The light of the sword is like the moon reflecting on Kyushu

Chapter 2026 He is coming!
Before Li Baichuan could retreat, his blood and qi surged, the ferocious beast's claws, imbued with terrifying power, silently tore through the void and, with a gust of bloody wind, reached for his head!
Swift as lightning, like a ghost!
Li Baichuan felt ice-cold all over; the chill of death instantly spread from the top of his head to every part of his body!

"Bah!"

Suddenly, a roar like a lion exploded from behind Li Baichuan!

A gray, unremarkable ring knife appeared out of thin air and precisely cut into the gap between the deadly claw shadows!
Master Huijue, the "Iron-Clad Monk," used his body as a shield. His withered and thin body instantly erupted with a Vajra power as steady as a mountain. He did not block with his monk's knife, but rather, at the moment the claw tip touched his robe, he slightly tilted the blade, and pure Buddhist energy surged out, rapidly drawing and pulling like a stream of water!
With a sharp, metallic scraping sound, the seemingly indestructible claws were slightly deflected by this subtle, gentle force!
A slight deviation can lead to disastrous consequences; it was truly a matter of life and death. Just this slight deviation from the intended trajectory nearly shattered Li Baichuan's skull!
"Watch out!" Li Baichuan hissed a warning.

The Venerable Monk Huijue's exquisite and masterful technique of deflecting force was the culmination of his life's work, and his internal organs were already churning with qi and blood!

At this moment, the ferocious beast's eyes widened in fury, and its giant tail suddenly swept back like an iron whip, with the force of an overwhelming wave! Huijue's old strength was exhausted, and it was difficult to generate new strength. He had no choice but to forcefully hold the monk's knife across his chest!

boom!
It was like being directly hit by a giant cannon!
Huijue's emaciated body flew backward like tattered cotton, and his whole body exploded into a cloud of blood mist!
Blood mist shot out along with the shattered blades, scattering into the snow pit ten feet away. The scattered spots were all red, like red plum blossoms in the snow, bewitching, bloody, and eerie!

This horrific scene struck the hearts of every witness like a giant hammer blow!

Despair, like a cold plague, rapidly spread among the remaining martial arts heroes. The courage they had just mustered was as fragile as a thin layer of ice before the overwhelming power of the giant beast!
Suddenly, a cold light shot down from the mountain peak!

Tearing through the void and accompanied by a fierce roar, the ice arrow, like a dragon, pierced straight into the beast's left eye!
The ferocious beast immediately closed its eyes, and with a loud clang, the ice arrow struck its eyelid, exploding into countless ice shards that scattered in all directions, forming a cloud of white mist!
The beast's body was jolted into a daze!
Many skilled players witnessed this and immediately launched an attack!

Suddenly, a sword flashed like snow, and a sword flew in! Swordsman Gu Xin leaped up, becoming one with his sword, transforming into a rainbow and flying straight at the monstrous eye!

Gu Xin's desperate sword strike, which he thought would hit its mark, unexpectedly struck the thick-armored palm of the giant claw! Before anyone knew it, the beast's giant claw had moved with lightning speed to his face!
"Crackling—Sizzling—!"

A chilling, cracking sound erupted! The fine steel longsword in Gu Xin's hand, which had drunk the blood of countless masters, shattered instantly, its tip cracking inch by inch, as if it had pierced a thin layer of crystal made of ancient ice!
Countless sharp fragments, carrying terrifying rebound force, splashed back and shot into Guxin's body like a torrential rain!
"Pfft!" Gu Xin spat out a mouthful of blood. His whole body was as if it had been gripped and twisted by an invisible giant hand. His bones made muffled cracking sounds as they were unable to bear the weight. He was thrown backward with even greater force than he had been thrown forward. He was no longer human in mid-air and finally collapsed limply on the snow, without a sound.

