Just then, Feng Ling suddenly pointed outside, her mouth agape. "What... what are they doing?" she asked.

Looking out from the room, the three of them could clearly see the men’s faces twisted in terrifying expressions, their eyes wide with rage. Light flashed from their swords as if they were facing a powerful enemy.

Ling Xiao smiled faintly. "Keep watching. The best part... is still to come!"

...

Inside the formation, Yu Tian could no longer hold back. He unleashed a blast of Sword Qi that swept toward the fog in front of him. It was like he had stirred a hornet’s nest. Countless longswords suddenly burst from the fog, shooting toward the three men like a swarm.

"Illusions! They can’t be real!" Yu Guang shouted.

But the sound of the flying swords slicing through the air made him immediately doubt his own judgment. He swept his own sword, batting them away and producing a series of sharp, ear-piercing clashes of metal.

This only confirmed it... ’What’s happening isn’t an illusion at all. We’ve been pulled into some strange space!’

The three men were horrified. They couldn’t help but use their swords to strike down the blades in the air, unconsciously infusing their weapons with powerful Inner Strength. As their Inner Strength swept out and touched the banks of fog, even more swords burst forth. By the time the three of them realized what was happening, the sky was already filled with swords flying as fast as shooting stars!

The swords were like the pouring rain outside—seemingly endless as they stabbed at the three men relentlessly!

At this point, the three of them could no longer hear any sound from the outside world.

Yu Tian, a Tier Three Sword Emperor, finally let out a furious roar. An incredibly powerful aura erupted from his body as he pointed his longsword at the sky and bellowed.

"Break! Brahma Heaven Sword Qi, Sweep the Eight Directions!"

As he spoke, a fiery-red giant python shot out from his sword. The skill Yu Tian cultivated was the Upper-tier Saint-level Sword Skill, Sunflower Celestial Python! When cultivated to its peak and executed with immense Inner Strength channeled into one’s sword, a fiery-red python dozens of meters long would appear!

The python’s eyes and mouth were clearly visible, and its long, scarlet forked tongue flicking from its maw was terrifying. Its body was covered in neat, palm-sized scales.

The two women watching from inside the house couldn’t help but cry out in unison.

Ye Wen Ni exclaimed, "Heavens... Is this... is this the power of a High-tier Sword Skill?"

Although Feng Ling was also incredibly shocked, ’In fact, I’ve never seen a sword skill like this before. To think it can simulate such a realistic, fiery-red python... It looks just like the real thing!’

Ling Xiao watched the youthful-looking, white-haired old man’s fatal strike without blinking, the corner of his mouth curling into a faint, mocking smile. ’The power of this strike is immense, much stronger than my Fleeting Light, Glimpsing Shadow. If it were Tiger, he definitely wouldn’t be able to take this blow! A High-Tier Sword Emperor is truly something else! A pity... the harder you struggle, the faster you’ll die! None of you are leaving this place today!’

Within the formation, the massive, fiery-red python soared proudly into the air with an imposing aura, as if looking down upon the entire world. Any of the flying swords that came near it trembled and fell from the sky.

A smile finally appeared on Yu Tian’s face, and he let out a long sigh of relief. The two men beside him, drenched in cold sweat, watched the giant, fiery-red python sweep away all the flying swords in the sky.

Yu Guang seized the opportunity to flatter him. "Master, it’s been over fifty years since I’ve seen you use Brahma Heaven Sword Qi, Sweep the Eight Directions. It’s as powerful as ever, and this fire python... it’s as magnificent as I remember!"

Yu Tian grunted softly, a smug look on his face. "Sooner or later, you’ll possess such strength too!"

"Huh?" Just as the words left Yu Tian’s mouth, he immediately sensed something was wrong. He felt gusts of sinister wind around him, and a cold that gave him goosebumps crept over his entire body.

"Ah!"

He looked up to see the giant fire python baring its fangs and claws as it turned and lunged down at him! At the same instant, all the fog in the formation turned bone-chillingly cold, and a thick, bloody, malevolent aura began to fill the space.

The smile on Yu Tian’s face froze.

"ROAR!"

He let out a sudden, furious roar, his sword instantly unleashing a thousand lightning-fast strikes!

