Lingxu, Sword Coffin, Blind Swordsman

As Li Guanqi ventured deeper into the Fiery Flame Valley, the temperature soared!

Above the parched earth, the very air shimmered with heat.

A bare-chested figure, drenched in sweat, trudged through the valley.

Suddenly, Li Guanqi halted, a cold smirk playing on his lips.

He sensed three faint presences trailing him not far behind.

His cracked lips curled slightly, and with narrowed eyes, Li Guanqi abruptly plunged a hand into the empty space beside him!!!

Thump!!!

“Ah!!!”

A shrill scream pierced the air as three figures materialized beside Li Guanqi.

He glanced down at his blood-stained left hand and murmured, “Why are you following me?”

“Did you lose face and want to get it back?”

He looked up at the figures beside him, recognizing the man he had struck upon arriving at the Yellow Sand Inn.

The skinny man with small eyes and high cheekbones now had a completely healed tiger's mouth.

Li Guanqi had also seen the two men beside him at the Yellow Sand Inn.

Li Guanqi chuckled coldly, sneering, “It seems I was too lenient in the inn.”

“But I’m curious, why did the three of you come looking for me?”

The other two men wore grave expressions; they had assumed Li Guanqi was in the Fiery Flame Valley seeking treasure.

Furthermore, Ning Xiu had unleashed his full power at the time, creating an overwhelming aura, leading them to believe Li Guanqi was seriously injured!

Thus, they heeded Zhang Ning’s words and decided to take advantage of his misfortune.

But as soon as they found him, he attacked directly!

Seeing that they remained silent, Li Guanqi grew impatient, a murderous glint flashing in his eyes as he softly said, “Since you chose to strike, you must be prepared to pay the price.”

Boom!!!

Instantly, the parched earth collapsed, forming a pit over ten zhang deep, and Li Guanqi vanished!

The scar-faced man, the strongest of the group, sensing danger, shoved the weakest man, Zhang Ning, forward!

Zhang Ning suddenly felt a tremendous force from behind, sending him crashing toward Li Guanqi, and he roared in fury.

“Ding Gang!! I’ll f*ck your mother!!!”

Even as he cursed, the man drew his saber and charged!

The other man knew that running was the worst option, so he burned his essence blood and fought desperately, hoping to kill Li Guanqi in collaboration.

Instantly, the glint of sabers and swords filled the air, and a terrifying aura erupted.

However, this chaotic dance of blades lasted only a moment before abruptly ceasing.

Two extremely swift beams of sword light erupted!!!

In an instant, lightning filled the heavens and earth within a radius of several hundred zhang, and sword light raged!!!

Li Guanqi, who had teleported a hundred zhang with a single step, slowly sheathed his sword and murmured, “Subduing Demon!”

Boom!!!

The terrifying sword light left two hideous ravines, each a hundred zhang in size, on the mountains on either side.

Boom!!!

Two headless corpses fell to the ground, and two illusory nascent souls fled in terror in all directions.

Li Guanqi clicked his tongue, and with a powerful surge of divine sense, he created two invisible spirit swords that shot out instantly!!

The two nascent soul figures fled ten thousand zhang almost instantly, but Li Guanqi’s divine sense-transformed swords were even faster.

He combined his divine sense-transformed spirit swords with the Sword Control Technique, making them extremely fast.

In an instant, they traversed ten thousand zhang, pierced the two nascent souls, shattered them, and then returned.

Li Guanqi breathed a sigh of relief, collected the storage rings from the two men, and casually tossed the two corpses into the void.

Looking up into the distance, he could clearly sense a figure frantically escaping in the void.

Whoosh!! Sizzle!!

“Hmph, still trying to run!”

A pitch-black void crack opened in space, Li Guanqi’s lips curled into a smile, and the movement technique within his body began to operate rapidly!!

“Lightning Control!!”

As the movement technique activated, Li Guanqi’s figure transformed into a streak of light and lightning in the void, hurtling forward!

The terrifying speed was simply appalling.

After half an incense stick’s worth of time, Li Guanqi slowly emerged from the void, carrying a figure whose bones were all broken.

After obliterating the nascent soul within the figure, he similarly tossed the corpse into the void.

Looking down at the three storage rings in his hand, Li Guanqi pondered for a moment, then focused his divine sense into a needle-like point and slammed it against one of the storage rings!

Bang!!

With a soft sound, the storage ring in his hand instantly turned into a puff of ash and disappeared from his palm.

Li Guanqi coughed awkwardly, and just as he was about to try the second storage ring,

The Sword Spirit suddenly appeared beside him, rolling her eyes at his appearance.

She said unhappily, “That’s not how you erase it. You need to feel for the weak points in the divine sense imprint inside the storage ring.”

Li Guanqi suddenly understood, muttering, “So you can’t just forcibly erase it… you should have said so earlier, what a waste.”

Crack!

A faint cracking sound rang out, and Li Guanqi’s face lit up with joy.

“Hehe, opened it!”

However, the remaining two men’s storage rings contained many items, but few that caught his eye.

Even spirit stones only amounted to a few hundred middle-grade spirit stones.

Li Guanqi cursed with a sullen face, “They’re so poor!! Only a few hundred middle-grade spirit stones!”

As he spoke, he continued to rummage through the items, finding some low-level cultivation techniques, but he didn’t care for them.

Buzz!!

Li Guanqi pulled out several fiery red crystals from the storage ring, and his face showed surprise.

“Is this fire essence?”

“What a rich and pure fire-type spiritual power!”

Even the Sword Spirit looked at the fire essence in his hand with some surprise, as this kind of thing was not commonly seen and usually only condensed in places with extremely rich fire-type spiritual energy.

Moreover, these fire essences were extremely spiritual, like the inner cores of demon beasts.

But at this moment, Li Guanqi noticed that among these fire essences, one of them was only the size of a thumb.

However, the spiritual energy contained in this fire essence was the most concentrated, and there was a hair-thin strand of purple fluorescence twisting slightly within the fiery red crystal.

When he saw this thing, Li Guanqi was directly stunned, because he clearly felt that the thing inside the fire essence contained a trace of lightning power.

Putting away the fire essence, Li Guanqi appeared at the location marked on the map.

It was a mountain depression formed by the intersection of six large mountains. Looking around, he didn’t find anything special.

Spreading his divine sense around, he couldn’t help feeling disappointed. Just as he was about to give up,

Suddenly!!

In the hidden part of the mountain depression’s rubble, Li Guanqi suddenly discovered a circular groove!!

Whoosh!!

Li Guanqi instantly arrived at the location, bent over, bypassed a few boulders, and reached out to touch the groove.

Having undergone the baptism of countless years, this groove was almost worn smooth.

Li Guanqi took out the jade pendant with an excited look and slowly embedded it into the groove.

At the same time, a faint glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.