"Amitabha!" The deep chant of the Buddha's name, filled with grief and rage, resounded like thunder!
Five Shaolin monks dressed in kasayas, their eyes bloodshot, instantly activated the Vajra Subduing Demon Formation!
Five heavy iron rods, each as thick as a bowl, were wielded simultaneously, producing a thunderous wind that could shake mountains. They carried with them a powerful force that could shatter the void, striking the top of the head, sweeping the back of the legs, hitting the waist and abdomen, striking the back, and stabbing the chest.
Layer upon layer of staff shadows, intertwined with golden light, wove a net of qi around the ferocious beast, capable of annihilating everything! It was a fatal strike, powered by the beast's own blood essence and Buddhist power, to subdue demons!
The giant beast's body surged with a visible vortex of violent air currents, and the black jade armor plates covering its entire body suddenly trembled at a high frequency with a very small amplitude as the wind from the staff approached!

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Heavy, muffled sounds, like the thunderous drums of a Kui Niu war drum, exploded in rapid succession!

The heavy, long rods made of refined iron, instead of breaking through the armor, were violently repelled by the strange, high-frequency vibrations the moment they made contact!

An overwhelming and irresistible force surged upwards along the shaft of the staff, as if the earth itself were cracking!

"Pfft—!" The faces of the five monks flushed an unnatural redness instantly, then turned ashen.

Blood gushed from their mouths like fountains, and the bones in their arms, gripping the clubs, cracked with a sharp sound as the heavy iron clubs flew out of their hands. Their burly bodies were thrown backward like tattered sacks caught in a gale, crashing into the crowd. The sounds of bones breaking and tendons snapping were heart-wrenching!

Despair finally surged over the dam like an icy tide, completely engulfing everyone!

Those faces that once held great renown in the martial arts world were now filled with terror and blank stares!
The hand holding the knife trembled, the sword finger spasmed uncontrollably, and the knuckles gripping the gun shaft lost their color from excessive force!
"Fire!" A desperate and hoarse voice roared hysterically from behind the crowd.

The experts of the "Zhuge Clan," who had been waiting in full battle array, simultaneously released their fingers, and the Zhuge Repeating Crossbows began to pour out like a torrential rain of pear blossoms!

Wang Sheng, standing atop the mountain, shook his head and sighed, "The Zhuge Repeating Crossbow has such poor penetrating power. Using it to shoot the ferocious beast is like a mayfly trying to shake a giant tree!"

Buzzing—the bowstring vibrates!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! A hundred arrows pierced the sky!
In an instant, a dark cloud swept in, covering the beast's massive, mountain-like head, neck, and vital parts of its shoulders and back!

Ding ding ding ding...!
The impact sound instantly escalated into a deafening roar! Sparks from the arrows exploded into countless tiny yet dazzling golden points of light on the massive, dark body covered by the ferocious beast! When the steel arrowheads struck the thick armor, they burst into a shower of iron sparks and fragments!
Most of the arrows were smashed and deformed, like fragile icicles hitting an iron wall, shattering and falling in vain!
A few arrow shafts were lucky enough to be flung away by the immense force, landing crookedly in the snow beside the ferocious beast.

This frenzied but ineffective rain of arrows completely ignited all the pent-up brutality and ferocity of this strange beast!
It suddenly raised its mountain-like head, and the black jade plates on its neck bulged and rubbed violently like waves, producing a heavy scraping sound that made one's teeth ache, as if the keel of a giant ship was groaning in pain.

The roar emanating from the beast's mouth was no longer the loud roar mixed with metallic vibrations, but had turned into a kind of extremely high-frequency, ear-tearing scream!
The violent sound waves, carrying a foul and sticky stench, exploded out like an invisible raging torrent!

Its eyes turned blood red!
These humans dare to hunt me down? They're practically asking for death!
There were more than a dozen people rushing towards him. Die!

The ferocious beast suddenly roared!

The sound waves were violent, piercing through clouds and splitting rocks!
Before they could even scream, thick blood gushed from the seven orifices of those dozen or so people, as if they had been struck head-on by an invisible giant hammer. Their skulls made a horrifying cracking sound, and their entire upper bodies twisted and deformed in a bizarre manner, collapsing to their deaths on the spot like broken dolls!

