Great King Ram Horn's hoof came down, covering not only Guan Che but also Shadow Demon Envoy Changqing and Wei Guan.
"Old monster, do you dare make an enemy of the Remnant Grudge Holy Sect?" Shadow Demon Envoy Changqing cried out in anger and alarm.
This trip had been like having a broom star hanging over his head. Nothing had gone right; everything had gone wrong.
He had wanted to recruit Guan Che, who had fallen into demonic possession, only for Guan Che to greet him with a mouthful of Sword Qi.
He had wanted to fight the Demon Wolf, only to find an old monster behind it!
Worse still, this old monster was far too powerful. It was no match for him at all. If that hoof came down, he would surely die.
That overwhelming might had already sealed off every escape route. There was nowhere left to retreat. If he took the blow head-on, he was dead!
"What Remnant Grudge Holy Sect? You're nothing but a bunch of Shadow Demons. I even dare fight the Sword Cultivators of the Qingwei Sword Sect, so why would I fear a bunch of Shadow Demons?
"Anyone who dares trespass on Ram Horn Mountain will die!" Great King Ram Horn's voice boomed like thunder, laced with wild, savage demonic aura. It rolled like dark clouds, pressing down on them as if the heavens themselves were about to collapse.
Things had gotten even worse! Shadow Demon Chang Qing felt stifled with frustration.
This obscure goat demon actually showed the Remnant Grudge Cult not the slightest bit of respect!
What was even more laughable, even at this life-or-death moment, was that this ignorant goat demon didn't even take the colossal Qingwei Sword Sect seriously!
He was even going to kill people from the Qingwei Sword Sect!
Then what was there to say? If he dared kill members of the Qingwei Sword Sect, of course he would dare kill Shadow Demons from the Remnant Grudge Cult.
That was that. They could wait to die!
There was no reasoning with such a lawless, stupid demon, even if you were in the right!
"Idiot!" Wei Guan turned to flee, but Great King Ram Horn's imposing might pinned him down. He had no choice but to take the blow head-on; there was no other way.
He had connected with the Remnant Grudge Cult because he wanted a way to survive!
Who could have guessed that as soon as he made contact, he'd be dying alongside this damned Shadow Demon!
"How could a Shadow Demon from the Remnant Grudge Cult be this stupid?" he roared inwardly, wishing he could beat Shadow Demon Envoy Changqing to death.
He had charged straight into a place like Ram Horn Mountain without knowing a thing about it!
Guan Che had gone mad from demonic possession. Did this Shadow Demon have to go mad along with him?
"Die!" Guan Che's eyes were bloodred, but he didn't care who Great King Ram Horn was. He opened his mouth again and again, spewing mouthfuls of Sword Qi at the hoof coming down.
It all seemed to happen slowly, but in truth, it took only an instant.
"Boom!"
The hoof came down in a blaze of flames, like a fiery cloud. It swept through everything like dead leaves before a gale. No matter how the Sword Qi transformed into sword techniques, before such absolute power, it was all like wisps of cloud, shattered beneath a single stomp.
Am I... going to die? Between life and death, a flicker of clarity returned to Guan Che's bloodred eyes. The red faded for a brief moment, then quickly returned as he fell back into demonic possession. He growled, "Kill!"
Shadow Demon Changqing, I'll curse your ancestors! Wei Guan cursed inwardly, though he knew his time had come.
At the same moment,
Yu Xiu, who had concealed his presence, had already grasped the situation. Guan Che might still be saved!
Although Guan Che had fallen into demonic possession and lost his senses, he still had an instinctive urge to kill Shadow Demons!
As for demons, that went without saying. He had killed his way all the way into Ram Horn Mountain!
He stepped forward, silently entering the Riding the Wind state. In a flash, he appeared before Guan Che and the others, facing the hoof Great King Ram Horn had brought down from the mountaintop.
Another Sword Cultivator from the Qingwei Sword Sect? Shadow Demon Chang Qing glanced at Yu Xiu and paid him no further attention.
He had only just entered the second trial of the Five Elements Realm. He wasn't even as strong as Chang Qing!
Coming here would just mean dying in vain.
These Sword Cultivators really did have something wrong with their heads. They knew they were going to die, yet still jumped out to throw their lives away!
