Slaughter

The moment he finished speaking, the other side flew into a rage.

All manner of curses spilled from their mouths. At the same time, the middle-aged man leading them formed Hand Seals with both hands, dark yellow witch markings appearing around him. Three Spears of the Yellow Springs coalesced from the void and shot toward Su Yao.

Rosy light flickered between Su Yao's brows as he activated the Heavenly Radiance Resonance Technique!

Seven streams of rosy light met them like bolts of silk. The Spears of the Yellow Springs collided with the light with a hiss, their corrupt Qi tangling with the rosy radiance. In just two breaths, the light burst forth and tore all three spears apart!

The middle-aged man's face filled with shock. His feathered robe billowed as he brought out the shield he had used to resist the Li Fire.

The rosy light's remaining force slammed into the face of the shield.

Cracks spread across its surface like a spiderweb. It held for only half a breath before exploding, and the blast hurled the middle-aged man away, tearing his feathered robe in several places and drawing blood from the corner of his mouth.

He clutched his chest, horrified:

What kind of monster is this...

Su Yao sneered:

"Just the likes of you?"

Then he activated Mysterious Floating Body, dodged the oncoming ice spikes and fire lances, and flew straight at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man's liver and gallbladder nearly split with terror, and he turned to flee. Three Lu Household disciples gritted their teeth and stepped forward to stop Su Yao. One sent out a flying sword, another lashed out with vines, and the third raised an earthen wall.

Without so much as a glance, Su Yao spread his cloak of rosy light. The flying sword was deflected, the vines snapped inch by inch, and the earthen wall collapsed with a crash. The three disciples were sent flying backward, blood spilling from their mouths.

The next moment, Su Yao was already at the middle-aged man's side.

With a piercing whistle, the Clear Wind Sword stabbed beneath his ribs. The blade sank into flesh, and blood sprayed.

The middle-aged man's eyes widened, his lips moving as though he wanted to say something, but only a muffled murmur came out.

Then, starting at the wound, his body rapidly turned into murky yellow spring water. It streamed across the ground and vanished without a trace.

"How dare you!" roared the elder with slightly graying temples who had been held in reserve. But having seen Su Yao kill several people in succession, he knew numbers alone would not win the fight, so he immediately brought out the Lu Household's heirloom Spirit Artifact.

A chain, crimson from end to end, flew from his sleeve. Blazing Fire wreathed its length, and waves of heat pressed outward.

Driven by Law Power, the chain lengthened rapidly like a venomous python and lunged at Su Yao.

Su Yao glimpsed it out of the corner of his eye and recognized it as the weapon that had injured Liu Yunhe.

He sneered inwardly. Rosy light surged around him, and the Greater Yin moonlight that appeared from the Great Yin Dharma Robe condensed into a layer of icy gauze over his body.

As the chain came coiling toward him like a venomous snake, he held his sword in his right hand and reached out with his left. Before the shocked eyes of everyone present, his five fingers hooked like claws and seized the end of the chain!

The Blazing Fire burned furiously, but the Greater Yin moonlight kept it firmly at bay, producing a hissing sound as it vaporized.

The chain twisted violently like a serpent's body, trying to break free. Veins bulged on Su Yao's arm, but he did not budge. With a backward yank, he pulled the chain taut.

He turned his head toward the elder, the corners of his mouth rising:

"Is that all?"

Without waiting for an answer, he raised his voice:

"You have a Spirit Artifact. Did you think I didn't?"

As the words left his mouth, Su Yao's whole body became a streak of dazzling rosy light that shot toward the elder!

With the aid of his Immortal Foundation, Draped in Rosy Radiance, and the feathered robe of rosy light on his body, his speed reached its utmost limit!

In the blink of an eye, he was before the elder. Before the elder could react, Su Yao unleashed Glow Ashes in combination with his swordsmanship and drove his sword into the elder's chest.

"You..." The elder looked down at the blade buried in his chest, his face full of disbelief.

Looking at the elder, Su Yao sneered:

"Your whole lot cultivates Cultivation Methods of the third or fourth grade at best, and your Law Techniques are only fifth grade at most. What use are numbers!"

