All Dead

Although the shot was quite satisfying, it was a pity that it didn't kill the eunuch.

The Myriad Transformations of the Lingguang Mystic Fire is already the most powerful offensive skill in the Phoenix Mystic Art, or perhaps in the Crimson Fiend Daoist Technique of the Taiji Xian Dao. However, the Mystic Fire cannot fundamentally destroy the demonic god composed of fiendish energy; it can only destroy and shatter the opponent's Non-Thing demonic body.

In the flickering firelight, the bloodied and mangled eunuch's skin, which had remained on the opposite bank of the canal, slowly swelled up again. It turned out that the other nine guys hiding in the shadows had each cut off a piece of their demonic flesh to compensate him, allowing the guy to gather his evil energy and revive!

The eunuch solidified like a gelatinous pudding, while his skin was perfectly sewn together, making it almost impossible to tell that a fleshy figure had just burst out from the midline of his mouth.

"Heh... Ah~~~~ You damn fool, you lost a move, hahaha! You lost a move before even using your full strength. You're quite amusing, Lord Li. Are all the people of the Central Plains as amusing as you? Hehehehe! I'm really looking forward to it, hahaha!"

Although he knew the other party was stalling for time to recover their physical body, Li Fan didn't rush to attack, in order to give the two people pushing the wonton cart time to escape the battlefield.

After all, he had just unleashed his full power, a powerful attack that consumed a significant amount of his Dao Breath. Although such a consumption was negligible for his main body, given the clone's current abilities and overall cultivation, it could probably only manage two more attacks before reaching its limit.

With each breath, Li Fan inhaled the Xuanhuo True Flame that had nearly turned the Yong'an Channel into a raging inferno, creating a path for the two pushing the wonton cart. His overflowing Dao Breath extended from his shoulder blades into a pair of crimson fiery wings, protecting his entire body within their core. Only half of his face was visible amidst the layers of fiery feathers, making him appear as if he were hiding within a flaming peony.

"Hey, eunuch, what's your name? Your skills aren't something the Taiping Temple could train, nor are they those half-crippled, inferior products from the Black Lotus Sect. State your name, I don't kill nameless nobodies."

"Huh? Lord Li, have you lost your mind? Would I tell you something like this? Then tell me, which Cultivation Method's secret manual was that Lingguang Wanhua move from? And how did a constable from the Six Doors learn it? And, to be honest, are you really one of the Three Enclosures?"

Like a eunuch shedding his skin, he stretched out his limbs, removing the scorched sores and scabs from his body. Standing naked in the sea of fire, he stretched out his hand, and black malevolent energy gathered, draping over his body like a battle robe. It was clear that his ability to control malevolent energy was not much inferior to Li Fan's.

No, perhaps it should be said that these remnants of the Nangong Seven Friends have been lying low and studying evil energy for so many years, so it's normal for them to have this kind of ability.

"I know even if you don't say it, you should be surnamed Nangong, right?" Li Fan stared at the golden eyes beneath the other's white eyebrows. "You are the offspring of Nangong Wubu, the demon child he conceived using the flesh and blood of the demon god and the secret method of the Tai Su Dao Ancestor, right?"

The eunuch's smile vanished instantly, and Li Fan, unconcerned about the murderous aura around him, scanned the shadowy figures flickering in the dark, malevolent energy across the canal.

"You are all remnants of the Nangong Seven Thieves, aren't you? Where is your master? Is he in Changsi City? Or... in Hengshan?"

The white-browed eunuch suddenly sharpened his eyes, stretched out his arm, and caught a cold beam of light thrown from the darkness behind him.

This is a sharp and precious sword, Nascent Soul Realm. Although it is not a top-grade sword, it is clearly a finely forged divine weapon. In fact, the soft sword that the eunuch hid under his tongue was also no ordinary sword, but a classic "Soft Finger" one. This one is "Cheng Ying". Although it is not the original, it is a divine weapon carefully crafted in imitation of the styles of famous sword masters throughout history.

If it were just a sword, it might be because magical treasures are rare, and it's better to use them than not. But to use a sword twice in a row, and specifically that weapon sword 'Jiao Fen Cheng Ying, Yan Luo Wang Gui', and the Sword Qi that sealed his meridians before... This guy! It's no coincidence!

"You Devil Seed! You dare use the sword technique used to suppress demons in Beichen?!"

They even dared to use the Northern Star Sword Technique to attack me, the sect leader?!

