Chapter 260: Chapter 124: The Blood Saber Sect Takes the Blame Again; Literacy’s Third Limit Break, Charging Towards Mortal Transformation

Furthermore, before he’d made his move tonight, his Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber had reached Perfection and broken its limit, gaining the "Zhong Yue" Trait.

His Sword Momentum was imposing, as heavy as a mountain. Every strike was wreathed in a dense, profound Mental Realm!

Combined with the Traits "Sword Swift as Lightning" and "Sword Heavy as a Mountain" from his limit-broken Firewood Splitting Saber Technique...

This one slash was enough to startle ghosts and shock gods!

The Blood-colored Blade Gang instantly shattered the palm winds of the three white-robed men, then swept toward the one who had been ringing the bell!

The white-robed man, however, was unconcerned.

’Three Mortal Transformation experts ganging up on some piece of trash who hasn’t even mastered Primordial Qi... If he lasts more than three moves, it’ll be a complete disgrace!’

His Black Gold Silk Gloves were impervious to blades and spears, strong enough to block any weapon. He planned to shatter the incoming Sword Gang with a single palm strike...

But the moment the Sword Gang touched his palm, his expression changed drastically!

BOOM!

Although the man’s gloves blocked the Sword Gang, the Gang Qi, condensed to the point of being tangible, struck his palm like a giant sledgehammer!

With a sharp CRACK, the white-robed man’s wrist snapped. He screamed, flying backward like a kite with a broken string and slamming hard into the stone wall at the side of the street.

The Black Gold Silk Gloves were, after all, only soft armor. How could they withstand such a heavy blow?

Even more terrifying, the Evil Qi condensed on the Sword Gang invaded his flesh and corroded his bones. It instantly shattered the white-robed man’s Protective Primordial Qi and bored into his body!

The white-robed man’s mind filled with illusions. Negative emotions like killing intent and fear raged uncontrollably within him, and the Primordial Qi in his body instantly fell into chaos.

He ignored his grievous injuries and struggled to sit cross-legged, trying to circulate his Primordial Qi to expel the Evil Qi. However, his face quickly turned ashen...

Chu Fan’s strike had also startled the other two gray-robed men, causing their movements to slow by a fraction of a second.

But why would Chu Fan let such an opportunity slip by?

He changed his Sword Momentum, and the Blood-colored Blade Gang cascaded toward the gray-robed man on the left like a waterfall.

The man hastily used the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step to dodge.

But Chu Fan, having cultivated the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step to the realm of Great Success, had already predicted where the man would move!

With a SWOOSH, the terrifying Sword Gang swept across his shoulder!

With a muffled grunt, the clothing on the gray-robed man’s shoulder shredded, revealing a gash on his skin so deep that bone was visible.

Even more terrifying, a black gas quickly rose from around the wound and relentlessly bored into his body.

"Such terrifying Evil Qi!"

The other gray-robed man cried out in alarm, striking out repeatedly with both palms. Several blasts of icy palm wind shot toward Chu Fan’s back.

As if he had eyes in the back of his head, Chu Fan spun and slashed. His strike was fast and precise, easily tearing through the palm winds.

After tearing through the palm winds, the Long Saber’s momentum didn’t lessen as it shot straight for the man’s face! 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

The terrified gray-robed man scrambled backward, barely avoiding the strike. But the foul wind stirred up by the Sword Gang left him breathless, and the Primordial Qi in his body stagnated.

"He’s a Demon raised by the Blood Saber Sect! We can’t fight him head-on!"

The two gray-robed men exchanged a glance, both ready to retreat.

It wasn’t that they had never encountered Evil Qi before. But to condense it to such a terrifying degree was something they had never even heard of!

They couldn’t imagine how a Martial Artist who hadn’t even reached Mortal Transformation could possibly withstand such horrifying Evil Qi—unless he was one of the legendary Demons.

But now, it was a little too late to escape...

They were already tainted by the Evil Qi. Their Primordial Qi circulated with increasing difficulty, and their movements were nowhere near as fluid as before.

Without a word, they tacitly shot off in different directions, abandoning their white-robed companion to save their own skins.

’Trying to run?’

A cold glint flashed in Chu Fan’s eyes. His figure moved like a specter, and he caught up to the injured, gray-robed man on the left.

Sensing the pursuit, the man spun around and desperately threw out several palm strikes. The palm winds carried a bone-chilling cold, causing ice crystals to condense in the air above the street.

Chu Fan didn’t dodge or evade. His Long Saber came straight down, the Blood-colored Blade Gang smashing through the icy palm winds as if they were dead wood, and struck the gray-robed man squarely in the chest.

"PFFT—"

The gray-robed man spat a mouthful of blood and went tumbling across the ground.

Without so much as a glance, Chu Fan turned to pursue the other man.

If he had used the Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber, a strike like that might not have been fatal unless it cleaved the man in two.

But now that his Nine Blood Soul Blades had broken its limit, the Evil Qi wreathed in the Sword Gang was more than enough to cripple an early-stage Mortal Transformation Martial Artist.

The gray-robed man who took that blow would be crippled, if not dead.

Chu Fan turned and chased after the other man. After a dash of less than a hundred meters, he was right on his tail.

His body invaded by Evil Qi, the man’s speed was drastically reduced. He was now slower than an ordinary martial artist in the Entering the Realm of Strength, so how could he possibly outrun Chu Fan?

"How dare you! You dare kill a member of the Moon Worship Sect—"

Before the gray-robed man could finish, Chu Fan, without a word, swept his Long Saber across the man’s neck.

The headless corpse fell to the ground with a THUD.

The last remaining man, the one in white, saw that both his companions were dead. Forcing himself to endure the torment of the Evil Qi, he struggled to his feet to escape.

But he had taken a full-force blow from Chu Fan. With Evil Qi surging through his body, he could barely stand, let alone run. His speed was less than a tenth of what it was at his peak.

In just a few moments, Chu Fan was right behind him.

SWISH!

The blade rose and fell!

The street fell silent once more, leaving only three corpses and a crowd of dazed, unmoving zombies.

Chu Fan quickly performed Corpse Handling, pocketing everything he found along with the three pairs of Black Gold Silk Gloves. Then, with a flicker of movement, he vanished into a dark alleyway.

Only after he had been gone for some time did faint stirrings gradually begin to sound from the surroundings.

...

On a distant pavilion, several pairs of eyes had watched the entire battle unfold.