A leisurely life in the world of cultivation

Chapter 216 Immortal Spirit Venerable

Qingshui City arrived in an instant.

As he traveled eastward, Li Weizhou slaughtered all the criminals along the way.

Beneath the collapsed city gate of Qingshui City, black miasma coiled around the broken walls like a swarm of snakes. Three dark figures stood in the center of the miasma, each exuding an extremely gloomy aura.

These were the three Spirit God Realm criminals who had previously killed Xuan Yangzi on the city wall.

Li Weizhou didn't know why they had stopped and weren't chasing after the people who had fled Qingshui City, but instead stayed here.

He also didn't want to know.

The Five Elements Divine Sword, carrying the light of exorcism, pierced straight into the old sinner with his eyes completely white. The sword was as fast as lightning, but unexpectedly, the opponent did not dodge or evade. Instead, he suddenly stretched his left arm across his body.

"clang!"

The sword light struck the sinner's arm, producing a crisp metallic clang. The opponent's skin was deep black, covered with a layer of greasy black miasma. The sword light only made a shallow cut on it, and the black blood that had just seeped out was instantly enveloped by the miasma. The wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Hehehe! I knew you, this arrogant little brat from the lower realm, would come here to die. Without that broken formation, what are you anyway?"

The old man from the Sin Clan grinned maliciously, then threw the bone staff aside and took out a nine-section bone whip.

This nine-section bone whip is as lustrous as jade, completely unlike what a sinful clan would use.

Li Weizhou was unaware that each section of this bone whip was made from the brow bone of a powerful human being.

However, it doesn’t matter anymore.

Ever since he obtained the small sword, he has been immersed in sword intent at all times.

His sword intent cultivation had long since reached a level of perfection, but he had never had a chance to use it.

Today, let's start with these three old geezers.

With a flick of his fingertips, Li Weizhou's Five Elements Divine Sword suddenly hummed and trembled. It was no longer the thin stream of sword light it had been before, but transformed into a five-colored sword wave over ten feet wide, sweeping across the broken wall. This sword did not go straight for the sinful elder whose eyes were covered in white dust, but instead first slashed at the black miasma entangled at the city gate.

These black miasmas will create the most comfortable environment for the Sin Clan during battle, greatly increasing their combat power.

Wherever the sword wave passed, the black miasma receded to both sides like a tide, leaving a sword mark half a foot deep on the ground. Even the broken stones on the ruined wall were shaved into dust by the sword energy, revealing the bluish-gray city bricks underneath.

"Insanity!"

Seeing this, the elder of the Sin Clan slammed his nine-section bone whip into the ground. Each section of his brow bone glowed with a dark light, and countless tiny black miasma sword energies shot out from the bone whip, raining down on Li Weizhou.

These sword energies carried the resentment of powerful human beings, making them more poisonous than ordinary corrosive forces. When they touched a broken wall, they could carve out black holes.

Li Weizhou slightly raised his left arm, and the Five Elements Divine Sword in his palm hummed and trembled.

The life force of wood and the cleansing power of water on the sword erupted simultaneously, condensing into a pale green sword curtain in front of him.

The black miasma sword energy struck the sword curtain, producing a crisp "sizzling" sound. Instead of penetrating, it was neutralized by the spiritual energy within the sword curtain, turning into wisps of black smoke and dissipating into the air.

This is a battle between life and death.

In terms of quality, the life force that Li Weizhou obtained from the Jianmu Divine Tree is ten thousand times more noble than these ancestors of black miasma and death!
He took the opportunity to step forward, and his sword intent surged suddenly, condensing into a transparent sword wheel above his head.

As the sword wheel spun, countless wisps of sword energy spread outwards. The sharp sword intent caused the cultivators of Qingshui City, who were hiding behind the broken wall in the distance, to clench their magical artifacts tightly.

too strong!
too strong!
"What kind of sword intent is this?!"

The sinner wielding the black bone sword could no longer contain himself and lunged at Li Weizhou's left side. His refined physical body swelled up, and the black bone sword was covered with a three-inch-thick layer of black miasma, which condensed into a black sword pillar as he slashed out, striking Li Weizhou's left shoulder directly.

