi and said, "Fellow Daoist, we've settled our score now that we've helped each other. I have important matters to attend to. We've met by chance; perhaps we'll meet again someday."

Zhenzi opened her eyes, nodded to Li Fan, and bowed in greeting.

Without hesitation, Li Fan leaped into the waves and sailed away, passing over the rooftop of the West Market and heading straight east of the city.

Many people died outside the Imperial City, but the chaotic soldiers, unable to obtain crucial assistance, naturally failed to breach the city walls and scattered, leaving behind a trail of corpses. The experts mobilized by Lu Chai, seeing the situation was unfavorable, dared not linger any longer and dispersed like birds and beasts. At this time, the Divine Cult's forces were the weakest near the Imperial City, so Li Fan openly walked along the edge of the Imperial City with the character 'Zhu' (诛) on his head, and no one dared to surround him to fight.

Although many of the cultivators guarding the palace were scanning Li Fan with their Divine Sense, none of them came down from the city to fight him. After all, a disciple of Ink Bamboo Mountain, wearing the Purple Sash Immortal Clothes of Ink Bamboo Mountain, wielding the Ink Bamboo Mountain Black Sword, and bearing the 'Blood Execution Seal' above his head—a mark usually reserved for those who had killed high-ranking members of the Divine Cult—suggested that everyone was on the same side.

So Li Fan swaggered along the moat and city walls of Changsi City, right under the noses of the imperial guards and the garrisoning immortals, his arrogance unchecked and no one able to stop him! Of course, there was no one on the streets either...

As we passed through the Vermilion Bird Gate, the city gate suddenly swung open, Si Nan trembled violently, pointing directly at the main hall of the Imperial City to the north!

Holy crap! Si Nan, stop giving random orders! I've already made a name for myself last night, literally fighting my way from Da'an Fang to Vermilion Bird Gate, why do we still need to fight??

Li Fan turned his head and saw that the side gate of the palace had opened, and several eunuchs were carrying sedan chairs out of the palace. They were probably palace servants who wanted to leave the palace to avoid trouble, seeing that the situation had stabilized somewhat. The guards seemed to recognize them, and after checking their waist tags, they waved them out of the palace.

Li Fan stood at the Vermilion Bird Gate, looking towards them along the handle of the spoon. Then he saw the head attendant who was handing over duties to the guards walk out from behind the sedan chair; he would recognize that face even if it turned to ashes.

It's that eunuch from Dragon Inn!

The eunuch seemed to hear a call from the heavens. He looked up and saw the Daoist priest from Ink Bamboo Mountain standing outside the city wall, covered in blood, holding a sword with one eye, exuding murderous intent. The two exchanged glances across the marble dragon bridge over the moat, and were suddenly shocked!

Li Fan pointed his sword at him, "It's you!"

The chief eunuch let out a piercing scream, "Screech!"

Li Fan vaguely saw a flash of silver light in the eunuch's mouth, felt a stab on his back, and instinctively turned his head to the right and fell backward, catching the silver needle that the eunuch spat out in his mouth!

Damn it! These scoundrels! They'll cut off your right hand if you're holding a sword in your right hand! They'll spit on your right eye if you're blind in it! They're all old scumbags! Ugh, ugh, ugh, so disgusting!

"Charge out!" the chief eunuch roared, drawing the soft sword from his jade belt. He leaped into the air, using his lightness skill to step onto the stone bridge, his sword flashing like a silver snake spitting its tongue, and thrusting straight at Li Fan.

Taking advantage of the guards' momentary lapse in attention, a group of eunuchs suddenly drew their short swords and slashed wildly, carving a bloody path and carrying the sedan chair straight out of the palace gate!

"You're asking for trouble! You're asking for it!!" Li Fan roared, leaping into the air in a swift motion! His Ghost-Slaying Sword spun backward, chasing after the eunuch's soft sword!

"Xiaoyu!" Just as Li Fan drew his sword, an old eunuch with white hair and beard suddenly emerged from the sedan chair! His python robe was stained with blood, clearly indicating that he was also a master who had fought all night and barely escaped with his life. Upon hearing the sound of Li Fan's sword, he knew that his "Xiaoyu" was no match for him and wanted to take action to capture him!

