Mysterious mirror hanging high

Li Ping'er was just a Jindan cultivator who had not yet condensed her Nascent Soul. The head of her Dharma body was still a vital point. She was strangled by the sudden sword energy and died instantly.

This change happened so quickly that almost no one in the room reacted. Guan Qing, the butler, stared at Li Ping'er's slowly falling headless body, making an unintelligible tearing sound in his throat, and said with wide eyes:

"Li...Master Li..."

"Guan Lingxiao...you!"

Guan Lingxiao, who seemed to have been poisoned, slowly stood up from his supine position. He took back the black cloth and covered his eyes, which were covered with gray clouds. He sneered:

"Poison? This is just something I used to play with when I was ten..."

"[Green Blood Condensing Marrow and Eroding Essence Fragrance] is made by extracting the venom glands of the Green Blood Toad and grinding them with the [Blood Marrow Flower]. For half a minute, the victim's true essence will stagnate as if filled with lead and mercury. From the Yuzhen acupoint to the Yongquan acupoint, they will gradually experience pain as if thousands of ants are gnawing at their marrow. This will not only deplete their magical power, but also affect their physical body, leaving the victim paralyzed and limp as mud."

"Old man, am I right?"

Guan Qing was only a cultivator at the early stage of the Golden Core stage. Li Ping'er had only previously fed him an antidote. How could he possibly know anything about [Green Blood Coagulating Marrow and Corroding Essence Fragrance]? He was simply stunned upon hearing this.

Guan Lingxiao continued, "This poisonous fragrance isn't pungent. If you encounter it, just treat it as ordinary incense. It's also effective for Jindan cultivators, so it's hard to guard against..."

"It's a pity that since I dared to travel alone to the Demonic Land, how could I not be prepared? During the month of seclusion, I had already tried hundreds of strange poisons of the Tiannan Demonic Path and even developed various countermeasures. Otherwise, how could I defend against the treacherous tactics of you demonic villains?"

"Everyone says that True Lord Suying is as pensive as the abyss, yet the disciple he accepted is a fool... He has no physical cultivation skills, and doesn't practice the way of flesh and blood, yet he's only an inch away from being a sword cultivator... This late Jindan cultivator's cultivation skills are wasted!"

What Guan Lingxiao said was quite true. Logically speaking, with Li Ping'er's cultivation level at the late stage of the upper-grade golden elixir, if she had fought normally, even if Guan Lingxiao was a peerless swordsman whose elixir had turned into gold and purple, it would not have been difficult for her to defeat him because her cultivation level was still low and there were two small realms between them. However, she trusted the poison incense in her hand too much, which led to a misjudgment. When she approached Guan Lingxiao, she was completely defenseless and was eventually ambushed by the sword energy emitted from Guan Lingxiao's eyes.

Guan Lingxiao was still a young man at heart, and at this moment he was secretly proud of himself: "I was in the early stage of the Golden Core stage, but I only had to strike a single blow. This kind of achievement is probably only seen once in a thousand years. When I return to the sect, I will definitely brag about it to my master and give him face..."

Little did he know that his master was currently hiding underground, looking stunned. "That Li Ping'er seemed ready to deal with him, so I thought he would at most subdue her. Who would have thought he would be struck by two supreme sword energies?"

The ill-fated love affair between the wanton witch and the righteous swordsman just touched Jing Yu's heart. He was originally prepared to see a drama of infatuated men and resentful women, and at the very least there would be a tug of war between the two. Unexpectedly, Guan Lingxiao did not play by the rules, which made his original expectations come to nothing.

"This kid is too ignorant of romance..."

Guan Lingxiao slowly turned to Guan Qing and curled his lips: "You are the only one left..."

"Butler Yunchuan's swordsmanship is a family tradition, and you are considered a swordsman, yet you are willing to be a lackey of the devil... You deserve to be killed!"

Guan Qing was shocked and angry: "I am your great-great-grandfather..."

