Li Yang had already begun burning his life essence and potential as he swung his sword down at the three Demon Cultivators blocking his path.
Scarlet sword qi raged, its power too overwhelming to withstand.
Zi Yuan and the other two swiftly retreated, not daring to meet it head-on.
"Not good! He gave that treasure to Qin Feng!"
"Don't worry. That treasure isn't so easy to merge with!"
"True. Even Tu Nine Provinces spent hours merging with it. Go! Kill them!"
After unleashing that strike, Li Yang immediately sensed the baleful mist enveloping his body.
He was shrouded in an exceedingly strange state.
There was killing intent, baleful energy, and even a sword Dao.
As a fellow Sword Cultivator, Li Yang could sense the purity of that sword intent.
It aligned with the sword Dao he cultivated now-both were pure slaughter.
The baleful mist churned, flowing into his body through every acupoint before finally gathering in his dantian.
That blood sea boiled. Beyond the killing intent, an enormous surge of baleful energy was being born.
Li Yang understood what Tu Nine Provinces had said earlier: even after completely merging with the Baleful Treasure, their chances of victory would remain slim.
But he was different.
He did not need to strip away the sword Dao it carried. Moreover, he had accumulated an immense amount of killing intent and already possessed a foundation of baleful energy.
Now, catalyzed by the Baleful Treasure, that baleful energy was rising at an astonishing rate!
An exceedingly dangerous aura erupted from Li Yang's body.
Killing intent and baleful energy swept through his flesh, annihilating the sword intent left behind by Mu Zangfeng's Ancient Bronze Sword.
His flesh writhed, and his wounds rapidly healed.
"How is that possible?! How could he merge with it so quickly?!"
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