80: Chapter 80 Blood for Blood! My son's final sword strike, burning away my boundless killing intent!

"Shen Ji!!"

A roar rolled over like thunder. Valley Master Mo Jiuyou's voice, laden with the unreserved spiritual pressure of the Foundation Building Stage 8, crushed down from the horizon.

The entire Shen Residence groaned under this pressure. Fragile roof tiles, unable to bear the weight, shed dust as they rattled.

"You slaughtered forty-nine people of my Xuanyin Valley and beheaded three of my Foundation Building Elders!"

"Today, I shall fill this debt with the lives of everyone in your Shen Family!"

Before the words faded, that mass of dark green escape light was already like a heavy cloud, pressing down suffocatingly upon the Shen Residence. A dense stench of blood and poisonous miasma instantly enveloped the entire courtyard.

You stood in the courtyard, letting that spiritual pressure impact your protective aura, expressionless.

The thought of a fight to the death transformed into a cold calm in your heart.

Your consciousness sank into your sea of consciousness, and the light screen flashed before your eyes.

This was your final trump card.

Name: Shen Ji

Cultivation: Foundation Building Stage 4

Current Luck Value: 1539

Equipped Entries 6/6: Wealth Returns After Being Spent (Gold), Supreme Sword Bone (Gold), Phantom Raid (Purple), Lingxi Finger (Blue), Sword Mastery (Blue), Greased Soles (White)

A configuration born purely for slaughter.

Supreme Sword Bone is the core, Phantom Raid is the sure-kill, Lingxi Finger is the armor-piercing dagger, and Greased Soles is the final reliance when walking between life and death.

You had already prepared to die here.

Consciousness returned, and you closed the panel.

"Qin Yao."

You called out without looking back.

Rapid footsteps came from the inner courtyard. Qin Yao ran out holding little daughter Shen Ruoqi, her face devoid of color.

"Take Ruoqi and everyone in the house to the cellar immediately. No matter what you hear, do not come out."

Qin Yao's lips trembled, wanting to say something.

You only glanced at her once.

She immediately swallowed all her words, hugged her little daughter who was too scared to make a sound, and turned resolutely toward the cellar.

Shen Ruoqi leaned on her mother's shoulder and secretly reached out a little hand toward your direction.

"Daddy…"

That faint cry was blown away by the wind.

You did not look back.

Shen Tian leaned on his green feather sword and limped to your side. The gauze on his right leg was already soaked with blood, but he stood straight.

Liu Qingqing walked quickly out of the pharmacy. Without a word, she stuffed two bottles of medicinal pills into your waist, then drew her own short dagger and stood silently on your left side.

The three of you pushed open the main gate of the Shen Residence and faced the dark mass of enemies outside.

—

Outside the gate, the killing intent was palpable.

Valley Master Mo Jiuyou hovered in mid-air, his black robes fluttering in the miasma-like spiritual energy. His fingers, tucked into his sleeves, moved slightly.

Behind him, six Foundation Building Elders spread out in a fan shape. Further out were dozens of cold-aura Qi Refining late-stage disciples, completely sealing off all routes of retreat.

Seeing that you dared to walk out voluntarily, a cruel smile appeared on Valley Master Mo Jiuyou's face.

"You have guts. I thought you would be kneeling on the threshold, kowtowing and begging me to spare your dog life."

You raised your head and looked at him calmly.

"Valley Master Mo Jiuyou."

"Everyone I killed deserved to die."

"My brother Huo Quji uncovered your filthy deeds, so you silenced him. I am collecting this debt for him."

Valley Master Mo Jiuyou's smile froze.

You continued, your voice not loud, yet it clearly spread to the entire field.

"Colluding with the demon race, betraying the human race, plotting to overthrow the entire Eastern Region. Do you think forty-nine lives are enough to repay the crimes committed by Xuanyin Valley?"

"Since you came today—"

Clang!

The jinhong sword unsheathed itself and fell into your hand, golden light flowing along the blade.

