"A Substitute Puppet. Tsk, you really do have plenty of ways to save your hide."
Li Yang did not continue pursuing Chu Mu.
Because someone else's head made for a far richer prize.
"You two old devils, no need to break the seal. I'm already out."
Li Yang stuffed a handful of healing pills into his mouth and walked toward the two Evil Immortals working to unravel the inheritance restrictive seal.
He swallowed pills with one hand and dragged the Stunning Rainbow Sword with the other.
The sword tip touched the ground, carving a long furrow.
Even without deliberate activation, the sword intent within its tip left a bottomless black chasm along his path.
"Hahahahaha! Boss isn't dead! I knew that bastard was lying to us!" A sword cultivator spotted Li Yang and could not hold back tears of joy.
They had already lost far, far too many allies. More than half the sword cultivators had fallen, while fewer than a thousand enemies had died.
Among the dead sword cultivators were their fellow disciples, their closest friends, and even their Dao Companions.
By now, their eyes had gone utterly red with bloodlust.
But they also knew this was merely the struggle of cornered beasts. Sooner or later, they would be worn down and killed.
Yet Li Yang was still alive!
As long as their boss remained, they had not lost!
"Boss! Avenge them! Use every enemy's blood to avenge our fallen comrades!" a female sword cultivator shrieked in fury. Gravely wounded, her life hanging by a thread, she had nothing left but hatred for the enemy.
Li Yang saw Evil Monsters chewing sword cultivators alive, and he saw the Kun Cultivators of the Ning Lineage and the Moonlit Holy Land vomiting blood inside the defensive formation.
Yet no anger showed