Chapter 109 - Destroying the Xuan Yuan Family (2/2)

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So her real name was — Yi Qing!

Meanwhile, Shen Ying, who was not far off:

Ah choo…

Why did she suddenly feel shortchanged?

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Xuan Yuan Family.

The whole city was in a bleak and desperate situation. The array formation protecting the city had been breached. All that was left of the city were broken tiles and walls. The previously clean streets were now dyed red with blood from slain cultivators, whose bodies lay strewn all over the ground. The bodies in better condition had parts missing; most of the others had disintegrated into ashes.

Once the most prosperous immortal city, it had now become a dead city. The only place that still had signs of life was at the Xuan Yuan Family estate. Xuan Yuanyu was leading a group of traveling immortals to defend their array formation against their attackers. Inside the formation were a few hundred disciples and city residents who had managed to escape the massacre.

Yi Qing stood outside the formation with his sword, his whole body covered in blood. However, he still stood erect and unyielding, his head raised towards the sky.

Six men, all clad in white, stood suspended in the sky, their bodies surrounded by the glow of immortal Qi. They looked down with contempt at the group of people below as though looking at a bunch of dead animals. All except for the foremost immortal.

This immortal was holding onto his arm with his other hand. Blood dripped from his fingers. Clearly he was injured. Frowning, he looked angrily down at Yi Qing.

“I never expected to find such a formidable sword cultivator in this realm. You actually broke through my protective Immortal Qi.” Another immortal commented tauntingly, “Yan Yu, you have failed miserably this time.”

The injured immortal’s expression darkened, and he looked with increasing anger at Yi Qing. He said with a sneer, “Hmmph, he merely broke through my Immortal Qi. How can a weak cultivator like him defeat me?”

With that, he directed all his suppressing aura towards the cultivators below. Yi Qing’s expression darkened as he used his sword to support his swaying body. He could taste the blood in his mouth. Xuan Yuanyu and his group of men behind defending the array were even more badly affected— blood spewed from their mouths. The array formation showed signs of collapsing.

Yi Qing sensed the immense power of these immortals. Even those traveling immortals at the pagoda were insignificant compared to these men. He had used all his energy but managed only to break through the Immortal Qi of his opponent, and that was a one-on-one fight. The other immortals had not even showed their hand.

“I think you’re all taking far too long to deal with this group of ants.” An impatient immortal on the far right urged, “Stop this nonsense. Kill them all. We still have other places to clean up.”

He raised his hand to conjure a hand seal. Immediately, the Immortal Qi around his body surged towards the cultivators below.

On seeing this, the expression of an immortal at the back of the group changed. Rushing forwards, he grabbed the immortal who was conjuring the hand seal. “Hold it!”

“Luan Xu, why are you getting in my way?” The immortal turned and glared at him angrily.

Luan Xu hesitated for a moment. Some unknown emotion briefly flickered across his eyes.

Smiling, he answered, “Fellow Immortal, we rarely descend to this realm, surely we can take our time to deal with them?”

“Take our time?” The immortal snorted, “Our orders from His Excellency were to clean up this realm within six hours. Are you trying to defy orders?”

“No… Of course not.” Luan Xu paused as he tried to think of a suitable reply. Glancing at the group of mortals below from the corner of his eye he answered, “I just think that as a Mystic Immortal, you don’t need to deal with these insignificant mortals personally. Such small matters can be handed over to us Golden Immortals.”

“You lot?” The Mystic Immortal snorted in derision. “A quarter of an hour has passed but Yan Yu hasn’t even managed to take down this ant from the lower realm. Letting you useless bunch handle this matter is a pure waste of time. Golden Immortals are indeed useless.”

“You…” Yan Yu’s face flushed in anger. He was about to confront his senior but then a thought crossed his mind and he held back.

The Mystic Immortal snorted and once again raised his hand to conjure a seal but Luan Xu once again blocked him, saying, “Wait a moment!”

“Luan Xu, what’s wrong with you today?” The Mystic Immortal’s face darkened in anger. A thought crossed his mind and he looked at Luan Xu with suspicion. “You were also the one who suggested that Yan Yu handle it alone. Are you thinking of letting these mortals go because they are core cultivators like you?”

“Definitely not!” Luan Xu refuted him immediately.

The Mystic Immortal swept his gaze over him, then snorted coldly, “You better not! Don’t defy His Excellency’s orders just because of your background. No one can leave this realm alive.”

“Of course I won’t.” Pursing his lips, Luan Xu looked down at the people below. “I just feel that this sword cultivator is really annoying. He dares to stand up to us and even injured Immortal Yan Yu. I want to see what stuff he’s made of. Why don’t you leave this person to me?”

Then, without waiting for a reply, Luan Xu rushed forwards with his sword, as if he could not wait to show his loyalty.

Yi Qing once again felt the suppressing aura of Immortal Qi. Gripping his sword tightly, he activated the Spirit Qi in his entire body. Just as he was about to gear up for battle, his ear picked up the low voice of someone speaking to him through voice transmission.

“Attack my right hip, then escape using the transportation talisman!”

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