Watch out! Something's wrong with this guard.

"That's not necessarily true!" Lu Yunshi smiled faintly, his body swaying, and the two figures crossed paths several times in an instant.

"What? Is that all you've got?" Li Qing leaped forward and charged toward Lu Yunshi, brandishing his sword and shouting fiercely.

Before he finished speaking, Lu Yunshi retreated and dodged to the side. He swung his sword down, but missed. However, Lu Yunshi did not stop. Instead, he used the force of the falling sword to leap up, his spiritual energy surging and his aura becoming extraordinary.

He moved like a ghost, his sword summoning a whirlwind to intercept the wind's force. His speed was so fast that it was difficult to react. In the blink of an eye, the sword was already in front of him. If Li Qing hadn't been constantly vigilant, he probably would have been cut in two.

Looking at the dozens of meters of sword marks left where the sword wind landed, Li Qing was secretly shocked. He had already overestimated this cultivator who was possessed by the old man, and even took out the weapon that he had not used in the previous battle with Lu Yunxi and the others, but he did not expect that the opponent would still be so troublesome.

The next second, Li Qing charged out again, his long sword glowing with blood, triggering the eruption of the strange spiritual energy within his body, and the entire mountaintop instantly became much colder.

However, at that moment, Li Qing noticed that the sword in Lu Yunshi's hand had somehow turned into a longbow. He was stunned for a moment, but the other party had already shot an arrow.

The arrows, wreathed in surging spiritual energy, were like swooping eagles, moving with incredible ferocity. In the blink of an eye, they reached Li Qing. Helpless, Li Qing could only raise his sword to defend, but even as he deflected the arrows, he still managed to unleash several bursts of blood energy.

Upon seeing this, Lu Yunshi's expression hardened. He took a few quick steps backward, simultaneously throwing out several talismans. The talismans exploded in mid-air, scattering smoke and dust that obscured Li Qing's reaction.

Li Qing felt a sense of foreboding, because just now, his spiritual sense had failed to detect Lu Yunshi's presence, though this feeling only lasted for a moment.

The next instant, Lu Yunshi reappeared within his perception range, right... behind him?

With a whooshing sound, Lu Yunshi swung his fist and smashed it hard into Li Qing's face. Li Qing slightly turned his body and at the same time swung his sword. The blade flashed with a cold light and broke through Lu Yunshi's body, leaving only an afterimage.

Li Qing was shocked. He sensed Lu Yunshi's presence beside him again, but this time he didn't have time to react and was sent flying by a punch.

"Really tough!" Seeing Li Qing quickly get up from the ground with a livid face, Lu Yunshi smiled slightly, tore off the talisman that had been used to conceal his aura, which had already expired, and with a flick of his hand, he gripped his sword again.

"But is this all the strength you have in your proud and complacent world? That's quite disappointing."

Upon hearing this, Li Qing couldn't help but sneer, but the sneer quickly turned into a chilling killing intent.

"die!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the strange spiritual energy covered Li Qing's entire body, greatly increasing his power, which far exceeded the aura that Lu Yunshi was currently displaying. Even so, Lu Yunshi remained unmoved, only gripping the sword hilt tightly with both hands, pointing the sword forward.

"Then let me see just how capable you really are, the former chief disciple of the Iron Mountain Sect?"

Li Qing rushed forward, and strange spiritual energy surged forth, emitting evil sounds like ghostly howls. Lu Yunshi was momentarily dazed upon hearing the sound, but with Zhang Tieshan's assistance, he suppressed the effects of the strange spiritual energy once again.

At this moment, Li Qing charged in with his sword, his evil light blazing forth, piercing through the air for a hundred meters, and slashing down with unstoppable force. Although his aura was still not up to the Mountain Moving Realm, it was already far beyond the Spirit Gathering Extreme Realm that Zhang Tieshan had previously claimed to be.

Lu Yunshi's eyes narrowed, and his spiritual energy surged, deflecting the sword with a strange trajectory.

Li Qing was surprised for a moment upon seeing this, but Lu Yunshi naturally wouldn't let any opportunity slip by. With a slight thought, his longsword rose and moved accordingly.

Suddenly, an immense force descended from the sky, entered the sword, and transformed into icy chill that swept across the mountaintop.

