Chapter 6: Unyielding Killing Intent

Qing Wugui raised his black sword and dashed forward, aiming straight at Yang Tianqi.
Undoubtedly, facing a stronger opponent like Yang Tianqi, who was one rank higher, Qing Wugui would not hold back at all. As soon as he drew his sword, he unleashed a crushing killing intent, which, combined with his true energy, made it even more lethal.
True energy, twisted and mysterious—pressuring with intent!
Yang Tianqi’s eyes lit up. He hadn’t expected that after obtaining the “Asura Demon Manual,” Qing Wugui had already mastered a form of killing intent.
“Interesting. You’ve mastered a killing intent. It’s a shame your realm is too low—it’s still useless,” Yang Tianqi said with a smile.
Immediately, Yang Tianqi swung his Earth Dragon Sword lightly, and a soil dragon appeared in front, pushing Qing Wugui away.
At the later stage of the Yuan Ying phase and the early stage of exiting the body, with one rank difference, Qing Wugui’s true energy and killing intent couldn’t pose much of a threat to Yang Tianqi. Moreover, Yang Tianqi had the inferior spiritual weapon, the Earth Dragon Sword, whose powerful spells were indeed beyond Qing Wugui’s ability to resist.
Qing Wugui was flung far away but quickly stood back up, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth. His gaze sharpened once more, his killing intent intensifying.
“Pressuring a thousand armies!” Qing Wugui suddenly shouted, invoking the killing technique he had mastered.
Immediately afterward, he leaped into the air, inverted his body, and his black sword began vibrating continuously, emitting a thousand strands of true energy. These energies transformed into a thousand tiny black knives, each carrying a terrifying pressure and killing aura that filled people with fear. All these knives, combined into a thousand waves of pressure, were sent at Yang Tianqi at once.
“Trivial tricks!” Yang Tianqi sneered again upon seeing Qing Wugui’s attack from the air.
Without further delay, he retracted his Earth Dragon Sword into his body, raised his hands, and created a soil barrier between them, which expanded rapidly.
The thousand tiny black knives struck the soil barrier with a loud thud, exploding violently to form a cloud of black mist that quickly dispersed.
“Well? My hands reaching toward the sky easily shattered your spells, didn’t they?” Yang Tianqi smiled, looking down at Qing Wugui in the air, his contempt fully evident.
Qing Wugui’s expression grew even colder, his fighting spirit intensifying, as if he himself were about to turn into a sword of killing intent.
Meanwhile, Qu Yi, Mu Han, Bai Man, and Wu Yuan watched anxiously as Qing Wugui struggled, especially Mu Han, whose eyes were filled with tears as she wanted to rush over to help right away.

“Mu Han, there’s no need to rush. Wu Qing is currently focused on gathering his killing intent. If you go now and distract him, you’ll disrupt this rare state of mind.” Seeing Mu Han’s expression, Qu Yi immediately sent a mental message to stop her. Although she understood Qu Yi’s intention, Mu Han was still anxious and distressed, but she didn’t try to offer any help. Meanwhile, that guy Wu Yuan continued to gently flap his Peng wings, his dragon head swaying as he carefreeedly admired the scenery of the island. At that moment, Yang Tianqi, who was standing on the treetop, took off and said with a smile, “Qing Wu Gui, you’ve hit me several times without success. Now it’s my turn.” After saying that, Yang Tianqi’s expression turned cold as he picked up the Earth Dragon Sword again and flew straight toward Qing Wu Gui. “Earth Dragon Bind!” Yang Tianqi shouted violently. An Earth Dragon formed from his vital energy suddenly appeared and immediately wrapped around Qing Wu Gui, tightening its grip more and more, trying to crush him to death. Clearly, Yang Tianqi was confident he could defeat Qing Wu Gui and planned to toy with him first before capturing him. Surrounded by the Earth Dragon, Qing Wu Gui instantly realized he couldn’t release any of his vital energy, and his body was rapidly shrinking under the pressure. Yet, under such extreme pressure, he discovered that the outline of the Asura Heart within him was becoming visible, as if he could see its form internally. Taking advantage of the formation of this Asura Heart, Qing Wu Gui concentrated all his killing intent, just as if transforming spiritual energy into a pill. His killing intent burst forth and shot outward, miraculously splitting the Earth Dragon in two. As soon as the Earth Dragon was destroyed, Qing Wu Gui took out a spirit talisman—the Rift Wind Talisman. This was one of the talismans he had obtained after splitting them with Qu Yi in their spirit talisman cave. With the power of a mid-stage Outward Manifestation talisman, once activated, it created layered gusts of wind in the air. Each layer of wind could split space, forming tiny cracks. Yang Tianqi panicked and immediately activated his Earth Dragon Armor to cover his entire body. Those dozens of layers of wind hit the Earth Dragon Armor, producing a hissing sound as they severely cut at it, but failed to break through it. However, the space cracks created by the wind layers left fissures on the Earth Dragon Armor. This required Yang Tianqi to expend a great deal of his vital energy to prevent the armor from breaking.

The Rift Wind Talisman lasted for a while before disappearing, while Yang Tianqi remained unharmed. Yet, despite being safe, Yang Tianqi looked utterly disheveled, having expended a great deal of his vital energy. Thus, his gaze toward Qing Wugui was filled with hatred.

