86: Chapter 86 Since we're already here, let's experience the unique features of the Hehuan Sect!
In mid-air, the pitch-black chaos remnant sword hovered before Cao Kun.
The sword body remained still, but the Aura of slaughter swirling around it had already caused the surrounding Spiritual Qi to boil violently.
"You little beast, you dare to be so arrogant? Die!"
The Flying Sword of the grey-robed elder on the left transformed into a black raging dragon, striking directly at the space between Cao Kun's eyebrows.
The bronze mirror in the right elder's hand flared with intense light.
A destructive beam of light, as thick as a water barrel, struck out after the sword but arrived first, sealing off all of Cao Kun's escape routes.
The joint attack of two Early Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators was terrifyingly imposing.
Inside the Hehuan Sect's protective formation, countless Disciples held their breath, not even daring to breathe loudly.
Facing the incoming Flying Sword and light beam, Cao Kun flipped his wrist.
The long, pitch-black remnant sword was held horizontally before him.
"Clang!" A deafening sound of metal clashing exploded.
The black dragon Flying Sword, brimming with momentum, slammed solidly against the blade of the chaos remnant sword.
The next second, that Profound Rank peak-grade Flying Sword, which the grey-robed elder had nurtured for hundreds of years, let out an extremely shrill wail.
The tip of the sword shattered.
Chaos Qi spread along the blade, continuously devouring its spirituality.
Immediately after, it flew backward at a speed several times faster than it had arrived!
At the same time, the destructive light beam shot from the bronze mirror also slammed into the remnant sword.
The chaos remnant sword vibrated.
A black arc of light easily sliced the beam apart, which then dissipated into a sky full of light spots.
"Pfft!" Both Magic Treasures were broken simultaneously.
Under the backlash, the two men spat out a mouthful of blood at the same time.
Their bodies flew backward uncontrollably in mid-air.
After retreating fully ten zhang, the two finally managed to stabilize their figures.
The two Guest Elders raised their heads and looked at the unscathed Cao Kun in front of them.
Their eyes were filled with disbelief.
"Impossible!" the elder on the left exclaimed.
"How can a mere Golden Core Stage Cultivator have such pure and profound spiritual power?!"
They were Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators!
Although only at the Early Stage, the quality and quantity of their spiritual power were not something the Golden Core Stage could contend with.
Yet, the moment they collided, their pride-and-joy Nascent Soul spiritual power was simply too fragile to withstand Cao Kun's strange black spiritual power.
It was directly crushed!
Inside the Hehuan Sect's formation, there was deathly silence.
Qin Canglan's eyelids twitched wildly.
Her plump, proud breasts, wrapped in a luxurious palace gown, were heaving violently.
She had guessed that Cao Kun's combat power was Heaven-Defying.
But seeing him casually push back two Nascent Soul Cultivators with one sword strike, the visual impact still made her scalp tingle.
Too strong... With this kind of combat power, given time, who else in the entire Qingzhou could suppress him?
"That sword is strange! It's a peak-grade Spiritual Artifact! He absolutely cannot use it continuously!"
The elder on the right shouted angrily, his hands quickly forming seals.
In front of thousands of people from a major Qingzhou sect, being defeated in one move by a Golden Core junior...
If this got out, they would never be able to show their faces in the cultivation world again.
"This old man wants to see how long that Magic Treasure of yours can protect you!"
The two roared simultaneously.
Boom!
The heavens and earth changed color.
Two massive Nascent Soul Auras shot into the sky.
Two Nascent Soul Avatar phantoms, dozens of zhang tall, rose from the ground behind them.
One held a giant sword, the other held up a light mirror.
The immense pressure caused the surrounding space to distort.
Once a Nascent Soul Cultivator summoned their Nascent Soul Avatar, it meant a fight to the death.
"Senior Brother..." Leng Qingyue felt that world-destroying pressure and clutched Cao Kun's lapels in worry.
Cao Kun lowered his head and smiled gently at her.
"Be good, stand here and don't move."
The next instant, Cao Kun's figure vanished from the spot.
"Where is he?!" The two Guest Elders were shocked, their Divine Sense scanning frantically.
"He's above!" someone below shouted.
The two looked up abruptly.
Cao Kun had somehow teleported directly above the two Nascent Soul Avatars!
"Relying on the advantage of a Magic Treasure?"
"Today, I'll show you what true, absolute strength is!"
He gripped the hilt of the chaos remnant sword with both hands and raised it high above his head.
Inside his Dantian, the pitch-black patterns on the surface of his Purple-Gold Golden Core suddenly brightened.
A massive amount of Chaos Qi was poured into the remnant sword without reservation.
A Heaven Rank peak-grade Martial Skill.
One Sword Determines Life and Death!
The Spiritual Qi within a ten-mile radius was sucked into a vacuum at this moment.
Cao Kun raised his hand, and the sword fell.
A jet-black Sword Qi extended from the remnant sword.
In an instant, it surged to a hundred zhang in length!
The Sword Qi was filled with a suffocating Aura of death and annihilation.
Slash!
The hundred-zhang Sword Qi descended without hindrance.
"No! Block it!"
The two Guest Elders felt their scalps tingle; an unprecedented sense of mortal crisis enveloped them.
They crazily squeezed the spiritual power in their bodies, controlling their Avatars to raise their giant sword and light mirror, attempting to block the descending Sword Qi.
However, in the face of true power, all struggles were futile.
"Ssh!" Those two seemingly indestructible Nascent Soul Avatars, the moment they touched the black Sword Qi, didn't even last a single breath.
They were directly split in two!
The light of the collapsing Avatars stung everyone's eyes.
The remaining power of the Sword Qi did not diminish.
It continued to slash into the Physical Body of the two grey-robed Guest Elders.
