Chapter 165 99: Slaying the Dark Blood Tiger
With an indifferent glance, Li Xingyue stepped onto the phantom of a silver sword and raced across the heavens. He was a streak of meteoric light, hurtling toward Shangjing City at an unimaginable speed.
「Not long after.」
In the Great Yan Dynasty, Shangjing City.
Inside a famous, nine-story-tall restaurant.
Within a luxurious private room on the ninth floor.
Two figures were having an intimate, serious conversation.
"Brother Li,
our Great Yan Dynasty is currently being ravaged by Demon Fiends.
A day ago,
we received news
that Fengchuan Prefecture City has been turned into a living Purgatory!
The team of Demon Exterminators from the Demon Suppression Bureau that was dispatched,
was completely wiped out!!"
Zhao Kai spoke to Li Xingyue, his expression grave.
Hearing this, Li Xingyue asked in a deep voice:
"Brother Zhao, how strong are the Demon Fiends?"
Zhao Kai then replied with a solemn face:
"According to reports, the power of those Demon Fiends in Fengchuan Prefecture City is constantly growing.
By now, I'm afraid they have the strength of the True Martial Second Layer.
And these are just the Demon Fiends in Fengchuan Prefecture City, on the southern border. Demon Fiends are now emerging everywhere!!
"Behind all this, according to our Bureau's investigation,
there seems to be an extremely powerful Demon Fiend commanding and controlling them!"
...
Deep within the Wanyou Mountain Range.
Gu Yun hovered in the sky,
his jet-black eyes staring into a huge, gloomy cavern in a valley below.
After a period of searching, he had finally pinpointed the Dark Blood Tiger's location!
At this thought, an immense aura erupted from his body, causing the void to churn violently like a raging sea.
With a wave of his hand, a flash of light appeared.
The Flame Soul Thunder Saber materialized in his hand.
"Wind and Thunder Annihilation Saber!"
A sharp glint of light flashed in Gu Yun's eyes, as if tearing through the heavens.
Heaven-Reaching Saber Qi surged from his body.
He then fiercely swung his saber down toward the giant cavern in the valley.
The slash, imbued with the ultimate power of wind and thunder, transformed into a sky-shattering Saber Qi over a thousand zhang long.
In an instant, it tore through the sky, letting out a powerful roar like a true clap of thunder.
The brilliant Thunderous Blade Qi immediately radiated a dazzling light, tearing apart the dim heavens and earth!
The terrifying Saber Qi, like a divine Thunder Punishment from the heavens, split the sky, pierced the celestial canopy, and chopped down violently toward the gloomy cavern in the valley below!!
"Hmm?!"
Inside the gloomy cavern in the valley,
a colossal dark figure several hundred zhang in size, which had been slumbering, opened its massive pupils that flickered with a crimson light.
The Dark Blood Tiger instantly sensed danger. It then spoke in a human tongue, as if some great terror was approaching!
Looking at the sky outside,
its massive, crimson pupils suddenly constricted.
It saw a thousand-zhang-long, sky-shattering Saber Qi slice through the air, heading for its cave with unstoppable momentum!!
"BOOM!!"
In the blink of an eye, the Dark Blood Tiger moved, teleporting out of the massive, gloomy cavern!
The terrifying saber light instantly sliced the Dark Blood Tiger's cave into two smooth halves as if it were tofu!!
Instantly, the cave collapsed, and countless fragments of rock rained down!
Even more horrifying, the immensely powerful Saber Qi had actually carved a massive, abyss-like fissure over a hundred zhang deep into the ground beneath the cave!!!
Having flashed outside the cave,
"ROAR!!"
"Human, you deserve to die!!"
Seeing this, the Dark Blood Tiger, entirely pitch-black with crimson eyes, roared in fury. It then erupted with terrifying True Essence Demon Power, condensing hundreds of blood-red energy orbs, each several dozen zhang in size, from the surrounding void.
The True Essence Demon Power emanating from the terrifying blood orbs seemed to make the very void tremble!!
