When the Blade Is Raised to Kill

"Junior Brother Qi! Junior Brother Qi! Calm down!"

When everyone saw that the reborn Junior Brother Qi was about to attack his own people, they anxiously called out to him, hoping that he would not be affected by the ferocity of the murderous blade.

The noise from the crowd was unbearable, which greatly annoyed Qi Yun. The more annoyed he became, the more pronounced his inner turmoil became. Gradually, a trace of emotion even surfaced beneath his serious expression.

Qian Lei, the senior disciple, was shocked by what he saw and gestured to his junior disciples behind him to shut up.

Qi Yun slowly lowered his sword from its raised position, and the ferocity in his eyes became barely perceptible.

Seeing the ferocity in his eyes gradually subside, Qian Lei cautiously asked, "Qi Yun? Junior Brother Qi?"

Hearing this call, Qi Yun's eyes gradually brightened. He looked up at Qian Lei and asked somewhat uncertainly, "You? You are... Senior Brother Qian?"

"Ah!"

"No, you ants, you actually dare to try and destroy me! Don't even think about it! I'll kill you all right now!"

Qi Yun's rationality had barely returned when he descended into madness once more, brandishing the murder weapon and slashing at the crowd.

However, his movements as he wielded the broadsword were like those of a three-year-old child—unsteady, weak, and feeble.

Everyone present was a master who Grain Avoidance Perfection. They did not need to use their internal True Essence to deal with this level of attack; they could easily cope with it using only their physical instincts.

Seven figures moved about in the cave, while Qi Yun, wielding a large sword, chased after them like a drunkard.

Yi Xuan stared at the screen with a strange expression and muttered to himself, "Weren't we just embroiled in a feud? How did it turn into chasing butterflies among the flowers?"

Indeed, if you look closely at the movements of the people in the cave, Qi Yun is like a rich young lady chasing butterflies among flowers, while the other seven are like butterflies fluttering around in the cave.

The atmosphere in the entire cave suddenly became somewhat eerie.

"Senior Brother Qian? What's wrong with Qi Yun?"

"That's right! Senior brother, even if Junior Brother Qi Yun is somewhat weak after replacing the original Artifact Spirit, he shouldn't be this weak, right?"

"Right? If the murder weapon is only this powerful, then what's the point of our operation?"

As the leader of the operation, Qian Lei shook his head while dodging Qi Yun's pursuit. "Take a close look at Junior Brother Qi's situation. It's not that he can't unleash the power of the murderous blade, but rather that the one controlling the blade right now is neither the blade 'Artifact Spirit nor Junior Brother Qi. It's that the two are constantly locked in combat, which has led to the current situation!"

"So what do we do next?" one of the disciples asked curiously.

"Don't worry, Master already thought of this. What do you think the Blood Cloud Pill and the formation Master taught us are for? They're just to allow Junior Brother Qi to suppress the Artifact Spirit safely!"

As if to prove Qian Lei's words, Qi Yun, who was frantically chasing after the crowd, suddenly stopped and stood motionless in the cave.

One of the disciples cautiously approached Qi Yun and examined him closely. He noticed that Qi Yun's eyes were tightly closed, but his eyeballs were twitching rapidly under his eyelids.

"Senior brother?"

The disciple turned to look at Qian Lei, but unexpectedly, Qi Yun suddenly opened his eyes and cleaved the disciple in two with a single stroke of his broadsword.

The disciple's face was still fixed on Qian Lei, full of questions, but his life was ended in an instant.

"Junior Brother Qin?"

The others never expected that their fellow disciples, who had just been hiding together from Qi Yun's pursuit, would suddenly perish.

Seeing the others trying to step forward, Qian Lei quickly said, "What are you doing? Do you want to become like him? Get back here!"

Upon hearing Senior Brother Qian's words, the group that had almost reached Qi Yun quickly retreated.

"Senior Brother Qian? That was just now?"

"Hmm! Right now, Junior Brother Qi and the Artifact Spirit are locked in a fierce battle within the murderous blade. Approaching Junior Brother Qi rashly will not bring any good. All we can do now is wait, wait for Junior Brother Qi to suppress the Artifact Spirit and take control of the murderous blade!"

Hearing what Senior Brother Qian said, the group dared not go any further and could only wait quietly about ten meters away from Qi Yun.

"Senior Brother Qin? Senior Brother Qin? What happened? Senior Brother Qian?"

A short while later, Qi Yun opened her eyes again and saw the corpse on the ground, which had been split in two. She looked at her hands in disbelief, and then looked at Qian Lei not far away.

Upon hearing Qi Yun's words, Qian Lei asked somewhat warily, "Junior Brother Qi?"

"It's me, Senior Brother Qian! I've temporarily suppressed the Artifact Spirit! Senior Brother Qian, he..."

"That's right, just as you thought!" Qian Lei nodded and said, "Your Senior Brother Qian was killed by the Artifact Spirit you were fighting with it!"

Upon hearing this, Qi Yun fell silent.

"Hehehehehehe... hehehehe... Senior Brother Qin... don't worry, I won't let you be lonely. Wait a moment, I'll send someone down to keep you company!"

Qi Yun suddenly let out a strange laugh, then ignored Qian Lei and the others, and rushed out of the cave with his long sword in hand.

But just as he was about to step out of the cave, he stopped.

Yi Xuan noticed that Qi Yun was looking directly at the quadruped robot's location.

This startled Yi Xuan muttered to himself, "Has he discovered us?"

Then, Qi Yun's words confirmed this. "Little bug, you've been watching for a long time, haven't you? Those little birds from before were yours too, weren't they? They're all low-class things. I'll come find you after I send them down to keep my senior brother company!"

The video of the two quadruped robots then abruptly ended.

Yi Xuan knew that the robot had been destroyed by Qi Yun. At the same time, through the video transmitted from the ornithopter monitoring the cave, Yi Xuan saw Qi Yun carrying a knife and walking around the mountain at an exaggerated speed. Yi Xuan quickly lost control of him.

Seeing Qi Yun leave, Qian Lei and the others quickly followed behind.

Yi Xuan found it strange. They had been coming out so slowly, and his ornithopter had even lost track of Qi Yun, so why did Qian Lei look like he knew exactly where Qi Yun was?

Curious, Yi Xuan dispatched several ornithopters to follow at a distance, wanting to see if they had any special method to locate Qi Yun.

Sure enough, it wasn't long before Yi Xuan discovered that Qian Lei and the others had caught up with Qi Yun.

At this moment, Qi Yun was standing in front of several disciples from an unknown sect.

"Who are you?" Upon seeing Chu Ran appear before them, the leading Qi Yun cautiously asked.

Qi Yun merely smiled coldly upon hearing their words, then grabbed his broadsword and swung it fiercely at the group.

Those people suddenly seemed to be frozen in place, completely still.

After Qi Yun left, with the arrival of Qian Lei and the others, a crack slowly appeared on the waist of those people. Then, their upper bodies fell to the ground, while their lower bodies remained standing.

"It really is the murder weapon!" Qian Lei exclaimed before instructing his junior brothers to clean up the battlefield and take away the Storage Bag of the dead and the spoils from the Artifact Ruins.