Guan Lingxiao was too lazy to talk nonsense with him. He raised the wooden sword in his hand. The tip of the sword was surrounded by a strong wind, and it seemed that sword energy was surging.

Guan Qing knew that Guan Lingxiao would not hold back when he saw this. He dodged and leaped to the side of Qi Xuan, who was lying limp on the ground. He grabbed her wrist, pulled Qi Xuan in front of him, and said sternly:

"Guan Lingxiao! If you dare take another step forward, your lover's life will be in danger!"

Qi Xuan was suddenly met with misfortune and was nearly sold to be a demon cultivator's cauldron. But then the situation took a surprising turn. Guan Lingxiao appeared but was poisoned, and then he killed Li Ping'er. This series of reversals happened so quickly that Qi Xuan's heart was in turmoil and she couldn't help herself.

Now seeing that he was being controlled by others again and being used by this old man to threaten Guan Lingxiao, Qi Xuan was so excited that he almost blurted out:

"Don't worry about me, just worry about Lingxiao! How can a dignified heir of the Sword Pavilion be controlled by others? Draw your sword!"

Guan Lingxiao's mouth twitched, and he raised the wooden sword in his hand. Suddenly, the sword energy was everywhere, and an extremely sharp sword energy pierced Qi Xuan and Guan Qing directly!

"Guan Lingxiao, your uncle..." Qi Xuan saw that Guan Lingxiao held back almost nothing and didn't even consider the relationship between them. With the sword energy approaching, his blood surged between life and death, and he couldn't help but curse.

Guan Qing was also shocked. He only thought that Kan Huashi and Qi Xuan were Guan Lingxiao's confidantes, but he didn't know that this kid was so cruel. If he didn't dodge, this sword energy would definitely crush him and Qi Xuan into pieces. In desperation, he had to throw Qi Xuan to hit the sword energy, and then he dodged sideways.

But just when the sword energy was about to hit Qi Xuan, it suddenly turned, passed by Qi Xuan's side, and stabbed towards Guan Qing at a faster speed.

Guan Qing had been immersed in swordsmanship for hundreds of years, but he had never heard that the sword energy could turn. He was unable to react in time, and the sword energy approached him. Countless tiny sword beams split and crushed his entire body into pieces, leaving only his head, which still retained a trace of consciousness.

As the old butler lay dying, the head that remained spoke with difficulty, muttering:

"What kind of sword power is this?"

The sword energy that had shattered Guan Qing's body was recalled by Guan Lingxiao and returned to the wooden sword. Upon hearing this, the blind boy simply said:

"[Rootless, Formless, and Intangible Sword Qi]."

Guan Qing forced a smile: "Excellent swordsmanship, excellent magical powers..."

"I, Steward Yunchuan, have this Sword Immortal seed, and there will be someone to succeed me..."

After saying that, the head hanging in the air fell to the ground with a "bang", rolled a few times, and then became silent.

"Okay, Guan Lingxiao, you really don't hesitate at all when I ask you to draw your sword..."

Qi Xuan had just come close to death, and she was still in shock. She reluctantly raised her hand and gave Guan Lingxiao a thumbs-up: "You are this!"

"If I don't draw my sword decisively, that old fellow will think he has succeeded and will become even more aggressive, and you will be in great danger. On the contrary, if I kill him with such a clean and decisive sword strike, he will know that he cannot be coerced, and you will have a chance to survive." Guan Lingxiao said with a smile.

"You seem to be very confident in yourself...Are you really not afraid of being killed by my sword?" Qi Xuan said unhappily.

"The worst that can happen to me is to avenge you." Guan Lingxiao rolled his eyes.

Kan Huashi, standing by, asked curiously, "Junior Brother Guan, this is the first time I've heard of a Jindan sword cultivator's sword energy being able to twist and turn. Isn't this a technique only possessed by Yuanying-level sword cultivators? How did you do it?"

Guan Lingxiao was about to reply when his expression suddenly changed:

"Oh no! Someone's coming!"