Yin Hanmei's stern shout resounded throughout the underground palace.
A murderous intent surged forth from all sides.
The Cangyun Sect Cangyun Spirit-Locking Sword Formation Sect, roared overhead, and dozens of azure Sword Qi energies poured down.
Furthermore, over a hundred second-rate martial artists affiliated with the two sects displayed their martial arts skills, their various spiritual lights obscuring the sky and sun.
There were at least two hundred people attacking at the same time!
The entire underground palace was shaking violently, and rubble was rolling down.
The Rogue Cultivator cultivators on the outskirts retreated hastily, many of them pale-faced.
With such power, even Divine Sea Realm Seventh Level expert would likely be blasted into mincemeat on the spot if caught in it.
Qin Hao stood behind the sword formation, the resentment in his eyes finally turning into pleasure.
He had waited far too long for this moment.
The humiliation of losing an arm in the Jingyuan Hall, the ridicule he suffered in the capital, and the protection he received from Wen Jiao Chu Yunfei, Ling Xueyao, and others—all of these pierced his heart like poisonous thorns.
After today, this name can finally disappear completely.
" Chu Yunfei, since you refuse to hand over the Seven-Transfusion Soul-Concentrating Flower, then take it with you on your journey."
Qin Hao raised his sword forward, and the pressure of the Cangyun Spirit-Locking Sword Formation increased once more. "You just refused Wu Changge and Xiao Yihan's help. Even if you kneel down and beg them now, no one will be able to save you in time!"
Wu Changge's fists were bloodshot, and his burly body was already tense.
He didn't care about the threats from the Cangyun Sect and the Puppet Sect, but he couldn't just watch Chu Yunfei be surrounded and killed by more than two hundred people.
However, Chu Yunfei had already clearly refused, so if he were to intervene rashly, it would be an underestimation of the other party.
Xiao Yihan also gripped the sword hilt, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper.
Si Yunshu did not act immediately.
She saw that even as Chu Yunfei faced a barrage of attacks, his right hand remained firmly on the hilt of the Abyss-Devouring Sword, and his breathing was completely undisturbed.
She had seen this tranquility before in the Imperial City Teahouse.
Chu Yunfei had the same expression when Li Tianxing made his move with the cultivation of the Divine Sea Realm.
"Wait a little longer," Si Yunshu whispered to Xiao Yihan. "Since he refused to help, he wouldn't be unprepared. If the situation truly gets out of control, it won't be too late for us to strike."
Situ Shuang'er stood on the other side of the underground palace, her Ice Soul Spirit Sword already half an inch out of its sheath.
Although she was annoyed by Chu Yunfei's overbearing attitude, her three-colored spiritual power had already quietly flowed into her meridians.
She would act only if those black blades truly threatened Chu Yunfei's life.
I don't care about that jerk.
It was simply to fulfill her mother's request and repay the Chu Clan for their past kindness.
Situ Shuang'er told herself this, but her gaze never left the figure in black.
However.
Chu Yunfei, who was at the very center of the storm, remained completely calm.
Faced with the overwhelming onslaught, he did not reveal his true level of the Divine Sea Realm Sixth Layer; his aura remained steadily suppressed at the Divine Sea Realm First Level.
Within his dantian, the vast dark golden spiritual liquid rippled slightly.
He gripped the Abyss-Devouring Sword with his right hand.
The sound of a sword ringing out came from its abyss-like scabbard.
The jet-black sword was suddenly drawn, trailing an almost eerie arc of dark golden light.
With a single, sweeping sword strike!
The extremely fierce sword energy transformed into a dark golden crescent moon tens of feet long, sweeping across all directions.
The sword flashes, poisonous smoke, and corpse fumes unleashed by more than two hundred cultivators instantly succumbed to the immense force the moment they touched the dark gold crescent moon.
The sky full of spiritual light shattered with a deafening roar, and the violent recoil force transformed into a ring-shaped shockwave that swept outwards.
"How is that possible?!"
The pupils of the dozens of warriors at the forefront shrank drastically, and before they could even utter a cry of alarm, the dark golden sword light had already swept right before their eyes.
Pfft, pfft, pfft!
The sword light was incredibly fast, completely beyond the reach of sight.
One by one, heads flew off with pillars of blood shooting skyward, the cuts on their necks perfectly smooth.
Chu Yunfei's sword strikes were extremely precise; his Sword Qi accurately pierced through throats or severed heads, yet he preserved the dantian Divine Sea of those dozens of corpses intact.
In the blink of an eye, the thirty-odd people at the forefront were all turned into headless corpses, falling into pools of blood.
The stench of blood permeated the underground palace.
"Retreat! Retreat quickly!"