This sword strike forced Xuan Yangzi to dodge in a sorry state; ordinary Spirit God Realm cultivators simply couldn't withstand it.

Li Weizhou didn't even turn his head, but simply made a feinting slash towards the left.

A silver line of sword energy shot out from the tip of the Five Elements Divine Sword, colliding directly with the black sword pillar.

With a deafening roar, the black sword pillar was cleaved in two at the waist. The remaining power of the sword energy was undiminished, grazing the arm of the criminal wielding the sword and cutting a bloody gash in his dark skin.

The black blood had barely seeped out when it was burned into green smoke by the evil-dispelling intent within the sword energy, leaving the black miasma no time to heal the wound.

"presumptuous!"

Seeing his companion suffer a loss, the sinner wielding the bone staff produced a Soul-Devouring Banner, which suddenly unfurled. Countless ghostly figures coalesced into a massive black sword shadow, slashing down from Li Weizhou's right.

The sword shadow carried the power to devour souls. The cultivator in the distance felt a sharp pain in his sea of ​​consciousness and almost lost his grip on the magic weapon.

Li Weizhou lightly touched the ground with his toes and leaped into the air.

He gripped the Five Elements Divine Sword tightly with both hands, and the sword's five-colored spiritual light surged forth as he slashed downwards.

A vertical, five-colored beam of sword energy shot straight into the sky, colliding directly with the black sword shadow.

The moment the sword energy collided with the sword shadow, the ghostly figure let out a shrill scream. The black sword shadow was cleaved in two, and even the surface of the Soul Devouring Banner was swept by the sword energy, tearing open a huge gash. All the ghostly figures inside vanished, leaving only the tattered banner fluttering in the air.

"Nonsense! This is a sword from the Five Elements Sect? You're just a nobody from the lower realm, only been here for a few years, how could you have reached this level? Who exactly are you?"

The old man, his face ashen and pale, looked as if his father had died. Seeing that Li Weizhou ignored them and launched a fierce attack on them with crisscrossing sword energy, he saw that Li Weizhou was ignoring them.

The old man gritted his teeth and threw the nine-section bone whip into the air. Each section of the whip, from the brow bone, exploded simultaneously, and black miasma and resentment condensed into a huge black sword barrier, protecting the three of them within it.

This treasure, having exhausted its reserves, can withstand a blow from a Venerable One; if the enemy is weak, it can even turn the tables and kill them.

But Li Weizhou just sneered, gripped the sword with both hands, and poured all his sword intent into the blade.

The five-colored spiritual light of the Five Elements Divine Sword stopped flowing and instead condensed into a pure evil-dispelling blade. The seal script on the sword body lit up, like stars adorning the blade.

He slowly raised his hand and slashed down at the sword barrier.

There was no earth-shattering roar, only a five-colored sword aura stretching for ten miles extending from the blade. Wherever it passed, the black miasma automatically dissipated, the ground cracked open with deep trenches, and even the dark clouds in the sky were cleaved open with a gap.

"impossible!"

The three members of the Sin Clan cried out in alarm simultaneously. When the five-colored sword energy struck the black sword barrier, the barrier shattered like glass, and the remnants of the nine-section bone whip were shredded into dust by the sword energy. The remaining power of the sword energy did not diminish, sweeping across the bodies of the three members of the Sin Clan. They did not even feel pain before their bodies were cut into countless pieces by the sword energy, and even their spiritual cores were completely shattered, turning into black ash scattered among the sword marks.

Li Weizhou sheathed his sword and landed on the ground, his face as white as snow, and patches of white hair appearing in his hair.

His entire face relaxed, and his essence and blood were almost exhausted.

However, in an instant, his white hair turned black, his skin became firm and regained its color, and he became energetic again.

Only then did the chaotic spiritual energy around them gradually return to calm.

The cultivators of Qingshui City, who were still barely clinging to life in the distance, were already dumbfounded, some even forgetting to breathe.