"Pshhh!" The sound of flesh tearing echoed clearly in the night sky, making one's hair stand on end.
The two men's bodies were cut neatly in half from head to toe.
Two blinding balls of spiritual light rushed out from the broken corpses.
Those were the two Nascent Soul!
The faces of the Nascent Soul were filled with extreme terror, desperately trying to use teleportation to escape.
"Want to run?" Cao Kun snorted coldly.
The Chaos Qi attached to the surface of the Sword Qi transformed into a massive black vortex, erupting with terrifying suction.
"No!!!" The two Nascent Soul let out desperate screams, and were forcibly dragged into the vortex.
"Ahhhhh!" The shrill, agonizing screams lasted only a breath before coming to an abrupt end.
The two Nascent Soul were shredded into fragments of Spiritual Qi by the Chaos Qi.
Swallowed in one gulp!
Everyone had their mouths agape, unable to believe the scene that had just unfolded.
Everything happened too fast, too unreal.
From Ji Jinian giving the order, to the two Guest Elders summoning their Avatars, to Cao Kun striking with his sword, cutting their Physical Body, and shattering their Nascent Soul.
At most, it took only three breaths of time!
Two high and mighty Nascent Soul Stage experts were just gone like that.
No bones left, Divine Soul completely destroyed.
Qin Canglan gasped, feeling a tingling sensation in her chest.
Yu Linglong's beautiful eyes shone, her legs rubbing slightly, her gaze toward Cao Kun filled with undisguised infatuation.
Leng Qingyue stood in place, her cold eyes filled with obsession.
The Hehuan Sect Disciples all remained in the posture of looking up, like statues.
One sword! Another sword! Elder Cao is a True God!
On the deck of the flying boat, Ji Jinian still hadn't figured out what had happened.
Where were the Guest Elders?
Where were the two Nascent Soul experts who were standing in front of him just a moment ago?
Those were the Guest Elders his Ji Family had spent a huge fortune to hire!
Just like that, they were slashed away by one sword?
Ji Jinian's legs began to tremble uncontrollably.
A foul-smelling, warm liquid flowed down his trouser leg and dripped onto the deck.
Cao Kun's figure drifted slowly down from mid-air, walking step by step toward Ji Jinian.
"You... don't come over!!!" Ji Jinian screamed in terror while retreating.
He fell onto the deck and crawled backward using his hands and feet.
"I am the Young Lord of the Ji Family! If you dare to kill me, my Ji Family's Soul Transformation Old Ancestor will never let you go!"
Ji Jinian scrambled to touch the Storage Ring on his hand.
He wanted to get the message Jade Slip! He wanted to find the Old Ancestor to save his life!
As long as he crushed it, the Family would immediately receive a distress signal.
"Old Ancestor, save..."
He had just taken out the Jade Slip, and before the words could leave his mouth, swish!
A cold, biting light flashed and vanished.
"Ah!!!" Ji Jinian let out a heart-wrenching scream.
The right hand holding the communication Jade Slip was severed at the root!
The severed hand, along with the Jade Slip, flew out and rolled far away on the deck.
Blood sprayed like a fountain from the smooth cut, splashing all over Ji Jinian's face.
Ji Jinian clutched his severed wrist, rolling on the deck in pain.
"Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
"My father is the Ji Family head! My Old Ancestor is at the Soul Transformation Stage! You will be in big trouble if you kill me!"
"As long as you let me go, I will give you whatever you want! The flying boat is yours, the entire dowry is yours!"
Ji Jinian had completely broken down.
He had been pampered since childhood; when had he ever suffered such pain?
Facing the god of slaughter in front of him, he couldn't even summon the thought of resisting.
Cao Kun walked up to him and patted Ji Jinian's swollen right cheek with the flat of his sword.
"Why are you screaming? I haven't asked you anything yet."
"I'll ask you something. If you answer correctly, I'll consider it."
"Those two old men from just now, did they leave behind any life-soul tablets at your Ji Family main residence?"
Cao Kun knew very well in his heart.
That sword strike just now was satisfying to show off with.
But this was the cultivation world after all.
Major powers would leave life-soul tablets for core members.
If a person died, the light would go out, and the Family would notice immediately.
If those two old men had life-soul tablets, he would have to spend some effort setting up the scene and blaming someone else.
"No! No life-soul tablets!" Ji Jinian gasped in pain, not daring to hide anything.
He spilled everything like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube.
"They were just Guest Elders my father hired with Spirit Stones..."
"They couldn't touch the core in the Family and weren't qualified to enter the ancestral hall to leave life-soul tablets..."
"Coming to the Hehuan Sect to propose today was also my own secret decision; my father and the Old Ancestor don't know!"
Ji Jinian explained while wailing.
Cao Kun nodded with satisfaction upon hearing this answer.
This was great; he even saved the effort of destroying the bodies and faking the scene.
The cultivation world was so big; dying outside wouldn't even make a sound.
Even if the Ji Family knew something happened to them, by the time they investigated the Hehuan Sect, the opportunity would have long passed.
This time was enough for Yu Linglong to make a Breakthrough to the Soul Transformation Stage.
"E-Elder Cao, I've said everything. Can you let me..." Ji Jinian looked at the smile on Cao Kun's face, thinking he had saved his life, and spoke with trembling.
"Don't be like that! Young Master Ji, since you're already here!"
"Don't you want to experience the Hehuan Sect's special local customs?"
"I'll take you to experience them in a moment!"
Looking at Ji Jinian's terrified eyes, Cao Kun sneered.
Too lazy to listen to his wailing anymore, he backhanded him with a powerful slap.
"Slap!" Ji Jinian rolled his eyes back, spitting blood foam, and fainted on the spot.