Madmen. Sword Cultivators were all madmen!
Guan Che was one, and this sudden newcomer was another!
Chang Qing couldn't help cursing inwardly!
"Kill!" Guan Che's eyes were bloodred. His instincts made him avoid Yu Xiu, who was also of the Sword Sect, and he continued to attack Great King Ram Horn.
But Guan Che was fast. Yu Xiu was faster.
The moment he appeared, he had already drawn his sword.
His sword flashed, and a burst of swordlight erupted. No one could tell how many strikes it contained, or what sword technique it was.
This strike was fast—swift!
An unparalleled, peerlessly sharp sword intent surged forth with it, as if it could cut through everything and shatter everything, charging forward without pause!
This was the sword of a true Sword Cultivator!
"Another Sword Cultivator come to die. I'll stomp you both flat!" Great King Ram Horn paid no attention to Yu Xiu's sudden appearance.
He had only just entered the Five Elements Realm. So what?
Great King Ram Horn had already reached the peak of the second trial, the Five Elements Realm. He could enter the third trial, the Five Spirits Realm, at any moment!
With the gap in cultivation between them, even the strongest Sword Cultivator would end up a corpse here!
"Shhk!"
Without a sound, the astonishing swordlight, accompanied by peerless sword intent, cut through the hoof coming down like a fiery cloud.
That razor-sharp sword intent broke through everything and shattered everything. It seemed there was nothing it could not cut, nothing it could not break!
This sword intent was fierce, sharp to the utmost degree!
The purest sword intent!
Despite the gap in realms and the enormous disparity in cultivation, the sword intent still swept forward like a hot knife through butter, easily cleaving through Great King Ram Horn's full-strength strike.
"Hm?" Great King Ram Horn's expression changed drastically as he plunged through the air!
Before the sword even reached him, its fierce, razor-sharp intent had already made his whole body go cold. It felt as though countless hairs-thin strands of Sword Qi were stabbing at him from every direction!
His power, on the verge of reaching the third trial, the Five Spirits Realm, could not be stopped. Neither could his demonic body, tempered to the utmost degree!
A true Sword Cultivator! Great King Ram Horn's heart pounded like a war drum.
That strike had already split through the fiery cloud and was closing in like a bolt of lightning.
He couldn't dodge!
"What a Sword Cultivator!" Great King Ram Horn let out a low growl. The two black curved horns atop his head fell away and grew to several feet in length. Gripping them in his hands, he swung them hard at the peerlessly fierce, razor-sharp swordlight!
"Shhk!"
The air seemed to tear apart—and so did the two horns in Great King Ram Horn's hands.
The horns he had tempered for several centuries were utterly like paper!
"What a Sword Cultivator!" Great King Ram Horn's eyes bulged as he roared the same words one last time!
The first time, he had admitted defeat. The second, he knew he was going to die!
To die at the hands of this true Sword Cultivator!
"Pfft!" Demonic blood soared into the sky.
A huge hornless goat's head flew up alongside it!
"Great King Ram Horn... is dead?!" The Demon Wolf that had fought Guan Che earlier was horrified.
"Newly entered the Five Elements Realm, yet he killed someone on the verge of the Five Spirits Realm?" Shadow Demon Chang Qing's eyelids twitched wildly. "How did he do it?"
"Such sword intent?!" Unlike the Demon Wolf and Shadow Demon Chang Qing, Wei Guan was also a Sword Cultivator of the Sword Sect. He understood better than anyone how terrifying Yu Xiu's sword intent was!
It could ignore the gap in realms and use sword intent to cleave through anything!
"Has he condensed a Sword Heart?!"
After a brief moment of shock,
a demon, a man, and a Shadow Demon reacted almost at the same time. "Run!"
This terrifying Sword Cultivator had killed Great King Ram Horn. If the Demon Wolf stayed, could he possibly survive?
Did he want to wait around and die?
Shadow Demons?
The Sword Cultivators of the Qingwei Sword Sect had almost slaughtered all the Shadow Demons. Staying meant certain death!
Wei Guan?
He had already offered his life in a forbidden ritual to break through. Staying would still mean death!
"Kill!" Guan Che went mad again. He paid no heed to anything, spat out a mouthful of Sword Qi, and charged first at the Demon Wolf!
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