Even the weapons they had forged through countless trials shattered under the impact of this sonic wave!

With that earth-shattering roar, the beast's massive body, over two zhang tall, suddenly moved!
Its target was none other than the archers from the Zhuge Clan who had just unleashed a rain of arrows from behind!

It arrived in an instant, as fast as a ghost!
It wasn't the posture of a ferocious beast pouncing at all; it was more like a black and red lightning bolt tearing through space! The massive shockwave created by the huge body hitting the air struck the dozens of martial artists blocking the way, causing them to cough up blood and roll on the ground, instantly clearing a path paved with blood and flesh!

The enormous figure of the ferocious beast left only a blurry afterimage in the eyes of ordinary people. Only the two burning scarlet points in its eyes were like two rapidly moving, soul-stealing omens of death!

One step, just one step!
Its massive claws, covered in thick armor, rose and fell, like a giant god stepping into the mortal world.

The warriors who tried to raise their shields felt as if Mount Tai had suddenly pressed down on them from above. Their heavy iron shields, along with the shields in their hands, shattered like cracklings, and blood and bone fragments flew like rain!
The sharp claws swept across without stopping, easily tearing seven or eight archers nearby apart like pieces of paper. Limbs and broken crossbow parts mixed with blood rained up and then fell heavily to the ground!
A bloody massacre suddenly broke out!

Spears came from the side like a forest, but were swept in half by the beast's fierce tail before they could even touch its body; swords and sabers flashed with cold light and slashed, but couldn't even leave a mark on the thick armor, instead being cut by the sharp claws as easily as cutting through mud!
Limbs and broken weapon parts were scattered like withered branches and fallen leaves in a blizzard, swept up by an invisible storm of death and thrown into the air.

The ferocious beast charged and rampaged in all directions, each leap and stomp, each claw swing and tail flick, creating a thick wave of blood and gore!
The "Mountain Breaker" sword that had been previously cleaved away was still stuck diagonally in a snowdrift not far away. The blade was soaked in the muddy, blood-red snow, its luster dimmed, as if silently witnessing this one-sided massacre!

In the midst of despair and deathly silence, Li Baichuan suddenly straightened his battered and nearly shattered body!

He let out a resolute roar that gathered all his remaining life force, all his grief and resentment! The roar tore through the bloody wind, overwhelmed the ferocious roar of the beast, and carried the last majesty of Mount Tai before its collapse, piercing the eardrums of everyone who was numbed by fear!

"break--!"

Li Baichuan's entire body suddenly burst forth with golden light!
Like the last flame of a lamp that has burned out all its oil, wild and intense!
The solid rock beneath his feet could not withstand the immense force that erupted and shattered with a deafening roar! Using the recoil force that was enough to tear the earth apart, his body transformed into a burning golden light, shooting headlong into the ferocious beast's gaping maw, its blood-red teeth ready to devour anyone in its path!
This was a desperate, suicidal attack that could take everyone down with it!
There was no defense whatsoever, not a shred of luck!
Li Baichuan, the leader of the Iron Blade Sect, chose to use his broken body and all his essence and spirit to fill the stinking abyss that leads to hell!
He wanted to use the explosion of his own flesh and blood as a trigger to ignite his life's true essence, and use his flesh and blood body as the gunpowder for the explosion, to shake that steel barrier!

The moment the golden figure shot out, a hint of cold mockery and brutal pleasure, belonging to a higher intelligent being, seemed to flash deep within the beast's eyes, which were burning with flames of destruction, when facing the challenge of a tiny insect!

The enormous maw covered in armor plates suddenly opened wide! It revealed a bottomless throat and a terrifying, destructive energy brewing within! A foul wind materialized into a vortex of air, pulling at the approaching golden light!
Time seemed to slow down and stretch out infinitely at this moment!
Li Baichuan's burning face was incredibly clear, every weathered mark standing out in the golden light, and the flames in his eyes were the final, burning supreme will!
The surviving warriors, struggling amidst the flying blood and mud, painfully closed their eyes as the golden light that held their last hope was about to be swallowed by the giant maw!