"Then leave a few more heads behind to add some weight to this debt."

The moment the words fell, the spiritual power of Foundation Building Stage 4 and the First Rainbow Sword Intent erupted simultaneously! Golden sword qi sprayed out from the tip of the sword, carving an unfathomably deep crack into the bluestone slab in front of you!

Valley Master Mo Jiuyou's fingers inside his sleeves tightened abruptly.

Sword Intent! It really was him!

He stopped wasting words, raised his hand, and waved it, his voice cold.

"Seven Kill Formation!"

Two Foundation Building Stage 4 elders sneered and stepped out from the crowd, followed by five Qi Refining Level 9 disciples. The seven of them instantly stepped into the positions of the Big Dipper, and dark green formation patterns spread crazily from under their feet, connecting with each other.

A battle formation filled with killing and poisonous aura formed instantly.

"Use him to sacrifice to the formation first." Valley Master Mo Jiuyou retreated half a step and whispered to an elder beside him. That person understood and silently disappeared into the crowd on the periphery.

—

Once the formation was set, the killing intent arrived immediately.

The curved blade of the elder on the left, wrapped in poisonous gas, slashed over like a purple-black arc; the elder on the right pinched a seal, and a dozen poison-tipped vines burst from the ground, sealing your movement like venomous snakes.

You did not clash head-on.

Greased Soles — Activate!

Speed increased by twenty percent. You stepped three feet to the left, and the poisonous blade slashed through empty air, brushing past your robes, the wind generated stinging your face.

As the poison vines tangled under your feet, you moved forward instead of retreating, stepping into the gaps of the vines and plunging into the inner circle of the formation.

Kill the formation eye first!

"Seeking death!"

Seeing you charge into the formation center, the curved-blade elder thought you were seeking your own death and sneered as he swung his blade horizontally.

Just at this moment—

Phantom Raid — Activate!

Your figure disappeared into thin air.

The curved-blade elder slashed at nothing, a sense of danger rising in his heart, and he was about to retreat.

Too late.

A golden sword light appeared ghost-like beside him, carrying the First Rainbow Sword Intent, stabbing straight at his neck!

In his panic, he hastily blocked with his blade.

Clang! Sparks flew!

Being both at Foundation Building Stage 4, under the hard clash, his curved blade let out a wail. The sword qi reinforced by the Supreme Sword Bone was unreasonably sharp, directly cracking his magical artifact!

At the moment his arm went numb from the immense force, your empty left hand reached out, fingers pointing like a sword.

Lingxi Finger — Activate!

A wisp of sword intent, condensed to the extreme at your fingertip, passed through his protective spiritual light silently. The feeling was like poking a finger through a wet window paper, without the slightest resistance.

Puff.

A finger, tapped on his heart.

The curved-blade elder looked down in astonishment, staring at the widening blood hole in his chest, his eyes full of disbelief.

He opened his mouth, wanting to shout something, but only sprayed out a mouthful of black blood.

Thump.

The corpse fell to the ground.

The patterns of the Seven Kill Formation trembled violently, and the light dimmed by a fraction.

"He can break through protective spiritual light!" The Poison-Vine Elder in the distance screamed.

—

On the other side, Shen Tian and Liu Qingqing were already fighting with more than ten Qi Refining disciples.

The green feather sword buzzed crazily in Shen Tian's hand.

A Qi Refining Level 8 disciple sneered and slapped out a palm of poison mist. Shen Tian dodged to the side, flicked his wrist, and the green feather sword traced a strange arc—the "curved sword" he had practiced ten thousand times.

The sword light bypassed the opponent's blocking arm, precisely cut in from under the armpit, and pierced through the back.

A spray of hot blood shot out.

Before the enemy's corpse could hit the ground, Shen Tian had already stepped on the opponent's shoulder to leap up, twisted his waist in mid-air, and with a backhand, cleaved the second enemy who pounced on him in half from top to bottom!

The violent movement caused the wound on his right leg to burst completely, and blood stained his entire pant leg.