Every strike landed on the lunging fiery-red python, which exploded with a deafening bang!

It transformed into tens of thousands of small, fiery-red swords that blotted out the sky as they rained down on the three men!

’I’m done for!’ The thought flashed through Yu Tian’s mind. Immediately after, he saw the entire space around him light up with a blinding glare. Countless more swords formed from pure light came screaming toward them.

The air suddenly filled with the sound of a million-strong army roaring in battle, washing over them like a tsunami. The three men discovered, to their horror, that they had gone deaf.

By now, Ling Xiao had already stepped outside and leaped onto the roof. He coldly watched the three men stumbling around the courtyard like headless flies. He formed a hand seal and began to chant under his breath.

Instantly, countless rays of brilliant light flared up from all around!

In the sky above, rain poured down, lightning flashed, and thunder rolled.

But on the ground below, a light as bright as day erupted!

Ling Xiao roared, "Myriad Blood Fiends! Converge!"

All the brilliant light split into innumerable Light Sabers, shining like a river of stars in the night sky as they blotted out everything and stabbed toward the three men in the formation!

As if the three men had never been there, a massive, sun-like ball of blood-red light suddenly flared up in the center of the courtyard!

With a thunderous BOOM, it slammed into the surrounding protective shield, shattering the barrier made of Crystal Cores!

The blood-red sphere rose into the sky, a sanguine sun ascending into the dark and eerie night!

A golden bolt of lightning CRACKED down, striking the blood-red sphere. Like a Celestial God smiting a demon, the sphere exploded with a tremendous roar!

The sound echoed throughout all of Penzes City!

In the front yard, the giant Tiger stared up at the sky, speechless for a long time. The strange and magnificent spectacle in the air was as brilliant as fireworks, igniting the night of the downpour and seeming to ignite the hearts of all who watched.

Tiger suddenly knelt before the strange phenomenon in the sky, his face devout as he praised, "The Beast God is mighty!"

Ling Xiao descended from the air, completely soaked by the heavy rain. A lock of hair hung down over his eyes as he sighed, "What a spectacular way to die. A shame about all my Crystal Cores, though!"

Ye Zi and Feng Ling walked out, each holding an umbrella. After a moment’s hesitation, Feng Ling had Ye Zi hold her umbrella over Ling Xiao’s head. She paid no mind to anything else and asked, "Where did those three men go?"

Ling Xiao said, "They’re dead."

"Dead?" Feng Ling looked skeptical. ’Just now, the light was so blinding she couldn’t even open her eyes. Anyone who didn’t know better would have thought the sun had fallen right in front of them. How could she have possibly seen where the three men went!’

"How did they die?" This time it was Ye Zi who asked, her own curiosity piqued.

"They were pierced by ten thousand swords," Ling Xiao chuckled. "But what was pierced was their Sea of Consciousness... My own power is still insufficient. If I were strong enough, it would have been tens of thousands of real, tangible blood-red swords that skewered them to death!"

"Gods..." Feng Ling gasped. The rain PITTER-PATTERED against the umbrella, and the cold of the night sent a shiver through her. "So how did they ultimately die?" she couldn’t help but ask.

"Their minds collapsed, and then they were blasted to dust by the formation’s final, most powerful strike," Ling Xiao said nonchalantly. "A pity about all those Crystal Cores. They were worth a fortune!"

The two women glanced at Ling Xiao, speechless. The same thought suddenly occurred to both of them: ’In this world, he’s probably the only one who would be lamenting his money after killing two Sword Sects and a Sword Emperor.’

Just then, a clamor of voices rose from the front yard. Ling Wu and his men, still worried, had rushed over through the rainy night with a large contingent.

Ling Wu, clad head-to-toe in armor, strode into the backyard. He relaxed only when he saw Ling Xiao was safe. Ignoring the heavy rain, he shouted, "Young Master, should we just bury the bodies of the Demon Sword Masters and Demon Swordsmen in the front yard?"

Ling Xiao hesitated for a moment, then said, "Tomorrow morning, load them all onto carts and send them to the Southern King. Just say... just say they were a menace to the south, and I’ve eliminated them." (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in to www.qidian.com. More Chapters, support the author, and support official reading!)