Not only were the sinful cultivators in disbelief, but they themselves were also unable to believe it. They had never seen such fierce swordsmanship before; with just one sword, a single person could shatter three sinful cultivators at the Spirit God Realm.

and……

The Sin Clan is right; he's only been here from the lower realm for a few years.

Suddenly they remembered that it was due to the legacy of the Five Sacred Mountains True Lord.

In an instant, countless "Holy crap!" echoed from the bottom of my heart.

Why weren't they the ones who received the legacy from the Five Sacred Mountains True Lords?!
"To avoid another great war, you should all go to the Five Elements Sect for temporary refuge."

Li Weizhou glanced at the cultivators hiding in various places and said calmly.

Although many of the cultivators from Qingshui City were severely injured, they were still alive after surviving the ordeal. They were all very excited and remembered to bow to Li Weizhou. Then, they supported each other and headed towards the Five Elements Sect.

After Qingshui City became a ghost town, Li Weizhou collected the corpses from the ground.

Although it sounds disgusting, it was truly a feast for Li Weizhou.

After obtaining the Eastern Emperor Bell, his understanding of space increased day by day, and he also acquired another batch of powerful corpses...

The day when the other side of Earth will fly out of the Earth-Moon system and travel through the solar system is not far off.

Li Weizhou happily stored the last corpse of the Sin Clan into his storage space. The warmth of the Five Elements Sword Qi still lingered on his fingertips, but the ground beneath his feet suddenly trembled slightly.

It was not the aftermath of the previous battle, but a deeper, colder force awakening from the black miasma deep within Qingshui City.

He looked up abruptly and saw that the black miasma that had been dispersed by the sword wave had recombine like a tide, several times denser than before, even staining the sky black. What chilled him even more was that an invisible pressure was spreading from the center of the miasma, cracking the ground with fine black lines wherever it passed, instantly withering any remaining spiritual herbs, and even making the air seem to solidify.

This aura far surpasses the Spirit God Realm; it's the Immortal Spirit Realm!
"Oh? You actually managed to kill three of my clan's spirit gods. That's quite interesting."

A hoarse voice emanated from the black miasma, unlike a human voice, more like withered wood rubbing against stone. As the voice faded, a figure in black robes slowly materialized from the miasma: his body was hunched, and he held a bone staff thicker than the previous sinner's staff. Two ghostly green flames flickered in the eye sockets of the skull at the top of the staff, and the black miasma around him had solidified into a tangible armor. With each step he took, black liquid seeped from the ground, corroding the bricks and stones into dust.

Li Weizhou gripped the Five Elements Divine Sword tightly, and the sword's body suddenly shone with five-colored spiritual light.

This was the first time he had faced the sinful clan of the Immortal Spirit Realm directly. The pressure from them was even more terrifying than the descriptions given by the six True Monarchs of the Xuanlei Sword Sect. Their mere aura caused his blood to surge. If it weren't for the protection of the Eastern Emperor Bell within him, he probably would have trembled even as he held the sword.

"who are you?"

Li Weizhou asked in a deep voice, his eyes fixed on the skull on the other person's bone staff.

The old man in black robes chuckled coldly, tapped his bone staff on the ground, and black miasma surged from the ground, transforming into three black chains that wrapped around Li Weizhou's ankles. He said, "Who I am is not for you to know. However, your sword, and the aura on your body... make for a decent sacrifice."

He clearly sensed something and believed that Li Weizhou had experienced a remarkable encounter.

However, the moment the chains wrapped around him, Li Weizhou leaped up and unleashed a horizontal sword aura with his Five Elements Divine Sword, attempting to sever the chains. But when the sword aura struck the chains, it only left a shallow mark. The black miasma instantly repaired the gap and instead climbed up the sword blade along with the sword aura.

This corrosive power is stronger than the combined power of the three Spirit God Realm experts!
"it's useless."