The white-browed eunuch grinned, "What demon-suppressing sword technique? What's the difference between good and bad sword techniques! You use it to suppress demons, but I'll use it to slay immortals!! The Northern Star Immortal-Slaying Sword!"

And so, the cold Sword Light cleaved the flames in an instant and struck again!

This time it was still a thrusting sword strike, but it was slower than the previous unavoidable speed. This was not only because 'Cheng Ying' was heavier and sharper than the hidden 'Rao Soft Finger Rou', but also because the white-browed eunuch no longer used the self-sacrificing sword strike that seemed to peel off his skin. Instead, he enveloped his entire body in a murderous aura, just like a protective qi to guard against the damage caused by the Ling Guang Xuan Huo.

Because of his slight slowness, Li Fan was fully focused and could dodge the first sword strike even with the speed of a clone. Therefore, the eunuch did not seek to kill him in one move, but rather in three.

The first sword strike, seemingly selfless and ineffective, was actually a direct attack designed to force the opponent to dodge.

The second sword strike was a lightning-fast horizontal slash. The bright light along the slanted spine of the sword was almost blinding. Most opponents who dodged the direct thrust would be dazzled by this lightning-fast follow-up strike and severely injured.

But there's a third hidden attack, which is a sudden backhand thrust after the second attack has just passed by.

Yes, this seemingly simple and unadorned three-sword combo, when mastered to its highest level, Sword Light into a lightning-fast, three-fold slash—the renowned ultimate move of the Beichen Sword Sect! <The Ruthless and Deadly Continuous Killing Three Immortal Lightning Sword>!

Incidentally, a certain Sword Ancestor Xuantian, who wished to remain anonymous, thought the name of this move was too silly; it sounded like something a country bumpkin would say, so he simply called it Lightning Style...

Although this move is simple and unadorned, it is offensive but not defensive, and it puts extreme demands on the swordsman's basic skills, combat experience, and swordsmanship comprehension. Without rigorous training and countless life-or-death battles, it is a deadly and deadly move.

Since that's been said, the outcome of this move is self-evident.

Li Fan also transformed into a fiery shadow, intersecting with the lightning-fast sword shadow, their positions shifting as they landed on either side of the canal.

The moment the hundred or so bright red lights missed each other in the night sky, the lightning triple slash missed its mark, and the fire wings, sharp as blades, delivered a six-hit combo that struck the white-browed eunuch's neck. The first five slashes shattered his protective aura, and the sixth slash severed most of his neck.

After catching his breath, the eunuch's throat was severed, and the wound that had been gushing blood healed once again.

You know what, this lightning strike might actually be quite suitable for Devil Seed. After all, it's a life-for-life move; if he dies, he dies, and he can come back to life. But if his opponent gets hit by a single sword strike, he might be severely injured and that's the end of him.

"This move is a secret passed down from the sect leader, not from the Sword Transformation Guide!" Li Fan narrowed his eyes. "Where did you learn it from!"

"Heh heh heh, I didn't expect to lose two moves to you, and I certainly didn't expect you to spare my head just to get an explanation? Fine, I'll tell you." The eunuch twirled his sword, then suddenly plunged the tip into his ribs, piercing his heart and lungs. Blood gushed from his fangs, his beastly eyes widened in fury as he laughed maniacally, "It was the Sword Ancestor Xuantian taught me this!!"

"Bullshit!" Li Fan roared in fury, his body engulfed in Xuanhu fire, his fiery feathers like blades, and he instantly transformed into a firebird, swooping down towards the eunuch with a piercing cry!

"The Beichen Killing Sword! The Blood-Soaked Child Sword! Ahhh!!"

The eunuch roared and suddenly ripped open the sword, tearing apart the two ribs in the chest! It opened like the double doors of a closet! Not only was the entire crimson chest cavity and beating heart and lungs presented before Li Fan, but even the pent-up passion hidden in his womb transformed into a torrent of sword rain, rushing towards him! In that instant, the sword-guarding boy transformed into a sword box, unleashing the sword intent that had been hidden in his heart for over a hundred years!

"Transformation of Light!"

Upon hearing that it was the Beichen Killing Sword, Li Fan knew something was terribly wrong, but he had no choice but to grit his teeth and push all his power to the limit! His entire body of Xuanhuo Phoenix Feathers exploded like a hedgehog! But even bathed in the rain of crimson blood, several blood swords still pierced through his body! The killing sword, amplified by the earth-shattering and deadly Dao power, directly slashed through the highest level of protective Dao fire and true Qi, severing his meridians and bones. Although it avoided his lifeline, it still left Li Fan riddled with holes!

