The Great Lotus Seat

He Ping unleashed his blade with all his strength. Strands of blade qi tore through the air, rolling up waves upon waves of turbulent currents. His entire body turned a dark black-gold, and as his surging blood and qi circulated, waves of heat radiated from him. It was a terrifying fluctuation—the scorching void had nearly become an enormous furnace.

Yangquan Zi also discovered that the heaven-and-earth vital energy around him was tugging at and suppressing his body. Even his soul suffered an invisible scorching. The momentum of "Sheng Yuzhou's" blade seemed to weave a net of blockade, cutting off his escape.

"Human Lamp Great Method!"

At that critical moment, Yangquan Zi employed the Human Lamp Great Method again. Even his skin turned into white paper effigies, like lanterns carried at a dead man's funeral. Clusters of lamplight spilled from his facial features, transforming into vague, thin phantoms.

The Human Lamp Great Method was one of the Qi Soul Sect's most sinister secret arts. Even among the unorthodox evil sects, this technique was famed for its wicked strangeness. It could turn human skin into a lamp vessel and divine souls into wicks, refining a living cultivator into a "living" human-skin lantern.

Yangquan Zi had cultivated this great method for many years. No one knew how many of his own disciples, enemies, and other cultivators he had refined. On one hand, this evil art could replenish lost lifespan; on the other, the Human Lamp Great Method was also an exceptional life-saving technique.

With death's calamity bearing down before him, he hurriedly brought out the human-skin lanterns he had condensed in the past, turning them into his substitutes.

Swish!

A snow-bright blade flash shot up and cleaved one of the figures in two. Before another vague humanoid phantom could move, a slash pierced