34: Chapter 34 Sword light rises, blood stains the ancestral hall!

Inside the backyard, killing intent overflowed.

Black Snake Recluse looked at these Mortal Martial Artists before him, who were fearless yet pathetically weak, a cruel sneer curling at the corners of his lips.

He couldn't even be bothered to use his Flying Sword.

He flicked his finger.

A bolt of solid, black Qi surged through the air, moving so fast that the guards present could not even track it with their naked eyes.

Pfft!

The Wang Family guard charging at the very front had his head instantly blown apart, splattering red and white matter all over the faces of his companions behind him.

"Ah!"

The guard who had been splattered with blood let out a terrified scream, but his voice was cut short.

A second bolt of Qi had already pierced his throat, drawing out a spray of blood mist.

The slaughter of Mortal Martial Artists by a Cultivator in the Qi Refining Realm was just that simple, just that unreasonable.

Wang Tianba felt cold all over; his face, covered in rolls of fat, was twisted in extreme terror, and he nearly collapsed to the ground.

The elite of his Family, whom he was so proud of, didn't even count as ants in front of a real Immortal Master.

In the shadows of the silent room, Gu Changsheng took in everything, his heart without a ripple.

This was the Cultivation World.

The gap in power could not be made up for by courage or numbers.

The deaths of these guards were merely buying him time to verify the accuracy of the intelligence.

Just as Black Snake Recluse was preparing to wipe out the remaining guards and clear the field completely—

Boom!

The entire ancestral hall, and even the whole mountain behind it, suddenly shook violently!

It was as if a sleeping giant beast deep underground had rolled over at this moment.

Immediately following this, an indescribable, bone-chilling white cold air erupted like a volcanic explosion from beneath the ground in the backyard of the ancestral hall, which Wang Tianba had been guarding so strictly, shooting straight into the sky!

Crack! Crack!

The moisture in the air instantly froze; the plants, rockeries, and even the eaves of the ancestral hall in the courtyard were covered in a thick layer of white frost in an instant.

The temperature plummeted!

That yin essence of the great moon, pure to the extreme, turned into a white pillar of energy visible to the naked eye, shooting straight into the clouds, making the radiance of the full moon in the sky appear dim by comparison.

The taiyin treasure orb had formed!

In the silent room, Gu Changsheng's Withered Wood Meets Spring Scripture circulated crazily, and a desire stemming from the instinct of life rose from every corner of his limbs and bones.

"Mine!"

Feeling that extremely pure energy, Black Snake Recluse's murky eyes instantly erupted with unparalleled greed and fanaticism!

He could no longer be bothered to deal with Wang Tianba and his remnants.

Compared to the supreme treasure before him, these Mortals didn't even count as dust.

"Get lost!"

He let out a roar and suddenly recalled his black Flying Sword.

The Flying Sword swelled against the wind, wreathed in thick black Qi, and with a shrill whistle that tore through the air, it fiercely hacked down toward the center of the cold air eruption—the bluestone floor of the ancestral hall!

He wanted to use the most violent and direct method to blast open the ground and seize the treasure orb!

The violent Sword Qi exploded!

Boom!

The hard bluestone floor was like paper; it was instantly blasted open into a giant pit several zhang in diameter.

Gravel and soil splattered in all directions, and a bottomless pit, swirling with dense white mist, appeared before everyone's eyes.

Now is the time!

In the shadows, Gu Changsheng's eyes lit up with a shocking gleam.

The scene from the System's deduction perfectly overlapped with the scene before him.

Black Snake Recluse had used all his strength to break the barrier; his old strength was exhausted, his new strength had not yet been born, and his mind was completely occupied by greed for the treasure orb—this was the moment his defense was weakest and his opening the greatest!

Gu Changsheng moved.

He didn't make a single sound; his whole person was like a ghost, sliding out from the deepest darkness of the silent room.

The Qi-Concealing Talisman attached to his body allowed him to perfectly merge with the violent yin essence of the great moon surrounding him.

There were no flashy Spells, no heaven-shaking Aura.

The small cyan sword in his hand, which he had bought in the market for twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones, was infused with all the magic power of his Qi Refining Second Layer Perfection.

That magic power, far more robust than that of Cultivators of the same rank, was, under the impetus of the Withered Wood Meets Spring Scripture, entirely compressed into the tip of the sword!

Hum!

The cyan Flying Sword turned into a brilliant yet silent cyan rainbow; its speed far exceeded the Qi bolt Black Snake Recluse had used to kill the guards just moments ago, stabbing straight at the vital point behind his heart from an extremely tricky and ruthless angle!

Black Snake Recluse, who was bending down to investigate the pit, suddenly felt a deadly chill shoot from his tailbone straight to his crown!

Not good!

He had no time to think about who the attacker was or where they came from; the instinct from decades of life-and-death battles made him let out a beast-like roar, and his body forcibly twisted at an impossible angle.

In his haste, he could only hold the black Flying Sword that had just broken the ground horizontally in front of his chest!

Ding!

A crisp sound of metal clashing rang through the entire backyard!

Black Snake Recluse felt a vast, irresistible force coming from the sword; his black sword, a Low Grade Magical Artifact he had refined for many years, was knocked out of his hand by the cyan rainbow, tumbling through the air and embedding itself into the wall in the distance!

"Urgh!"

He let out a pained grunt; the web between his thumb and index finger on his right hand instantly split open, dripping with blood, and he staggered back uncontrollably.

Gu Changsheng's figure appeared from behind the cyan rainbow, and he was slightly stunned.

This sword strike actually failed to pierce through the opponent!

He could clearly feel that after his sword tip pierced through a thin layer of magic power shield, it was blocked by a tougher, viscous black Protective Aura.

The Withered Wood Meets Spring Scripture endowed him with a total magic power and recovery speed far exceeding those of the same rank; it was the supreme method for the dao of prudence.

But in terms of pure offensive lethality, it was indeed not as sharp as those Cultivation Techniques specialized in killing.

His own shortcomings were exposed at this moment.

Having his sneak attack blocked, Black Snake Recluse was both shocked and angry, with a trace of the ruthlessness of one who had just survived a disaster.

He hadn't expected that in this small Mortal prefecture city, besides himself, there was actually another Qi Refining Cultivator hidden! And it was a 'mantis stalking the cicada' who had cultivated the art of breath concealment to such a level!

"You're courting death!"

Although Black Snake Recluse was shocked, he was ruthless; he backhanded a palm with his left hand, filled with fury and killing intent, and slammed it violently toward Gu Changsheng's chest, which was close at hand!

A palm print, ominous with black Qi and even faintly carrying the sound of ghosts crying, formed instantly!

Gu Changsheng had long anticipated all possibilities if the sneak attack failed, and his reaction was extremely fast.

He flipped his left hand, and a golden light talisman he had long been holding in his palm was instantly activated!

Hum!

A golden curtain of light suddenly lit up, forming a thick, circular light shield in front of him.

Boom!

The black palm print slammed into the golden light shield, emitting a deafening explosion!

The golden light shattered, and the Talisman disintegrated.

Gu Changsheng was also knocked back three steps by the huge impact, feeling his blood surging in his chest and a hint of sweetness in his throat.

And Black Snake Recluse was not having it easy either.

Just after he slapped out that palm, his face suddenly turned pale, his body swayed violently, and he opened his mouth to spray out a mouthful of black blood mixed with bits of flesh.

The lingering and pure wood-attribute hidden energy contained in Gu Changsheng's sword strike just now had, at the moment he struck back with all his might and lost his composure, invaded his Meridians and was wreaking havoc inside his body.

In the first round of their exchange, it was actually a situation where both sides were injured!