At this moment, every movement of Lu Yunshi carried immense power. He quickly stepped forward, carrying the power of frost and snow generated by his own will, and his power exploded in an instant, turning his sword into a blur as he charged out.

"Emperor Ice Sword Technique - Heavenly Frost White Light".

Hearing Lu Yunshi's soft murmur, Li Qing opened his eyes wide, but in the next second, he took a step, and more strange spiritual energy burst out of his body. His figure quickly flashed and disappeared from the spot in an instant.

collapse!

Lu Yunshi swung his sword but missed, but the fierce white frost did not stop. It swept in all directions along the sword's edge, and in a short while, it covered the mountaintop with a layer of white.

Then, seven sword energies spread from the snow, leaving seven sword marks ten meters deep on the mountaintop. Upon closer inspection, a faint chill still lingered around the sword marks.

This move is powerful and stylish, but some people are not satisfied with it.

"Hey! Kid, is this how you use your energy? It's easy for me to help you absorb spiritual energy, right? If you keep fighting like this, we'll be out of energy in less than two minutes!" Zhang Tieshan shouted angrily at Lu Yunshi.

"Haha! Sorry, sorry, I just couldn't help it, and...didn't we already achieve the result?" Lu Yunshi apologized insincerely, then suddenly noticed a crack on the sword and couldn't help but sigh. However, thinking about the attack just now, he became happy again.

He practiced the Emperor Ice Sword Technique for a long time but still couldn't break through. However, every time he practiced the Emperor Ice Sword Technique, he inexplicably felt that he could take another step forward. However, every time he tried, he was enveloped by the biting cold air and could only give up helplessly in the end.

It felt like seeing a road ahead, but being unable to cross it.

For a long time, he wondered if he had made a mistake in the process. Then he went to find Shangguan Yue. He remembered that Shangguan Yue had a very strange expression at that time, but in the end she just said indifferently that the time was not yet up.

'So that's what it means? To move forward further, you need to become stronger.'

Lu Yunshi thought to himself, but he didn't expect that his first attempt would be so successful in executing the first sword of the Emperor Ice Sword Technique.

At this moment, a noise reached his ears. Lu Yunshi focused his mind and looked over. He saw Li Qing standing up on the white frost on the ground. His long sword was now only half intact. He stared at Lu Yunshi with a ferocious expression, twisted his neck, and his injuries began to heal rapidly.

"Bastard!"

Li Qing shouted angrily, and was about to make a move, but found that Lu Yunshi looked very relaxed.

"You had a lot of fun fighting, didn't you? I had a lot of fun too. It felt like unlocking a lock and unleashing all the power that I thought I could have but couldn't unleash. But having fun is one thing, but you also have to pay attention to the key things."

Lu Yunshi smiled slightly as he spoke, looking at the blood-red sphere that no one had noticed.

That thing seemed to be made of pure alien energy, specifically designed to break through formations. If the alien energy within it were released, it would likely cause terrifying consequences. Therefore, in the previous battles, Lu Yunxi and the others simply ignored it.

However, because of Zhang Tieshan's appearance, Lu Yunshi knew that this thing was the key. He glanced at Li Qing with a mocking look, then flashed and came to the front of the blood-red sphere. Li Qing felt that something was wrong and immediately rushed forward. A huge amount of strange spiritual energy burst out from his body, trying to shake Lu Yunshi away.

Lu Yunshi moved with incredible speed. He quickly took out the Blood-Activating Vine and the Spirit-Suppressing Flower, which he had picked during this mission but had not used, and then quickly crushed them and threw them onto the blood sphere.

"No!" Li Qing was furious upon seeing this, and his frenzied aura shook the entire mountaintop.

At this moment, the shattered runes floating above the mountaintop began to repair themselves, and the nearly broken formation regained its effectiveness.

"Lu...Yunshi!!!"

The frantic shouts reached our ears again. Li Qing was enveloped in a thick aura of strange energy, his eyes were wide open, and his face was almost distorted, making him look less than human.

Even with Zhang Tieshan's protection, Lu Yunshi was still affected by the other party's powerful aura. The strange spiritual energy that had been suppressed but dispelled within his body began to gradually become active. However, he was not in a hurry. Instead, he looked at the other party with a playful tone and smiled.

"Seeing you like this, I know I did the right thing."