Chapter 126 - The Killing
The two of them left the battlefield and celebrated their good luck. But a sandstorm suddenly appeared, blowing up smoke, sand and stones, and sounding like crashing waves.
“Something’s wrong! Run away!”
Old Demon Han shouted as he quickly flew south with his companion.
The flew came across the air, wheezing past their ears in a deafening manner. No matter how quickly they flew, the dust and sand followed them.
Meanwhile, far away from the sandstorm.
Liu An stared at the sandstorm. It was approaching from the direction of Baima Barrier. He quickly shouted orders to this army, “Leave everything behind. Run back with just a light pack. Hurry up!”
All the soldiers hurriedly dropped their weapons and equipment and started running for their lives.
Behind them, mountains and rivers collapsed one after another.
All the rivers evaporated behind their backs.
It was a mix of swirling stone, dust, lighting, sword light, and devil Qi.
Something blocked out the sun and the sky turned dark.
The whole of Muguang Mountain was plunged into darkness as a dark cloud surged forward from Baima Barrier. Soon, the darkness and raging sandstorm reached Nanzhou and Zhongzhou.
The cultivators around Muguang Mountain escaped as quickly as they could in all directions. But many of them failed to run away as the mountains slowly collapsed around them.
The sky was dark and the scenery was destroyed. Muguang Mountain was covered in thick layers of dust and destruction.
An elder was floating in the sky. His long eyebrows flapped in the wind.
“Who are you exactly?”
He couldn’t control his brows even if he extended his field.
He was furious. He was extremely angry.
He thought that he was the most powerful person in the world.
He became the devil and absorbed the cultivation of so many other experts. It should be easy for him to kill an ordinary Virtual Realm expert. But he didn’t expect that there was another powerful expert like Li Mu.
He hadn’t used up all his strength during the battle, but he could tell that Li Mu had done the same.
“I’ve already told you who I am.”
Li Mu extended his field, creating a bubble that protected him from the flying dust and stone.
“When did you appear in Nanzhou? Why have I never heard of you before?”
“There are a lot of things that you don’t know about in this world,” Li Mu replied. Then he suddenly attacked the devil. “Sword Eighteen!”
Li Mu was always under control and he seldom displayed his full strength. He had grown fast and broke through quickly, and because of that, not many people could match the rate of this cultivation. In fact, no one paid him any attention. When the world finally noticed him, he was already invincible.
The sword struck with the sound of thunder.
“Heaven Devil Method!” the long-browed man yelled.
He had fought with Li Mu several times. And he was distressed that the lightning and thunder Li Mu wielded could restrain him. Every time he wanted to absorb some cultivation from Li Mu, he was pushed back by the lightning and thunder.
He had also tried to absorb cultivation from other cultivators in Muguang Mountain, but he was always stopped by Li Mu.
The man with long eyebrows was angry.
Suddenly, he transformed into thick, black clouds and wrapped around Li Mu.
“What? You can change?”
The thunder and lightning sparked next to Li Mu and struck towards the black clouds.
But the sword couldn’t pierce the clouds.
When the Phoenix Blood Sword finally managed to cut through the black cloud, the two halves simply combined to become one, as if it wasn’t harmed at all. It was the first time that Li Mu had ever seen such a monster.
To be exact, it wasn’t human. Li Mu couldn’t kill it and that made it a monster.
The black clouds moved about and avoided Li Mu’s sword qi. Li Mu ordered his sword to attack with thunder and lightning, and he successfully hit the cloud. The black cloud broke into pieces.
The fight continued, from the skies to the ground. Everything that came into contact with either the sword qi or the black cloud, was disintegrated. This included chunks of the mountainside, entire rivers, and the clouds in the sky.
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In the house of Clan Xu, Dongzhou.
In the underground palace, Xu Xiao suddenly thought of something and stepped out.
“Someone is wielding such strong sword will. Half of the sky is covered by clouds. What is this? Heaven Devil Method?”
Xu Xiao quickly flew towards Muguang Mountain.
“Something big is happening.”
The sword qi and black clouds that filled the sky terrified Xu Xiao.
When Xu Xiao received news that the elder with long eyebrows in Qianyuan Sacred became a devil, he started losing sleep. All he thought about was ways to defeat the devil.
But all his plans led to failure, no matter how hard he tried.
Sad, lost and hopeless.
There seemed to be no hope at all.
Unless, of course, he could find the elder. But he didn’t think that was possible. It was all over!
But everything he felt today told him that there was still hope.
“Such strong sword will! Such strong power! I never thought that such an expert could exist! If I can make it in time, maybe we can work together to defeat the devil,” Xu Xiao muttered to himself.
He sped off, flying like a meteor streaking through the sky.
“If it’s really the elder, we can combine our powers and we’ll surely win. If the elder is fighting the devil, then I have nothing to worry about. I hope that everyone in the Temple of War will know about this, too.”
Xu Xiao said a prayer in his heart. If everything went to plan, they could win.
He looked at the sword will dancing in the sky. His sadness slowly disappeared.
Hope! That expert was their last hope.
Meanwhile, on Muguang Mountain, Li Mu gradually became familiarized with the fight and grew even stronger.
He knew almost all the tricks that the devil had.
“If you only knew my skills, Devil!”
“Your Sword Will?” the devil said with disdain.
“And my lightning!!”
“I can’t defeat your lightning but you can’t destroy me either. As long as a single part of me survives, I can come back one day. And you, you only have one life. And it seems like you can’t even defeat a single part of me!”
“Is that so?”
Li Mu’s divine consciousness formed into sharp needles that struck the old devil’s mind.
At the same time, Li Mu unleashed his most powerful attack. “Sword twenty-three!” The lightning came with the thunder.
The devil with long eyebrows felt like he was losing his consciousness. When he came back to his senses again, his body had been torn into pieces.
“You… You are True…”
“Oh, you’re still alive?”
Once again, Li Mu formed his divine consciousness into a sword and that pierced the devil’s mind.
The devil with long eyebrows was in a daze. He felt that the world had turned upside down.
Li Mu continued to cut all the devil’s body into pieces with his Phoenix Blood Sword.
“You…”
After losing control of his body, the devil was like an inanimate object.
Li Mu repeatedly stabbed the devil’s heart, as if he was slaughtering a pig. Then he proceeded to chop the devil’s body into several pieces.
Soon, the devil’s body was burnt by the lightning and thunder. Li Mu was finally relieved.
“He is a quite powerful one! His spirit is already much more powerful than a Supreme Level Virtual Realm master.”
Maybe this devil was only one step away from bring a True Realm expert.
“If the devil’s spirit was beyond True Realm, what about himself?” Li Mu suddenly wondered to himself.
He struck the body of the devil with thunder again. Then, he made sure to burn the body until only ashes were left.
Now that the big fight between the two masters had ended, Muguang Mountain was at peace peace again.
The sword will and the black clouds were both nowhere to be seen.
The ashes and rocks continued to fall from the sky.
In the distance, Xu Xiao suddenly stopped his approach..
“The fight is over?” he said in disbelief.
How could the fight end so soon?
“Just hang on for one more moment and I will come.”
Disappointment filled his heart again.
Failure. It must have been a failure again.
That old thing in Qianyuan Sacred Ground was already invincible. He would only become stronger after turning into a devil.
Xu Xiao stopped and retreated slowly. How was that possible?
No way!
He should go and see whether the devil was still alive. Maybe he could take advantage of the moment and kill the devil.
He gritted his teeth and rushed towards Muguang Mountain.