After sacrificing himself by drawing his sword, the eunuch was struck directly by the firebird that Ling Guang had transformed into, exploding into a shower of blood and flesh, burning and scattering across the river. Even the Cheng Ying sword spun and flew back to the other side of the canal, its fine gold spine corroded by black ochre demonic blood.

"Cough cough cough!"

Li Fan knelt on one knee, feeling the sword force pierce through his entire body. The demonic energy from the Devil Seed, mixed with its foul blood, had seeped into his meridians. If an ordinary cultivator suffered such an injury, even if they didn't die immediately, their cultivation would be crippled, their meridians severed, and they wouldn't recover without miraculous elixirs and a hundred years of cultivation.

Fortunately, Li Fan's clone was also a reincarnation of the Tai Su Dao Body, so being infected with the evil energy was no big deal! However, Li Fan also had plenty of street experience. Seizing the opportunity, he collapsed to the ground, forced out a mouthful of blood, and roared...

"Bah! You despicable scoundrel!"

"Hehehe! Drink, drink, drink! Hohoho!"

The shattered pieces of flesh scattered on the ground came together again, gradually forming the shape of a eunuch's head.

"Hehehe! It's rare to run into a master like you! You actually managed to kill me three times in a row! But I still won! Hahaha! Don't worry! I'll bring those two playthings back right now and tear them apart and devour them alive in front of you, hahahaha!"

Li Fan couldn't help but roll his eyes. "Is that all you've got?"

"Hahaha... Huh? What did you say?"

Li Fan quickly spat out another mouthful of blood, feigning weakness and near death from severe injuries, and said...

"Your goal isn't just to kill two people, is it? Since you defeated me, let me die knowing why! Who exactly are you people! What exactly is beneath Changsi City that the Divine Cult, the Black Lotus Sect, and the Nangong Seven Thieves have repeatedly tried to seize it! That's right! The Seven Thieves! There are still the Seven Thieves! Who is your leader! Where is he hiding! Cough cough cough!"

The eunuch rolled his eyes, looking utterly smug and as if he'd gotten his revenge.

"Hehehe! Don't rush! Don't think you'll die so easily! I'll keep your consciousness alive so you can watch! Watch them open the gates! Completely destroy the entire royal foundation of the Li Country! Make 1.4 million people of Changsi City pay with their lives! Hehehe... What are you doing!"

The eunuch was furious, because suddenly someone flashed to the ground, picked up the head with one hand, and tore open the collar with the other, ripped open a piece of flesh from the chest with five fingers, and stuffed the demon head onto his own chest. The flesh buds tore, churned, and bit together, as if a gear had been forcibly inserted into a running machine.

This was a yellow-bearded warrior, expressionless throughout, clearly also a demonic being, but with a cold, aloof air.

"Sixteen, shut up! Little Nineteen is coming this way. If we don't leave now, it'll be too late!"

Li Fan was taken aback, and the eunuch actually shut up instantly, even looking quite frightened. He turned his head away and buried it in the yellow-bearded warrior's muscles, shrinking like a huge abscess.

The warrior turned to leave, and Li Fan, seeing this, became anxious and angrily shouted...

"Wait a minute! Sixteen? Nineteen? Door Opening? What are you talking about! I'm not dead yet! Come at me again! Lingguang Wanhua!"

Li Fan had originally intended to hide a little longer, waiting for the opponent to get closer before launching a counterattack. However, he never expected that the opponent would leave so suddenly! And they turned and left without hesitation! In a flash, they leaped up like bats, each riding on their own malevolent energy, and rushed into the night sky, flying off in all directions. As a result, when Li Fan hastily fired a barrage of rockets with his Lingguang Wanhua technique, he only managed to disperse a wisp of malevolent energy, failing to shoot down a single bird-like figure!

Damn it! Are you kidding me?! Why are you all so decisive?! Play a little longer before leaving! How could this be...? No, no way... Could it be that these guys! How could these guys know that his true form, Qingyue, is rushing towards Changsi City?!

Yes, if the small account gets surrounded, then of course you have to call the big account!