Just as the golden light was about to touch those rows of chilling, sharp teeth! Just a moment before the destructive true essence within Li Baichuan's body was about to ignite completely!
Suddenly, a dragon's roar erupted from the foot of the mountain, soaring straight into the sky!

The dragon's roar seemed to pierce through the blood-soaked air, emanating from the very core of the ancient, frozen mountain rocks. It pierced through the ferocious roars of the monstrous beasts, the faint groans of the dying, and the despairing silence!

The dragon's roar contained both the Buddhist lion's roar and the Taoist thunderous sound! It possessed both the power of the Buddhist Vajra Prajna and the innate true qi of the Taoist school!
The lion's roar is unparalleled in its majesty!

The Taoist thunderous sound was like thunderclaps from the heavens!

The moment that sound rang out, the raging flames of destruction that had been surging in the beast's bloodthirsty and ferocious crimson vertical pupils suddenly froze!
For the first time ever, an extremely human emotion welled up within it—a mixture of profound astonishment and doubt, a deep-seated fear that seemed to come from the depths of a distant memory, and a sudden surge of enraged violence!

Its massive body seemed to have been subjected to an invisible, enormous impact, and it jolted violently!
Its forward lunge and bite suddenly stopped, and its big mouth instinctively closed!

Just as Li Baichuan was leaping towards the beast's gaping maw, he crashed into the beast's mouth. Bang! Li Baichuan's burning golden body exploded into a shower of golden stars, which flew everywhere like fireflies!
The dragon's roar still echoed in the wind and snow on the mountaintop, lingering for a long time!

Xiong Mengyan shuddered, her blood and qi momentarily stopped, but quickly returned to normal! She opened her eyes, a hint of joy in them, "Mission accomplished!" Her gaze swept down the mountain, where the heavy snow obscured any figures, but her eyes burned with intense fervor: "He's finally here!"

Wang Sheng said, "The appearance of the ferocious beast has finally attracted him!"

Duanmu Yan said, "It was Mengyan's breakthrough that triggered the strange phenomena of heaven and earth, causing this sudden snowfall, which led to the appearance of the ferocious beast. In a sense, Feng Jiuxiao was attracted back by Mengyan!"

Wang Sheng laughed and said, "Brother Duanmu, I know I can't win, but I can only accept my defeat. You, on the other hand, actually handed a knife to your rival and stabbed yourself in the chest. You really have a big heart!"

Duanmu Yan said with a wry smile, "A narrow-minded man is not worthy of being by Mengyan's side! After much thought, I've concluded that if I want to win Mengyan's heart, I must act with integrity and uprightness!"

Wang Sheng laughed and said, "Who would have thought that a demonic master who is rumored to be ruthless is actually a love-struck fool!"

Duanmu Yan said, "Who would have thought that a scion of a prestigious sect of Xuanmen would be expelled from the sect for the sake of his beloved!"

Wang Sheng laughed and said, "You flatter me, we're in the same boat!"

Feng Jiuxiao, dressed in white robes with flowing sleeves, stood proudly in the wind and snow, like a god!

A hundred feet away, the ferocious beast sensed that the ancient dragon roar seemed to be coming from its direction, and its fierce eyes seemed to pierce through the thick snow curtain, shooting towards Feng Jiuxiao!

Feng Jiuxiao thought to himself: A master on the mountain broke through to a higher realm, causing snow to fall from the sky, and the ferocious beast emerged from the snow. It seems quite a coincidence! The aura of that master on the mountain peak is somewhat familiar... The image of Xiong Mengyan, with her seductive eyes and demonic aura, suddenly appeared in his mind? According to the schedule, she should be a hundred miles away at this time. Could it be... that she is waiting for him?
Suddenly, a gigantic creature appeared ahead, charging like a mountain. The ferocious beast had finally launched its attack! Its four claws scraped against the rocks, producing a piercing metallic scraping sound that made one feel extremely uncomfortable!

In an instant, the snow curtain was torn open, revealing the enormous creature's majestic form!

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