But his hand holding the sword was as steady as a rock.

"Shen Tian! Hold the left flank!"

Liu Qingqing's voice came from behind. She pinched a seal and released a large number of ice thorns, pinning three enemies attempting to flank to the ground. She then flashed, got close to one person, and cleanly slit the other's throat with the short dagger in her hand.

"Got it, Mom!"

Shen Tian roared and pierced the abdomen of the third enemy in front of him.

He could not feel pain, nor could he feel fear.

That sword seemed to have become a part of his body, an extension of his will.

—

Inside the formation, you took advantage of your speed to circle around the Poison-Vine Elder during the thirty-breath cooldown gap.

Twenty-eighth breath.

The opportunity appeared!

A Qi Refining Level 9 disciple responsible for maintaining the formation eye had a half-breath pause during the circulation of spiritual power.

This is it!

The jinhong sword flew out of your hand, turning into a golden stream of light.

That disciple only felt a flash before his eyes and a chill in his chest. Looking down, he saw a blood hole.

The patterns of the Seven Kill Formation extinguished in large areas.

Thirtieth breath.

Phantom Raid, cooldown ended.

You disappeared again.

"No—" The Poison-Vine Elder's liver and gallbladder were split, only managing to let out a desperate roar.

The next instant, a head soared into the sky.

The Seven Kill Formation was completely broken!

The remaining four Qi Refining disciples were terrified and turned to flee.

Shen Tian chased down two, killing them one by one. Liu Qingqing's ice thorns pinned the other two.

Total annihilation.

—

You held the dripping jinhong sword, standing in the center of the corpses, your chest heaving violently.

Two medicinal pills entered your stomach, barely suppressing the churning blood. In this round of fighting, you killed two elders of the same rank, but your spiritual power was also sixty percent depleted.

In mid-air, Valley Master Mo Jiuyou's face was so gloomy it could drip water.

Behind him, three Foundation Building Elders still stood.

And, himself—Foundation Building Stage 8.

"I underestimated you." Valley Master Mo Jiuyou's voice became calm instead; it was a dead silence before the storm.

He slowly raised his hand, and a second, more violent offensive was about to launch.

Just then—

A sudden change occurred!

From a pile of rubble behind Shen Tian, a figure rose without warning!

It was that Foundation Building Stage 4 elder who had been lurking and inactive! He had been waiting, waiting for a fatal opportunity!

He gathered all his spiritual power into his right palm, his palm turning into a jet-black poisonous blade, and silently stabbed toward Shen Tian's unguarded back!

The world slowed down infinitely in your eyes.

That jet-black poison palm, like a piece of dead, rotten wood, slowly yet unstoppably, imprinted toward Shen Tian's back.

Your throat felt as if it had been filled with molten iron.

"Shen Tian—!!!"

You let out a heart-wrenching roar.

Shen Tian heard your voice. He instinctively turned to defend, the green feather sword held horizontally in front of his chest.

But that poison palm was too fast, and too tricky.

The poisonous blade bypassed the block of the sword edge, and with a squelch, it sank entirely into his left rib, piercing through his chest cavity.

The sharp tip of the blade protruded from his back, dripping with black blood.

Shen Tian's body stiffened. He slowly lowered his head, looking at the palm that had pierced through his chest.

A line of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

But he did not fall.

He did something that no one expected.

He threw away the green feather sword in his hand.

Then, using the last strength of his whole body, he used both hands to firmly lock onto the arm that had pierced through his body, using his own flesh and bones to lock that elder firmly in place.

He slowly turned his head.

He looked at you, a trace of a smile even on his face, as if he had accomplished something worth being proud of.

"Daddy…"

"…This one, I helped you… hold down."

—

The light in his eyes faded away bit by bit.

"Clang."

It was the short dagger in Liu Qingqing's hand falling to the ground.

Her mouth opened, but she could not make a sound, as if her soul had been pulled away. Her legs went soft, and she knelt straight down.

Your world collapsed.