As soon as Li Fan discovered the whereabouts of these remnants of the Nangong Seven Thieves, his true form, Qingyue, immediately fled from the mountain and rushed straight towards Changsi City!

But Qingyue's Dao body only just left Ink Bamboo Mountain! How did these guys know?! What's going on?! How could they sense his main body coming from so far away?! And what's with the sixteenth and nineteenth?! And what's the third one?!

Although he desperately wanted to chase after her, 'Qingyue' hadn't arrived yet, and to make matters worse, the other side said, 'Open the door tonight! Let 1.4 million people be buried with us!' Li Fan was now giving himself PTSD just hearing about 'Door Opening,' and he was extremely worried. Sigh, he should have known better than to ask!

However, remembering the bowl of wontons he had just eaten, Li Fan felt he couldn't just ignore it, so he shouted to the sky, "Stop watching the show! Lead the way for me!"

'Coordinates sent. Oh, dig down 45 steps southwest!'

Li Fan swiftly leaped into the air, channeling his internal energy to digest the malevolent energy within him. With a single palm strike, he opened a channel, unleashing his full power, which transformed into a radiant crimson flame, the Xuanhuo Escape Light shooting straight into the ground!

He only remembered the general location and searched along the underground river, but the deeper he went, the more he realized something was wrong, because there was indeed an abnormally large amount of malevolent energy gathered underground! It didn't originate from the sky with the False Moon! Instead, it came from underground along with the earth's veins! The endless malevolent energy polluted the underground spiritual veins and was climbing up like a black dragon! The foundation stones of the southern city wall of Changsi City had already been corroded by more than half!

What's going on?! Are the garrison commanders of Changsi City really incompetent?! They couldn't even notice something like this?! All they're thinking about is making money, huh?!

The clue that almost led to Seventh Friend was lost just like that. Li Fan was furious. He rushed straight down to the underground and the first thing he saw was the altar of the Wusheng Laomu. He also saw three strange-looking guys piling up a bunch of heads, calling out to the Vacuum Home, and dancing in circles. He was instantly enraged.

If this "hometown" were to be expanded, most of Changsi City would be gone.

"The essence of the Great Elixir lies in the fire that surges through the body! All things in the Great Luo Realm transform into my form! Soaring Light—!"

This palm strike unleashed a burst of flames that shot into the sky! In an instant, it blasted one of them to pieces!

This Black Lotus Sect disciple was unlike the eunuchs above; he was incredibly weak, his life force cut off, and he was instantly killed!

"What are you doing! Stop!"

Li Fan first killed one person in front of him, then with a chop to the air, he severed the legs of the second person, and with a claw, he grabbed the third person and shoved his head into the ground. In the blink of an eye, he had subdued all three!

So the Black Lotus Sect's Cultivation Method are indeed inferior to those demonic disciples from before...?

"Door Opening! Go Door Opening right now!!"

The Black Lotus Sect members, unable to move with their heads pinned down by Li Fan, could only roar in despair.

"Ahhh! Wusheng Laomu! Void Family--"

The man with the broken leg roared and lunged at the old mother statue in the center of the altar.

"I said stop!"

Li Fan raised his hand and smashed the man into a bloody pulp with a single palm strike.

"Do you guys even know what you're doing?! A lot of people are going to die!"

"Let us die! Why won't this heaven perish! We'd rather die with it! Die together! Aaaaaah!!"

The Black Lotus Sect disciples, pinned down by Li Fan, roared in anger, but unable to move forward, they could only look at the pile of corpses and wail.

Li Fan gritted his teeth, looking at the corpses of those who had already committed suicide and died around the altar. Unsurprisingly, they were all women, children, the elderly, and the weak—the kind of 'playthings' that were no longer useful to the powerful and wealthy and couldn't survive.

The corpses of the weak lay scattered around the altar, Yin Hong's blood staining the kind-faced old woman's face. And on their faces, a similar smile of relief radiated.

It's as if they're hoping to truly escape the sea of suffering in this mortal world and reach the other shore of ultimate bliss.

But that's impossible.

Shi Tong'er has lost her humanity, so where does her hometown come from...?

"Fine! Fine! They don't care about any of you!" Li Fan roared, his eyes bloodshot. "I'll save you! I'll find a way to find you a home so you can survive, okay? They don't care! I'll save you!!"

The Black Lotus Sect disciples seemed to hear it, yet also seemed to hear nothing at all. They lay prostrate in the blood-soaked sand, howling as if they had no tears left to shed.