The old man in black robes shook his head, his tone full of mockery: "With your meager skills, you dare to show off your limited abilities in front of me? Even those few True Monarch-level trash from Xuanyuan Dao Sect and Tianji Temple combined couldn't stop me. Do you think you can contend with me with your meager cultivation?"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his hand, and a ball of pitch-black miasma condensed in his palm. The faces of countless wronged souls vaguely appeared in the miasma. He then said, "Try this. This is the 'Ten Thousand Soul Miasma' that I refined with the souls of 100,000 cultivators. It is just missing your main soul."

The miasma rushed towards Li Weizhou, and wherever it passed, the space was corroded and hissed.

Li Weizhou dared not take the attack head-on. He held the Five Elements Divine Sword upright in front of him, mobilizing the life force of the wood element and the cleansing power of the water element to condense a double-layered sword screen. However, when the miasma collided with the sword screen, the outer water element sword screen was instantly corroded through, and the inner wood element sword screen also cracked with spiderweb-like gaps.

"puff!"

Li Weizhou was thrown back three steps by the shockwave, a metallic taste rose in his throat, and he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

Wow, so this is the power of the Immortal Spirit Realm?

With just one strike, he was seriously injured.

Upon seeing this, the old man in black robes' eerie green flames shone even brighter: "You really do have a problem. Very well, today I will take your soul and refine it into my clan's 'Soul-Devouring Pearl'!"

He moved with lightning speed, instantly appearing behind Li Weizhou. His bone staff, accompanied by the sound of wind being cut, pierced straight at Li Weizhou's back.

The attack was as fast as lightning. Li Weizhou felt a chill on the back of his neck and instinctively dodged to the side. The bone staff grazed his shoulder and smashed the broken wall behind him to pieces. Black miasma spewed out from the tip of the staff and blasted a black crater more than ten feet deep in the ground.

"Quick reaction."

Instead of being angry, the old man in black robes laughed. With a wave of his bone staff, countless black miasma sword energies shot towards Li Weizhou from all directions, blocking all his escape routes. He sneered, "Let's see how many times you can dodge!"

Li Weizhou took a deep breath and stopped dodging. He gripped the Five Elements Divine Sword with both hands and poured all his sword intent into the blade.

The five-colored spiritual light on the sword faded, and it seemed to have transformed into a simple and unadorned ancient sword...

But for some reason, before the sword's intent could be fully formed, its aura changed again.

It's best not to reveal the aura of the small sword...

He still has cards.

A surge of thunderous power, far more refined than the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder of the Xuanlei Sword Sect, condensed on the sword, radiating a vibrant purple aura. Li Weizhou stood like a thunder god, sword in hand, and laughed heartily, "Want to take my soul? Ask my sword first!"

The phantom rushed towards the black miasma sword energy, and the ruins of Qingshui City trembled the moment the thunder and sword energy collided.

The black miasma sword energy was mostly shattered by Zhong Ming, but the lightning also dimmed a bit. Li Weizhou's face turned pale again, and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

The continuous suppression from the Immortal Spirit Realm caused his spiritual energy to be consumed far faster than it could be replenished.

The old man in black robes looked at the lightning, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes, which then turned into fury: "The lightning magic in the Ice and Snow Secret Realm was your doing! You destroyed the Ice Dragon! You beast!!"

He no longer held back; the black miasma surrounding him suddenly surged, condensing into a massive black miasma vortex above Qingshui City. At the center of the vortex, countless black lightning pillars slowly coalesced...

Thunder magic isn't just for immortals; the lightning formed from the power of erosion is even more powerful.

"Suffer to death!"

The old man in black robes roared and raised his hand to press down on Li Weizhou. The black lightning pillar in the vortex fell down instantly!

Li Weizhou's pupils contracted sharply, and he raised the Five Elements Divine Sword high, but beneath the suddenly bursting five-colored light pillar, a faint bell-like shadow appeared around him...

The moment the black lightning bolt collided with the multicolored light pillar, the world seemed to fall silent for a moment.

Then, a deafening roar echoed for miles, the broken walls of Qingshui City collapsed, and the black miasma was blown away for miles by the shockwave. Even the cultivators of the Five Elements Sect, who were three hundred miles away, could see the streak of light interwoven with ink and five colors on the eastern horizon.

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(End of this chapter)