Slaying Demons: Starting with Upgrading my Calligraphy-Chapter 386 - 351: Swordsmanship + Thunder Magic_2

Chapter 386: Chapter 351: Swordsmanship + Thunder Magic_2

"Daoist, please halt your steps. Could you deactivate your Escape Light and let us take a look...?"

From the burly man’s account, Lin Changfeng deduced that the rebel from the Wu Family must be within this person’s Escape Light.

Qi Xiu was about to leave. Lin Changfeng had expended enormous effort, manpower, and resources to finally corner the thieving fugitive within this mountain range. He had even set up the Sealing Mountain Great Array to trap him. How could he simply watch as someone else took him away? How could he be willing to accept this?

However, as Lin Changfeng, still unwilling to give up, caught up, he hadn’t even finished speaking when he saw the young Daoist slowly turn his head. His calm eyes, which held Divine Luster Inward Concealment, indifferently fixed upon him.

In an instant, this Blood-Coated Eightfold cultivator froze on the spot, like a wooden sculpture, unable to regain his senses.

"Old Lin!"

"What did you do, Daoist?!"

Lin Changfeng’s strange condition was quickly noticed. The group of escorts instantly realized Qi Xiu was responsible. Over a hundred Blood-Stained Great Cultivators simultaneously erupted with terrifying auras. The entire Sealing Mountain Great Array revived in an instant, one hundred and forty-four great flags Huttering noisily, and battle cries thundered as if an army of thousands was about to roar forth the next second.

In the void, streams of black and red iron-blooded baleful qi surged violently, like iron chains about to entangle Qi Xiu.

"You resort to violence without a single word exchanged, disregarding propriety and ignoring cause and effect. You must usually act like a tyrant."

Sensing these Blood-Stained Great Cultivators reactivating the great array to pressure him, Qi Xiu slowly shook his head.

He hadn’t done anything to Lin Changfeng, merely released a slight trace of his Extreme Realm of Bloodied cultivation aura. Hoping he would stop pestering and leave on his own.

But these escorts from the Zhenwu Escort Agency chose to attack directly.

If it had been other Blood-Stained cultivators, they truly might not have been their match and would have been captured by this great array.

Then, Qi Xiu waved his large sleeve. A terrifying shadow that blotted out the sky instantly enveloped most of the mountain range, its overwhelming power of restraint sucking in all the cultivators perched atop the mountain peaks.

A sudden, shocking change!

After twenty years of dedicated cultivation, Qi Xiu’s Universe in the Sleeve had already reached the Fourth Realm.

Not only was its range vast, but anyone without Blood-Stained Peak cultivation could only remain obediently inside.

Witnessing Qi Xiu sweep away over ten thousand cultivators with a wave of his sleeve, these hundred-plus Blood-Stained Great Cultivators stared in stunned terror. Without the support of these Initiate Realm cultivators, the entire Sealing Mountain Great Array also began to collapse.

"Please wait."

Just as Qi Xiu waved his hand to break through the Sealing Mountain Great Array and subdued the escorts from the Zhenwu Escort Agency, a somewhat stiff voice suddenly came from the side.

Following the sound, Qi Xiu turned slightly.

He saw a lean, tall figure slowly emerge from the void. The man appeared to be around forty, with a broad nose, a wide forehead, and spirited eyes.

An undeniable pressure emanated from him, the mark of the pinnacle of swordsmanship, like an unsheathed precious sword.

Still as a mountain when motionless; supreme over heaven and earth when in action.

Even from a hundred meters away, one could feel a bone-chilling coldness that made one’s hair stand on end, skin tingling with a pain as if pierced by invisible sword qi.

Feeling the sharp Sword Intent emanating from the middle-aged man, Qi Xiu tilted his head up slightly, gathered his sleeves, and faced him directly. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"Iron Bone Sword Sect?"

"You have sharp eyes, Daoist. I am Huang Chun of the Iron Bone Sword Sect. I am here under orders from my sect to assist the Zhenwu Escort Agency in apprehending the rebel."

With a slight bow, Huang Chun’s face was wooden, devoid of any superfluous expression, as cold and impassive as an unpolished block of iron.

His gaze shifting slightly as he sized up Huang Chun before him, Qi Xiu slowly stroked the Golden Cry Jade Beads on his wrist.

The Iron Bone Sword Sect was one of the Ten Great Sects in Dianchuan Province, ranked fifth.

Legend had it that this sect was a branch of the ancient sword Dao giant, the Taibai Sword Sect.

Unlike most Sword Cultivators, who practiced concealing their edge until a stunning reveal, the Iron Bone Sword Sect cultivated both sword and body simultaneously—Sword Body Dual Cultivation.

Sword Cultivators of the Iron Bone Sword Sect did not carry swords, nor did they nurture sword pellets or Sword Gourds.

In their own words, they themselves were the sharpest of precious swords!

There was no need to rely on external objects.

Thus, Sword Cultivators of the Iron Bone Sword Sect were also rare practitioners of unarmed swordsmanship.

However, despite being unarmed, this lineage’s combat strength was by no means low.

Because of their Sword Body Dual Cultivation, Iron Bone Sword Cultivators were utterly terrifying in combat. Relying on their formidable physiques, they focused solely on attack, never defense, wielding an overwhelmingly domineering Sword Intent to clash head-on.

Victory meant life; defeat meant death!