The cultivators behind were so terrified that they instinctively staggered backward.
Standing behind the tattered war puppet, Yue Chenzhou's heart pounded wildly, and an unprecedented sense of crisis suddenly surged up his spine.
"This is definitely not an ordinary Divine Sea Realm First Level! He..."
The thought hadn't even fully formed.
A deep rumble of thunder suddenly exploded in Yue Chenzhou's ears.
Nine Heavens Lightning Escape!
Only a blurry afterimage remained in the air as Chu Yunfei's figure appeared out of thin air above the broken battle puppet's head.
"Not good!"
Yue Chenzhou was terrified. He hurriedly formed hand seals, about to unleash the trump card hidden in his storage ring.
But Chu Yunfei's sword was even faster.
It's so fast that even thinking can't keep up.
He didn't even use any profound sword techniques; he simply channeled spiritual power several times stronger than before into the Abyss-Devouring Sword and thrust it straight down.
The Abyss-Devouring Sword tore through the air, emitting a mournful cry.
The jet-black sword pierced directly through Yue Chenzhou's brow, and a powerful dark gold Sword Qi emanated from the back of his head, completely shattering his consciousness.
The sword tip also precisely avoided the dantian (energy center).
Yue Chenzhou's eyes widened, a strange sound escaping his throat, his eyes filled with shock, astonishment, and endless regret.
He didn't even have a chance to use any of his trump cards or life-saving measures before his chances of survival were completely extinguished.
Chu Yunfei flicked his wrist, sending Yue Chenzhou's corpse flying. With a light wave of his sleeve, an invisible suction force quietly pulled the warm corpse and the more than thirty mutilated bodies on the ground into the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate.
The body vanished, and the entire scene fell into a deathly silence.
Dead?
The Puppet Sect Son of the Puppet Sect, Yue Chenzhou, couldn't even withstand a single move and was killed on the spot?
"Senior Brother Yue! Junior Brother Chen...!"
"The Holy Son has been killed?!"
The members of the Puppet Sect were filled with rage and fear, their eyes bloodshot with rage.
"Kill him! Avenge the Holy Son and his fellow disciples!"
The disciples of the Puppet Sect were completely enraged.
Yin Hanmei suddenly opened her eyes wide, her expression blank.
Although Yue Chenzhou had been defeated by Chu Yunfei, he had already broken through to the Divine Sea Realm and was carrying the sect's trump card. She never expected that Yue Chenzhou would be killed on the spot in a single exchange.
It wasn't that Yue Chenzhou didn't have time to react.
Chu Yunfei was too fast.
It was so fast that most of the Divine Sea Realm cultivators present could only catch a glimpse of its afterimage.
Cold sweat beaded on Qin Hao's back, but he shouted sharply, "He only succeeded by using his agility to launch a sneak attack! Everyone scatter, don't give him a chance to pick them off one by one!"
The remaining disciples of the Cangyun Sect and the Puppet Sect awoke in shock and hastily scattered in all directions.
Chu Yunfei, however, had already charged into the crowd.
Each swing of the Abyss-Devouring Sword brings forth a condensed sword light.
He did not employ wide-ranging sword techniques, nor did he deliberately pursue a show of force; he simply used the most basic thrusts, slashes, and cuts to take lives.
Every sword strike avoided the Divine Sea energy center).
In his eyes, the cultivation and blood essence within those Divine Sea Realm disciples were all cultivation resources that could be refined, and naturally, they could not be wasted.
In just over ten breaths, more than a hundred people from the two sects fell to the ground.
In the end, not even the body was left behind.
Someone attempted to form a formation, but Chu Yunfei severed the formation's core with a single sword strike.
Someone summoned a protective magical artifact, but both the person and the artifact were sliced apart by the Abyss-Devouring Sword.
Some people turned to flee towards the exit of the underground palace, but the dark golden lightning blocked their way first.
Chu Yunfei showed no mercy.
Since these people chose to participate in the encirclement and killing, they should bear the consequences of failure.
The underground palace was quickly stained red with blood.
The Rogue Cultivator on the periphery retreated again and again, their eyes turning from shock to fear as they looked at Chu Yunfei.
More than two hundred cultivators joined forces, yet they were chased down and killed by a mere cultivator at the Divine Sea Realm First Level.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would believe it?
Situ Shuang'er's grip on the sword gradually loosened.
She originally planned to intervene when Chu Yunfei was in danger, but from beginning to end, it was the Cangyun Sect and the Puppet Sect that were truly in dire straits.
This man, who once struggled to even break through to the Qi Condensation Realm, has now become so powerful that she can't comprehend him.
"Is his strength... really only at the Divine Sea Realm First Level?"