With that, he pulled out his sword. The elder gave a muffled grunt, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth. The next moment, countless strands of rosy light gushed from the wound in his chest, igniting his body from the inside out.

The elder did not even have time to scream before he was reduced to nothingness amid the brilliant rosy light.

Su Yao withdrew, taking the Spirit Artifact along with him!

He took out a sealing talisman and stuck it onto the Spirit Artifact. The rampaging Spirit Artifact instantly fell quiet.

He put it into his Storage Bag!

The remaining members of the Lu Household were terrified out of their wits and were about to scatter when an aged voice came from the mountain:

"Return at once!"

As if granted a pardon, they all flew toward the mountain gate.

Su Yao activated Mysterious Floating Body again and set his sights on the nearest target, a woman in a fiery red palace dress who carried a lantern.

Seeing Su Yao pursuing her, the woman clenched her teeth, tapped her chest with a finger, and forced out a mouthful of Essence Blood, which she spat onto the lantern. Her entire body became a line of fire that shot toward White Sand Mountain, several times faster than before.

Su Yao sneered and took a cyan talisman from his sleeve, gently crushing it. The talisman became a gentle, soothing Balmy Wind that enhanced him, and his speed soared again, swift as wind and lightning. Three breaths later, he caught up behind the woman and swung his sword, sending out a sharp streak of Sword Qi.

With nowhere to dodge, the woman gritted her teeth and raised the lantern. A pillar of searing fire erupted from its opening.

The Sword Qi and the pillar of fire collided in midair and exploded with a boom, scattering sparks in all directions.

The pillar of fire held for only one breath before the Sword Qi split it apart. The lingering force struck the woman's back, and she grunted and stumbled forward.

She looked back in terror, only to find that Su Yao had appeared in front of her at some unknown moment and was looking at her coldly.

Su Yao was about to strike when he felt an icy presence approaching from behind.

He spun around to see a young man in black hovering in midair, witch markings swimming like tadpoles around him.

"An Immortal Foundation of the Witch Talisman path, Omen Words Manifest?"

Su Yao asked, raising an eyebrow.

The young man said angrily:

"At least you know something."

With that, he raised a hand and formed a witch talisman as wide as the mouth of a bowl. Bloody light flowed across it as it roared toward Su Yao.

Su Yao calmly sheathed his sword, rapidly formed seals with both hands, and chanted under his breath. In an instant, morning clouds appeared overhead, with a majestic golden palace rising amid them.

He cried "Edict!" and the morning clouds and golden palace shattered with a boom, turning into countless threads of rosy light in every color that rained down, covering the sky and earth.

The witch talisman plunged into the rain of rosy light with an ear-piercing shriek. The rain clung to it like maggots to bone, eating away at its surface layer by layer. The bloody light on the talisman flickered violently as it struggled to resist.

After three breaths, the witch talisman could hold out no longer. Countless threads of rain pierced through it, and it burst into a cloud of black mist that dissipated.

The young man's eyes widened in disbelief, and he even forgot to dodge.

The woman in the palace dress came to her senses and became a line of fire, shielding the young man as she pushed him toward White Sand Mountain.

Then she looked at him with a smile:

"Brother Shang, live on!"

The next moment, the rain of rosy light poured down from across the sky, swallowing her completely.

The threads of rain pierced her body, and Blazing Fire escaped from within her. Like the dying flame of a candle drenched by rain, a few faint flames flickered in the downpour before silently going out.

The young man broke down in tears, but an elder who had just arrived seized him and dragged him toward the mountain gate.

Behind them, only a few flames of Blazing Fire drifted amid the rosy light, slowly falling to the ground.

Su Yao flew swiftly to White Sand Mountain. Seeing that the grand formation was tightly closed, he said nothing more.

He took the ancient sword Zhengji from his waist and activated Golden Palace Morning Clouds again.

With the Zhengji sword's enhancement, its might was even greater than before!

But just as it was about to turn into a rain of rosy light and fall, an aged voice rang out:

"Spare them!"