“So, you, a late-stage Yuan Ying, dare to challenge me because you have a powerful spirit talisman. Unfortunately, you miscalculated—I wear the Earth Dragon Armor, which you can never break through. Now, I don’t want to torture you alive anymore; I want you to die immediately,” Qing Wugui shouted coldly. Clearly, the attack from the spirit talisman had fully ignited his rage.

Without saying a word, Qing Wugui immediately grabbed his black sword and thrust it at Yang Tianqi again.

Even angrier, Yang Tianqi wielded his Earth Dragon Sword and charged at the black sword. The blades met head-on, and the black vital energy clashed with the Earth energy, sending Qing Wugui flying.

“You, a late-stage Yuan Ying, still dare to compete with me in vital energy? How overconfident. Now, let me end you,” Yang Tianqi roared.

Before Qing Wugui could steady himself, Yang Tianqi flew over and thrust his Earth Dragon Sword sharply at his dantian.

Qing Wugui suddenly dropped low, lifting his black sword to deflect the attack, thus avoiding this fatal strike. However, using the “Startled Goose” movement this time also drained much of his vital energy, worsening his injuries.

Yang Tianqi was momentarily stunned, not expecting Qing Wugui to have such a move, but he quickly recovered and flew down again, delivering another fierce strike with his Earth Dragon Sword.

This strike contained immense Earth energy, with the blade glowing intensely yellow.

Qing Wugui knew this strike was powerful, and with little vital energy left, he could hardly block it again. But the reason he wanted to fight Yang Tianqi to the death was precisely for this moment—he wanted Yang Tianqi to force him to constantly push himself, helping him grasp another form of killing intent.

“Suppressed killing intent, merged with vital energy—block with all my might!”

In desperation, Qing Wugui concentrated all his vital energy into his black sword, focusing his mind entirely on it, as well as his suppressed killing intent.

A palm-sized black sphere emerged from the sword, blocking the Earth Dragon Sword. The black vital energy and Earth energy collided violently, creating a swirling gust of wind.

With no vital energy left, Qing Wugui stood there, pale and trembling.

Yang Tianqi was stunned once again—his move had been blocked by Qing Wu Gui once more, causing him great embarrassment. It was humiliating to have to fight back and forth several times against someone at the early stage of exiting the body while attacking someone at the late stage of the Yuan Ying stage.

“Qing Wu Gui, I didn’t expect that after years apart, you’ve improved so much. It seems the Asura Demon Scripture has played a significant role in your cultivation. Good. Since you’re about to die, I’ll take the scripture and study it thoroughly.” Yang Tianqi sneered in anger before speaking casually.

Since Qing Wu Gui had lost all his vital energy, Yang Tianqi wasn’t afraid he would escape, so he naturally couldn’t resist mocking him to save some face.

At that moment, Qing Wu Gui’s trembling body suddenly froze, as if he had merged completely with nature, sensing some rule of the surrounding space. Various energies began gathering within him.

Yang Tianqi was shocked. He realized a crisis—Qing Wu Gui might be absorbing energy and could even break through to the early stage of exiting the body right away.

“Hmph! I’ll seal off this space and see how you’ll absorb energy,” Yang Tianqi snapped in anger.

In an instant, Yang Tianqi sent his Yuan Ying outside his body, making it appear above his head. Then, with a hand gesture, the entire space formed a yellow hemisphere, blocking all external energies.

Inside the hemisphere, Qing Wu Gui suddenly opened his eyes, emitting a strange killing aura.

“Yang Tianqi, thank you. By depleting my vital energy and my oppressive killing intent, you’ve allowed me to finally comprehend the ‘Irreversible Killing Intent,’” Qing Wu Gui said with a smile.

The Irreversible Killing Intent meant striking with a single sword and never returning—only by killing everyone under heaven could one find peace of mind.

“Qing Wu Gui, what does it matter that you’ve comprehended it? You’re now in my vital energy space. If I want to kill you, it takes just a thought,” Yang Tianqi sneered.

Indeed, although Qing Wu Gui had grasped the Irreversible Killing Intent and his Asura Heart had grown stronger, without being able to absorb spiritual energy, he couldn’t transform it into vital energy, making it impossible for him to resist any magical attacks.

“Hehe, Yang Tianqi, I may lack vital energy, but my brothers do,” Qing Wu Gui said calmly.

Yang Tianqi immediately glanced at Qu Yi and noticed that Qu Yi had already drawn a jade sword, filled with vital energy.

That’s right. Guided by the Spirit of Weapons, Qu Yi realized that Qing Wu Gui had finally broken through under pressure, so he took out the jade sword to help him.

Qu Yi poured all the combined vital energy from the dantian, the metal-type vital energy from the lungs, the wood-type vital energy from the liver, the water-type vital energy from the kidneys, the fire-type vital energy from the heart, and the earth-type vital energy from the spleen into the jade sword. With a swing of the sword, a stream of light as wide as a person rushed straight into Yang Tianqi’s body. Yang Tianqi confidently activated his Earth Dragon Armor, but in the next moment, he was filled with terror as he realized that the stream of light had broken through the armor and entered his body, destroying everything inside. “All directions…” Yang Tianqi exclaimed in shock, before his entire body shattered.