But it was too late!

Blood Record Sword Scripture couldn't defeat Li Fan, so what difference does it make if the swordsmanship of the Human Dao is powerful! Let's roll it together!

A series of sharp, clanging sounds, like a storm, rang out! Then came a whirlwind of shattering bones! In an instant, the eunuch's soft sword was torn to shreds by the demon-slaying sword, and his arm, along with his entire body, was caught in the sword's aura, exploding into a large spray of blood!

"Ah--!" The old eunuch was enraged when he saw his beloved godson die a horrific death before his eyes, his body completely destroyed! A terrifying aura emanated from his body, like a burst of white flames erupting in the rainy night!

In an instant, the claw transformed into a palm, unleashing a devastating strike! The palm force was immense! Boom! It sent Li Fan and his sword flying, crashing to the other side of the street! The overflowing palm wind and energy surged forth, directly blasting away half of the street's walls, leveling them!

Li Fan was struck squarely by the palm, and "Pfft!" he spat out a mouthful of blood. Even the Ghost-Slaying Demon was sent flying somewhere!

"Xiao, Xiaoyu..." The dead eunuch paused, glancing at the blood and flesh scattered across the ground by his own palm strike, the mangled corpse, then suddenly leaped into the air like a ravenous owl! He lunged straight at Li Fan! "You will pay for Xiaoyu's life—!"

"Damn it... This eunuch dares to hit me... My dad never even hit me..."

Li Fan was blasted so hard that blood spurted from his mouth, nose, and eyes. His head was throbbing and buzzing. He was so overwhelmed with heat that he lost his mind and didn't even know what he was saying. But he didn't care about anything else at this point. Hide, hide, hide! Hide my ass!

He flipped his hands over and grabbed, revealing a pair of golden dragonfly-like swords— the Golden Dragon White Star!

Since Profound Heaven Sword Intent did not teach Li Fan the Taiyin Sword Scripture, he naturally did not know how to use the sword scripture to conserve sword power and activate the secrets and methods of the pair of sword techniques and sword seals.

However, he knows a clumsy method.

"Puff!"

He then spat his blood essence onto the twin swords, which resembled Golden hairpin! The blood splattered onto the sword marks, leaving a crimson stain. He then gripped each sword with three fingers, crossing the blades. With a 'clang,' they struck together! His blood connected the sword marks on each sword, activating them! Golden stars shone!

Amidst the dazzling, bright light, Li Fan suddenly looked up towards the north.

He walked past the old eunuch, who was acting like a madman and was about to slap him in the face.

We passed through the towering Vermilion Bird Gate.

Look straight to the other side of the door.

The Taiji Palace is located directly north of the Imperial City.

Half the city was burned down, and countless people died. You're all making a scene over that one dilapidated house. Isn't that a bit unfair?

"Golden Dragon White Star! Slash--!!"

Sword Light that reached the heavens and pierced the earth swept across Changsi City, instantly engulfing the old eunuch in its dazzling, unparalleled brilliance, and reducing him to ashes.

Then the Sword Light slashed northwards, cutting through the Vermilion Bird Gate, the Chengtian Gate, and the Taiji Palace along the central axis. In the very center of the Li Country's imperial palace, it left a sword mark more than ten feet deep.

It even sliced open half of the dark clouds in the sky, allowing a ray of golden light from the morning sun to pour down from the heavens.

Sun,

It's coming out...

Holding his twin swords, Li Fan gazed at the Li Country's Imperial City, which he had fought his way from Da'an Fang to Vermilion Bird Gate, cleaving it in two with a single strike in the morning light. He felt utterly exhausted, with no strength left to fight.

But a sense of indescribable satisfaction welled up within him.

No, nor is it difficult to express; it can be summed up in one word:

Cool.

Li Fan's mood improved by 1 point.

' Li Fan won the battle and killed Wang Shoucheng, increasing his morale cap by 500 points.'

'Current mood limit: 3700'