Resolutely pressing forward, always advancing bravely.

"Are you trying to stop me?"

Gazing calmly at Huang Chun, Qi Xiu tilted his head. This Huang Chun’s cultivation is profound. From his Sword Intent, he should also be at the Blood-Stained Peak. However, I don’t understand why the Iron Bone Sword Sect, one of the Ten Great Sects of Dianchuan, would stoop to being someone’s bodyguard.

"As long as you, Daoist, open your Escape Light for us to glimpse, Huang will immediately make way."

Blocking Qi Xiu’s path, Huang Chun remained expressionless, yet the fiercely domineering Sword Intent around him began to seethe with even greater intensity.

Looking at Huang Chun, who was ready to strike at any moment, Qi Xiu took a deep breath. His hands hung loosely at his sides. The Primordial Sword Gourd at his waist chimed, as if eager for action.

"Don’t move. We can’t kill today," Qi Xiu said, gently patting the restless Primordial Sword Gourd and using a spell to calm it.

"That is..."

Only then did Huang Chun notice the gourd swirling with colorful light, and his expression changed slightly.

"A Sword Gourd?!"

"You are acting out of loyalty, so Qi Someone will not make things difficult for you. How about this? I’ll defeat you, and then you’ll have something to report to your sect."

As his voice fell, a thunderous rumble suddenly erupted from within Qi Xiu’s wide sleeves. Between his fair, slender hands, strands of incomparably fierce, silver, flowing, terrifying thunderbolts slowly coalesced into longswords.

Heaven and Earth Myriad Dominance Sword Skill.

The signature skill of the Taibai Sword Sect!

To take all things in heaven and earth as one’s sword!

With a sword in hand, one could wield the power of all creation to annihilate enemies!

Qi Xiu’s current cultivation realm was naturally insufficient to achieve such world-shattering power.

Yet channeling his Thunder Magic into swords... was just right.

CRACK-BOOM—

Accompanied by an unprecedented clap of thunder on flat ground, Qi Xiu’s surrounding aura surged wildly like immense waves, as though his very existence had touched the pulse of heaven and earth.

In an instant, the Sky Dome above darkened as storm clouds roiled, stirred by an invisible giant hand. Dense, ink-like clouds condensed into an oppressive curtain.

Thunder roared like the striking of celestial drums, shaking the soul, while lightning wreaked havoc like frenzied silver snakes, illuminating the dark Sky Dome.

With his every gesture, the endless power of thunder seemed to heed his command, coalescing into myriad thunderbolts that instantly transformed into countless flying swords.

Each of these flying swords contained the ultimate yang and unyielding power of thunder, their might sufficient to make all things in the world tremble.

They crisscrossed through the air, sword shadows interweaving, lightning flaring, creating a magnificent yet terrifying spectacle.

With sweeping momentum, the flying swords were like a violent squall—unstoppable, all-penetrating, each strike carrying the majesty of thunder and the sharpness of a sword.

In a blink, sword shadows wreathed in thunder filled the entire expanse between heaven and earth, as if the entire world was seized by this ferocious power. An overwhelming, suffocating pressure swept forth, seemingly invincible.

"Excellent sword technique!" Huang Chun couldn’t help but exclaim loudly, his robes fluttering in the face of the terrifying oncoming presence.

An intensely dazzling white light erupted around him. His black hair danced wildly, and his eyes transformed into an ocean of Sword Intent. His body, tempered for hundreds of years, revived to its utmost limit, unleashing billions of strands of incomparably domineering Sword Intent.

At the same time, ancient, imposing longswords, pulsing with divine light, began to materialize behind him. Their sword qi shrieked, powerful enough to obliterate Qiankun.

Layer upon layer of Sword Intent augmented Huang Chun’s aura, causing it to surge dramatically. Terrifying great rifts appeared in the void, as if it couldn’t withstand this power and was about to disintegrate.

"Retreat, retreat, retreat, retreat, retreat!"

The hundred-odd Zhenwu Escort Agency escorts nearby felt the seemingly world-destroying auras emanating from Qi Xiu and Huang Chun. Their eyes nearly splitting with terror, they roared madly, activating their Escape Lights and fleeing towards the far distance, terrified that a moment’s delay would see them caught in the devastation.

Fusing the Sword Dao and Thunder Magic, these two most formidable powers among the myriad Daos were now gathered in Qi Xiu’s hands.

BANG!

He clapped his hands together fiercely. The boundless Thunder Magic flying swords, which had been coursing through the heavens and earth, all gathered and fused.

"Heaven and Earth Imperial! Nine Heavens Thunder King!" Qi Xiu bellowed, looking up to the sky.

Myriad bolts of thunder power converged, transforming into an utterly enormous sword of lightning.

This colossal sword, about ten thousand feet long and over a hundred feet wide, shimmered with dazzling electrical light, as if containing a power mighty enough to tear apart heaven and earth.

Its sheer size suggested it could easily pierce through heaven and earth, thrusting down into the Nine Nether.

The giant sword descended with crushing, irresistible force, as if all the rules of heaven and earth paled in its presence.

A mere slight tremor from it unleashed a terrifying shockwave. For hundreds of miles around, mountains, rivers, and forests were instantly pulverized under this force, leaving only ruins and dust.

The heavens shattered, the earth sundered, and the very colors of the wind and clouds changed!