Then, they blotted out the sky as they surged toward Gu Yun!!
'It dodged?'
'Huh! It can even talk?'
Gu Yun, standing tall in the void, was slightly surprised.
Generally speaking,
Demon Beasts can only speak human language after reaching the Tongxuan Realm level and comprehending the Heaven and Earth Dao Rhythm.
At the very least, one would need to be at the True Martial Realm Ninth Layer Peak or higher to have even a slight chance of doing so.
This Dark Blood Tiger before him was only at the True Martial Realm Seventh Layer in terms of its Cultivation, yet the attack it unleashed was at the level of the True Martial Realm Eighth Layer!!
However,
before him,
it was still too weak!!
'This time,
I'll finish it in one slash!!'
Gu Yun watched expressionlessly as the hundreds of crimson energy orbs below, glowing like meteors from beyond the heavens, blotted out the sky and surged toward him!!
He took a step forward, and ripples spread through the void.
Then, a sharp glint of light flashed in Gu Yun's eyes, as if to sunder the heavens,
accompanied by an astonishing Saber Qi that erupted, soaring into the sky!
"Starfire Spreads!!"
The temperature of the surrounding void suddenly spiked. Boundless flames surged forth, coiling around the Flame Soul Thunder Saber.
The terrifying flames distorted the void, threatening to melt and burn right through it!!
The next instant,
Gu Yun slashed down fiercely—Starfire Spreads, Flaming Meteor Fall!
A beam of Starfire Saber Light ignited,
then spread across the entire sky.
Endless sparks of fire gathered, and the entire dark, gloomy sky above the Wanyou Mountain Range seemed about to completely ignite, turning into a vast sea of crimson fire!!
From within the sky's seemingly endless sea of fire,
the most brilliant beam of saber light descended as if from beyond the cosmos.
It incinerated the void and blasted the sky, suddenly generating a vast and boundless aura.
It then slashed down fiercely at the hundreds of star-like energy orbs surging up from below!!
"BOOM!!!"
The tyrannical flame saber light violently collided with the hundreds of crimson energy orbs, causing the entire world to erupt in a blindingly brilliant light.
It was like a rising sun, instantly illuminating every corner of this dim world!!
The surrounding void then shattered like broken glass, and pitch-black spatial fissures—so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face—seemed to emerge,
emitting an incredibly terrifying astral wind that would strike fear into anyone's heart!!
The entire valley shook violently under the powerful aftershocks, as if the earth dragon was turning over!!
"SWOOSH!!"
The moment it collided with the crimson energy orbs,
the incomparably tyrannical flame saber light instantly annihilated all hundred-plus energy orbs.
It then tore through the air and incinerated the heavens,
like a tyrannical Saber Qi slashing down from beyond the cosmos, piercing through heaven and earth as it chopped straight toward the Dark Blood Tiger!!
'I never expected my opponent to be this strong!'
'My ultimate Demon Technique was incinerated in a mere moment!!'
The Dark Blood Tiger's crimson pupils widened. It saw the incomparably tyrannical flame saber light tear through the sky, crushing down on it like a blazing sun.
A powerful Saber Momentum seemed to lock onto it from the void, leaving it with no escape!
"ROAR!"
With a ferocious roar, the Dark Blood Tiger condensed a crimson Blood Shield of True Essence Demon Qi in an attempt to block the terrifying flame Saber Qi!!
"BANG!"
But in the end, it had underestimated this flame Saber Qi that could incinerate the void.
The instant the flame Saber Qi hit the shield, it shattered it with the ease of crushing dry weeds.
Then, before the Dark Blood Tiger's terrified eyes, the terrifying flame saber light sliced its massive beastly body in two like a hot knife through bamboo!!
The attack continued through its body, carving a hideous, abyss-like fissure a hundred zhang long into the earth below.
Before the residual Saber Qi imbued with Saber Momentum, the surrounding rubble instantly disintegrated into dust!!